Do these two sentences mean the same thing? If not, please elaborate. Growing up in California, I experienced life that was different than most people in Mexico. Having grown up in California, I experienced life different than most people in Mexico.

I would like to use the second conditional to express something is unlikely to happen. The problem is this unlikely condition is about the future. Is it still ok to say: If I won the lottery next week, I would buy a new car.

Here's a familiar sight: We call them French fries, or just fries, in the States, as well as in Canada. They're often referred to as chips over in England. In France they are, of course, good old frites (as well as in some parts of Scandinavia). Now here's what proper chips should look like, ...

Who of patients has recovered? Which of patients has recovered? Which one is correct? Who of patients has recovered? I never ever heard such sort of sentence. Would you like to differentiate between them?

Philip was asked to be a fourth member of their luncheon-party. We have the girl (member no. 1), her chaperon (2), and Lawson (3). That makes Philip a fourth. Example of usage: I have no company but what is proper To sit with the most flagrant whig at supper. There's not a man among ...

Source: Russian media is spinning the downing of a Russian jet fighter into a wider conspiracy theory Example: In Given the alternatives, that’s good news: It means that Russia is unlikely to respond to the Turks militarily and unlikely to drag NATO into broader conflict. It could also mean ...

Source: How Computers Work by Ron White Example: The deskless PC has long been computing's holy grail, a computer that slips the bounds of keyboard and cables, of monitor and mouse, to soar free as a bird-a bird endowed with a constant feed from the Internet, applications that will run a mul...

Philip was asked to be 'a fourth' member of their luncheon-party. We have the girl (member no. 1), her chaperon (2), and Lawson (3). That makes Philip 'a fourth'. Examples of usage: I have no company but what is proper To sit with the most flagrant whig at supper. There's not a man a...

From https://www.gnu.org/software/bash/manual/html_node/Tilde-Expansion.html If a word begins with an unquoted tilde character (‘~’), all of the characters up to the first unquoted slash (or all characters, if there is no unquoted slash) are considered a tilde-prefix. From my experience or ...

It's about time i made a promise to myself that i'd go to the gym everyday. It's about time i made a promise to myself that i'll go to the gym everyday. Are both the above sentences grammatically correct? Do they mean the same?

It's time something was done about the problem. It is a sentence from Murphy's "Grammar". Using was confused me, for me it should be were. It looks like this clause is in subjunctive mood—something that is unreal / imaginary, and in that case you always use were for any object. Unless, of c...

Some things are better left unsaid. This is the way I understand the sentence: [Some [things]] = subject [better] = subject complement [left [unsaid]] = predicative adjunct 1 [unsaid] = predicative adjunct 2 But I'm not sure. I appreciate your help.