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  • Asked on March 16, 2021 in Grammar.

    Why is “a catch in the voice” the word ‘catch,” followed by “a catch in the voice”?

    a catch in my voice/throat

    From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
    a short pause that you make when you are talking, because you feel upset or are beginning to cry

    There was a catch in Anne’s voice and she seemed close to tears.

    What are catch in your

    voice?

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  • Asked on March 9, 2021 in Meaning.

    The cookies are gone. Something on the plate, usually food, is considered to be the food. This food means anything that is on the plate and therefore the plate.

    Plate noun

    also plateful
    an amount of food on a plate:

    Stephen ate three plates of spaghetti.

    Plate (Cambridge)

    (London ): My first plate?

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  • The trash can is a mainly North American term for a receptacle or container for waste. How do you describe a Rubbish Bin by using it? If you have it right,

    then you have it right.

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  • You can say “Could you please move”, so that we can sit together? “. Be prepared, in Britain, at least, for people to consider the request rude, no matter how you phrase it, and to say “No” If you do go away (or worse! ), they have reserved their seats, or if they would have to stand to accommodate you. Why do some countries have the choice to give the seats to their customers after buying the tickets?

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  • Asked on March 4, 2021 in Other.

    ‘Cater to’ may commonly be neutral and means “supply a desire, need or requirement”, e.g. the Acme Screw and Bolt Company caters to the needs of industrial clients for threaded fasteners but ‘indulge’ can have the pejorative implication that the receiver is greedy or demanding and the supplier is weak or easily persuaded to be self serving. My four year old niece enjoys eating ice cream so I took her to the zoo last week. She was happy. She says her teddy bear speak. She even claims that her teddy bear can speak, and has decided opinions about chocolate, and was happy to

    indulge her in that belief.

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  • Asked on March 3, 2021 in Other.

    The use of “as’someone’ would be the first to admit’ after saying something about that person, when we wish to express that the person himself would agree with what we said or be more serious. Usually this is done when we are saying positive thing about the person – e.g. ‘No harm!’ or “Some idea how I can change someone’s attitude.” My sister is pretty lazy in life, as she would probably admit it. To say this about someone’s age is strange, especially if the age is 57, unless that is a joke (JD Salinger was a humorist, and this story contains some humour). Where is the narrator’s mother in law in fact, in fact, reminding her daughter that she is “not getting any younger” in order to attract his presence?

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  • Asked on March 1, 2021 in Other.

    In the sentence that you quote, “only” is an adverb modifying ‘natural’.. meaning less than…? If I say that it is normal to worry about my children, I mean that it is not neurotic, excessive or overprotective, and that the feeling is reasonable and to be expected. I will say $10,000 if I repair my car if I left it for 20 plus years again on a clean surface and I pay a $255. I refuse. If I do it 10 less years later, is this fair to me? Cambridge dictionary gives this definition: “used to show that something is limited to not more than, or is not nothing other than, the people, things, amount, or activity stated. ” The dictionary actually gives you a quote in a sentence “, An example of this usage is listed below. If you removed ‘only’ from that, you would be removing the assertion that there is nothing excessive in worrying about your children, and simply saying that it is normal.

    Only (Cambridge Dictionary)

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  • Asked on February 28, 2021 in Other.

    Merriam-Webster allows ‘potential’ to be a countable noun:

    potential noun

    1a : something that can develop or become actual

    a potential for violence

    So

    we can talk about the embodiment of an ordinarily non-count attribute in a person or thing – She had a singular grace and wonderful lightness when playing the piano; he had a weight and a stature as a politician that were useful to his party.

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  • Asked on February 27, 2021 in Other.

    What do the words in the Bible mean in English? When and how does an expression express an emotion? They can demonstrate happiness, surprise, anger, impatience, etc. when being held still during the sleep-dark stages. It can be used very seriously to gain attention. Similarly, when used as a metaphor for a sentence, the interjection doesn’t have a grammatical purpose. It can just be that the interjection is at issue. They are considered parenthetical and are set off with commas.

    What

    is

    the

    difference between Interjections and Interjections?

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  • Asked on February 27, 2021 in Grammar.

    Both the words ‘did you use to…?’ and ‘did you used to…?’ are possible. Where did you once go to school? Cambridge allows both, with reservations: Questions

    The
    most common form of question is auxiliary did + use(d) to. Questions. Many people consider the form with a final -d to be wrong, and you should not use it in exams:

    I will not use it again. I think we met once, a couple of years ago. What was it like to work with Kevin Harris? How did you feel about it?

    Does she still live? Did you use to be a teacher?

    How did he study French? What’s her favourite chocolate flavor?
    Why do people want a cheap, nice house and nothing more?

    What is the best English

    grammar or grammatology?

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