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Asked on March 12, 2021 in Meaning.
This is figurative language, and you can compare it with figurative language in your native tongue.
“To “claw” means to “crush” with claws. Often, a dog will try and claw at a door but won’t let out. Let out dog?
Do human brains have claws? But this is metaphor. You will find that your own language uses metaphors too.
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Asked on March 12, 2021 in Other.
At what point does your book show you how many people actually speak?
Especially in spoken English, we find that people will use a general verb like “have” even when a more specific one is possible. This is true especially if the specific meaning is understood from the noun. In English English authors try to use more expressive language: “I had breakfast” could be better express as “I enjoyed breakfast” “I
had breakfast” or “I grabbed breakfast” In careful writing, a more specific word is usually preferred.
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Asked on March 11, 2021 in Grammar.
I saw a house destroyed on the road is acceptable. But probably doesn’t mean what you think.
Where are house on road and they see the process of it being destroyed? I saw and witnessed a house being
destroyed or damaged.
I watched as the house was destroyed.
Is not possible to treat “waited” in the same way? Is it possible to see you being waited only for a moment, because wait never really has an object? “I saw you waiting for the bus” is fine, but not “waited”. Just to say that you were ‘working’.
Home: It’s possible that you wanted “destroyed” to describe “house”. I saw a ruined house and it was worth it. (And
I’m proud of that.)
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Asked on March 9, 2021 in Meaning.
It is ambiguous. What is context in meaning? However, in any normal context it means that cookies have been eaten, especially as we know these cookies were delicious and so likely to be eaten quickly. So, when someone is going to eat the whole plate of cookies, do I do that? Compare:
Waste services are really good in this City. I just emptied a gable out of my garbage and the garbage was gone. What would it take in half an hour?
In the context would suggest that the bag (and the rubbish) was taken.
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Asked on March 6, 2021 in Other.
The verb “to be” has a complex history.
What were the different verbs in Old English? To be “on” meaning to exist 1. “eom” meaning to remain, (mostly used in the present tense) and 3. “wesan” (which tended to be used in the past tense) and meant dwell 4. “earun” is a term from Northern Ireland. It means something, but also has the prefix “es-” in the latin word. It gives the result a whole line of words.
Which four expressions have become mixed and tangled into what we now think of as being a single irregular verb with the following forms:
infinitive to be present participle being past participle been present past first person present I am I was second person present you are you were third person present it is it was plural we/you/they are we/you/they were
It’s a mess: five different words mixed into one. Is that possible in a sentence? When asked to pick a form for “to be”, it is asking for one of these.
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Asked on March 5, 2021 in Other.
“This is not just true in logic,”: Here “not as well” means “not by accident” and the negative relates to the adverb “just”. What does it mean in logic?
“This is just not true in logic” (no specific case). Where the adverb is an intensifier is not a verb. why? Should only be a single word, but be replaced as “simply”. Is it true in logic?
On the basis of more than -> one definition, “(P & P) -> Q” is not just true in logic. Why doesn’t Inductive reasoning exist in theory because
it is so important?
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Asked on March 3, 2021 in Other.
The given sentence is in the active, and the assessment requires that the answers use the passive voice. (2) and (4) are active voices.
What should be answer (1) by one subject? Is it possible to imagine an answer if it isn’t a likely form?
What is passive voice that can be used in answers? What is the meaning? What is the meaning of “would”? If it’s written in the language of a conditional phrase, the “would” only refers to the conditions, and not the condition. “My secret would be kept, (if it wasn’t such great gossip)”
(Ripto: What is the logical and irrefutable answer in this world? What’s the most obvious passive form of this? ”
“Why isn’t “Do”, please?
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Asked on February 27, 2021 in Other.
I don’t remember Richard’s father’s name in this sentence, it’s slightly weird. But Richard has been baptized.
I assume that in this context “Richard” is “Richard Blake”, and that’s known to the reader. Richard Blake’s father was Bryl Blake. What is his significance? If Richard’s father is known to you then use it. If not I will wonder how come you know his father’s family name and his mother’s name, but not his father’s name?
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Asked on February 27, 2021 in Other.
From Oxford dictionaries
A clause is a group of words that contain a verb (and usually other components too).
This clause is active or passive. Is finite verb or no finite verb?
Assuming that to be verb does mean that there is an explicit subject in some finite verbs, even though some finite verbs don’t. At other times subject is implied by the rest of the sentence.
When he cut the grass to make the garden tidy. (infinitive clause giving purpose). Implied subject. He made the garden tidy.)
He fell off the table was funny (gerund clause with explicit subject “John”)
the garden was to be tidy (he kept to the lawn) The garden was tidy but he did not care what the garden had to look at (no joke), so he had taken off his chair.
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Asked on February 27, 2021 in Other.
When applied to weather means “humid, windless, blizzard, thunder, snow, wet, hot and muggy”. How can any weather affect your fatigue?
When you start to feel tired, it’s impossible to move. They say the air is like jelly, but in the end, it’s nothing. “You can cut anything with a knife”, says the idiom. When you are describing metaphorically, it’s a
metaphor. It’s an exaggeration.
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