I wanted to build my knowledge through a variety of opportunities, but at my current school these opportunities aren’t as vast as (what) I crave. This is a comparative construction, containing a Comparative Phrase - as vast as (what) I crave. It is a Scaler comparison, It falls under Equali...

What is 'that' in 'is that you?' The options given are: adverb adjective noun none I'm pretty sure adverb is not the answer but I'm confused whether it's 'adjective' or 'noun'. It is referring to 'YOU' but not used in the form 'that shop', so perhaps it's noun?

My understanding was that if the first three characters of a name match a username present in the chat for the previous seven days, the person will be pinged. Out of curiosity, why does @Oɹʇ ping @Ortho? Aren't they different characters? This seems to only happen in @Ortho's case. Flipping @S...

I know there exist three main types of conditionals: first type (real present or future); second type (unreal present); third type (unreal past). And talking about second type we understand it as a "dream"as well as third means "regret" about something we shouldn't have done in the past. There a...

What is the different between "late for" and "late at". I was in a business meeting outside the work place (let's say at a restaurant), and it took time, so I late on my friends daily gathering. The next day my friend phoned me and said: "we expected to see you, where were you yesterday?", What ...

I sometimes watch BBC channel and see heavy debate in british parliament.What interests me is , when one politician speak about one policy and express his own view on sth,some other politicians stand up and yell 'whooo.....', Can you explain this phenomenon for me? why they yell ? in support of ...

As a side note to StoneyB's excellent answer: There are many English idioms that include the word "if". Many of these are not really conditional expressions but rather variations on other, simple phrases: "As if" = "like" : "He looks as if he's going to run away" "Don't mind if I do" =...

The Bye Bye Man is so bad, in fact, that it retroactively improves the half-assed Hollywood horror that it’d be lucky to better resemble. http://www.avclub.com/review/no-you-seriously-shouldnt-think-about-bye-bye-mano-248316 I am not able to understand the passage in bold from the film review....

We can change the definition of things whenever it is useful. Definitions serve us. If a definition isn't useful, individuals and communities change it, sometimes on the fly, sometimes in context, sometimes explicitly, sometimes implicitly. In everyday experience, weight is a scalar. You don'...