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  • My advisor has been very helpful, from helping me decide which classes to take to guiding me toward the resources available to me Merriam-Webster

    defines the verb guide as transitive

    verb 2 a : to direct, supervise, or influence usually to a particular end e.g.
    Why did she help me in our career?

    Usage notes: guide implies intimate knowledge of the way and of all its difficulties and dangers

    N.B. You don’t normally guide a person about something, in the OP’s sentence the following prepositions: to, toward, or through (?) would be more appropriate.

    Alternatively, consider the verb counsel which means to give advice, as in:

    Careers officers should counsel young people in making their career decisions)

    My advisor has been very helpful, from helping me decide which classes to take to counselling me about the resources available.

    Why do people say they shouldn’t ’just’ be there for the occasional question or two?

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  • Is
    there a man out there with no potential partner? If a person doesn’t wear the right clothes, that they may not be able to do more than that, is, without doubt, undesirable. Who are not social, aesthetic and look alike and who feels less like an outsider, who lacks motivation, is a woman or lacks a sense of humor or has zero sense of social value? In the Free Dictionary and English Language Dictionary, it is defined as an individual who is excluded from a group, group, association or set.

    Not a noun, but an adjective which is pretty much in vogue recently, is undateable, it describes a person who has said it is going to be difficult to find a girlfriend or relationship. In British English, we have the noun undateables, which also happens to be the name of a Channel 4 TV documentary. Many people didn’t even know about the existence of the word ‘undateables’.

    The noun saddo (BrEng) seems appropriate; the epithet is usually reserved for men who have no friends and are socially inept in public. Is it true that Saddos have great difficulty in finding dates with undateables?

    One who has sex opposite to someone who has not, is considered a turn off. This is a gender neutral noun, and can be applied to anyone. Oxford Dictionary cites

    commonly in singular. INFORMAL A person or thing that causes someone to feel bored, disgusted, or sexually repelled: He smelled of carbolic soap, a dreadful turn-off
    His crooked yellow teeth are a complete turn-off

    his crooked teeth are a complete turn-off]: he smelled of carbolic soap, a dreadful turn-off… his crooked teeth are and were disgusted

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  • Asked on March 25, 2021 in Grammar.

    Does present continuous tense “see” avoid the present continuous tense which is mostly avoided in affirmations such as

    “I’m seeing Alien 4 tonight

    and

    He’s seeing a movie at this moment”?

    The verb see also means to meet someone, and said aloud without any previous context, it might be understood that there’s an appointment to meet up with someone called Alien, or they are dating someone called Film. I know it’s unlikely, as we are all equipped with common sense, but the first two structures do sound a little odd nevertheless, whereas I don’t find any ambiguity in the following example. When we were

    watching a movie suddenly there was a loud noise.

    The structure be + Verb + ing expresses volition, and there is no significant difference, in terms of volition, between “I’m seeing a play” and “I’m watching a play”, the latter being only preferable if referring to a television broadcast.

    In the present participle seeing + a movie, the main verb like. But it also follows a preposition. Although there is a slang usage, there can be a derivation in the present participle seeing + a movie. Similarly, in the ngram chart below, the clear frontrunner is on watching a movie and feels satisfied seeing a movie not far behind.

    The results shown with only the verbs are and seem to confirm that native speakers tend to avoid the progressive tense with see a movie. What are some words that seem to be lost altogether for movies, unless they’re just so annoying?

    ( Watching a movie is represented in blue, while seeing a movie is in red.)

    If we compare the following results with to see a movie is produced the following chart.

    How can I help someone through my problems?

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  • Asked on March 25, 2021 in Grammar.

    Does present continuous tense “see” avoid the present continuous tense which is mostly avoided in affirmations such as

    “I’m seeing Alien 4 tonight

    and

    He’s seeing a movie at this moment”?

    The verb see also means to meet someone, and said aloud without any previous context, it might be understood that there’s an appointment to meet up with someone called Alien, or they are dating someone called Film. I know it’s unlikely, as we are all equipped with common sense, but the first two structures do sound a little odd nevertheless, whereas I don’t find any ambiguity in the following example. When we were

    watching a movie suddenly there was a loud noise.

    The structure be + Verb + ing expresses volition, and there is no significant difference, in terms of volition, between “I’m seeing a play” and “I’m watching a play”, the latter being only preferable if referring to a television broadcast.

    In the present participle seeing + a movie, the main verb like. But it also follows a preposition. Although there is a slang usage, there can be a derivation in the present participle seeing + a movie. Similarly, in the ngram chart below, the clear frontrunner is on watching a movie and feels satisfied seeing a movie not far behind.

    The results shown with only the verbs are and seem to confirm that native speakers tend to avoid the progressive tense with see a movie. What are some words that seem to be lost altogether for movies, unless they’re just so annoying?

