A student asked me tonight why we say "something caught my eye," and not "something caught my eyes."  This is not just limited to eyes but also:   "lend me your ear." "Can I give you a hand?" or "an eye for detail."  Is this because we are not thinking of the actual body part but it's function?  This question was asked before but the answer and comments do not address the question very well.
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I am not a native English speaker, I usually hear “something caught my eye” but never “something caught (both) my eyes”. This seems pretty strange to me.  Cambridge Dictionaries Online provide these examples but without any explanation        (i) to get someone's ​attention:   A ​sudden ​movement ​caught my ​eye.        (ii) to get someone's ​attention, ​especially by ​looking at them:   I ​tried to catch the waiter's ​eye, so we could ​order.        (iii) to be ​attractive or different enough to be ​noticed by someone:   It was the ​unusual ​colour of his ​jacket that ​caught my ​eye.   Why is only one eye ‘caught”? Doesn't something catch our sight? We normally see with both eyes, not with one.
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Let's talk money.   It's from an American show: Friends(Season02 Episode03), Usually, I would say "Let's talk about money, but why did she omit the word "about"?
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What's the difference between these two phrases?
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I know that I came from a country where inventing words or phrase for something is common. I always hear this phrase when they say it:     you're so feeling close   to denote that someone pretends to be your close friend or vice versa. I'm not just that confident that the usage of this phrase is valid. I believe that we're the only one who used this.  A singled word or phrase will do.
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For the senses, we have:    flavor for taste aroma/odor/scent for smell sound for hearing ____? for touch/feel ____? for sight/see   So one tastes a flavor, smells an aroma, hears a sound, feels a(n) _____, and sees a(n) _____. For the former, part of me wants to say texture, but I feel that is too specific; for the latter, I want to use visual or sight, but but does that make sense, seeing a visual or a sight?
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Formally, in my English education, I have learned to ask for the outward appearance of something using the expression:     "What does it look like?"   Since my mother tongue is German and we say "Wie sieht es aus?", I frequently catch myself saying:     "How does it look?"   which would be the direct translation from German.  Since I think the translation does not sound wrong (I am certainly biased though) I would like to ask you if this is correct English in at least some cases or just a mistake of mine?  Thanks!
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I've come across the phrase "Listen carefully to what I say" and I'm really not sure why carefully has gone in between listen and to. It doesn't happen with other verbs; you don't "switch carefully on the light", for example.  When can an adverb follow a verb, and when can it not?
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There's an old play on words that goes like so:     Grammar: The difference between helping your uncle Jack off a horse, and helping your uncle jack off a horse.    I've been told that it should instead be:     Grammar: The difference between helping your uncle, Jack, off a horse and helping your uncle jack off a horse.    Is either of these correct? Why?
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Are both expressions correct? If yes, do they have different meanings? It seems to me that I came across both of them in books, but I'm not sure.
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This came up when reviewing a written English exercise, and I realized that I don't entirely trust my intuition on the answer.  Which of the following is correct?  Or are both valid?  (Or is it strongly advisable to rewrite the sentence in some other way?)   "I see what appears to be a man and his son." "I see what appear to be a man and his son."
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Example sentence:     I love when your dog just lets you sit there to pet them. You don’t necessarily know if they are enjoying it, but they love you enough to just sit there with you for a bit.   Is this correct? We assume the words "you" and "your" refer to the speaker of the sentence, and not to the listener, as second-person usually does. But it also refers to dog owners in general. I have always been curious about this.
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I sometimes find myself writing something like this:     XXX is a project I admire and am very interested in.   The "I &#60;verb> and am &#60;something>" feels strange here. It somehow sounds more natural in the third person: "He admires and is very interested in...."  Am I just imagining things – is it OK to use this construction, or should I use something completely different?
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I have some doubts about the usages of That and Who. Sometimes I read sentences such as. "You are someone I love" "You are someone WHO I love" Or "People were asked to describe the qualities they look for in a friend" "People were asked to describe the qualities THAT they look for in a friend"  Why in some of these sentences WHO or THAT are omitted and others are not. Could somebody help me with this? I'll appreciate it! Thanks a million.
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Can anyone give a cogent, simply described explanation of why the verb BE in:  What is it?  ... doesn't seem to be able to be contracted with the subject:  What's it? *  Compare the sentences above with:  What's this? What's that?  These are perfectly fine. In fact, the contractions here should be expected in almost all examples of spoken English. Answers with references to authoritative vetted sources would be greatly appreciated.
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In past tense works (novels, etc.) is there a place for some present tense verbs, such as "think" or "know" or "was."  Example: I turned to leave, and he didn't try to stop me. I think I surprised him. I know I surprised myself.   This sounds much more natural to me than "I thought I surprised him." Is there a word for this? A rule? Would you rephrase it? If so, how? Thank you.
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I always get confused between these two sentences:     Why are you making noise?      Why you are making noise?   Could anyone put light in the differences between the two?
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I had an exam today (Egyptian GSEC english exam) and in a passage about library it said:     The book slipped from his hands and fell on the floor with loud noise, 20 eyes looked at him and his face turned red.....   It then asked: approximately,how many persons where at the library?  Ten or twenty or forty  But I would like to know if twenty eyes represent 10 persons or is it like a metaphor and represents 20 persons?  Is this expression even correct?  Edit : in the passage it was obvious that it is a normal library with normal people i just cut a part out of its context that serves the question