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Yes.

That's very amusing, Trolley. I haven't heard that one before.

Otherwise, the format of 2) is better; a sonogram or ultrasound image cannot be a person, which 1) implies.

Husband: My wife is missing. She went to rescue people from the flooding yesterday and hasn't come home. Sergeant at police ptation: What's her height? Husband: Gee, I'm not sure. A little over five feet tall. Sergeant: Weight? Husband: Don't know. Not slim, not really fat. Sergeant: Color of eyes? ...

Certainly, if you'll let me explain to you the lore of levity, Phil.

Whether it went bust or tits-up, the result was the same.

The expression 'woe betide' appears to be a subjunctive form that is short for "May [or let] woe betide you" [often with 'if X happens' or 'if you do Y'] — in other words, it is to be hoped that bad things will befall you [if X happens or if you do Y]. However, the usage does not appear to have a co...

b), d), f).

However, they all achieve grammaticality if "Not the whole" is replaced with "Not the whole of the".

My cats have rarely defurred to me. I guess they don't like to deaf-hear to authority.

I would use 2) in response to a question like "Was there anyone he helped?" because it's a more emphatic negation.

Similarly, I might use 4) in response to a question like "Is there anyone you're waiting for?"

Other than in these cases, I'd go with Tony's answers.

They're all grammatical. The more pertinent question is whether they all mean what you intend them to mean. All the odd-numbered sentences imply that the person who is the subject was not (or was, in the case of #6) committing a crime while in prison. As for being idiomatic: they are all written in ...

"Life-saved" immediately places the speaker in a previously life-threatening context, and makes their rescue sound more dramatic than the plainer "I was saved". Additionally, while the latter would be accurate, it would also be open to greater misinterpretation, especially by people belonging to cer...

'Fast-moving consumer goods' (abbreviation: FMCG) and 'consumer packaged goods' (CPG) are terms used in commerce for low-value commodities like soap, aspirin and toilet paper. 'Discount marketing' refers to the practice of undercutting commercial rivals, which can result in a price war. In Britain, ...

Other possibilities are griddle and some of the terms listed here.

Wikipedia's article titled 'dojo' notes:

Other names for training halls that are equivalent to "dojo" include the following:

Akhara (Indian martial arts)
Dojang (Korean martial arts)
Gelanggang (silat Melayu)
Heya (sumo)
Kalari (kalaripayat)
Sasaran (pencak silat)
Wuguan (wushu)