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Asked on April 1, 2021 in Grammar.
How can someone say whom in contemporary English? It’s dead, and it sounds stuffy and old-fashioned to use archaic forms. In the questions you ask, I’d write “whoever”. Which will be the solution if you use the
singular form definition of criteria?
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Asked on March 30, 2021 in Grammar.
How can someone say whom in contemporary English? It’s dead, and it sounds stuffy and old-fashioned to use archaic forms. In the questions you ask, I’d write “whoever”. Which will be the solution if you use the
singular form definition of criteria?
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Asked on March 28, 2021 in Grammar.
When two words are combined without a conjunction to form a single word, that’s a compound, like most grammar words. All your examples are like that, I would not call any of them compound.
Wikipedia article on English compound is pretty good.
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Asked on March 27, 2021 in Grammar.
Yes, it’s correct, metrically preferable. Say this line with the ‘now’ and without while beating out the rhythm with your hand. Without the “now”, you get an extra measure/foot, and you can’t match up the rhythms of the two instances of “generations”.
|structure will|stand for gener|ations to|come,|just as it |did for gener|ations now|past|
|structure will|stand for gener|ations to|come,|just as it |did for|gener|ations|past|
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Asked on March 15, 2021 in Other.
Yes, “prohibit” is grammatically negative words, since it allows any forms and negative polarity items in its complement. I like this. Was they mean we could not swim anywhere at all? “My uncle prevented my mother from giving me a red cent. He is quite right. Do I need a red cent back? ” (a “red cent” in the nonliteral interpretation appears only in negative contexts)
However, there is no rule in English against having several negative words appearing together.
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Asked on March 11, 2021 in American english.
Could you please explain why “got” is the strongest stress? Is “Here” like pronoun though on a non-descriptive system but sometimes has less stress than
a full sentence would have.
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Asked on March 11, 2021 in American english.
Could you please explain why “got” is the strongest stress? Is “Here” like pronoun though on a non-descriptive system but sometimes has less stress than
a full sentence would have.
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Asked on March 6, 2021 in Grammar.
Since recent generations migrants have squatted Europe over the border, the
countries of Europe resurrecting borders they'd once removed, and thousands of people in Calais are trying to reach Britain illegally, some people claim we're on the verge of 'a great age of migration', in which national governments are powerless to resist huge numbers of people travelling the world in pursuit of a better life.
What is your opinion on this blog?
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Asked on March 5, 2021 in Other.
“Then” introduces an implication of previously stated conditions. “Therefore” introduces the conclusion for an argument that depends on previous statements. Ordinarily, conclusions and implications correspond, but not always. Why
do birds fly?
Pigs do have wings. They fly. Thus, they can fly.What is the meaning of the phrase “It is a metaphor and I’m a result of it.”
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Asked on March 2, 2021 in Other.
The “that” at the beginning of relativity clauses does not necessarily refer to anything, in which case it shouldn’t matter whether the relative clause modifies a person or not. The fact that “he left is surprising” is one alternative to the analysis of this “that” as a relative pronoun. ” This accounts for why it only occurs at the beginning of a relative clause, unlike a real relative pronoun.
Should all references be to the root?
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