I am writing an artist critique and I am unsure whether or not this sentence is grammatically correct. The scene consists of a city full of large tenements in the foreground, roads that lead through the city, scenic hills in the background, and a sky with a crescent moon and many stars.

There is no word or phrase in English that indicates a level in between 'senior' and 'junior'. It's like saying what is between 1st and 2nd. However, one can manage this by artificially creating intermediate grades between the two, say, Junior Analyst I and Junior Analyst II.

In AmE, the use of 'Sir' (or 'Ma'am') in speech is deprecated, even in formal situations. Though a fifty year old 'Amy Vanderbilt' (etiquette guide) might still be followed for addressing mail, it is just not used in speech. Except in Southern English where it is usually used for someone older o...

Yes, 'fall in with' is always negative but not strongly so. Any use of it in a nom-negative setting (like your "knitting" example) is for humorous or ironic effect.

The term for this concept is: snowclone It refers to any kind of syntactic pattern where one can produce new variations by substituting new parts. For example, X is the new Y Which means that Y is the traditional way of doing something but has been superseded by X, as n "Purple is the new...

There may be general population phonetic reasons (vowel shifting) cultural reasons (just people around you say it that way) a folk etymology may be influencing you, that is, knowing that the longer word 'pronunciation' is possibly a derivative of 'pronounce', you (and your surroundings) also p...

Determiners occur mostly in the same poaitions syntactically as adjectives do, and have a modifying function of nouns like adjectives. Determiners don't act exactly like other adjectives but they act enough like them to be classified usefully there. For example the answer to the question 'which ...

All these terms are vague; there is no precise number to them, so there is no accurate comparison. However measure words sometimes have somewhat predictable comparisons. 'several' is definitely more than 'a few', and 'many' is less than 'most'. But between 'several' and 'many'? Those are fairl...

In the new Low Quality review queue (and only from the new LQ review queue), it's possible for members with at least 20K reputation to vote to delete answers with a score equal or less than 0. The assumption here is that posts in the LQ queue are more likely to be worth deleting out of hand, ra...

In English, the verb to christen has a sense of 'to confer a name upon'. It's one of those rare non-dative bitransitive verbs. I.e, like name and elect, christen has two objects, neither of which is an indirect object: They named the baby Jesús. We elected Mary president. I hereby christen this...