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  • Asked on December 21, 2021 in Meaning.

    Stror is a spelling that represents one or more dialectal pronunciations of straw. Stror is a spelling that represents one or more dialectal pronunciations of straw. In Survey of French Dialects (Routledge, 1994, 2013), there’s an entry for straw, which I reproduce by image (sorry, to transcribe the information in the image is beyond me). There are over a dozen dialectal pronunciations of straw shown in the image.

    Several list of these are represented by spelling stror.

    To demonstrate that Wells’s use in The Invisible Man is not a typo, you can consult images of a published book, which are much less likely to contain typos or scanning errors than are found in such formats as zip, pdf, etc. Why can’t people find images of published books for free?

    I like o’ Man so it is that I can look up the word stror in Google Books. I didn’t like it, that’s all.

    “Can’t help it, if the wind blows my stror,” said Mr. Rumbold, still far from clear about it…. “It isn’t ordinary civility,” said Mr. Polly. I decided to unpack my bags ‘ow it suits me? If it’s the thing in your arms that blows into one’s eyes, can’t unpack it.

    Stor, in the sentence, means straw. When Rumbold was standing up, this strawy thing knocked his ear out like a tornado.

    It’s not clear what it means here?

    If there aren’t any people in he kin lie in er corner on th’ stror under his blanket an’ sleep, an’ sometimes he kin stay lyin’ on the stror when there’s

    on’y a few, so long ez he growls a bit an’ stretches hisself (emphasis mine)

    Which spellings are most often used in this format in conjunction with English dialectal spellings, to simplify sentences with more correct syntax at shorter sentences? Standard spelling is If

    there aren’t any people in he can lie in her(?) corner under his blanket and sleep, and sometimes he can stay lying on the straw when there’s only a few people in so long as he growls and stretches himself.

    In rustic or rural settings people often had to use “straw beds” in poor circumstances or where the only material available for a matting was straw, as in a barn.

    Last, I’ve found two uses of stror in Green’s Dictionary of Slang (2011 online version), including

    I suppose if the Toffs took a fancy for chewing a stror or a twig / Like a tout or a hostler.

    (1879 Arry on Crutches’ in Punch 3 May 201/1 (emphasis mine); found in the entry for the word tout) Somehow

    in anglo (US) culture, there’s an oft-repeated scene or habit of people who put a piece of straw in their mouths and “chew” on it. By straw, I don’t mean the plastic/glass tube you use to suck a liquid into your mouth, but “a stem of any cereal plant, esp. What are plastic/glass straws used for?

    Like Greens: I ‘all

    turn with a snappy birthday party with stror coloured ‘air. Also, from Greens: I ‘ad several turns.

    (1918) “Arry at a political Pic–Nic” in Punch 11 Oct. 21. 180/1 (from the entry for snappy.) The OED attests

    to the use of straw to refer to straw-colored hair, most recently from the 1970s. Stror is not in the OED OED online version.

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  • Asked on December 21, 2021 in Meaning.

    Stror is a spelling that represents one or more dialectal pronunciations of straw. Stror is a spelling that represents one or more dialectal pronunciations of straw. In Survey of French Dialects (Routledge, 1994, 2013), there’s an entry for straw, which I reproduce by image (sorry, to transcribe the information in the image is beyond me). There are over a dozen dialectal pronunciations of straw shown in the image.

    Several list of these are represented by spelling stror.

    To demonstrate that Wells’s use in The Invisible Man is not a typo, you can consult images of a published book, which are much less likely to contain typos or scanning errors than are found in such formats as zip, pdf, etc. Why can’t people find images of published books for free?

    I like o’ Man so it is that I can look up the word stror in Google Books. I didn’t like it, that’s all.

    “Can’t help it, if the wind blows my stror,” said Mr. Rumbold, still far from clear about it…. “It isn’t ordinary civility,” said Mr. Polly. I decided to unpack my bags ‘ow it suits me? If it’s the thing in your arms that blows into one’s eyes, can’t unpack it.

    Stor, in the sentence, means straw. When Rumbold was standing up, this strawy thing knocked his ear out like a tornado.

    It’s not clear what it means here?

    If there aren’t any people in he kin lie in er corner on th’ stror under his blanket an’ sleep, an’ sometimes he kin stay lyin’ on the stror when there’s

    on’y a few, so long ez he growls a bit an’ stretches hisself (emphasis mine)

    Which spellings are most often used in this format in conjunction with English dialectal spellings, to simplify sentences with more correct syntax at shorter sentences? Standard spelling is If

    there aren’t any people in he can lie in her(?) corner under his blanket and sleep, and sometimes he can stay lying on the straw when there’s only a few people in so long as he growls and stretches himself.

    In rustic or rural settings people often had to use “straw beds” in poor circumstances or where the only material available for a matting was straw, as in a barn.

    Last, I’ve found two uses of stror in Green’s Dictionary of Slang (2011 online version), including

    I suppose if the Toffs took a fancy for chewing a stror or a twig / Like a tout or a hostler.

    (1879 Arry on Crutches’ in Punch 3 May 201/1 (emphasis mine); found in the entry for the word tout) Somehow

    in anglo (US) culture, there’s an oft-repeated scene or habit of people who put a piece of straw in their mouths and “chew” on it. By straw, I don’t mean the plastic/glass tube you use to suck a liquid into your mouth, but “a stem of any cereal plant, esp. What are plastic/glass straws used for?

    Like Greens: I ‘all

    turn with a snappy birthday party with stror coloured ‘air. Also, from Greens: I ‘ad several turns.

