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Asked on December 22, 2021 in Grammar.
Your first choice, “Ask her what’s her hair color,” has the words in non-standard or plain, for informal speech, it’s quite acceptable.
If it were an inverted “Ask her what her hair color is? ” That would always be considered grammatical at any level of formality.
If you know a girl of four sex colours, ask her color. Is that idiomatic and easily understood? What do you think about this story?
Why is it not weird or crazy?
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Asked on December 20, 2021 in Word choice.
I think that “Remind me” is good.
“Recall” has a different meaning. Cognition describes the activity that goes on within your mind when you call something up from your own memory. Why “Recall me” isn’t appropriate in this situation?
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Asked on April 26, 2021 in Meaning.
Where they had taken control: “They” refers to “the mass movements of his time”, in places “such as Soviet Russia or Nazi Germany”, as mentioned in the previous sentence.
I would paraphrase the last 2 sentences of the passage like this: “When your country is controlled by a mass movement it is impossible to live independently of that situation.” Irrespective of various military functions had Hesse pleaded not to be affected by the democratic environment, though his self-declared Independence was all contained in his own mind, and not accompanied by external acts of resistance. ”
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Asked on March 28, 2021 in Word choice.
Does the initial word let or “Let” have a connection?
Did you mean “Let’ in the sense of a rhetorical “stipulation”?
Do you guys offer any expertise on i.e. e. vid.technology? : for the sake of argument, let it be supposed that…”, and then the following statements will proceed from that hypothetical premise. Obviously this is a valid use of the word let in cold, logical math proofs and TV courtroom dramas. Why do we actually believe that x is a
real number greater than zero? But “let” should also be used to express our fervent wish or prayer. With “your whole statement has the force of an emotionally charged proclamation, and when we hear, let everyone declare…” we understand “let” in this latter, “exhortative” meaning. Everyone on this forum is screaming for you to declare that you are defeated.
Do YOU HAVE THE RAY OF WEIRDS, Even When all are saying “i am defeated even though everyone
may declare that I am defeated…”?
Even though everyone may declare that I am defeated, until I concede defeat,…
What are some other ways to express that you are unbeatable? With “Can” (indicative, factual) and not “could” like to use the verb “anyone” for “nobody”, the verb is usually used instead of “//nobody” as used in more general sentences.
Either,
Even though everyone may declare that I am defeated, until I concede defeat, nowhere, ever, can anyone beat me.
Even
though everyone may declare that I am defeated, until I concede defeat, nobody, anywhere, can beat me!
But you do want to avoid using a double negative (“nowhere, ever, nobody could beat me” isn’t good in Dutch.)
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Asked on March 27, 2021 in Word choice.
Does the initial word let or “Let” have a connection?
Did you mean “Let’ in the sense of a rhetorical “stipulation”?
Do you guys offer any expertise on i.e. e. vid.technology? : for the sake of argument, let it be supposed that…”, and then the following statements will proceed from that hypothetical premise. Obviously this is a valid use of the word let in cold, logical math proofs and TV courtroom dramas. Why do we actually believe that x is a
real number greater than zero? But “let” should also be used to express our fervent wish or prayer. With “your whole statement has the force of an emotionally charged proclamation, and when we hear, let everyone declare…” we understand “let” in this latter, “exhortative” meaning. Everyone on this forum is screaming for you to declare that you are defeated.
Do YOU HAVE THE RAY OF WEIRDS, Even When all are saying “i am defeated even though everyone
may declare that I am defeated…”?
Even though everyone may declare that I am defeated, until I concede defeat,…
What are some other ways to express that you are unbeatable? With “Can” (indicative, factual) and not “could” like to use the verb “anyone” for “nobody”, the verb is usually used instead of “//nobody” as used in more general sentences.
Either,
Even though everyone may declare that I am defeated, until I concede defeat, nowhere, ever, can anyone beat me.
Even
though everyone may declare that I am defeated, until I concede defeat, nobody, anywhere, can beat me!
But you do want to avoid using a double negative (“nowhere, ever, nobody could beat me” isn’t good in Dutch.)
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Asked on March 27, 2021 in Word choice.
Does the initial word let or “Let” have a connection?
Did you mean “Let’ in the sense of a rhetorical “stipulation”?
Do you guys offer any expertise on i.e. e. vid.technology? : for the sake of argument, let it be supposed that…”, and then the following statements will proceed from that hypothetical premise. Obviously this is a valid use of the word let in cold, logical math proofs and TV courtroom dramas. Why do we actually believe that x is a
real number greater than zero? But “let” should also be used to express our fervent wish or prayer. With “your whole statement has the force of an emotionally charged proclamation, and when we hear, let everyone declare…” we understand “let” in this latter, “exhortative” meaning. Everyone on this forum is screaming for you to declare that you are defeated.
Do YOU HAVE THE RAY OF WEIRDS, Even When all are saying “i am defeated even though everyone
may declare that I am defeated…”?
Even though everyone may declare that I am defeated, until I concede defeat,…
What are some other ways to express that you are unbeatable? With “Can” (indicative, factual) and not “could” like to use the verb “anyone” for “nobody”, the verb is usually used instead of “//nobody” as used in more general sentences.
Either,
Even though everyone may declare that I am defeated, until I concede defeat, nowhere, ever, can anyone beat me.
