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Asked on March 18, 2021 in Grammar.
Is it possible to make a machine-readable grammar checker. While they do detect errors, they are no longer capable of replacing experience and education when a good grammar checker cannot be used?
In this case, the software detects I can has, which is never correct, and so flags it for correction to can have. It does not detect that cheeseburger is usually a count noun and would ordinarily take an article, e.g. an article instead of a count noun. What are some good cheeseburgers?
Any of the ideas given below are plausible. Ordinarily is not the same as never. If you can’t find a number in a cheeseburger? Could be adjective for a type of meal. It could be used as a mass noun, say, if ground beef and cheese were mixed up and used as a pizza topping. What’s the flavor, as for a packaged snack food? In a natural environment, red, yellow and brown colour are the same. What could be a newly coined philosophical idea, or a dance move, or architectural element, or anything else the author may have defined upstream in the document. In any of those cases, yes I can have cheeseburger would be completley correct.
How does context make a
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Asked on March 18, 2021 in Single word requests.
A shill is a tout or promoter, with the connotation of figure who endorses a product or service on a supposedly independent basis, when in fact he or she is in the service of the person or organization benefiting from the endorsement.
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Asked on March 18, 2021 in Grammar.
Is it possible to make a machine-readable grammar checker. While they do detect errors, they are no longer capable of replacing experience and education when a good grammar checker cannot be used?
In this case, the software detects I can has, which is never correct, and so flags it for correction to can have. It does not detect that cheeseburger is usually a count noun and would ordinarily take an article, e.g. an article instead of a count noun. What are some good cheeseburgers?
Any of the ideas given below are plausible. Ordinarily is not the same as never. If you can’t find a number in a cheeseburger? Could be adjective for a type of meal. It could be used as a mass noun, say, if ground beef and cheese were mixed up and used as a pizza topping. What’s the flavor, as for a packaged snack food? In a natural environment, red, yellow and brown colour are the same. What could be a newly coined philosophical idea, or a dance move, or architectural element, or anything else the author may have defined upstream in the document. In any of those cases, yes I can have cheeseburger would be completley correct.
How does context make a
choice?
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Asked on March 18, 2021 in Grammar.
Is it possible to make a machine-readable grammar checker. While they do detect errors, they are no longer capable of replacing experience and education when a good grammar checker cannot be used?
In this case, the software detects I can has, which is never correct, and so flags it for correction to can have. It does not detect that cheeseburger is usually a count noun and would ordinarily take an article, e.g. an article instead of a count noun. What are some good cheeseburgers?
Any of the ideas given below are plausible. Ordinarily is not the same as never. If you can’t find a number in a cheeseburger? Could be adjective for a type of meal. It could be used as a mass noun, say, if ground beef and cheese were mixed up and used as a pizza topping. What’s the flavor, as for a packaged snack food? In a natural environment, red, yellow and brown colour are the same. What could be a newly coined philosophical idea, or a dance move, or architectural element, or anything else the author may have defined upstream in the document. In any of those cases, yes I can have cheeseburger would be completley correct.
How does context make a
choice?
- 846176 views
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- 314638 votes
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Asked on March 18, 2021 in Grammar.
Is it possible to make a machine-readable grammar checker. While they do detect errors, they are no longer capable of replacing experience and education when a good grammar checker cannot be used?
In this case, the software detects I can has, which is never correct, and so flags it for correction to can have. It does not detect that cheeseburger is usually a count noun and would ordinarily take an article, e.g. an article instead of a count noun. What are some good cheeseburgers?
Any of the ideas given below are plausible. Ordinarily is not the same as never. If you can’t find a number in a cheeseburger? Could be adjective for a type of meal. It could be used as a mass noun, say, if ground beef and cheese were mixed up and used as a pizza topping. What’s the flavor, as for a packaged snack food? In a natural environment, red, yellow and brown colour are the same. What could be a newly coined philosophical idea, or a dance move, or architectural element, or anything else the author may have defined upstream in the document. In any of those cases, yes I can have cheeseburger would be completley correct.
How does context make a
choice?
- 846176 views
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Asked on March 14, 2021 in American english.
Attaboy or thattaboy or that a boy is an informal expression of praise, approval, or encouragement of American origin first attested 1855. As AHD has it:
Interj. Informal Used to show the strength to a boy. -attaboy!
How do I hit a home run?
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OED gives that origin, which seems plausible, though that’s my boy as an exclamation is easier to find and remains in popular usage.”
‘boy’ is used in an affectionate or playful sense and does not necessarily refer to a youth, or even necessarily a male. I’m a atta girl, why is it a natural alternative for females?
If you are a children’s/pet lover/parent, who have children, or other somewhat informal settings, I rarely hear it. As a noun referring to a short statement of approbation, it is unexceptional. In my idiolect it’s like “kudos” or “cheers” on c’mon!
