extend < > expand checked < > chequered? Hello everyone, where is the difference between extend < > expand the range (is the latter more from an economical perspective?) and between checked < > chequered? (textile)

Unpoetic grammar - please help me write my poem correctly I decided to learn some English by writing poetry and doing so I wanted to write a comparsion but then stumbled upon unpoetic grammar. In Germany we have the tradition to make a whish when seeing a shooting star. So I put this as a metaphor in my poem but then got some problems. It reads: ...like desperately wanting to see a falling star and then not to know what to whish upon or is it: (always?) shooting star > where is the difference between a falling and a shooting star? Is there any? or is it: and then not KNOWING or ist it: ... what to whish FOR Could you help me please? Thank you in advance, dear native speakers!

I'm sad about climate change ... .

"like every" vs. "like any" He eats a lot of sweets like every child. He eats a lot of sweets like any child. I'm not sure if both sentences are correct? I struggle with the usage of "like every" vs. "like any". If both examples are correct nontheless - where is the difference, do they express something different? Thank you for helping me, I send you some virtual sweets :-)

Being a groundling at the Globe - your experience? .

When subtitles make you wonder about grammar .. again / Why the continious form? "Now you're really starting to freak me out." was written in the subtitles and it made me wonder. Why is present continious used here? I mean when something starts it's just a short instance and doesn't last that long. I can freak out s.b. for a long time but I can't start to freak out s.b. for a long time, can I??? Why not just simple present? Thank you in advance!Thank you everyone for your much appreciated help! As for the overanalysation: it's always difficult for me to learn something that I don't understand.

Quote of the day by Mae West .

Which tense to use in connection with the verb bewitched Another awkward question from me, please pardon me. If somebody got bewitched it might have consequences which may last longer. This made me think, if the sentence using simple past: "He bewitched the children" could even be correct? Or is it better to say: "He has / had bewitched the children" because we can expect that the process of bewitching has some long-lasting consequences?

Conserving fashion - could a native speaker please check my words I wonder if and to what extent which chemicals are used to protect the clothes from moths and other pests, fungi etc. Are there side-effects of this usage? Are there cases in which you have to consider to do further damage to the cloth because of the chemicals you use or to lose the cloth to the damage caused by parasites?