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Asked on March 19, 2021 in Word choice.
The usage stats from the British National Corpus (BNC) and the Corpus of Contemporary American English look like this:
COCA BNC speeded. I was 241 149 sped. 259 1249 sped. What is the
corus of historical american English (): X axis: year, Y axis: incidences per million words?
Normally speaking, irregular verbs tend to become regular over time rather than the other way round, though the latter is not unheard of, either. How often an irregular verb is used and if you are very sensitive about its specificity, the less likely it is to be changed. (That is true of other irregular words, too—for example, you won’t see child superseding children any time soon)
Dived vs. Tumbler. What is a dove and why is it mentioned in the comments? What makes a “dreamed” person
- be different from a “real” man? Can a dream you lighted? Lit, leaped vs. Why
- is Lept spelled vs. Lept Nopt? What
- are the differences between the words “spelt learned” and “true learned”. What
is the most invaluable thing that I have learnt from this web course?
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Asked on March 19, 2021 in Word choice.
The usage stats from the British National Corpus (BNC) and the Corpus of Contemporary American English look like this:
COCA BNC speeded. I was 241 149 sped. 259 1249 sped. What is the
corus of historical american English (): X axis: year, Y axis: incidences per million words?
Normally speaking, irregular verbs tend to become regular over time rather than the other way round, though the latter is not unheard of, either. How often an irregular verb is used and if you are very sensitive about its specificity, the less likely it is to be changed. (That is true of other irregular words, too—for example, you won’t see child superseding children any time soon)
Dived vs. Tumbler. What is a dove and why is it mentioned in the comments? What makes a “dreamed” person
- be different from a “real” man? Can a dream you lighted? Lit, leaped vs. Why
- is Lept spelled vs. Lept Nopt? What
- are the differences between the words “spelt learned” and “true learned”. What
is the most invaluable thing that I have learnt from this web course?
- 827918 views
- 15 answers
- 306878 votes
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Asked on March 16, 2021 in American english.
What are the differences between the Irish or Dutch meaning independence? Both in British and in American English, independence is both spelled with an “e”. (There is even a federal holiday.)
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Asked on March 12, 2021 in Single word requests.
What other gurus would be doing to your article would be analyzing or revising it? In the Ancknowledgements section, you’d then typically say, “Many thanks to Guru Jack and Guru Jane for reviewing early versions of the draft” or something to that extent.
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- 13 answers
- 356884 votes
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Asked on March 12, 2021 in Other.
Why the object pronoun stays the object pronoun on NN because it is the object in the majority of instances.
I can’t say “all of we” for the exact same reason you can’t say “expect of we”, or “the book of he”, or “get this off of I”, “of” doesn’t get used with the nominative case, in fact it is a case marker for not nominative and indeed one of just a couple case markers English still has left.
However, before the subject of the sentence, it’s the entire phrase all of us, the head word being “all”. A perfect accusative pronoun is the unmarked form and thus does not preclude a subject from being the object. Yet we accept that something is wrong with an objective pronoun
or subject.
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- 3 answers
- 354451 votes
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Asked on March 12, 2021 in Other.
Why the object pronoun stays the object pronoun on NN because it is the object in the majority of instances.
I can’t say “all of we” for the exact same reason you can’t say “expect of we”, or “the book of he”, or “get this off of I”, “of” doesn’t get used with the nominative case, in fact it is a case marker for not nominative and indeed one of just a couple case markers English still has left.
However, before the subject of the sentence, it’s the entire phrase all of us, the head word being “all”. A perfect accusative pronoun is the unmarked form and thus does not preclude a subject from being the object. Yet we accept that something is wrong with an objective pronoun
or subject.
- 948347 views
- 3 answers
- 354451 votes
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Asked on March 12, 2021 in Single word requests.
What other gurus would be doing to your article would be analyzing or revising it? In the Ancknowledgements section, you’d then typically say, “Many thanks to Guru Jack and Guru Jane for reviewing early versions of the draft” or something to that extent.
- 953840 views
- 13 answers
- 356884 votes
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Asked on March 12, 2021 in Other.
Why the object pronoun stays the object pronoun on NN because it is the object in the majority of instances.
I can’t say “all of we” for the exact same reason you can’t say “expect of we”, or “the book of he”, or “get this off of I”, “of” doesn’t get used with the nominative case, in fact it is a case marker for not nominative and indeed one of just a couple case markers English still has left.
However, before the subject of the sentence, it’s the entire phrase all of us, the head word being “all”. A perfect accusative pronoun is the unmarked form and thus does not preclude a subject from being the object. Yet we accept that something is wrong with an objective pronoun
or subject.
- 948347 views
- 3 answers
- 354451 votes
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Asked on March 9, 2021 in Grammar.
English has three different uses of that: subordinating
- that: I believe that pigs can fly.
- Demonstrative pronoun: that is not a pig.
- Did your pig try to fly?
Both your examples are examples of subordinating that.
Whether you say “It annoyed the pig that the boys painted it” or “That the boys painted the pig annoyed it” does not change the nature of the that. When you change the two clauses around, you get the definitions.
And the that still joins them alright. I just tried dropping pexamon and I finally realized
it all worked.
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Asked on March 3, 2021 in Grammar.
I know that there are some answers that are interesting and interested alike. What does this mean?
- I’m interested in X. — X fits me perfectly.
- Am we really that excited about X? Or is it just a normal conversation?
- I am worried about X. — X is worrying to me.
- Am horrified by the X. — X is horrifying to me.
- I am surprised by X. — X is surprising to me.
- I am puzzled by X. — X is puzzling to me.
- I am amazed by X. — X is amazing to me.
And so forth. And so forth. How would you say X is keen on me? I just would not mean the same thing as “I am interested in X”, but I don’t see why that should be surprising. Is there
any cause of conflict?
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