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The last time I posted about this book I received a lot of negative reviews of it, but I think "The Elements of Style" by Strunk and White is a great simple guide to stylistic English grammar. It gets bad reviews because it is a bit outdated and grammarians love to disagree about grammar and books.

Edit: I used it in a senior university level technical writing course, so it's used academically.

Someone who is sent by another to prosecute (in this case test the validity of ideas). Fiscal doesn't really make sense because we're not talking about financial things. It may be a play on the idea of bankruptcy, using it as a metaphor for the quality of ideas. If something is bankrupt, it is worthless, not valid. So, you have the physical sciences interrogating metaphysics, testing whether their ideas are worth anything.

Okay, I looked up "fiscal" and I found this: https://www.wordnik.com/words/fiscal And if you look further down the page and see, "noun A public officer in Scotland who prosecutes in petty criminal cases; -- called also procurator fiscal."

So, it could be that the writer is Scottish, or using a Scottish phrase to mean a prosecutor in general. The fact that it is a prosecutor (interrogator) of petty crimes seems fairly pejorative.

A shortcut: Go to https://www.worldcat.org/ search your book’s ISBN number, then export the citation in the format you need, ready made.

Better: Use Zotero to manage your bibliographic data, notes and citations. https://www.zotero.org/

This may be a weird suggestion, but have you ever looked at sentence diagramming? I find that it really helps to visualize word relationships. I teach grammar, and this is the text I use.

The thing I’ve noticed with grammar instruction in American primary and secondary schools is that we’ve stopped going too deep. You might get into some verbals and complex uses of clauses toward the end of middle school or high school, but most subject matter repeats every year. I still go over action and linking verbs even with heritage speakers in 8th grade.

So if you want more complex than say, gerunds and noun clauses, you’ll probably have to look into college texts that are made for grammar courses.

But do take a look at the diagramming.

Think it’s called Grammar Geek.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/1788402006/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_awdb_imm_NCHNYJ9SJHV0E68TE793

Or Word Nerd

https://www.amazon.com/dp/1788402014/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_awdb_imm_8AHZFNR8SKMAH2YNGHTC?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1

I have them both but I can’t remember which is the one from the post because I’m currently working away from home and can’t check for sure.

I know of the two apps that you could build your English vocabulary with;

ok English - https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.shex.okenglish

a Dozen Words Daily - https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.shex.adozenwordsdaily&hl=en

If you're that interested, you should spend the $100/year for a subscription to the Oxford English Dictionary. It's the definitive English dictionary, and in certain cases has multi-page etymologies.

Another option, if you live near an English-language university, would be to check out their library for the OED. My university's law library had a copy - all 20 volumes - that I used on a few occasions.

Understanding the metaphorical reference may help.

A litmus test is that little piece of paper that you use in chemistry class to test ph. It changes to a different color depending on if the substance is acidic or basic.

https://www.amazon.com/Extensive-Litmus-Sonkir-Strips%EF%BC%8CTest-Testing/dp/B07H1RJSGJ/ref=asc\_df\_B07H1RJSGJ/?tag=hyprod-20&linkCode=df0&hvadid=312150376453&hvpos=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=2710603838569638790&hvpone=&hvptwo=...

I assume that frame of reference refers to an artist's tool. You can get frames that you hold up as an aid in composing paintings and drawings.

https://www.dickblick.com/products/quickomp-artists-drawing-tool/

Native English speaker here. Never heard of this phrase.

For the “thing in a thing” I would just say something is “like inception” or Russian nesting dolls https://www.amazon.com/Heka-Naturals-Matryoshka-Russian-Babushka/dp/B06XNTRPXN

You've never heard of a scandal being called [something]gate, after the Watergate Complex in Washington DC and the subsequent scandal?

You've really never heard of Billygate, when Jimmy Carter's brother Billy Carter met with Libyan officials?

Or Dieselgate, when VW tinkered with diesel cars to pass emissions tests?

Or Deflategate, when Tom Brady and the New England Patriots were caught using underinflated footballs?

Or Weinergate when NY congressman Anthony Weiner was caught sending dick pics?