    ( Watching a movie is represented in blue, while seeing a movie is in red.)

    If we compare the following results with to see a movie is produced the following chart.

    How can I help someone through my problems?

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  • the sound of leaves blowing crunching the sound

    of leaves crunching

    crushed whispering Sweetly swinging maple leaves, the

    weightless, softly swaying leaves, whispering

    leaves,

    or swaying leaves,…

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  • If you say:

    If your surnames start with any letter between H and P…. Those

    whose surnames begin with any letter before H… Those whose
    surnames begin with any letter after P. Edit: Because

    some
    users have revised their answers that make mine look superfluous.

    After the OP’s original example, I would like to offer the following solution:

    Names starting with the first three/six letters of the alphabet come first in lists

    I grant you that I am not pithy, but surely easy

    to understand by all.

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  • I cannot read the clock hands. I can only read the hands.

    What is the typical time mechanism for a 12-hour dial?

    At the end of the 15th and 16th century the 12-hour dial and time system gradually became established as standard throughout Northern Europe till this generation. The 24-hour analog dial was reserved for more specialized applications, such as astronomical clocks and chronometers, and timetables, especially for railway and airline travel. The dial is a tiny footprint. While of course the dial could be used for a different calibre, it could also be easily manipulated (the dial is marked).

    Wikipedia suggests that the term clock face is used for both clocks and watches

    A clock face or dial is the part of an analog clock (or watch) that displays the time through the use of a small flat numbered dial or a fixed-numbered dial or dials and moving hands. In its most basic form, recognized throughout the world, the periphery of the dial is numbered around 1 through 12. The clock turns after 12 hours and so has two rotations each day. From the earliest time, the longer minute hand will run one revolution every hour.

    I suppose that you could say: “I can’t read twelve-hour dials” and be understood, but it’s not very idiomatic.

    If

    you want to read a clock, you need to know read a clock, and you want that to mean clocks.

    On an English reality show called “I’m a celebrity… Get me out of here!” one contestant has confessed to not being able to tell the time.

    … he earns his airtime by admitting that he didn’t know how to read a clock face (he is a geek and uses a calculator) For a newbie, his watch wasn’t really visible or had a specific number on it. According to him, the number wasn’t related to the item. Can the piece be stolen? It’s definitely fashion, adds M. Gee, adding that it’s’much easier to look at your phone’.

    Is there a

    clock in the restaurant? I was being depressed and told how bad I was at telling time but should have learned everything what they knew? What

    happened is that they already knew this long story and eventually they finally figured it out. I’ve overheard teens talking about saying that they couldn’t read a clock. I was shocked. I should let myself know that a teenager could use a clock when I sleep, or when I wake up. Is not it a problem?

    Source: NeoWin.com Reading

    clocks In the
    real world it’s hard to learn, but the simple way to do it is easy to do! How do you find an hour hand. The hour hand has a shorter diameter than the clock hands.

    Source: wikiHow to read a clock.

    Source: wikiHow

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  • I cannot read the clock hands. I can only read the hands.

    What is the typical time mechanism for a 12-hour dial?

    At the end of the 15th and 16th century the 12-hour dial and time system gradually became established as standard throughout Northern Europe till this generation. The 24-hour analog dial was reserved for more specialized applications, such as astronomical clocks and chronometers, and timetables, especially for railway and airline travel. The dial is a tiny footprint. While of course the dial could be used for a different calibre, it could also be easily manipulated (the dial is marked).

    Wikipedia suggests that the term clock face is used for both clocks and watches

    A clock face or dial is the part of an analog clock (or watch) that displays the time through the use of a small flat numbered dial or a fixed-numbered dial or dials and moving hands. In its most basic form, recognized throughout the world, the periphery of the dial is numbered around 1 through 12. The clock turns after 12 hours and so has two rotations each day. From the earliest time, the longer minute hand will run one revolution every hour.

    I suppose that you could say: “I can’t read twelve-hour dials” and be understood, but it’s not very idiomatic.

    If

    you want to read a clock, you need to know read a clock, and you want that to mean clocks.

    On an English reality show called “I’m a celebrity… Get me out of here!” one contestant has confessed to not being able to tell the time.

    … he earns his airtime by admitting that he didn’t know how to read a clock face (he is a geek and uses a calculator) For a newbie, his watch wasn’t really visible or had a specific number on it. According to him, the number wasn’t related to the item. Can the piece be stolen? It’s definitely fashion, adds M. Gee, adding that it’s’much easier to look at your phone’.

    Is there a

    clock in the restaurant? I was being depressed and told how bad I was at telling time but should have learned everything what they knew? What

    happened is that they already knew this long story and eventually they finally figured it out. I’ve overheard teens talking about saying that they couldn’t read a clock. I was shocked. I should let myself know that a teenager could use a clock when I sleep, or when I wake up. Is not it a problem?

