Many allergies to plants typically involve a stuffy nose or blocked sinuses (head symptoms). A runny nose would be an allergy related drainage problem. Drainage here simply means that a material is leaving one part of your body to go to another part of your body (or to leave the body) like a runny nose, chest congestion, etc. As for diarrhea, it is indeed another type of drainage, but if that is the allergic reaction you have to something you REALLY need to see a doctor immediately (Anaphylactic shock is BAD) :-/

This is a term which probably comes from target practice or hunting. Mark - Target to shoot at Not so far off of - close to It is close to the target...

the -ing ending is most frequently used to describe the "activity of" instead of the "one action" and is not really dependent on when it happened. "Action" is one motion or event or process. "Activity" is multiples of those same things. Action (to do)- Activity (doing): fish - fishing (he likes to fish, he went fishing) run - running (he wants to run, he was running) work - working (I have to go to work, he is working, he will be working...) There are other uses which are less common as mentioned in the link in my reply.

The deeper meaning is very close to the literal meaning, this one isn't quite like Plato or Aristotle. If your only reaction is to "turn the other cheek" when you get hit then think about what you haven't done even though it might have be more natural or instinctual.

Try doing a regular activity you enjoy, but in English instead of your native language. If you like biking or camping or sewing or whatever, try talking to other people about those activities in English instead. Or, if you are still too early on to speak to people, try reading materials or listening to CD's or podcasts about it. This can help with pretty much everything (listening, speaking, writing, reading) but since you are doing something you would be more interested in other than just studying the language it can distract from the boredom.

In my social circles（I am an American male in his late 20's) I can call other guys man or dude or whatever I want if we are friends in casual conversation, but women expect me to know their name. If I were to call a female either "woman" or "girl" or "ladies" it would generally come off as either disrespectful or creepy... the polite way (if they are young) is "Miss" or if they are likely married / middle aged or older it would be "Ma'am". "Madam" also exists, but I think just about anyone other than much older and high-status people might get offended to be called that (it seems stuffy and old-fashioned). Just be sure not to call the young (18 year old) waitress "Ma'am" or "Madam" or you might get something in your food... However, calling an older woman "Miss" can be used as a compliment or for flattery if you aren't being foolish about it. In any case, unless you are female it is best to remember names!

Oh man! (as an exclamation) is fine. Hey man! (calling them a man) is not. man is generally a male connotation (except where used to say man as in mankind or the human race)

I got 112 games, not 104 or 128... Each team is paired with each other team one time, for 4 games a piece. Each time a team is paired together you have to make sure you don't try to pair them together again. And teams cannot pair with themselves. So, you start by subtracting 1 combination from the total teams to play at the beginning because you cannot pair any team with its self (this removes 8 possible combinations like 1-1 and 2-2 and so on). 8 teams with 1 game each pairing would look like a math problem like this: 7 + 6 + 5 + 4 + 3 + 2 + 1 = 28 pairs 28 pairs * 1 game each = 28 games Or written out the pairings would look like this: 1-2, 1-3, 1-4, 1-5, 1-6, 1-7, 1-8 2-3, 2-4, 2-5, 2-6, 2-7, 2-8 3-4, 3-5, 3-6, 3-7, 3-8 4-5, 4-6, 4-7, 4-8 5-6, 5-7, 5-8 6-7, 6-8 7-8 You can see why pairing 2-1 would not happen since we already used 1-2 in the first round... same goes with 3-2 since we already did 2-3 in the second round... and combinations like 1-1 and 8-8 don't make sense. To make this 4 games for each pairing we would simply multiply the total number of unique pairings by 4 which gives us 112 games. Note: many calculators have a function called "nCr" which will do the unique combination portion of this for you. Just be careful because the related function "nPr" will give you ALL combinations (both 1-2 and 2-1). Just be sure to subtract 1 before you start if you want to eliminate self-matches!!! For instance, if teams could pair with themselves the math problem would change to: 8+7+6+5+4+3+2+1 The pairings would look the same as above but we now would get another 8 combinations like this: 1-1, 2-2, 3-3, 4-4, 5-5, 6-6, 7-7, 8-8 and you would then have 36 unique pairs or 144 games in this case.