Example: Actually, there's someone who can help you." Actually, there's someone who can help you out." What's the difference between the two? Or they mean the same thing?

I found in an English grammar book the expression "heaviest stress". What is mean? L's clipping: The l is doubled only when the last syllable has the heaviest stress.

"It's not that easy" / "I don't play Facebook that much" vs "It's not easy" / "I don't play Facebook much" What's the difference??

I have a question about an implicit reference situation with "else": I wanted to see Mike, but he was busy with something else. "Something else" must be relative to another matter, but that matter is not explicitly referred to in the sentence. So, is the sentence poorly written?

I have a question about the difference between the verb "shoot" and "shoot at": Police shot the suspect. Police shot at the suspect. Are they just the same?

For me, it sounds like it is. I would like to know your opinion though. In this sentence: "I have to get back to work.", 'get back' means to return. If I understand correctly when we pronounce phrasal verbs in a sentence we usually stress the particle a bit more than the verb. Am I right?

She had used her fitness and fighting skills to survive many times. She didn’t always kill with a gun from long range. Sometimes her targets were right in front of her, trying to murder her as fiercely as she them. I am curious into finding out what part of grammar is she them. I am fairly s...

I'm back again with a new Hitchens question. First of all, I couldn't decide whether I should post the question here or to the Christianity site. But it seemed like a grammatical question to me. So here it is. Every week, at special ceremonies in Mormon temples, the congregations meet and ar...

I can't figure out whether this is a proper sentence I am an Engineer having knowledge in .. Or Is it proper to make it two sentence like I am an Engineer. I have knowledge in...

I am learning how to cook Japanese and Thai food. Some of us have just begun apprenticeship. My master (an experienced cook. He was from Middlesbrough) taught me how to make sushi more than several times, but I just failed to do it. He did not blame me but told me to practise it more. I told him...

When I am using Java language. I need to look up some material in its official website: The sentence I copy from here.. The author of this document give an definition of Java Class File: An abstract representation of file and directory pathnames. I feel confused with the above sentence. D...