Apr 12, 2010 · You defer, as you say, when you will accept their opinion over your own (whether you disagree or not). It doesn't refer to your ability to do something on your own. (The first example should have been in the past tense, by the way, and in the third, the president defer s.

Aug 7, 2011 · Hi I am a newbie here, I wish someone here can enlighten me the differences/ correctness between/of the followings 2 sentences:- a) We received the document this morning. (simple past tense) b) We have received the document this morning. (present perfect tense) May I know which one is...

'Piranhas': Intermediate level cloze / gap fill practice English reading comprehension exercise.

Jun 29, 2008 · I will defer to your native instincts on that! You are, however, wrong in asserting that collective nouns cannot be singular in BrE: 'The team is...' etc. is perfectly acceptable, albeit arguably less common.

Jun 29, 2008 · I'll have to defer to you. Perhaps you have the bigger grammar book. bhaisahab and I have only been speaking the language for over 100 years between us (and that's not counting kfredson and 2006), so what would we know?

Jul 7, 2021 · Welcome to the forum. :hi: In British English, both the hyphenated and non-hyphenated forms are used. The same goes for the verb "cooperate/co-operate". Please note my changes above. Remember to include an actual question in your post. When you use an ellipsis, remember to put a space before (and after) the three dots. Also, whenever you give us more than one option or sentence to look at ...

Browse the complete 'GRE Vocabulary' word list of 1,162 words, and discover related lexical and grammatical information about each word.