Police breeze and hurl a telephone

Dude! (As my Australian friend likes to say) What has happened here?! Wow. Well, the characters are not terribly difficult to read. Let’s start with the first character at the top and work our way through.

Blacklist

It does not sound quite right. The verb usage of “to fly” matters because it is an intransitive verb. For instance, The birds are flying. She came flying into the office.

Doom gathering, back to back

Last weekend, I went to visit a painting exhibition at a French gallery located in an old factory that is expected to be demolished in a couple of months. It is quite a good place that blends the old with the modern. However, it is destined to be removed, so we all have to accept its fate.

Politely refuse visiting

If you have small children in your house, this is a sign you might want on the bathroom door to remind yourself of patience and understanding for little ones. If you do not have small children, I will relate to you a fairly typical scenario.

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It is academically not proper to use “than” here when it is in combination with “different.” We first of all have to be clear about the usage of “to differ” and “be different.”

Getting the right ‘juice’ for your boss

For many young people, working for a multinational company like Google, Apple or JP Morgan is an enviable goal which can provide opportunities to learn from great thinkers from all over the world. The generous salary doesn’t hurt either.

Nihil Obstat – Entiende Usted?

The other day I saw a sign on a bus for a travel company that promised “Scenery and Beauty for Cheap.” I thought to myself, now that sums up modern society’s problem in a nutshell, doesn’t it?

Blacklist

The problem in this sentence is the usage of the pronoun. It is incorrect to use “which” to denote “members,” because the “members” here indicate living persons.

Don’t be ‘er’ at dinner parties

My friend Alison hosted a house party for nine guests last Sunday. She loves cooking and hanging out with friends over wine, so we were all excited for the get-together.

“Scared” Land of Yan’an

I suspect that most foreigners in China, even the most ignorant of Chinese history, must be vaguely familiar with Mao Zedong.