Example with a context (YouTube link): I drove slowly back to the office. The telephone was ringing when I arrived at the office. I went in quickly and answered it. "Samuel speaking." "Listen, Samuel," replied a voice. "Forget about Elaine Garfield. We hurt you a little in her apartment. If y...

You have this somewhat informal idiom: "a sight for sore eyes": : a person or thing that you are very glad to see - After being away from home for so long, my friends and family were a sight for sore eyes. (Merriam-Webster Learner's) There are examples which don't involve human bei...

What is the appropriate sentence? (maybe something else?) They are both equal to each other. They both equal to each other. n.b. I'm not English native speaker. Thank you!

We watched the sea for a while. Time flew, and before we realized it, we reached harbor. We watched the sea for a while. Time flew, and before we realized it, we had reached harbor. Which version is the correct one? And why?

I am a English learner from past 4 years. I have not seen any improvement in it. I found that while speaking i always be out of confidence. I always push myself to make it better but something went wrong, i do not know what it is. Please help me out,and suggest me best resource , tips trick t...

I have observed in some of sentences where past particle like "to be delivered" or "to be given" used after "to be" verb, however, today I have observed in sentence given below where sentence maker have not used past particle form of verb instead of used normal word like "out". Rajnath gets stu...

If you have a more illustrative title, feel free to change it. I searched but I couldn't find one. This may be an easy and trivial question; if so, I am sorry. What are the differences between these two sentences? These two guys seem to be inseparable. These two guys seem inseparable....

I have searched Google and there are more than 200.000 cases using "at stake with". But, I'm dubious about the phrase "at stake with", here I want to say that the economy is depended gravely on the oil revenues.

In AmE, we would not say "scales wall to be out"; we would say "scales wall to get out". So the question about "to be" in this sense would never arise. Using stative "to be" in a context of vigorous effort (scaling a wall) baffles me.

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Of the two sentences you give They are both equal to each other is gramatical and They both equal to each other is not. "equal" in "equal to" is an adjective, so sentence 2 lacks a verb. We can use equal as a verb, this would give the sentence They both equal each other. They are both equal ...

Sorry in advance if this question is too basic for this site, but I couldn't find other place to ask. Normally, the phrase "The adventure begins" uses the third person version of the verb. Why it loses it when we use "Let the adventure begin"? It is because is a special tense?