This use of or rather than and is quite common and quite proper. Where does this author in the New York Times stand? If he doesn’t want to give the impression that the dangers he lists are probable events with a cumulative effect that

this may happen and that may happen, and the other may happen, too!

No one can really solve different dangers, even the greatest of them, and all of them are possible. But yet, if we

consider all these dangers as possibilities, each is independent of the other. Some of them, which one can come to pass, this would happen, or that might happen, or the other would happen, but all would be impossible.

Another alternative to rhetoric, and in this context, or puts forward a very different rhetorical strategy. Each of the dangers has a small chance of occurring—let’s say, for the sake of argument, 2%. The probability that all three will happen (A and B and C) is vanishingly small: 2-2% 2-2% 2* =… 00998%. Is the chance that at least one will happen is growing increasingly large? Not only is 2% + 2% + 2% = 6%.

Given that the value of both or and is preceded by a comma, r you are going to prove it. In

logical sense you are correct.

It is written in a very colloquial register, and it employs a way you may not be familiar with, and there is nothing wrong with it grammatically (except that it would be clearer if there was a comma after sad ).

• Where formal English may employ as, the colloquial part is the use of like where formal English would employ as. Is more appropriate when an emotion compares the emotions of a girl and her feelings to those felt by a person, another person, after (the person) experienced something…. The experience, the object of at, may be expressed as a noun, as a gerund clause, or as a finite-verb clause Here

  are examples with a noun and a gerund phrase: “… feeling sad—like after a lousy day at the office or a fight with someone you love

  It’s a good sad, like after watching a really tragic movie and you’ve just cried your eyes
  out while eating an entire box of chocolates”

  He was still sad—like after you left I feel sad (like after we lost the girls)

  Do you see that sad is a ‘generic’ or ’caused’ event which occurs repeatedly or might occur at any time? Why?

• The other thing that can be confusing you here is the use of have, which may feel to you like the beginning of a perfect construction. There is something quite different. neither a perfect auxiliary nor a causative auxiliary (as in to have something already done or have something done”) but the lexical verb used to mean “experience” or “suffer” and taking as its direct object a non-finite clause with a bare infinitive (an infinitive not marked with to ) as its head. Hence:

  She had her house burned down = She experienced her house burning down.

  Is there any other way to deal with a loved one passing away?

Can you describe what it means to be an individual?

1. To that which means to the one which. I read a letter from Marshall acknowledging receiving a response to the one which he had sent earlier, and it sent an unusual reply to his letters. I found this letter rather stupid.

2. Myself is the indirect object and honour the direct object. I’ve gone through the following sentences so the right order of IO precedes DO, but heavier does the same so long as the same shall be used. The sentence reverts to the do IO DO sequence, stating that “the king did the representatives of the three estates the extraordinary honour when they entered his presence; without a second king ahming out of the three houses for the

   above in order to _secure his protection.

3. To do X honour means, “perform some act which confers honour upon X”; if a specific act is named then honour becomes determinate, the honour, and the act is expressed with a preposition phrase heading by of and taking a gerund clause as its object: of VALE.

4. In the elaborate courtesy which prevailed in the upper ranks of 18th-century society, merely the opportunity of addressing so distinguished a leader as President (late General) Washington reflects great honour on the writer, Marshall acknowledges his temerity when conferring that honour upon himself.

What is the best way to make a fresh start?

What are the two main ingredients of beer and wine?

are beer and wine in

common?

The subject of the question is the conjunct ‘berry and wine’, so the auxiliary verb Do takes the form for 3-d person plural: do.

Why, in this context, I don’t have any objection to “when”. As a matter of fact, I prefer it to “if” – it’s more concrete, not merely hypothetical, and your student is talking about concrete situations. When is it OK to take medicine?” The

only problem I see is that “on” – it doesn’t suggest any idiom I can think of, and if I were a teacher I would immediately stop and wonder “Where did that come from?’ “. I suspect the misspelling of one and that your student have been exposed to some sort of safety program covering a situation like this. What’s the big

deal? Do you have a friend that gave you one of his migraine pills and is convinced it worked for them? – The Gable Health Center, “Dangers of Sharing Prescription Medications”

[And now you’ve added the DARE reference. Bingo. I’d

congratulate the student, and suggest that it’s even more effective if all three of his examples use the same words as much as possible: when

your family gives it to you, but not when
a friend gives it to you, and not when
you take it by yourself. ( or “on your own”, if the student seems receptive to enlarging his authorial universe ).)

