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Is the sentence OK for the same reason that the following is OK?:

Those kids are always up to no good.

Thanks.

Two sentences:

1. I hope we're not putting you to too much trouble.
2. I hope we're not putting too much trouble to you.

Which is the correct sentence? Thank you very much.

A book records:

He is wheezing in evident disbelief in this so taxing afterlife.

I know we can say

in so taxing AN afterlife

but is the original sentence grammatical or is it a typo? It doesn't sound natural to me; could you help me?

Without any context, in English is it possible to say:

it can be because....?

I don't think it can, because to refer to a present situation meaning possibility, we use COULD BE, and a past, COULD HAVE BEEN, and CAN is not acceptable English, but I hope a teacher can verify my statement.

Thanks.

In fact, I understood this meaning as an undergraduate; but doesn't that sentence mean SHE is at all times in the news? This is not logical....

The meaning of ALWAYS is at all times; on every occasion. If you say a person is always doing something, or something is always happening, you mean that they do it, or it happens, very often, and that this is annoying. But in a dictionary I find this sentence: -She is always in the news. A person ca...