Total abstrainer Teetotaller on teeter-totter tittered. Then due to foolish blunder, He found himself right under, The teeter-totter wasn’t junk, The teetotaller wasn’t drunk. The teetotaller laughed, ‘Cos he was simply daft. Now, you are clever and will know, What kind of moral one should draw.

A clause Can a clause, with its own subject and predicate, stand on its own, or it can only function within a compound or complex sentence? If it can, will it still be a clause, or it will become a sentence? Or both?

Spaces and dots after abbreviations? In a series of abbreviations, should there be spaces and dots in between, in BrE? • HMS Ulysses • J. R. R. Tolkien

Oral English vs. spoken English I have seen people saying here: “oral English”. Does any of the native speakers actually use the term "oral" when refers to spoken English? Does it sound natural? Corpus indicates it is still in use but I have never heard anyone using it this way. Is it one of the differences between AmE and BrE?

How to comment on a comment?

Looks like I can post a reply in the form of a comment to a comment of my notebook entry, but I cannot actually see my reply/comment despite the fact I can see the number of comments has increased.

Rise vs. raise as a verb Very confused every time it comes to using rise or raise. I hope this short sentence will help me remember the difference between rise and raise (which needs a material thing – an object, like a tray): "Rise in price, but raise the trays".

Words, words and more words. There are about 250,000 entries in the Oxford dictionary! Why is that, the more I learn, the more is out there left to take in. I am willing to learn, but, at times, I feel that I may not live long enough to master the English language. Hm, did I just get grouchy? I hope not.