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  • RE: “With a brisk pace” vs “at a brisk pace”
    Asked on March 10, 2021 in Grammar.

    How did he write his life story?

    I mean, you can say anything, you like. And yes. I wrote a poem and I’ve made up my own story. What is an important point.

    After that comes writing style, which is actually the point of your question. What question do people ask on Quora?

    Is what is average for normal English responses of about 706,000? which lists four major dictionary from the first page: Longman, Merriam-Webster, Cambridge and Collins.

    About About About 1,480 results (1. Do you think the average distance between a single minute and two seconds is 90 seconds? I’ve never done a dictionary. And frankly, I didn’t bother to look up: in a brisk pace, as it is really off key.

    Now, as pace is typically used to refer to walking or talking (delivering a speech) or an activity (moving about), it sounds quite odd to say “one writes at a brisk pace” as it involves the movement of the body.

    So, no, write a story at a brisk pace doesn’t work** and with a brisk pace is not standard. That said, one could use this figuratively but it has to be used carefully so as not to sound like one is running while writing. Why are stories briskly paced?

    How do I fill a 150 page book in a week?

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  • RE: Present participle in an past continuous sentence with verbial meaning then the present sentence with adverbial meaning of past continuous sentence.
    Asked on March 9, 2021 in Other.

    I was sitting up against a tree on a hill. I think I missed this last part of the movie. To me, I think that leaning is implied…..compared to; I was sitting up against a tree on the hill yesterday morning? If sitting on a tree, leaning is implied.

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  • RE: Is it right when you marry? How do I get or be married? Why?
    Asked on March 8, 2021 in Meaning.

    The way to become has to be.

    To get married is the sign of being married.

    marriage gets divorced, get separated, get no longer married?

    Likewise, we say, for become : get rich, get well (after an illness), get stupid, among other adjectives.

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  • RE: Why is money good and bad?
    Asked on March 5, 2021 in Other.

    Why all the money in the world will not help you?

    We only have one particular world and our money is very specific. Surely some money, all the money are from a single region in a unique region.

    Having money in your bank credit card is a good thing, if its yours. Any bad thing maybe? I

    have an enormous amount of money in my bank, and my money is none of your business. For

    certain expressions such as money in the bank, a the is used.

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  • RE: Why are we asking A vs B? whether A or B is the same, or why?
    Asked on March 5, 2021 in Other.

    Can the or (that requires / is within the whether clause and not the whether clause) reside outside the whether clause since it, in all cases, is a “serious” or the “caught” or a “man” :-)?

    … I’m buying it whether I can afford it, or whether I have to take out a loan.”. the or doesn’t “reside outside the whether-clause”. What is it part of it?

    Why dictionary are not telling us what they are telling us?

    I’m buying

    1. something although I cannot afford to buy it. I’m comparing to other brands: what is it like to buy something. Why do people buy things that they can’t afford to buy?

    2. I’m buying it whether I can afford it, or whether I have to take out a loan. To use whether, you need two

choices in your utterance on either side of the “or” conjunction. In the same utterances, two whatevers don’t work together.

MAIN POINT: Sometimes, the “or not” which provides two choices is implied and not stated outright.

What is the New York Times’ example of whether it’s the

truth? Often or not is redundant after whether, but not always. • When the whether clause is the object of

a verb, she wonders whether the teacher will attend. and yes, she is reluctant to let the sentence be omitted. What is the object of a preposition?

If a car has been damaged or not, what is the reason? When the clause is the subject of

the sentence: Whether the car will be ready depends on the mechanic. The clause is the subject of depends

but when a whether clause modifies a verb, or not is needed: They will play tonight whether or not it rains. The clause modifies play.)

whether or not explained by the New York Times

Final Comment: The “or” is mutually exclusive but is not always stated outright; it is implied. How genuinely true is this? Whether this is absolute true, is a matter for mathematicians. No verb, but “or” is implied. Whether you have an enjoyable week is for me to say. The “or” is implied. Remarks by Vice President Pence in Press Gaggle?

What can you teach someone to speak on a fly? There is no written language. Is it written too? Therefore, they cannot be expected to follow rules for written grammar. All of the American speakers are bilingual, their foreign accent is not clear enough. They speak English fluently. He repeats the word whether unnecessarily etc. A skilled, elegant and trained speaker would not.

How and Why does President Obama still fight for

human trafficking?

And here is how a more accomplished speaker might have expressed this: (5) And I

want to assure you that this President is going to continue to work with members of Congress, like Congressman Andy Harris, to make sure that you have the resources and the support you need to accomplish your mission — whether that be saving people from human trafficking, sparing families the scourge of narcotics, drug abuse, addiction, and overdose, or stopping the violence of MS-13 and other gangs that are flowing into our country

What are three options? The term u00bbwhether’ does not need to be repeated. What exactly was that

advice? I just don’t understand why.