Or Nipplegate, when Justin Timberlake exposed Janet Jackson's nipples to the world in a Super Bowl halftime show?

Or Servergate, when Hillary Clinton was caught using an unsecured Exchange server because she "didn't want to use two phones"?

Or the Pizzagate conspiracy theory?

Hell, even the Brits have some -gate scandals, like Camillagate (1993, when transcripts of private phone calls between Prince Charles and Camilla Parker-Bowles were published in newspapers) and Bloodgate (2009, when an English rugby team used theatrical blood capsules to fake injuries to allow more player substitutions than would normally be allowed).

More than you ever wanted to know about the semicolon:

<https://www.amazon.com/Semicolon-Past-Present-Future-Misunderstood-ebook/dp/B07F13BLCT/ref=sr_1_1&gt;

Note--it's a much better read than you would expect.

There is a giant book called "Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable" that has a lot:

https://www.amazon.ca/Brewers-Dictionary-Phrase-Fable-20th/dp/1473676363/ref=sr_1_1?crid=1ILRGG81DH2MH&amp;keywords=phrase+and+fable&amp;qid=1653848521&amp;sprefix=phrase+and+fable%2Caps%2C187&amp;sr=8-1

If you want a good book on Psycho Cybernetics I suggest the one by Maxwell Maltz:
https://www.amazon.com/Psycho-Cybernetics-Updated-Expanded-Maxwell-Maltz/dp/0399176136

Amazon is calling it paperboard food tray (https://www.amazon.com/Southern-Champion-Tray-0425-Paperboard/dp/B001AQTX8I). I see elsewhere food basket. But you're right, it's not something people know the term of, like the plastic tips at the end of shoe laces.

That's OK. I took Latin in college, and was reading Caesar's Gallic Wars (in Latin, obviously). I came across the word "woad". I looked through every Latin dictionary on campus, and even trudged down to the law library for their Latin references. Exasperated, I looked in their copy of the OED and found that it's an Old English word for a type of blue dye (as seen in Braveheart).

I don't know much about that either, but whatever its origins, it is very much an English dialect today, with not a whole lot of influence from African lanugages as far as I'm aware.

And here's a very interesting and influential paper on the use of falsetto in constructing a social identity if you're interested!

Practice varies. Most works on this site prefer "I": https://www.gutenberg.org/. On this site, however, most of the comments prefer "i" (unless FULL CAPSLOCK is deployed):https://www.youtube.com/. No worries!

“I hope to see you again” is the best way to write that.

However, assuming it’s a true fill in the blank scenario, you must include the will because without it the sentence is present tense. Will is an auxiliary verb that must be included as it describes the action in the future.

Here is a resource that will help you understand modal verbs: https://preply.com/en/blog/how-to-use-will-and-would-in-english/

We don't need a computer, in this sentence. Please, read Reveso Context.

You guys are supposed to be writing programs.

Вы обязаны <em>писать программы</em>.

Learning to write is really a long and difficult process. One of the most famous books on writing in English is The Elements Of Style by William Strunk and E.B. White. It's old, so you can probably find a cheap copy somewhere. I know we have it on Amazon's U.S. shop. https://www.amazon.com/Elements-Style-Fourth-William-Strunk/dp/020530902X/ref=sr\_1\_7?dchild=1&amp;keywords=ap+style+guide&amp;qid=1629526216&amp;sr=8-7

We are working on this app to help people practice speaking without fear of making mistakes: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=app.yadada. Currently, we have about 15 stories and would appreciate any feedback.

> Btw. Is it correct to say 'it says'?

Had to Google around a bit. Yes, it is correct to write "it says", as "it" in this case is referrring to Kahneman's book, Thinking, Fast and Slow. In your sentence, you'll want to title case the book's title. And probably underline it.

And if this is for a paper, toss in a parenthetical citation. ;)

If you'd like to improve your vocabulary, vocabulary.com as well as freerice can help.

As for grammar, practice workbooks can be helpful. http://www.amazon.com/Only-Grammar-Style-Workbook-Youll/dp/1440530068/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1449128189&amp;sr=8-4&amp;keywords=grammar+practice