Are the following sentences correct? If so, which is the most common? 1) You did a good job raising your children. 2) You did a good job of raising your children. 3) You did a good job in rai...

May 6, 2014 · What is the meaning of at the edge of time in the following sentence? At times they spent hours chatting in the office, while the house seemed suspended at the edge of time.

The distinction of which is often blurry (like Dutch being linguistically difficult to differentiate from being "just a German dialect"), and leads to the common adage: "A language is a dialect with …

This morning I read this sentence (see story): On July 24th and again on July 29th, Egyptian police did shoot dead unarmed African migrants attempting to cross that border. Why "did …

Is there a difference between the semantics of the two words boundary and limit? Is it possible that only one of the two has an inclusive meaning regarding the set we want the limit/boundary …

Feb 7, 2013 · 2 Walk the wall is a military term for "guard a border, watch those on the outside, keep those on the inside safe".

Aug 13, 2014 · I've never encountered "squalid" applied to a human being, in conversation or literature. If I did, I'd expect it to be used metaphorically (drawing parallels between the person …

Which of the following sentences is correct, and why? I bought a house in the outskirts of the city. I bought a house on the outskirts of the city.

So I was a student of English was taught English right on the border between the US and Canada. My husband (who is from the Southwestern states) was reading something I wrote …

Aug 14, 2016 · Technically, 'around Europe' actually means they have been travelling in countries that border Europe, but we are being perhaps a bit pedantic with the language here, none the …