What is the answer of

a query on Wikipedia?

When there is no special emphasis, the rule of thumb often applies that a positive sentence has a negative tag and vice versa. This form may express confidence, or seek confirmation of the asker’s opinion or belief.

But she is French?

Does she speak French?

What are balanced tag questions?

Unbalanced tag questions feature both a positive statement with a positive tag or a negative statement with a negative tag; it has been estimated that in normal conversation to up to 40%-60% of tags are unbalanced. Unbalanced tag questions may be used for ironic or confrontational effects.

Do listen, will you?

I’m lazy, am I?

I refuse to spend a Sunday in your mother’s house! Jill: Oh you do, do you? I’ll have to update myself, we’ll see!

Patterns of negation can have regional variations. In North East Scotland, for example, Positive to Positive is used when no special effect is desired:

This pizza’s fine, is it? Note the following variations in the negation when the auxiliary is the I form of the copula: Germany (and Europe) and the Czech Republic.

(Standard English: This pizza’s delicious, isn’t it? I am Clever, aren’t I? Scotland/Northern Ireland: Clever amn’t I? Languages: nonstandard dialects: Clever, ain’t I?

How could I argue when a usage is “ungrammatical” until there is a specific grammar when you disagreed with a particular usage.

When I hear the words and phrases ‘grammatical according to say CGEL’ and ‘what my teacher wants’, the intersection will doubtless

be shaded grey.

You can stipulate the ‘expressing sorrow for’ rather than apologetic sense by: “Oh, this is awful”. I am so sorry for you. What

is it like to hear this whole apocalyptic phrase “Tropical is good for soul”?

Where does ‘Quite’ come from?

“Those were quite some days!” has more than his or her words. If one is not careful when using correct construction, the correctness affects the overall acceptableness of the construction or at least idiomaticity. What

were some really good guys? ”

sounds better than

“They’re quite some teachers!” or

“They’re quite some champions! ” I’m not a teacher, but i don’t know what I remember, but I heard a ‘…”-‘ sound). Definition

of quite some in English; 1 A considerable amount of: she hasn’t been seen for quite some time 2 informal way

of saying quite a:—

Darlington was a good place to live.

I’d

use the plural form some, without the additional emphasiser quite : They were some

champions today.

AHDEL says that this usage is informal.

Some adj.

1. Informal Remarkable: She is a big skier.

Collins does not add this caveat, but (wrongly) restricts the use to a singular noun:

some determiner

1. (usually stressed) as impressive or remarkable: that was some game! ……….

“Blogging or writing a book?

Idiom and Phrases: let someone know; to tell someone something.?…

Please let me know about this site soon? What should I bring for a picnic? Please keep me updated who’s meeting with you and email.

What are some noteworthy common

structure? Please let me know before you buy any information at the online store.

What am you thinking? Let me know why. Tell me what you feel about it. // Let me know if you are coming.

Let me know what your favourite song is // answer // thoughts/opinion/heart/preference/take on this matter/… This apparently ditransitive construction is really a shortening of the related wh-clause ‘Let me know what your name

is’ etc.

Zwicky, in Exceptional Degree Markers, describes the too

big of a dog expression

as being confined to American dialects (p 113; see also footnotes). Is of now more than just a preposition? Is a virus a virus? Is there a difference between “Abney” & Radford” in how sound they are?

(Because the house is too big) is very wrong, one should not buy a house. What makes a handsome man c.? How long of a board?

In Language Log: Bundling, he gives the following examples of and comments on ‘intrusive of’: On to

‘intrusive’ of. Here, many commenters bundle P + of

(in alongside/inside/off/out/outside of) together

the of that appears in one variant of exceptional degree modification (the much-reviled too big of a dog as an alternative to too big a dog ), but the two phenomena have nothing to do with one another beyond that of.

These are extensive discussion in the 5 P + of cases on in this course handout of mine . As for the P and the V, there’s a separate story for each one (though some handbooks recommend against P + of in general): plain out is extremely restricted; outside of is not colloquial; off of is somewhat on the conversational side; etc. Off off is the combination that gets the heaviest criticism, though I don’t think that on the evidence of actual use, it can be classified as non-standard — on the colloquial side, but not non-standard.

Admittedly, this is 25-30 years old, but the descriptors ‘dialectic’, ‘non-standard’,’mildly alarming’ and even’much reviled’ should perhaps urge care in using this construction.

When we say that words are gender-specific, we simply say that they are gender-specific.

Which gender-specific

adjective

is the most ingenious for gender discrimination? Denoting a word or expression that refers to one gender only.

“gender-specific terms such as’man’ and ‘brothers'”

is wrong.

Some verbs (in at least some of their senses) take (perhaps only) objects that are etymologically related to the verb: cognate objects.

cognate relation (noun): a substantive functioning as the object of a verb, particularly of a verb that is normally intransitive, when both object and verb are derived from the same root.

http://www.dictionary.reference.org/. Is it

so difficult to dream but the ability to dream is a dream? You can dance a dance or sing a song, but here hyponymous objects are also possible – dance a tango ; sing a lullaby. Why is singing a song a lot better than dance a dance, we think? What are the usual variations on naming names and the way they are used in society? Where names are transitive?

Must be kept strictly under wraps till… (ie No release before…’).

From The Creative Frontier: I

have pulled together some tips for writing press releases, and would love to hear any more!

1. What should we do when releasing your press release? If you can send out press release which has to stay under wraps until a certain date or it has to be’sub-embargoed’, if you can’t specify to release it earlier in the process, please don’t send out anything specific. Is there still a strict embargo until day one of the COP of your press release? docs and your email. If your media release is something that has been publicized over the last 4 months, and then a

press release can be shared immediately put Immediate release: Date you send a press release OUT…

Must be kept strictly under wraps till… (ie No release before…’).

From The Creative Frontier: I

have pulled together some tips for writing press releases, and would love to hear any more!

1. What should we do when releasing your press release? If you can send out press release which has to stay under wraps until a certain date or it has to be’sub-embargoed’, if you can’t specify to release it earlier in the process, please don’t send out anything specific. Is there still a strict embargo until day one of the COP of your press release? docs and your email. If your media release is something that has been publicized over the last 4 months, and then a

press release can be shared immediately put Immediate release: Date you send a press release OUT…

Is the use of the after comprise one-way with the

collection of 500 000 books and manuscripts a bad idea Collins

Dictionary?

U.S. does not exist as a country. I don’t think this is different.

Not only is ‘comprised of’ permissible,

its sound also fine.

This is a passive (or arguably adjectival) use involving account of which some consider to be ungrammatical (see http://grammarsource.mt) com/2007/03/26/comprised-v-is-comprised-of/.