Discussion Groups / English Usage / January 2007

Hi. Recently I heard the line 'There is nothing between your brother
and I' on a television programme. Shouldn't this be 'brother and me'?
It seems that both 'brother' and 'me' are in the accusative case here.
After all,we would only recast the sentence as 'There is nothing

The calculation about the discount is explained
as follows:
Up to $1000, sell by 5% discount.
Up to $2000, sell by 10% discount.

Hi. I was recently told by someone on this site that sentences should
never be begun with 'but'; that only clauses should be so begun. That
is to say: You can't have 'but' succeeding a period but only a
semicolon. I couldn't find this in any manuals on English usage and

Is an "alley street" more like an alley than a street, i.e. narrow, or
what is it exactly?
Thanks.
Marius Hancu

All he wants to do is go to Los Angeles
and play soccer in sunny California rather
than contend with wet, muddy winters.
But everyone wants to be on his case!

I read a sentence and do not know the reason why it is used so. Hope
someone can help me to make it clear.
The sentence is "I think that the level of a question in terms of its
difficulty, should be reflected in the number of marks it is worth."

Context would be e-cart's manual.
"With our software you can localise your e-store and provide the
product and
shipping pricing in visitor's home currency. That is, you can set

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In London, around mid 1800's, if there was a drunken party and people
were carousing, what word might have been used for carousing in that
timeframe and place.
Mary

I going to send following letter to the president of the condo board.
Can  anyone check at my English grammar and other errors?
President of the condo board
4 Little Street

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Can you cite a reference resolving the precise meaning of _th year?
That is, I think I found in Richard Henry Dana's "Two Years Before the
Mast" a phrase that went something like this, "The Pilgrim set sail, I,
in my 19th year, . . . " or some such (I no longer have a copy).

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[As
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