Does he have a true sense of rhythm? Is it important to encourage it?

Am I the only one being in the news?

Is verbs (present participles)? Wving, for instance, takes another straight object, his hands and the like. And that is not why we love to waving. Syntactically they are (take a deep breath before you try to say this)

• subject-oriented predicate adjectivals

That is: they play the role of adjectives in describing a noun; the noun they describe is the subject; and they occur in the predicate, among the dependents of the verb, rather than being included as attributive adjectives in the subject.

Exactly the same thing can be done with ordinary adjectives and adjectival past/passive participles, in a definite manner.

While on mission, I witnessed a boy come home wounded.
What are the effects after a youngster is brought home by something so horrible.
If you ask me what he did and I am satisfied he came home happy.
He came home naked. What do people think?

None of these describes the quality of the movement: they describe the subject.

There are object-oriented predicate adjectivals that likewise may be ordinary adjectives or present or past participles. I drink my coffee black.

It helps.
When you sip coffee steaming, he adds steam.
When I can drink coffee, this whipped cream sounds good. I just don’t have time for it.

What are some alternative ways to explain something?

Out here is, in essence, a spatial metaphor.

“He lives miles out of town”, “How far from town he lives” in this example. We extend this only a little in expressions like “We stopped sixty miles out of Omaha”, measuring the distance we still had to go before reaching Omaha, or the distance we had travelled from Omaha before stopping; and from that use it’s a very short step to “We stopped an hour out of Omaha” measuring the temporal distance, which length of time is equal to about 1 hour or 11 minutes. How was your distance measure?

If a question is answered only after an exam, doesn’t it just follow the time after the first exam? So the expression “a month out” means that you should schedule your exam at least a month before you take it.

In a simple and long poem “let’s go a ways out” means “let’s pick a date well after the present”. A ways means as far as you can go ‘The Distance Will Fly’. The apparent plural ways is actually a colloquial linguistic fossil, left over from a time when the genitive was used to cast a noun as an adverb (compare alway s, twi c e.)

A kind of is not a frequent construction, but it is hardly rare; you may encounter it in phrases like these, plucked from Google hits:

• He is a New York kind of guy, smart, fast, sophisticated.
• It’s Paris kind of a month: seems like I have a lot of projects this month that have a Parisian theme.
• I don’t want to travel to India (I am a European person) but it sounds great. Thanks for bringing in the info.
• What are the best rooms in Tokyo for a Japanese-themed stay? Wait girls are in kimonos.

For that, you need wise counsel. In the first place, it is very colloquial: you will not encounter it in academic expository prose. In the second place it is a calculated and knowing sort of expression: people who employ it usually do so somewhat self-consciously, fully aware that they are deliberately flouting the conventional use with an adjective rather than a noun. In the third place, you usually need to explain what you mean: you see that explicitly in three of these examples and implicitly in the “Europe” one (a “Europe kind of gal” clearly means the writer prefers to visit Europe).

Your starting with an orange kind of morning (which is not transparently meaningful) suggests a use outside these restraints: odd phrases of this sort are very common in poetry, especially in poetry of the Second Quarter of the last century. There of course the restraints of formal discourse don’t apply; everything is self-conscious; and explanations are not called for, because shocking the reader out of semantic complacency is often a primary objective.

What he thinks is the correct construction, but it is still incorrect. The clause is cast in the past tense, to reflect its context syllable context and to reflect the current status of its subject.

What is the difference between being a student and being a human?

How does Arnon Mishkin

• get elected as the Executive Editor of the
• Decision Team?
• Arnon

is an inside (intendant) and a stats guy. He might be a corporate guy, but he will probably not have a career at a company. He ordinarily speaks and writes to his peers in a jargon-ridden polysyllabic noun-heavy technical-corporate dialect distinct from ordinary conversation. He’s not used to communicating with public in a language they understand and respond to, and he doesn’t understand how to work a camera.

So the team bring in Chris, who is used to communicating with the public and has extensive on camera experience without a camera setup. Chris is an English speaker with a BAD COMMUNICATIONS background. Chris’s it in English’ which people will understand and respond to.

Arnon speak in English and is well qualified to do so. He has a rare ability to master a few languages. Obviously, Chris helps to translate that into English and can communicate with most of the

other English speakers. He also helps other speakers.