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Which are correct: 1-He was the longest serving British ambassador to their country from 1852 to 1872. 2-He was the longest serving British ambassador to their country, from 1852 to 1872. 3-He was the longest serving British ambassador to their country- from 1852 to 1872. 4-He was the longest servin...

Which of the following are correct with the given meanings: 1-I forget his name. Meaning: I cannot recall his name. I do not remember his name. 2-He forgets that man's name. Meaning: He cannot recall his name. 3-I forgot his name when he came in through the door. Meaning: When he came in through the...

1-He pushed the cart a lot. Would this mean: 1a-He pushed it hard. 1b-He pushed it far. 1c-He pushed it often. =============================== 2-He pushed the cart too much. Would this mean: 2a-He pushed it too hard. 2b-He pushed it too far. 2c-He pushed it too often. Gratefully, Navi.

Thank you very much Jerry, But wouldn't you say that: 3-The man who had won we-did-not-know-how-many-prizes entered the room. and 4-The man with god-knows-how-many prizes entered the room. [Your sentence] both imply that he had won many prizes? Could they be used in a 'neutral' context, ie. when one...

Wow! I generally do not make simple 'thank you' posts for fear of wasting the time of people who open the thread to see what has been posted. A 'thank you ' note does not carry any information and people might be disappointed by it. In this case, I will make an exception though. Your post Phil is ve...

Which are correct: 1-The man that we did not know how many prizes he had won entered the room. (informal spoken English) 2-The man about whom we did not know how many prizes he had won entered the room. 3-The man who had won we-did-not-know-how-many-prizes entered the room. It seems to me that 3 is ...

Are these sentences correct: 1-I hope they will fire you and bring experts here to change the system once and for all instead of you fixing problems as they arise one after the other. 2-I hope they will fire you and bring experts here to change the system once and for all rather than you fixing prob...

Which is correct:

1-That equation was something I let slip my memory and did not know any longer.
2-That equation was something I let slip my memory and did not know.

Gratefully,
Navi.

Is this sentence correct: The hospital staff, including Dr. Sheehan posing as Aule and a nurse posing as Rachel Solando, were part of the test, and the migraines that Laeddis suffered were withdrawal symptoms from his medication , as well as hallucinating the "real Rachel Solando" . Source: http://e...

1-He is dating an older woman at the office. 2-He is dating one of the older women at the office. 3-They laid off an older woman at the office. 4-They laid off one of the older women at the office. I think '2', '3' and '4' are telling us that if we divide the women of the office into two groups acc...

Which are correct: 1-He might be tall and he might not be tall. 2-He might be tall or he might not be tall. 3-He might be tall and he might be short. 4-He might be tall or he might be short. 5-He might have committed a crime and he might have saved people's lives. 6-He might have committed a crime o...

Thank you very much Bob for the compliment, but it is not and it never will be. Native speakers develop some weird kind of 'instinct' for the language that non-natives do not have. Some might acquire it, if they start learning early enough... But it is too late for me... I will never become as good ...

Thank you both very much and my apologies,

Yes, I meant by 'tag' to write graffiti on. I thought the usage was commonplace. I just looked it up in dictionaries and saw that actually it was pretty rare. What a mistake on my part! My apologies!

Thank you very much again.
Navi.

1-They tagged walls of ancient buildings. 2-They tagged walls of the ancient buildings. 3-They tagged the walls of ancient buildings. 4-They tagged the walls of the ancient buildings. 5-They tagged ancient buildings' walls. 6-They tagged the ancient buildings' walls. Which of the above correspond t...

Can one use: 1-I went into that line of work because you did. instead of: 2-I went into that line of work because you did it . I would think one meaning of '2' is that I went into that line of work because you did something that has been mentioned before (not necessarily 'going into that line of wor...