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Asked on March 16, 2021 in Grammar.
Why are there so many fingernails on the top of my fingers?
She really grew her nail that long?
the singular that. “that”. What do you
expect us to expect? She wanted a long nail!! How could she grow her nails long?
If you were seeing one nail but the picture showed three, or if one of the nails was significantly longer than the others, your statement
would be fine.
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Asked on March 16, 2021 in Grammar.
Why are there so many fingernails on the top of my fingers?
She really grew her nail that long?
the singular that. “that”. What do you
expect us to expect? She wanted a long nail!! How could she grow her nails long?
If you were seeing one nail but the picture showed three, or if one of the nails was significantly longer than the others, your statement
would be fine.
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Asked on March 15, 2021 in Grammar.
Something can be so X as to VERB + COMPLEMENT
Here are some example uses:
Tea can be so hot as to be undrinkable.
As children, brothers can look so much alike as to be mistaken for each other.
so + QUALITY means “possessing quality to such a degree”. The pattern is often complemented by a clause that expresses the result or implications of having the said quality to such a degree. How could I enhance VERB + as to?
The days were so torrid as to present a real risk of heat-stroke.
The days were so hot, that we could never play tennis after breakfast.
Isn’t he prepared for being drafted by the NBA first round?
Is Zaha so dangerous with his jab that he gives up his all-around MMA fight?
If I did happen to be in the train for a week, it would be an unreliable way to get to work at 10 AM. I wish I’d got off at 5 AM.
What is the best way to describe it?
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Asked on March 15, 2021 in Grammar.
Something can be so X as to VERB + COMPLEMENT
Here are some example uses:
Tea can be so hot as to be undrinkable.
As children, brothers can look so much alike as to be mistaken for each other.
so + QUALITY means “possessing quality to such a degree”. The pattern is often complemented by a clause that expresses the result or implications of having the said quality to such a degree. How could I enhance VERB + as to?
The days were so torrid as to present a real risk of heat-stroke.
The days were so hot, that we could never play tennis after breakfast.
Isn’t he prepared for being drafted by the NBA first round?
Is Zaha so dangerous with his jab that he gives up his all-around MMA fight?
If I did happen to be in the train for a week, it would be an unreliable way to get to work at 10 AM. I wish I’d got off at 5 AM.
What is the best way to describe it?
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Asked on March 15, 2021 in Grammar.
I’m not ticklish. idiomatic way to say I am not ticklish… the real tickle?
Words ending with ‘ish’ (e.g., “you see”) can be found in any dictionary. They are more likely to be read as “I don’t know how to do it”. What is skittish, bookish, snobby, boorish, and roguish?
express a tendency to have, to some degree, the trait found in the word’s stem; as tendencies, these words don’t have antonyms.
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Asked on March 14, 2021 in Meaning.
What are your thoughts on “almost completely”. Do you miss your point?
Looking at an imaginary conversation, consider this.
Detective: So, you come in the service entry door, turned on the kitchen lights, and saw the chef lay face down on the floor with a knife in his back.
Suspect: Pretty much.There, “etty much” means “That’s the gist of it” or “There is nothing important to be added” to that account. What would just as easily be added to the list of things in your opinion?
The Murder Mystery is all I read. What do I mean by that word? As a travel writer, it’s easy to browse around the world and buy books that will satisfy everyone’s curiosity, but in the overall scheme of things, murder mysteries are the speaker’s regular fare and those other genres occur so rarely that they’re
not worth mentioning.
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Asked on March 14, 2021 in Meaning.
Is it true that someone is “a party-pooper”? I call someone “hard to take”. This appears to be a “one over” of that idiom, calling the person an entire box of
pills.
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Asked on March 13, 2021 in Word choice.
The phrase Meets, surpasses is a very common one. If 5 is the minimum acceptable value, and you refer to 5 as the threshold, you can say that only values that meet or exceed the threshold are acceptable….” “When
we say we are at the present we have gone to the past.”
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Asked on March 13, 2021 in Grammar.
Which assistant vice president was hired from a
university? Sons father is CEO. The rest are not.
What is it like to be in a conversation with DMC about my new project?
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Asked on March 13, 2021 in Grammar.
Which assistant vice president was hired from a
university? Sons father is CEO. The rest are not.
What is it like to be in a conversation with DMC about my new project?
- 949157 views
- 4 answers
- 353677 votes