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Asked on March 13, 2021 in Other.
I just know it’s the first time I’ve ever flown to America.
What sentences are that clause? I wouldn’t say it is a relative clause. Is there any empty subject, “it” is the percursory subject and that-clause is the main subject.
Though it is not very stylistic it would be possible to place the that-clause in subject position:
that I fly to America is the first time.
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Relative clause a supplement? What is different about views? I am thinking how do I try and prove that we have no relative clause? Is there a royal family with three daughters?
2 What if the king had a daughter ill?
Once there was a king no children, God had given no children to him.
If this is the first time “I flies to America” it’s a relative clause. The difference of the type is negligible. For reasons.
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Asked on March 6, 2021 in Single word requests.
Legal terms are not my strong point but one could describe such an act as intimidation by using violence.
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Asked on March 3, 2021 in Other.
I have not verified when in English “was” came up, which shows a particular exchange of the consonant r in “were” to s. In German there is not r/s change: ich war, we were ( I was, we were). If the pronunciation changed from r to s, it seems some northern dialects weren’t affected by this change. In German there is a special term or period since the different Greek letters are in the Greek alphabet, of which r is the main one. The reason is r being the same as r. How can one write this term in a English dictionary? How does the phenomenon of rotation in a room look like in Chinese?
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Asked on March 3, 2021 in Word choice.
Merriam webster made you suppose automobile is the normal word for car. This is a weak point of dictionaries that don’t hint at the main variant. You can see the normal variant of car on google ngram which can be easily found by Google. Automobile is a relatively seldom used variant in written language. Is the length of a English dictionary too long for the current incarnations of all the spoken languages?
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have a look at synonyms for car at Merriam Webster or The Free Dictionary.
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Asked on March 3, 2021 in Word choice.
What would you see with any difference between ‘”original’ and ”diversity”? Why the differences are explained are interpretations. What type of difference can you suggest? If there is a way to differentiate between frequency and stylistic level. “a lot of lots of” is common and frequently used. “Plenty of” is a variant, not so frequent and a bit more elevated in style. “pluency” in French, Latin plenitate(m) meaning fullness derived from the Latin adjective plenus full/e in French.
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Asked on March 3, 2021 in Other.
Did Greeks add vowels in their alphabet adopted from semitic alphabets which had no vowels? Why were the vowels removed from the alphabet? I remark that they seem to have taken “a” as the first vowel with the fullest mouth opening, then by raising the tongue getting e and i then by rounding the lips getting o and more rounding getting u.
Why are vowels important in alphabets? But astonishingly, we have kept this order.
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Asked on March 2, 2021 in Other.
“Mission accomplished” is typical of a short military style and stands for “The mission has been done”. The Leader (of the Group of Soldiers) may return and report to his officer and claim
the “Mission accomplished”.
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Asked on March 2, 2021 in Other.
Is sentence fragment’ a complete sentence? If I transform the sentence a bit I get one or more characters. The sentences, except Storm, are the same. “All of them” is not the complete sentence.
How many out of the 400 come? What is the shortest answer?
In a human nature, one wouldn’t ask and get answers unless you have said “All of them came. All have come” ” – This is a complete sentence with a subject and verbal part. This sentence should not be overlined by verbs (except, of course, the subject is spelled), but it should be completed with verbs (not just the punctuations) Of course, in everyday language, words are used to answer and are not in complete sentences. What if there is just a fragment of a
sentence?
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Asked on March 1, 2021 in Other.
Can we have more precise pronunciation issues? http://www.amazon.com/excite/join/me/amazon.ca/ The
first Daniel Jones was married and he had one son, he is now 51. Is it really rare to be registered as a proper name? For your question, please send. It covers only British pronunciation, but is very precise, giving the most frequent pronunciation first, and then possible variants.
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Asked on March 1, 2021 in Other.
If you could change the date… A sentence with “would + bare infinitive”, and a subclause with “if + past subjunctive”. Have you ever heard of someone saying, “If you had money, I would buy a car” and you have become famous for it, you will have to be on a car journey to buy a car. But here would-form expresses politesness. What is conditional clause?
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