Technically, B could be—I think—wrong. However, would anyone please show me what is the difference in meaning between them? And whether B is incorrect? So, could A and B be used interchangeably? if so, when? A. the cost of moving house B. the price of moving house ......................

Nominal uses There are some interesting difference in usage that help illuminate the differences in meaning. I'm using GloWbE because it contains samples from different varieties of English. Here's a corpus search for price1. Here's one for cost.2 ... all these tips might help me get a be...

Can we use verb "Go" in passive voice? Yes, we can. Golly, that was an easy one to answer. :D Wut? You'd like some examples? How about, The child's hair was gone through with a fine tooth metal comb to remove nits. which is an example of a prepositional passive. If that example is...

What is the correct question? Please submit a photocopy of [a / the / your] residence card

I am having difficulty in distinguishing between these time words. For example, I ate my meal earlier/recently/lately. When to use earlier, recently, and lately? What if I've done an action a few minutes ago? What will be the appropriate word?

I understand the meaning of the in the following sentences: The man who lives next door is Chinese. No one expected the results that were found. There can only be one man and a single instance of results. But what about sentences such as: The journey to Vancouver takes three days ...

Yes, your rewrite is acceptable. As for your confusion, it looks like you might have a case of DAMS (Definite Article Meaning Syndrome, a relatively common affliction that often affects English learners. It's chief symptom is confusion, generally caused by the erroneous belief that definite art...

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I ate my meal earlier. means you ate your meal before that time, in the same day. I ate my meal recently. means you ate your meal before that time but not long ago. But I would not say it is a normal usage in this example. I ate my meal lately. means on some past occasion(s). But...

Your first option is incorrect, and your second is seemingly correct, judging by a Google Books search: When they dismissed us, they cut off electricity to the villages outside Nablus. (Staughton Lynd, ‎Alice Lynd, ‎Sam Bahour, 1994) Another option is getting rid of the idea to use an indi...

One stock expression is "a little bit of a [noun]". Hence, I'm passionate about software development, also I'm a computer geek, a little bit of a system administrator and an IT support engineer.

Today, I was looking over at the related questions module on a recent question, and it looked like this: It would be nice if we could tell questions apart simply by looking at their titles. But seven out of ten of the related questions above have non-descriptive titles: Is this gra...

When he talks of "enemies of the people", the analogies with Stalinist Russia and other 20th-century regimes are so glaring that you have to keep reminding yourself that the French Revolutionaries were having to make everything up as they went along, against a very different background from th...

"Books which cost half price are sold quickly" Can anyone explain to me please why "book" in this sentence is the subject? And why it is not the object?