Discussion Groups / English Usage / May 2008

The boy deserves being praised.
The boy deserves to be praised.
The boy deserves praisng.
My grammar book says the first sentence is incorrect. Is that really

Examining the following only from an English usage standpoint, this
snippet, taken from the France 24 News broadcast of yesterday, remains
regrettable:
"...a quarter of the population was decimated"

Last week sometime I recorded what I thought was a movie on
BBC-America:  "Dumped".  Just from the title I thought it would be a
Hugh Grant-type thing about a jilted lover.  Light entertainment.
It turned out to be documentary or reality show about a group of

I'm not able to use my Comcast Usenet access today, as it does not
accept logins.  Using the Google interface is a pain, so I will, most
likely be shtum for a bit.
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MS Word says it is an.  It sure doesn't sound right to say an
urologist.

I have this clause
"In this chapter, four people write about times in their lives when
something important happened to them, something that they didn't forget."
I have a question about "... something important happened to them ..."

i need to improve the grammer  between these signs (----) below
please
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In the quoted excerpt below, is this sentence OK?
"I was _overlooking_ beautiful Auckland".
In particular, I'd like to know if the use of "overlooking" is suitable
for teaching EFL learners?

In Disney's 'Story of Robin Hood', Alan-a-Dale(Elton Hayes) sings...
# I'll sing of poor Robin
# All wounded and sick
# I'll sing of King Richard

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He deserves punishing.
My grammar book says it is wrong, because "punish" has a noun
"punishment". So it should be written: "He deserves punishment."
I'm doubtful of this, becuase I saw a similar sentence in my

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For days now I have been listening to the National Public Radio news readers
tell me about what the "Meddy Army" is doing in "Bazra."
Are these people unable to read?  Or do they mangle these words
intentionally as a kind of passive-aggressive dig at the Arabs?

What phrase is right?
I would learn geography to know where is which country
I would learn geography to know where  which country is.