"There are books in/on the shelf": which option is correct?
2016年12月2日 · If you're talking about a bookshelf, you might use both. For general talk about any sort of shelf, I'd tend to go with on, because gravity makes it hard to sit things beside or under a shelf (without the help of additional shelves), and physics makes it hard to place a book inside (in) the actual shelf.
"He put on the shelf a box" -- can this be considered correct?
2019年1月4日 · 'On the shelf' is the adverbial modifier of place and must follow the other parts of the sentence. The inversion is only possible and necessary for the reader's comfort, when the object is followed by a long attributive construction.
Neither the plates nor the serving bowl "goes" or "go" on that …
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Someone who buys a lot of books but barely reads them
2015年12月28日 · Given to collecting ‘uncut’ books. 1862 J. H. Burton Bk.-hunter (1882) 19 He was not a black letter man or a tall copyist or an uncut man. This adjective applied to persons by way of the transferred sense draws on the sense of uncut applied to books: a. Of books: Not having the leaves cut open.
What part of speech is "back" in "put the book back on the table"?
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Difference between "under", "underneath", "below" and "beneath"
2018年9月7日 · "Books on the American Revolution sit on the shelf above books on the U.S. Civil War." Also with above-below, there seems to be an understood or implied relationship. "One shelf is above another. One shelf is below the other." Under …
"At hand" vs "on hand" vs "in hand" - English Language & Usage …
2012年1月17日 · I'd never seen (at least, never noticed) "at hand" used for that "imminent" sense before, but checking Google Books for war at hand shows you're quite right. Primarily American usage, I guess. +1 for that, and for managing to get all three prepositions in one sentence.
"Neither Michael nor Albert is correct" or "Neither Michael nor …
2010年8月17日 · Here's another example from Google Books where the supposedly ungrammatical version dwarfs "correct" usage. Grammar is the codified description of what people actually say; it makes no sense to claim that what the overwhelming majority of native speakers prefer is "wrong". neither he nor I are (About 2,500 results)
word choice - "Could you please" vs "Could you kindly" - English ...
2012年1月5日 · I am a non-native speaker of English. When communicating with a professor, would it be better to use could you kindly send me the document or could you please send me the document? I know both are
Is it correct to write 'valuable asset'? - English Language & Usage ...
2014年11月5日 · In other contexts it is a mere number: a house-clearer will place a value on a shelf of paperback books (because that's his job), but it is likely to be merely nominal. Similarly with asset ; the assets of a company include staplers and pencils, but if you are called an asset to the firm it is implied that you are a valuable asset.