Knowing the type of product/service would help—software or repair service? without rocket science intuitive handling foolproof inspired by Forrest Gump (probably you are not allowed to use this copyright :( ) by your pet's choice

i think both are grammatically right, the second emphasizes on the job, like we don't need no satifaction

I've been hearing the phrase "whose job it is to" quite often lately. Consider these two sentences: We have a guy whose job is to clean windows. We have a guy whose job it is to clean windows. I would prefer the first one because of the less redundancy, though both sentences seem to be gram...

i think both are grammatically right, the second emphasizes on the job, like we don't need no satifaction

I have been studying Goffmans "The Presentation of Self In Everyday Life" as well as Jan Svennevig's "Getting Aquainted In Conversation". I was wondering if anyone know's where I could find a collection of recorded conversations? I know that there has to exist something of this nature, I just...

The version with it is the one most style guides will probably recommend. The other version one is also acceptable, but it is probably considered less formal and less traditional by most. You will probably hear that one more often in casual speech. To analyse the sentence, it helps if we trans...

When you talk about the White House you talk about a subordinate, a specific, that's not the case with set phrase. Maybe people say it fast, more often than just phrase and it brings a specific idea to your mind, it has a special meaning to you. Set is an adjective and phrase a noun, and together...

Broadly speaking, peer seems to have two meanings, looking intently and being partially visible. a). She peered into the darkness. b). The moon peered from behind dark clouds. However, I have difficulty understanding ‘peer’ with ‘around something’ as follows. Would you help me? (‘Arou...

I saw this sentence as an example of pun or wordplay. But I couldn't find out where the wordplay is. Any idea?

What's a good marketing phrase alternative for the phrase "a simple [x] service without clutter"? By "without clutter" I mean without additional unnecessary stuff that the users usually don't bother with. It's a service that does the job without troubling the user with unnecessary details. The ...

At school or at family events, we can sometimes get photos of the group we represent. Such photos are often placed in a paper/card cover on which are lines ready to write the names of the persons that are on the photo. Is there any single term to represent this object ?