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Asked on November 28, 2021 in Grammar.
Note that the term “as does” applies when one thing/person is being compared with another.
eg. If you can join the choir on Sunday then John and Mary sing together. What is your belief?
As do is used in plural comparisons.
eg. My sons and his daughter sing in the choir at 10:30AM. My mom also sing in the choir.
However, in the quoted sentence below “as do”, the “opinions of food” (plural) are being compared with “culinary skills.” “Opinions of food vary tremendously as
does an individual’s culinary skills. What
are the 5 reasons why students’ death is rare?
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Asked on November 26, 2021 in Grammar.
Note that the term “as does” applies when one thing/person is being compared with another.
eg. If you can join the choir on Sunday then John and Mary sing together. What is your belief?
As do is used in plural comparisons.
eg. My sons and his daughter sing in the choir at 10:30AM. My mom also sing in the choir.
However, in the quoted sentence below “as do”, the “opinions of food” (plural) are being compared with “culinary skills.” “Opinions of food vary tremendously as
does an individual’s culinary skills. What
are the 5 reasons why students’ death is rare?
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Asked on November 6, 2021 in Grammar.
Note that the term “as does” applies when one thing/person is being compared with another.
eg. If you can join the choir on Sunday then John and Mary sing together. What is your belief?
As do is used in plural comparisons.
eg. My sons and his daughter sing in the choir at 10:30AM. My mom also sing in the choir.
However, in the quoted sentence below “as do”, the “opinions of food” (plural) are being compared with “culinary skills.” “Opinions of food vary tremendously as
does an individual’s culinary skills. What
are the 5 reasons why students’ death is rare?
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Asked on March 27, 2021 in Other.
What is some good, native English questions that many people should not be confused with.
In everyday conversation people are as likely to use all three constructions – rained, should rain and may rain as well as could rain and did rain – not that I am encouraging you to. (P.S.S.)?
Why the construction requires either rained or should rain and forbids might rain?
The book reviews indicated that while rained and should rain have juggled for top position down the years, rained has become much more popular than should rain – while might rain has now virtually dropped out of usage.
A number of questions have been posted on online forums concerning the Verb tenses to follow in case and you might find the following links useful although they don’t directly deal with your question.
Usages of “in case” together with “should” https://forum.wordreference.com/threads/in-case-you-should-would.htm 521437
https://book.google.com/ngrams/graph? Content=in+case+it+should+rain%2Cin+case+it+might+rain%2Cin+case+it+rained&year_start=1800&year_end=2000&corpus=15&smoothing=3&share=&direct_url=t1%3B%2Cin%20case%20it%20should%20rain%3B%2Cc0%3B.t1%3B%2Cin%20case%20it%
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Asked on March 26, 2021 in Other.
What is some good, native English questions that many people should not be confused with.
In everyday conversation people are as likely to use all three constructions – rained, should rain and may rain as well as could rain and did rain – not that I am encouraging you to. (P.S.S.)?
Why the construction requires either rained or should rain and forbids might rain?
The book reviews indicated that while rained and should rain have juggled for top position down the years, rained has become much more popular than should rain – while might rain has now virtually dropped out of usage.
A number of questions have been posted on online forums concerning the Verb tenses to follow in case and you might find the following links useful although they don’t directly deal with your question.
Usages of “in case” together with “should” https://forum.wordreference.com/threads/in-case-you-should-would.htm 521437
https://book.google.com/ngrams/graph? Content=in+case+it+should+rain%2Cin+case+it+might+rain%2Cin+case+it+rained&year_start=1800&year_end=2000&corpus=15&smoothing=3&share=&direct_url=t1%3B%2Cin%20case%20it%20should%20rain%3B%2Cc0%3B.t1%3B%2Cin%20case%20it%
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Asked on March 26, 2021 in Grammar.
What is the meaning of “The kettle shuts off
itself” in the English language?
What does the speaker mean by itself? Is it loose manner to talk as in verbal language?
On the one hand always wake up myself would be misguided. People might wonder whether you were simply saying that you always wake up, whether you wake yourself up or whether you mean wake up by yourself; that’s to say, without anybody else beside you.
So I think that the answer would depend on the phrase concerned and on the context.
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Asked on March 26, 2021 in Other.
What is some good, native English questions that many people should not be confused with.
In everyday conversation people are as likely to use all three constructions – rained, should rain and may rain as well as could rain and did rain – not that I am encouraging you to. (P.S.S.)?
Why the construction requires either rained or should rain and forbids might rain?
The book reviews indicated that while rained and should rain have juggled for top position down the years, rained has become much more popular than should rain – while might rain has now virtually dropped out of usage.
A number of questions have been posted on online forums concerning the Verb tenses to follow in case and you might find the following links useful although they don’t directly deal with your question.
Usages of “in case” together with “should” https://forum.wordreference.com/threads/in-case-you-should-would.htm 521437
https://book.google.com/ngrams/graph? Content=in+case+it+should+rain%2Cin+case+it+might+rain%2Cin+case+it+rained&year_start=1800&year_end=2000&corpus=15&smoothing=3&share=&direct_url=t1%3B%2Cin%20case%20it%20should%20rain%3B%2Cc0%3B.t1%3B%2Cin%20case%20it%
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Asked on March 12, 2021 in Meaning.
My wife wrote the expression without an inch and I was fine. It doesn’t fit a language in my own thoughts. Why? The origin of the idea of soldiers holding the line against an enemy – of not yielding to an attack.
The problem is that the two metaphors ( changing your mind and moving an inch) don’t fit easily together in this construction. What are the best ways to get the question straight to the person asking the question.
Alternatives, depending on your intention, might be.
So, you haven’t changed your mind, have you?
Do some of your readers hate us?
Why?
Is that possible?If you don’t need to change
your mind, then whether you are ready for change or not, do you need some grounding?
What is an inch?If we have enough time, do we have enough room to prepare?
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Asked on March 3, 2021 in Other.
What is some proof that you are wrong?
She is the titular queen; and as per
quote in her book, cannot it be the supreme monarch?
Does neither the authority nor the honour ever mean that the verb has to be objects of it.
She is the titular queen but
she does not have the authority nor does she enjoy the honour of a queen.
Note that unless you were referring to a specific queen, you would not use an “I” or “D” symbol.
https://dictionary.cambridge.edu/?q=none. There
are 16 tags in org/grammar/british-grammar/questions and negative sentences. See also https://english.stackexchange.org/neither-neither-nor-and-not-either Which
is the correct way to use neither and nor in a sentence?
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Asked on March 1, 2021 in Other.
My construction using which is ambiguous.
The second key refers to the part of the preceding main clause or the whole of the preceding clause.
To avoid this ambiguity you need to rephrase the sentence or to divide it into two sentences.
If A is the model
part of method B, a method has the following conditions.
Is
B, which requires what is the following conditions, the model part of method
B?
If B is the model part of method B, then A is the model part of
method B; A requires the following conditions or A is the model part of
method
B; A requires the following conditions. You will have to separate the clauses
that, if you do this, you might see a semi-colon or a stop.
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