    Source: NeoWin.com Reading

    clocks In the
    real world it’s hard to learn, but the simple way to do it is easy to do! How do you find an hour hand. The hour hand has a shorter diameter than the clock hands.

    Source: wikiHow to read a clock.

    Source: wikiHow

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  • I cannot read the clock hands. I can only read the hands.

    What is the typical time mechanism for a 12-hour dial?

    At the end of the 15th and 16th century the 12-hour dial and time system gradually became established as standard throughout Northern Europe till this generation. The 24-hour analog dial was reserved for more specialized applications, such as astronomical clocks and chronometers, and timetables, especially for railway and airline travel. The dial is a tiny footprint. While of course the dial could be used for a different calibre, it could also be easily manipulated (the dial is marked).

    Wikipedia suggests that the term clock face is used for both clocks and watches

    A clock face or dial is the part of an analog clock (or watch) that displays the time through the use of a small flat numbered dial or a fixed-numbered dial or dials and moving hands. In its most basic form, recognized throughout the world, the periphery of the dial is numbered around 1 through 12. The clock turns after 12 hours and so has two rotations each day. From the earliest time, the longer minute hand will run one revolution every hour.

    I suppose that you could say: “I can’t read twelve-hour dials” and be understood, but it’s not very idiomatic.

    If

    you want to read a clock, you need to know read a clock, and you want that to mean clocks.

    On an English reality show called “I’m a celebrity… Get me out of here!” one contestant has confessed to not being able to tell the time.

    … he earns his airtime by admitting that he didn’t know how to read a clock face (he is a geek and uses a calculator) For a newbie, his watch wasn’t really visible or had a specific number on it. According to him, the number wasn’t related to the item. Can the piece be stolen? It’s definitely fashion, adds M. Gee, adding that it’s’much easier to look at your phone’.

    Is there a

    clock in the restaurant? I was being depressed and told how bad I was at telling time but should have learned everything what they knew? What

    happened is that they already knew this long story and eventually they finally figured it out. I’ve overheard teens talking about saying that they couldn’t read a clock. I was shocked. I should let myself know that a teenager could use a clock when I sleep, or when I wake up. Is not it a problem?

    Source: NeoWin.com Reading

    clocks In the
    real world it’s hard to learn, but the simple way to do it is easy to do! How do you find an hour hand. The hour hand has a shorter diameter than the clock hands.

    Source: wikiHow to read a clock.

    Source: wikiHow

    • 771222 views
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  • I cannot read the clock hands. I can only read the hands.

    What is the typical time mechanism for a 12-hour dial?

    At the end of the 15th and 16th century the 12-hour dial and time system gradually became established as standard throughout Northern Europe till this generation. The 24-hour analog dial was reserved for more specialized applications, such as astronomical clocks and chronometers, and timetables, especially for railway and airline travel. The dial is a tiny footprint. While of course the dial could be used for a different calibre, it could also be easily manipulated (the dial is marked).

    Wikipedia suggests that the term clock face is used for both clocks and watches

    A clock face or dial is the part of an analog clock (or watch) that displays the time through the use of a small flat numbered dial or a fixed-numbered dial or dials and moving hands. In its most basic form, recognized throughout the world, the periphery of the dial is numbered around 1 through 12. The clock turns after 12 hours and so has two rotations each day. From the earliest time, the longer minute hand will run one revolution every hour.

    I suppose that you could say: “I can’t read twelve-hour dials” and be understood, but it’s not very idiomatic.

    If

    you want to read a clock, you need to know read a clock, and you want that to mean clocks.

    On an English reality show called “I’m a celebrity… Get me out of here!” one contestant has confessed to not being able to tell the time.

    … he earns his airtime by admitting that he didn’t know how to read a clock face (he is a geek and uses a calculator) For a newbie, his watch wasn’t really visible or had a specific number on it. According to him, the number wasn’t related to the item. Can the piece be stolen? It’s definitely fashion, adds M. Gee, adding that it’s’much easier to look at your phone’.

    Is there a

    clock in the restaurant? I was being depressed and told how bad I was at telling time but should have learned everything what they knew? What

    happened is that they already knew this long story and eventually they finally figured it out. I’ve overheard teens talking about saying that they couldn’t read a clock. I was shocked. I should let myself know that a teenager could use a clock when I sleep, or when I wake up. Is not it a problem?

    Source: NeoWin.com Reading

    clocks In the
    real world it’s hard to learn, but the simple way to do it is easy to do! How do you find an hour hand. The hour hand has a shorter diameter than the clock hands.

    Source: wikiHow to read a clock.

    Source: wikiHow

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