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- What is a good alternative to the film is set in?
about X in the Mexico-U S border region which takes place in the Mexico-U S border region Perhaps you could reword along the lines of Monsters is a 2010 independent science-fiction film directed by Gareth Edwards It is set in the present Mexico-U S border region; however, a significant event has changed human history six years before
- Should the words city state province be capitalized (if not . . .
In your second example, "city" should not be capitalized Words for governmental or administrative units are only capitalized when they are used as part of a proper noun, such as the formal name of a city Your first example is correct so long as you're referring to the City of New York, as the formal name for New York However, if I were simply using the word "city" to disambiguate and not as
- orthography - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
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 where I used the spel
- geography - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
I want to describe about a village It is not a mountain village It is located just at the border from where hills started to rise
- word choice - “In the outskirts” versus “on the outskirts” - English . . .
As Martha's NGram shows, on the outskirts is the prevailing choice between the two Why should this be? Well IMO it is down to people's underlying understanding of what the phrase means You know what the outskirts are, even if you don't know why Here's a short etymology for outskirt from Etymonline "outer border," 1590s, from out + skirt (q v ) Now only in plural Originally in Spenser and
- did shoot vs shot - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
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 shoot"
- Is of obligatory when writing In August of this year?
The review was first announced in January 2019 and it was written into the Counter-Terrorism and Border Security Act along with a statutory requirement for it to report back to parliament by August this year
- word choice - Is it considered rude or inappropriate to frequently . . .
It's used either because you are both approaching or at least looking at the border to a situation where that word can no longer apply The apparent disingenuousness is an invitation to consider the appropriateness of the label friend
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