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Asked on September 13, 2021 in Single word requests.
Is there an alternate way of saying “Additionally”? How if it were?
Personally, I would only use “moreover” when I want to say “Additionally and more importantly”. According to the dictionary, I’ve made up the “more important” bit myself.
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Asked on September 12, 2021 in Single word requests.
Is there an alternate way of saying “Additionally”? How if it were?
Personally, I would only use “moreover” when I want to say “Additionally and more importantly”. According to the dictionary, I’ve made up the “more important” bit myself.
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Asked on September 6, 2021 in Single word requests.
Is there an alternate way of saying “Additionally”? How if it were?
Personally, I would only use “moreover” when I want to say “Additionally and more importantly”. According to the dictionary, I’ve made up the “more important” bit myself.
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Asked on March 26, 2021 in Single word requests.
Vain :
excessively proud of oneself or worried about others’ appearance, qualities, achievements, etc.. ; conceitted:
Someone who always wants to make sure they look good/make sure that they don’t look bad is vain. But it conveys want prior to worry, so may not be a perfect fit.
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Asked on March 26, 2021 in Single word requests.
Vain :
excessively proud of oneself or worried about others’ appearance, qualities, achievements, etc.. ; conceitted:
Someone who always wants to make sure they look good/make sure that they don’t look bad is vain. But it conveys want prior to worry, so may not be a perfect fit.
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Asked on March 16, 2021 in Grammar.
Both words of the two are grammatically correct but they have different meanings.
When using a question tag, we use the negative form of what “I want/mean “. According to this eslbase. Com Page :
If the auxiliary verb in the sentence is affirmative, the tag is negative.
Are you Spanish?
If the auxiliary verb in a sentence is negative, the tag is affirmative.
You’re not Spanish. Are you?
So the phrase “Help yourself to a drink, won’t you?” implies the opposite: You should help yourself to a drink. It is therefore a polite offer.
If you shouldn’t help yourself to a drink why? Is it like someone randomly walking into a private party, and taking drinks in a pool.? Will the person who said it to you afterwards have a reaction to your aggressive behaviour. Is this a crime?
I want to make this confused. I’ve thought up another meaning of “Help yourself to drink…”. “If someone hasn’t done a task before, how is it perceived? What did you mean by just “just”?
What is the most important grammatically correct usage? Is it a polite offer? In speech you could tell this apart from the “aggressive/you shouldn’t have done that…” meaning above by the stress, emphasis and speech pattern/timing. Can’t work out how to make that clear in writing, as the “will” will be stressed in both versions. In writing the context should make it clear which are the
used.
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Asked on March 14, 2021 in Meaning.
She wrote a truly interesting book about a mysterious rap artist in Thailand. I would highly recommend reading it. What is the best thing to read in my lifetime?
- If true crime is
- almost all the entirety, it means: True crime
- is almost completely the
- entirety what I read. Note
that the “that”
in your quote almost certainly refers to “true crime” in general
and not to
that specific book.
Why is the ‘I read’ present and not the continuous ‘I’m reading’? Why would anyone who has read a book regularly repeatedly bother to read it?
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Asked on March 13, 2021 in Grammar.
“All of A are not B” means the most basic of A are not B. There is
another difference as well: “Non all is B” carries a heavy implication that at least some of A are B. However there are some phrases where
“all… not” and “not all…” are used interchangeably: “All is not lost” = “all” – Logically
this means that every single thing is not lost. When nothing is lost only what is sinned of is lost. What does “lost” and “brought back” mean?
Everything that glitters is not gold. (Fragments/Windows that glitter) – Logically this means that every single thing that glitters (“All that glitters”) is not gold, i.e. anything that melts. Then there is other things that do it. What is gold? Does it shine? I was noticing that only because she is glittering, it is not gold. I mean what gold is, I have seen some gems and it glittered. There is also this (no problem though) but I understand. Gold glitters, as do many other things.
How do you explain a phrase like those by myself? If you think these phrases are wrong, maybe the fact that you know what they mean does
not mean that you know everything?
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Asked on March 13, 2021 in Grammar.
“All of A are not B” means the most basic of A are not B. There is
another difference as well: “Non all is B” carries a heavy implication that at least some of A are B. However there are some phrases where
“all… not” and “not all…” are used interchangeably: “All is not lost” = “all” – Logically
this means that every single thing is not lost. When nothing is lost only what is sinned of is lost. What does “lost” and “brought back” mean?
Everything that glitters is not gold. (Fragments/Windows that glitter) – Logically this means that every single thing that glitters (“All that glitters”) is not gold, i.e. anything that melts. Then there is other things that do it. What is gold? Does it shine? I was noticing that only because she is glittering, it is not gold. I mean what gold is, I have seen some gems and it glittered. There is also this (no problem though) but I understand. Gold glitters, as do many other things.
How do you explain a phrase like those by myself? If you think these phrases are wrong, maybe the fact that you know what they mean does
not mean that you know everything?
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Asked on March 10, 2021 in Single word requests.
What got to my mind when I read your question was the example of the seti@home project:
- seti@home homepage
- Wikipedia link, which is possibly better to get an understanding of the project, as the webpage is much less busy!
Google’s synopsis of the homepage (i couldn’t find the text on the site itself) calls it “Currently the largest distributed computing effort with over 3 million users.” So,
potentially “distributed computing effort] is what you’re looking for… though it’s a bit of a mouthful.
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