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There is no problem with modifying prepositions, such as like or many others where a notion of "how much" makes sense. In the game, he went straight toward the enemy. Straight modifies toward, expre …

Correcting your second sentence, the two mean different things. Do you think that such a badge is needed? You are asking if you need a badge for something that is happening or will soon happen. …

Come is not involved in this expression, it's either "Did you take lunch?" or *Have you taken lunch?." Did is appropriate if you want to know whether or not someone has taken lunch. Have is appropri …

One doesn't take an article if: it's a determiner itself. "I took one look at it and left." it refers to a person and is being used in a purely abstract sense. "One does not learn English in a day …

When you say make in the sense of to cause/force to do, I think it takes a bare infinitive, not an object. He makes me shine, He made me shine. Past participles, when not used as a linking/aux …

Only if like is an interjection, and it should be written this way to clarify: it feels, like, so cozy When X is like Y, that means means X shares qualities with Y. The implication in expressio …

English used like this is not a singular countable noun. It's a singular non-countable noun. So you can't use one to refer to it. I need to train my English to be better. Similarly, I need …

If have is being used in the rather abstracty/vague sense of "to experience" or "to consume" (but often stands in for a more specific verb), have got can't be substituted and still mean an emphatic fo …

It should be What potential risk would there be for me? In this sentence, there is functioning as an indefinite pronoun - you are asking whether or not there will be a risk, and if there is, wha …

It's passive voice if adding by X after confirmed would make sense. A speaker/writer may not add the by X for a few reasons: the speaker/writer has already said who/what X is and doesn't want to be …

Tom died 15 years ago. He has 3 sons. Even though Tom has passed on, Tom still exists in this sentence and in at least the memories of his sons. Use of has is appropriate. Tom died 15 years …

In the first sentence, play is an infinitive, and playing is a gerund. Both of those are "non-finite" verbs. It's really hard to easily express the difference in meaning between infinitive and gerund. …

I think participial phrases that look like they modify the entire sentence really modify the verb in that sentence, making them "adverbial participial phrases" instead of "adjectival participial phras …

There is an epistemic interpretation of this under which it means I have evidence ... that you're very tactful. The antecedent of it is the antecedent of this. Less likely, one could also inter …

Hurt is: an adjective meaning "in pain" a verb meaning "to be in pain" if used without an object. The subject can be an entire person - I'm hurting - or a body part - My hand hurts, my hand is h …