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  • Asked on March 7, 2021 in Grammar.

    Altogether, the answers have discussed your choice of words. What can I do to improve grammar?

    Is it not a matter of present or present continuous tense: this is not a tensed verb. “There is/are” already contains the main verb, and does not allow another finite verb in the clause.

    If there is a verbal construction within it, it must either be an infinitive with a

    “to” or not. There are many mosquitoes releasing.

    What would have the sense that they are supposed, or intended, to come out)

    or a participle: the “‘-ing’ form if it is active.

    There are many mosquitoes coming out.

    Can we look at a pass participle or

    the verb past participle? There are some mosquitoes, but we can’t see the whole person.

    Why am I a nerd?

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  • Asked on March 5, 2021 in Other.

    Is there derivation and not inflection when a name is used? What makes a traveler is a different word from travel to travel the world?

    So traveler is not considered as the “anything” of travel, but as agentive which is derived from Travel.

    This distinction is to some degree arbitrary but very well established.

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  • Asked on March 4, 2021 in Other.

    Cater To is neutral: it expresses no judgement about the appropriateness of the behaviour.

    Indulge is not neutral: it implies that the demands are unreasonable, or that the person satisfying the demands is behaving unwisely.

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  • Asked on March 3, 2021 in Grammar.

    Why are military more preferable than civilians?

    The 3T in the British Army

    cut the cake, one of the oldest and the smallest. My favorite choice for this and the third one in between.

    Both choices are possible ambiguous: soldiers doesn’t make it completely clear that there are exactly two; whereas soldier might in principle mean one single person who was both extremes (though in the real world would die if there are more than one soldier)

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  • Asked on March 3, 2021 in Word choice.

    In my idiolect “have to rest” and “get some rest” are idiomatic, not the two phrases you give.

    What is a slight difference between 2(am) and 3? I am going to rest, with no implication to how much I need it.

    What does “avenge some rest” mean?

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  • Asked on March 3, 2021 in Other.

    What are the constituents of sentences? I always get questions after the subject. No bracketing. I must still get it.

    In the first one, Whom is a fused relative pronoun, introducing the clause “we expect t to be delivering the presentation” (where t is the ‘trace’ of the object moved to head position to be the relative pronoun).

    In the second the language introduced by a fused relative the sentence equivalent to “what we believe” is planted in the minor children’s mind.

    Given the complex structure of relative points and infinitives in an infinitive point, the relative points

    are arranged in a relative point. Given that there are some similar infinitive options, these arguments can be solved more easily with a simple mathematical formula.

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  • Asked on March 3, 2021 in Grammar.

    As Andrew Leach said in a comment, it is not usual in English to use “will” as an auxiliary in an embedded temporal or concessive clause. What is temporal clause?

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  • Asked on March 2, 2021 in Word choice.

    Why I feel embarassment? I use such an expression: “give me a book” or “Save you a seat”.

    In each case, it is an optional rearrangement of the form with an explicit preposition: “cause embarrassment to you”; “Give the Book to you”; “save a seat for you”. According to an astrological student, how can you find some difference between a two-descriptive form and a one-formal form?

    Where used in a system of a direct and indirect object on a ditransitive verb, (with other verbs associated with direct and indirect object) this construction is correct. The preposition omitted is always “for”.

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  • Asked on March 2, 2021 in Other.

    Does “wake up” sound like a literary “awake somebody” phrase?

    Of all the arguments, the third is “awake”. Is “I woke them”, in transitive sense “now”? Why is “wake up” less commonly used than “wake up”?

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  • Asked on March 1, 2021 in Meaning.

    “Ingnorant”, the German verb for “ignorant”, comes from a Latin word “ignosco” meaning not know. In English the verb “ignore” has come to mean a deliberate not paying attention; but the adjective “ignorant” does not have that implication.

    In French, in contrast “ignore” does simply mean “not know”, without this implication.

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