What the other respondents fail to mention is that there is a whole dialect in American English (i.e., black inner-city English), that uses "don't" in the third person singular as a matter of course. Although you can hear that, and things like it, in practically every rap or hip-hop track put d...

"using" is basically a verb in the progressive aspect. Does it serve as a preposition, too? I can sometimes choose between which and that in a relative clause construction. But in a sentence such as "He found a key, using which he slit open the package", I cannot substitute that for which. Only ...

Corpus evidence brought by tunny is what you would consider by far descriptive and what you need is a prescrpitive approach. I would say the progressive form is rather colloquial.

I've heard a lot about conditional grammar and how the word 'would' plays a role in those structures, but sometimes I run into this word out of conditional structures. For example : A: I told her a lie about my family. B: Why would you lie about that? I'm confused in understanding such us...

I've never seen "Add-in salt to injury" but I know "Add insult to injury" is exist. I had a grammar exercise that asked for the most suitable idiom or proverb for the statement. The question is .. To make something bad become worse. So I wrote on "Add insult to injury". But the answer in the s...