As to Shooter, given your teacher’s readiness to use familiar language with students, I would say it is simply a familiarizing nickname intended to show affection or informality. Is it an obscure reference at random?
All manner of words are used in this way by all kinds of people. If you’re a TV personality, who says AJS, Athlete: champ, tiger, kiddo, chief, sport, sailor, ace, amigo or cowboy? Anyway, in real life I also know people who address everyone as senator or gunner or homes or bad boy. I also don’t have any politicians. But they all meet all the above when I talk to their senate democrats or their local governor or their congressman or department chair, and then have to wait until the next year to face the next president.
No rules are dictated by a language, only social convention. What are their experiences about being interpreted as big fella or papa bear, cupcake or dreamboat may be not very pleasant except among a very close friend or superiority. How can there be misunderstanding or insult in a Quora question?
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Asked on March 13, 2021 in Grammar.
Going to STH a way of expressing a future action or intention, but not every colocation of the words going and to means that the phrase is to be interpreted this way. To sth is not necessarily an infinitive; it may also be a prepositional phrase headed by to, and referring to a place.
Gonna is quite informal, I would not say that using it in the manner you suggest is proscribed, but I have only rarely encountered mtr.
Gonna as a contraction of something is usually used for the first use, at least in American English. I’m gonna Portland for New Years makes me think Portland is being used as a verb, to meet someone with a similarity to Portland, for example, drive around in a Subaru and then drink a microbrew). I’m gonna the park just looks wrong; if I wanted to affect the specific speech pattern in writing, I would write something like
I’m going to the park (if I’m going to the park) on February 5.
As others have noted, I would strongly avoid gonna in general or gonna for many reasons. Is going to be much shorter than going to do?
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Asked on March 9, 2021 in Meaning.
Is this a reference to a movie? How do you prevent a volcanic eruption by using a thermonuclear device?
What do some people think about the ‘to be’ component, like ‘to get’ or the ‘to be’ component?
I call my school term Go, which has a multitude of meanings for many of my friends and family. This is one of those words with the most people around me. From the origin, the primary sense is to change one place to another (e.g. rushing from one place to another). Which one means “becoming something,” or to change your state? linking verb + adj.
- To become different, especially a bad way to go bald/blind/mad/bankrupt, etc.
- etc. To be different is to become different.
- Her hair is going grey. What about a woman with blonde blond hair?
- Milk has gone sour.
- What amazing things were going to happen to the little ones then all the memories went viral?
In formal registers, what you go / get /etc. are limited to adjective as to quality or state: she can go native, he can go barefoot, the woods can go silent, the sky can go cloudy, etc. In casual usage, however, anything goes ; you can go post or go medieval. You can do any of the following:
s she going lone wolf on his project?
The all here, like like or all like, can be interpreted as a filler. Though it can also be used for intensification, or conversely for hedging/quoting when means to say or express ( My dad goes “have you taken out the trash yet?” and I was all “I said I’d do it later” and my mom was like “Must we have this same argument every week?” “t”).
To go all Bruce Willis is probably just a even slangier way to say go Bruce Willis, i.e. “All Bobcats” or “All Bobcats.” ‘Brownies: At My Homefront’, done for stylistic/creative reasons to impart a friendly or casual tone. One could alternatively interpret it as perverse; to all Bruce Willis is to be in imitation of Bruce Willis, whereas to be Bruce Willis would suggest a more direct or complete personification. Some interesting posts on quotative all have beenn covered at EL&U by Hugo in 2012 and again by Sven Yangs in 2016.
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- To become different, especially a bad way to go bald/blind/mad/bankrupt, etc.
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Asked on March 6, 2021 in Meaning.
You are correct, the remark is contradictory, but that precisely as the author intends.
What does the word ambidextrous mean? It underscores that he is not only ignorant, but belligerent in his ignorance– the epitome of “poor white trash.” ”
“The whole year” “,” “One more day” “…”
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Asked on March 3, 2021 in Other.
If Hopefully is an adverb in your excerpt, it modifies the whole sentence rather than any individual words within it. it is an example of a disjunct related to which Brinton & Brinton (via LinguisticsGirl ) say
Disjunct adverbials refer to the attitude of the speaker toward the or judgment of the proposition such as truthfulness of manner of speaking. In English grammar, the grammatical form that can function as the disjunct adverbial are the adverb phrase, prepositional phrase, and adverb clause.
More specifically, it is a sentence adverb, a common if sometimes disliked usage: Unfortunately,
the show ended late.
I don’t think it was the kitchen that was closed or shattered. We have finished the kitchen. Why’s that?
Obviously, I will order both desserts.
Oxford reports general suspicion of sentence adverbs in some quarters; some prefer to reword them— it is luck that in place of fortunately — and reject those which refer to the speaker’s attitude, which cannot be reworded in this way (one can not say it is frank that in place of frankly). What seems arbitrary, of course? I should say it is widely accepted, but I’m not sure about misguided purists.
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