    (1918) “Arry at a political Pic–Nic” in Punch 11 Oct. 21. 180/1 (from the entry for snappy.) The OED attests

    to the use of straw to refer to straw-colored hair, most recently from the 1970s. Stror is not in the OED OED online version.

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  • Asked on December 21, 2021 in Meaning.

    Stror is a spelling that represents one or more dialectal pronunciations of straw. Stror is a spelling that represents one or more dialectal pronunciations of straw. In Survey of French Dialects (Routledge, 1994, 2013), there’s an entry for straw, which I reproduce by image (sorry, to transcribe the information in the image is beyond me). There are over a dozen dialectal pronunciations of straw shown in the image.

    Several list of these are represented by spelling stror.

    To demonstrate that Wells’s use in The Invisible Man is not a typo, you can consult images of a published book, which are much less likely to contain typos or scanning errors than are found in such formats as zip, pdf, etc. Why can’t people find images of published books for free?

    I like o’ Man so it is that I can look up the word stror in Google Books. I didn’t like it, that’s all.

    “Can’t help it, if the wind blows my stror,” said Mr. Rumbold, still far from clear about it…. “It isn’t ordinary civility,” said Mr. Polly. I decided to unpack my bags ‘ow it suits me? If it’s the thing in your arms that blows into one’s eyes, can’t unpack it.

    Stor, in the sentence, means straw. When Rumbold was standing up, this strawy thing knocked his ear out like a tornado.

    It’s not clear what it means here?

    If there aren’t any people in he kin lie in er corner on th’ stror under his blanket an’ sleep, an’ sometimes he kin stay lyin’ on the stror when there’s

    on’y a few, so long ez he growls a bit an’ stretches hisself (emphasis mine)

    Which spellings are most often used in this format in conjunction with English dialectal spellings, to simplify sentences with more correct syntax at shorter sentences? Standard spelling is If

    there aren’t any people in he can lie in her(?) corner under his blanket and sleep, and sometimes he can stay lying on the straw when there’s only a few people in so long as he growls and stretches himself.

    In rustic or rural settings people often had to use “straw beds” in poor circumstances or where the only material available for a matting was straw, as in a barn.

    Last, I’ve found two uses of stror in Green’s Dictionary of Slang (2011 online version), including

    I suppose if the Toffs took a fancy for chewing a stror or a twig / Like a tout or a hostler.

    (1879 Arry on Crutches’ in Punch 3 May 201/1 (emphasis mine); found in the entry for the word tout) Somehow

    in anglo (US) culture, there’s an oft-repeated scene or habit of people who put a piece of straw in their mouths and “chew” on it. By straw, I don’t mean the plastic/glass tube you use to suck a liquid into your mouth, but “a stem of any cereal plant, esp. What are plastic/glass straws used for?

    Like Greens: I ‘all

    turn with a snappy birthday party with stror coloured ‘air. Also, from Greens: I ‘ad several turns.

    (1918) “Arry at a political Pic–Nic” in Punch 11 Oct. 21. 180/1 (from the entry for snappy.) The OED attests

    to the use of straw to refer to straw-colored hair, most recently from the 1970s. Stror is not in the OED OED online version.

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  • Asked on March 26, 2021 in Meaning.

    When a watch “works” are the delicate movement, the “works” are the tiny moving parts inside it. So what does

    this watch do?

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  • Asked on March 16, 2021 in Grammar.

    Subject: body

    verb: has

    direct object: increased energy needs

    verbial: in cold weather

    We would normally expect a determiner (such as the definite or indefinite article) before body since it is a singular count noun.

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  • Asked on February 28, 2021 in Other.

    Any number of the given number can be used.

    This sentence is ambiguous. to what extent? If used is an adjective or non adjective “any number

    can be used”, what is a verb?

    or a past participle in of a passive construction, as in

    the latter case, 2a Any number can be used .

    a

    specific number of spiders, and using them, should scare my fiancee!

    Neverthless, in any of the above constructions the sentence is not Verb Pattern 21 as shown by the image in the edited question. What is VP21?

    Usually Hornby’s text is written for advanced students, but there are other courses such as Quora and Webster. Here are the resources. How do modal verbs work? A few examples are shown within. Instead of their use is explained in Chapter 5 of the text, and can is mostly dealt with in 5.34-5.38.

    If used is an adjective, like in my sentence 1, it seems to be Verb Pattern 1 SUBJ + BE + subject complement/adjunct. As Hornby explains in detail one pattern of the verb to be, the verb can be indicated by the term ability or, less likely, permission.

    C.1 The SUBJECT is any number, the verb is CAN + BE, and the complement/adjunct is used. If used is meant as an adjective then this is similar to all the sentences in Table 2 of VP1, which include It was dark, The children were exhausted, The ship is still afloat.

    In a passive construction any number is the’subject’ of the sentence, with can be used as a sort of truncated passive predicate. A fuller predicate would be something like the one in my sentence above? Used by you to scare young girls? Should you learn passive construction? If you’re not, see ELU’s How can I reliably and accurately identify the passive voice in writing or speech?

    Can you tell me how high the

    altitude is?

    which Hornby includes as an example of VP21 (see image), but can in your sentence is used to express permission, or informally, privilege? What is the best method to prepare a paper on 5.34-5? I finished reading the book, 38 of it. How do The 25 Verb Patterns that Hornby refers to are used by him alone (as far as I can remember); in addition, he first came up with these “Verb Patterns” in the first edition of this book, which was published in 1954–most sixty years ago. What grammar do you think you have? If you have access to other resources, you might want to give them a try. If you are an early elementary student, why

    don’t you study the basics but focusing on the basics?

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