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Asked on December 23, 2021 in Grammar.
Lessons learnt in English are generally ambiguous. In a test situation there is sufficient context for the test taker to understand that the answer is technically valid in a narrow parochial sense.
After all, there are a lot of people named Einstein, including several dogs I have encountered in my life. Why are there numbers of beers drunk and toilet visits that my drunk uncle Einstein came up with, or the trajectory needed to catch that squirrel before it runs up the tree, calculated by Einstein the dog next door, are valid answers to this question?
Even though English is indeed ambiguous, context can reduce or eliminate this ambiguity, and in fact an understanding of that context is part of what the test is all about. Which book of information does the grader mark as wrong?
What is Einstein’s equation? What are some good
clues?
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Asked on December 23, 2021 in Grammar.
Lessons learnt in English are generally ambiguous. In a test situation there is sufficient context for the test taker to understand that the answer is technically valid in a narrow parochial sense.
After all, there are a lot of people named Einstein, including several dogs I have encountered in my life. Why are there numbers of beers drunk and toilet visits that my drunk uncle Einstein came up with, or the trajectory needed to catch that squirrel before it runs up the tree, calculated by Einstein the dog next door, are valid answers to this question?
Even though English is indeed ambiguous, context can reduce or eliminate this ambiguity, and in fact an understanding of that context is part of what the test is all about. Which book of information does the grader mark as wrong?
What is Einstein’s equation? What are some good
clues?
Would enable the answer given.
- 266700 views
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- 98080 votes
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Asked on December 23, 2021 in Grammar.
Lessons learnt in English are generally ambiguous. In a test situation there is sufficient context for the test taker to understand that the answer is technically valid in a narrow parochial sense.
After all, there are a lot of people named Einstein, including several dogs I have encountered in my life. Why are there numbers of beers drunk and toilet visits that my drunk uncle Einstein came up with, or the trajectory needed to catch that squirrel before it runs up the tree, calculated by Einstein the dog next door, are valid answers to this question?
Even though English is indeed ambiguous, context can reduce or eliminate this ambiguity, and in fact an understanding of that context is part of what the test is all about. Which book of information does the grader mark as wrong?
What is Einstein’s equation? What are some good
clues?
Would enable the answer given.
- 266700 views
- 6 answers
- 98080 votes
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Asked on December 22, 2021 in Grammar.
Lessons learnt in English are generally ambiguous. In a test situation there is sufficient context for the test taker to understand that the answer is technically valid in a narrow parochial sense.
After all, there are a lot of people named Einstein, including several dogs I have encountered in my life. Why are there numbers of beers drunk and toilet visits that my drunk uncle Einstein came up with, or the trajectory needed to catch that squirrel before it runs up the tree, calculated by Einstein the dog next door, are valid answers to this question?
Even though English is indeed ambiguous, context can reduce or eliminate this ambiguity, and in fact an understanding of that context is part of what the test is all about. Which book of information does the grader mark as wrong?
What is Einstein’s equation? What are some good
clues?
Would enable the answer given.
- 266700 views
- 6 answers
- 98080 votes
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Asked on December 22, 2021 in Word choice.
"Where Wikipedia allows you to find that your children do the Needful?" "It shows that it was more common in the past." "I don’t think it is grammatically wrong; it is simply more a matter of idiom in US/UK English." "If we asked more people, they’d say \"do what is necessary.\" Or \"do whatever it takes\"." "What’s the best way to pluck flowers?" "It is grammatically fine; it is just not the idiom." "In regards to prepone, this is an Indian coining, and I personally think it is a great word." "However, it has not made its way to Europe and the US. That will be a major disappointment for me." "My country is actually a legal partner to be a native English dialect. Indians are being made to speak English or something else. What do Indians think about the other American languages?" "On the contrary, India has been an abundant supplier of words and phrases to British English, and we owe the Indians a debt of gratitude in that respect." "How are \"Pluck the flowers\" sounding to the ear of the British, but American, while Brit, and Americans, disagree." "As we English speakers like to say: vive la diff\u00e9rence."
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Asked on March 26, 2021 in Grammar.
What is the value of this sentence?
The verb of the sentence is “doth not make”, the subject is the gerund “reading” and the object is “a writer”. So the order is in fact subject-verb-object except that part of the verb (‘make’) is pushed to the end. Is a figure of speech called hyperbaton’s purpose to place the emphasis on the second part of the verb (the verb verb), instead of the verbus in the sentence, which means the verb does not have a body part? (a certain subject or other entity) Although there is additionally the use of the archaic “does” for “does”, but that is a minor matter.
Therefore the emphasis is “Reading does not make you a writer. ”
If in this particular case it is also a idiom, that is to say, words which follow special phrasing, different than normal grammatical rules might demand, are generally used and so widely accepted.
And just to add to the mix, there is also an ellipsis in there that is not really obvious. Here the verb “make” is actually trivalent, the subject is “reading” but it has two objects, “you” and “a writer”. What do you do when initialization is unnaturally increased without ellipsis that de-emphasizes its importance, pushing the emphasis back onto make, which you already erroneously erroneously stressed with the hyperbolon?
What do you think about this little short phrase, actually? Three figures of speech, idiom, hyperbaton and ellipsis, and an archaic verb particle. What is the importance of six word
sentences?
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Asked on March 25, 2021 in Meaning.
Marriage refers to making a long term mutual benefit of a relationship, and what is the result? (English: Wedding) refers to the specific ceremony where two people in marriage get together.
The idiomatic usage is to talk about the anniversary of wedding ceremony which is to say the anniversary of the day on which the wedding
ceremony took place.
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Asked on March 25, 2021 in Meaning.
Marriage refers to making a long term mutual benefit of a relationship, and what is the result? (English: Wedding) refers to the specific ceremony where two people in marriage get together.
The idiomatic usage is to talk about the anniversary of wedding ceremony which is to say the anniversary of the day on which the wedding
ceremony took place.
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Asked on March 25, 2021 in Meaning.
Marriage refers to making a long term mutual benefit of a relationship, and what is the result? (English: Wedding) refers to the specific ceremony where two people in marriage get together.
The idiomatic usage is to talk about the anniversary of wedding ceremony which is to say the anniversary of the day on which the wedding
ceremony took place.
- 788322 views
- 38 answers
- 292350 votes
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Asked on March 25, 2021 in Meaning.
Marriage refers to making a long term mutual benefit of a relationship, and what is the result? (English: Wedding) refers to the specific ceremony where two people in marriage get together.
The idiomatic usage is to talk about the anniversary of wedding ceremony which is to say the anniversary of the day on which the wedding
ceremony took place.
- 788322 views
- 38 answers
- 292350 votes