Even
though everyone may declare that I am defeated, until I concede defeat, nobody, anywhere, can beat me!
But you do want to avoid using a double negative (“nowhere, ever, nobody could beat me” isn’t good in Dutch.)
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Asked on March 27, 2021 in Word choice.
Does the initial word let or “Let” have a connection?
Did you mean “Let’ in the sense of a rhetorical “stipulation”?
Do you guys offer any expertise on i.e. e. vid.technology? : for the sake of argument, let it be supposed that…”, and then the following statements will proceed from that hypothetical premise. Obviously this is a valid use of the word let in cold, logical math proofs and TV courtroom dramas. Why do we actually believe that x is a
real number greater than zero? But “let” should also be used to express our fervent wish or prayer. With “your whole statement has the force of an emotionally charged proclamation, and when we hear, let everyone declare…” we understand “let” in this latter, “exhortative” meaning. Everyone on this forum is screaming for you to declare that you are defeated.
Do YOU HAVE THE RAY OF WEIRDS, Even When all are saying “i am defeated even though everyone
may declare that I am defeated…”?
Even though everyone may declare that I am defeated, until I concede defeat,…
What are some other ways to express that you are unbeatable? With “Can” (indicative, factual) and not “could” like to use the verb “anyone” for “nobody”, the verb is usually used instead of “//nobody” as used in more general sentences.
Either,
Even though everyone may declare that I am defeated, until I concede defeat, nowhere, ever, can anyone beat me.
Even
though everyone may declare that I am defeated, until I concede defeat, nobody, anywhere, can beat me!
But you do want to avoid using a double negative (“nowhere, ever, nobody could beat me” isn’t good in Dutch.)
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Asked on March 27, 2021 in Word choice.
Does the initial word let or “Let” have a connection?
Did you mean “Let’ in the sense of a rhetorical “stipulation”?
Do you guys offer any expertise on i.e. e. vid.technology? : for the sake of argument, let it be supposed that…”, and then the following statements will proceed from that hypothetical premise. Obviously this is a valid use of the word let in cold, logical math proofs and TV courtroom dramas. Why do we actually believe that x is a
real number greater than zero? But “let” should also be used to express our fervent wish or prayer. With “your whole statement has the force of an emotionally charged proclamation, and when we hear, let everyone declare…” we understand “let” in this latter, “exhortative” meaning. Everyone on this forum is screaming for you to declare that you are defeated.
Do YOU HAVE THE RAY OF WEIRDS, Even When all are saying “i am defeated even though everyone
may declare that I am defeated…”?
Even though everyone may declare that I am defeated, until I concede defeat,…
What are some other ways to express that you are unbeatable? With “Can” (indicative, factual) and not “could” like to use the verb “anyone” for “nobody”, the verb is usually used instead of “//nobody” as used in more general sentences.
Either,
Even though everyone may declare that I am defeated, until I concede defeat, nowhere, ever, can anyone beat me.
Even
though everyone may declare that I am defeated, until I concede defeat, nobody, anywhere, can beat me!
But you do want to avoid using a double negative (“nowhere, ever, nobody could beat me” isn’t good in Dutch.)
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RE: What is the difference between “I have an emergency up here” and “I have an emergency out here”?Asked on March 26, 2021 in Meaning.
What does 911 operators say if you call someone they don’t know or don’t know the 911 operator knows?
When you call 911, you don’t need to worry about your prepositions. There is always someone around to get them under control.
If there’s an emergency, if the situation starts, say “I have an emergency up here”. Or it might be, “Out here” or “over here” or something else. What can your location be in relative to the person you are talking to.
If you’re in somewhere (like a train car, a bank vault, a prison, or a classroom for example), dann it could be idiomatic to use “in here”. Are there any ” Up here” locations (like maybe a ski lift, the top floor of a building, a helicopter, or maybe somewhere in the Far North,… or even Northern Illinois, if you are talking to someone in southern Illinois).
Is it necessary to use some prepositional phrase in order to be idiomatic though? I have an emergency, or there is an emergency, are both idiomatic concepts.
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Asked on March 15, 2021 in Grammar.
“To be” is the “infinitive” form of a verb. What is the definition of to-infinite? ” That is the form of the verb we use when we want to identify a particular verb (the action-word itself) for any purpose. So when you look up “to be” you find all kinds of rules about them… “I am, he is, they would have been”…etc. I am what they wish to be”; I do and he himself was. Is there some way to change the name of a service from one company to another?
If you want to know about using “to be”, in exactly that form, you need to look up how to use the “infinitive” or the “to-infinitive” of the verb.
How would you use “To be” in a sentence that includes
the verb ‘I want
to be an athlete’? We
were told to be quiet. ” “or
your example, “They are supposed to be good parents. Surely they can. When
you want it to function as a noun or “what do you do?” – “To be in
prison for just one year is horrible. To
be happy all the time is impossible. What
is a question, to be or not to be? “To
be” is used in many different ways and situations, and there are lots of details and rules about it, so it would be impossible to make a list of them all.
We understand infinitive form of verbs and how to use it. And I am curious to see how it becomes infinitive.
Free English materials: For example the above ” Learn English ” article from the British Council. The rules listed there can be applied to specific verbs including “to be.”
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