Today I was speaking to a a HR . Due to some disturbance over the line , I could not hear her voice for a sec or so . So i told the HR "Your voice was not audible for a sec " and ask her to repeat the last question . So "Your voice was not audible for a sec " is this wrong English ,especi...

I have been reading a story by C.A. Smith, and I am not sure how the following can be understood: The afternoon had been utterly still and airless, with a sultry brooding in its silence. For the context: A lone tramp is roaming the land. A few sentences earlier he was thínking of his wife and c...

Bernhard Shaw was one of the most celebrated playwright of his time. I shouldn't say that about Shakespeare because that will be quite a platitude. I was reading Arms and the man by Bernhard Shaw, in Act III of the play Sergius say something like this to Louka When this hand touch you next time,...

Ah! she said, triumphantly: the little boy hurts, doesn't it? I said, stonily, it might be a good idea if, instead of a psychiatrist, she stopped off one afternoon at a delousing station. Did I (with her eyes widely open) really think so? Yes: I thought so. A delousing station might, after all, ...