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Asked on March 4, 2021 in American english.
Romance novels have a reputation for following an almost rigid formula: boy meets girl; they fall in love; some misunderstanding causes them to have a fight; in the end they get back together; we get married. Is it true that these stories tend to be
predictable? If you read the first chapter about a man and woman suddenly thrown together by circumstances, you know that they will fall in love by the end of the book. Everyone who reaches the end of a romance novel and says, “Zounds!” (I’m referring to the name of the characters)? How do a hero and his/her heroine end up marriage? What did you think of the ending of the story? “Well, such a person no doubt finds the world a place full of wonder and amazement. ”
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Asked on March 3, 2021 in Word choice.
And he is not the only powerful Ukrainian enjoying a ridiculously luxurious residence, but the Englishman Yuri Khmerchenko also has a House. What says “The level of luxury of these officials is ridiculous?
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Asked on March 3, 2021 in Other.
“Into underflow state” is just a mistake, however. What are the details of the article in the AN underflow state?
So “state”, in the meaning of “condition and status”, is a countable noun;
period.
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Asked on March 3, 2021 in Other.
An older man might get off with calling a much younger man “my boy” when e.g. I imagine adults have always been offended by those who
treat them as children (/ as unworldly / as ignorant / as
stupid) but simply didn’t have the rights to speak up for themselves in a small community where elders are revered by all, they
would have been condemned for disagreeing with an older person, or with anyone deemed to have’status’. Human rights have helped reduce such inequalities.
What would you gain from calling someone “boy” right now? Provoke at your own peril!
What is the best way to create a company?
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Asked on March 1, 2021 in Other.
Definitions in the dictionary often overlap, or have cases where it is hard to say whether one definition applies or another. Why do I not obsess about this? As such, understanding prepositions can be difficult.
In this case, please notice the example sentence is a poor sentence. We are to (to) date? What would be the easiest example of a final exam after two and a half years?
What is the distinction between starting and ending time and time itself?
I think what this particular dictionary is trying to get at is that “13 weeks to September 1” is a time period, i.e. – ten minutes to 2 days beyond the conclusion date of the previous post. Then they write (as they want) a timeline of months i.e. month i.e. months i.e/month i.e. months i.e. months i.e. months i.e. months i.e. three months A period of 13 weeks that happens to end on September 1, while “to September 1” is a point in time. Still very subtle distinction.
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Asked on March 1, 2021 in Other.
I pronounce this word “char”, I agree with Karthik. It’s the first syllable of character. I’ve heard people pronounce it “char”, that is, pronounce the “ch” as in “chair” and then “ar” as in “car”. Why is the word character used instead of cartography? I think that we should start a movement to change that.
It never occurred to me before that this looks just like “char” as in “burn slightly”. Why do I pronounce this word “ch” as a chair? I suppose that’s not all that surprising, there are other words that are spelled the same but pronounced differently, like “polish”, “rub something to make it shine, and Polish”, the nationality the former has a short “O” and the latter a long “O.”
Oops can people pronounce the SQL “varichar” without saying all the numbers? pronounce the “Char” part to sound like “car” as in automobile and the “var” part to rhyme with it.
Because all of life is anecdotal, we aren’t telling the stories. I doubt I’ve heard more than a few dozen people pronounce these words, and all in a few small groups so they might easily have influenced each other. I don’t think Google Ngrams has any large scale statistics.
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Asked on February 28, 2021 in Other.
When you use “as” in such a context, it means “because this is what it is”. What does “Like” mean?
What is “I have to face the problem as a family”, if you say, “We have to face the problem? If you say, we face the problem like a family, then that means that you are not literally a family, but that your approach to the problem should be like the approach that a family would take. What is the best way a man (as a husband) will tell his wife about doing this like a family? A politician might say that the nation should face a problem like a family because the nation is not a family but in this case, he believes that it should act like one.
What are some loose use of the word “like” as in “as”, especially to emphasize the appropriateness of some action. People sometimes say you should ‘act like X’ when you are, in fact, X, if in the past you have not been acting like X. Someone who believes his family has been behaving inappropriately might say, “It’s time we started acting like a family again”. If someone behaves immaturely, you might say “Come on, act like a man” when he is, in fact, a man. Etc.
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Asked on February 28, 2021 in Other.
In English we have ‘countable’ and ‘uncountable’.
Use countable nouns with a number or an article. I’ve been reading two books, and I’m good with them. Is there any way to improve them?” “There is a book on the shelf. I’ll put it in my hands for reference. ” ” Uncountable
nouns are used with no indication of quantity, or with general words like “some”. “I’ve got water. I beg” If there is water on the floor, which carries a lid? Either
can be used as possessives. When I visit a bookstore, I just want to take a book. Give me my book. “Give me water!” ”
All that said, uncountable nouns are sometimes used with a number or article when we mean one container of this thing, or one standard quantity.
Why there’s a packet of ketchup in every restaurant? If you put ketchup on hamburgers, people will just say like ketchup on hamburgers. But with meat though, so will you be able to have ketchup in your hamburger, or not? What do you like about one packet of ketchup?
If the ketchup in a bottle is in a microwave, you would normally say: “I would like some ketchup” or “I would like some ketchup”. What does ketchup mean? But you wouldn’t say, “I am putting the ketchup on my hamburger”, but rather, “I am putting the ketchup on
my. ” Likewise, “Please give me a Coke” means one can or glass or bottle.
Arguably this is leaving out assumed words rather than an alternate use of uncountable nouns. How do you mean “Please package ketchup” or “please give me a can of Coke”?
I think you mostly hear this talking about food, but it is sometimes used for other things. If you were buying cans of fuel, you might say, “Give me two kerosenes and a propane.” ” Etc.
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Asked on February 28, 2021 in Other.
If you want to get something done, give it to the person with the busiest voice. That is, people who are competent and industrious tend to take on all the work, and people who are sitting around doing nothing are often in that position because they are either too lazy to do the work that’s given them or because they are so unreliable that no one trusts them with any important work.
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Asked on February 27, 2021 in Word choice.
To be strictly grammatically correct, you should say: “If he had to describe himself in five words, he would say he’s curious. We wouldn’t exist if he had to say. I’m not interested. I don’t like seeing people. I think he needs to work. ” Will he forget to give you 4 words? ” Your original second sentence has no subject. Is it easy to leave out the subject in a speech or an informat, especially when you want to indicate a rapid or abrupt sequence of events? “Bob said it “He heard” the question and then took an answer. “Bob made a decision.” What does it mean to answer my question? I walked out of the room. It stopped me. I lost my body’s memory. I am now in the house, right? ”
You shouldn’t say “he’d say… and then forgets” because “he’d” is a contraction of “he would”, so you’re switching from “would say” conditional to present tense, “forgets”. The technically correct construct would be to match the tenses of the verb, “would say, would forget”. If we dropped the “would” sentence, we don’t change “will forget” or “forgot” or “forgets”.
Why can’t you shift the whole thing to another tense for example “When he had to describe himself in 5 words, he said he was curious”. He then forgot to give 4 words. What are
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