I've come across 'the grim reaper is gone' and been surprised to encounter that they have put contemptuous bastard in the article: "This contemptuous bastard of a man has overseen “welfare reforms” that would have made Thatcher blush – from the changing of the Disability Living Allowance to ...

The term you probably want in this case is Relative Clause. There are other kinds of adjective clauses (i.e, noun-modifying clauses), but relatives are by far the most common and the most complex. In particular, relative clauses, like many subordinate clauses, are subject to a variety of deletion...

The origin of TTY in Unix is from teletype terminals Source - Unix.SE However for future reference, this probably is out of the scope of ELL (or even English Language and Usage) as it requires too much specialist knowledge.

I have watched many interviews and talk shows in English and in many of them, when the host is saying goodbye, they say "I've been Xxxx Xxxxxx and this is The Talk Show X!" Why do they say "I've been..." when they can perfectly say "I am..."? Is there a rule for this or is this just popular...

I'd like to know what's the difference between for example myself and by myself. it would be great if you made some example to be easier to understand. Thank you everyone.

"On other occasions she said — and I found her to be believable having worked with so many domestic violence victims — that if she did not make him look good to the Netflix documentarians, well, it was basically 'do it, or else.' I've met women who would practically do anything than take another ...

What is it called when two people (usually kids) stop talking for a while after a fight or an argument because they are mad at each other?

In linux man tty - print the file name of the terminal connected to standard input. Maybe the first t is terminal the second t is to of connected to ,what does y mean here?

The carpenter repaired the legs of the tables. The carpenter repaired legs of the tables. It's a quiz from my grammar book(written in Chinese), and it claims the legs of the tables is correct because of the tables modified legs which we should use the in that case. I'm not so sure, if ...

After being defeated in several lower court rulings and suffering large financial losses, the city of Montgomery lifted the law mandating segregated public transportation. From the context I can deduct that to lift means to cancel/to revoke. Why is it so? It doesn't seem logical to me, as in...