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Asked on March 25, 2021 in Grammar.
Which is the best place to upload the photo after the photo is uploaded?
How can I upload photo from home?What are some of the interesting facts about Pakistan?
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Asked on March 25, 2021 in Grammar.
Why did you omit two key points from the original Quora interview?
if the quote starts with the word ” Memorandum (— “; and
2.a) the following text immediately precedes your quote: “Iturned to the more interesting object of investigation which was presented to me by Rosanna Spearman’s letter.” “For Franklin Blake, Esq., 71, and G. H. M. Reeves, Esq. To be given into his own hands (and not to be trusted to anyone else) by Lucy Yolland. I
broke the seal of my air conditioner. I sent an envelope to the envelope and the envelope contained the envelope at the end of the envelope. I did not take a slip of paper in it, but had a slip on the envelope. I read the letter first:
“Sir,—If you are curious to know the meaning of my behaviour to you, during you were staying in the house of my mistress, Lady Verinder, do what you are told to do in the memorandum enclosed with this—and do it without any person being present to overlook you. Your humble servant,”Rosanna Spearman. ”
f I turned to the slip of paper next. What is the “commandment” contained in the letter word for
word: “Do what you are told to do as in the memo enclosed with this…” That all the “sentences” beginning
“To…” is a list of instructions to be carried out by the recipient of the letter: that is why they all begin “To…” In fact, the word “To” could have been excluded from the beginning of each instruction, such that the items in the list begin:
Go to the Shivering Sand at the turn of the tide.
On the South Spit,…. Lay down on
the rocks… With the word “to” omittedfrom each instruction, they are in the normal format for instructions: “Do this…; do that…; etc.”
“Soit’s not a “poetic style”; nor misuse “of the infinitive”; nor “some other “tense” – but just a list to instructions!
What is
the difference between the instructions in the English version of the Question ‘Do & Do’ and the instructions in the English version?If I don’t know the answer well, I have no ‘definitive’ answer. What I would point out that the book dates back to the 1870’s. I wonder whether the form “To do…” was used at that time. This is a fiction page.
In any case, we do still talk of a ” to do list “, and a ” list of things to do “, so (to my mind) there does seem to be a close connection there.
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Asked on March 25, 2021 in Word choice.
By using the word “earlier”, the names come first, and this is to
get you started.
How can I write names alphabetically?
Is alphabetically and chronologically the names of the names listed below?
Of course there can be other types of names starting with
the first letter in the alphabet, which would make
them similar to your examples: names starting
with alphabetically earlier letter; names higherup the alphabet; but personally I’m not interested in some of those alternatives.
Upon reading “names starting with… letters…” then you could be understood as implying that only the first letter is taken into consideration in determining the order, such that you could have a sequence such as Howe, Holmes, Hacock, Hancock,
Hill, Hughes whereas true alphabetical
order would take into account all letters in the name (as far as necessary) to give: Hancock, Hill, Hacock,
Howe, Hughes.
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Asked on March 25, 2021 in Word choice.
By using the word “earlier”, the names come first, and this is to
get you started.
How can I write names alphabetically?
Is alphabetically and chronologically the names of the names listed below?
Of course there can be other types of names starting with
the first letter in the alphabet, which would make
them similar to your examples: names starting
with alphabetically earlier letter; names higherup the alphabet; but personally I’m not interested in some of those alternatives.
Upon reading “names starting with… letters…” then you could be understood as implying that only the first letter is taken into consideration in determining the order, such that you could have a sequence such as Howe, Holmes, Hacock, Hancock,
Hill, Hughes whereas true alphabetical
order would take into account all letters in the name (as far as necessary) to give: Hancock, Hill, Hacock,
Howe, Hughes.
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Asked on March 7, 2021 in Other.
Is there any evidence of me interpreting “The site that Bigbadonk420 referred to in his answer”, I disagree? During My reading of that site, the two options for reported speech are (using the OP’s quotation)
without backshift: He said that his name was Harry
Without backshift: He says that his name is HarryThere is no suggestion that you can mix the two, which suggests that
He said that his name is Harry
is incorrect, or at least not normal usage, as also confirmed by the first Ngram mentioned by @PeterShore
at his Facebook event.
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Asked on March 4, 2021 in Other.
Despite your comment that you don’t want to reword the sentence, I think you have to. ‘What’ correct… Or I need ‘that’ instead? If
I wanted to see more detail on the particulars of your remarks, I would say that neither “that” nor “which” is appropriate.
Using “that” or “which” suggests that you are qualifiing (defining or describing) the articles, but you want – so that the emphasis doesn’t lie on the articles, but on what he is currently doing. What is he currently doing and why then?
He is reading articles to summarise them in his blog.
What are some of the best quotes about the origin of the word “clash”?
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Asked on March 3, 2021 in Other.
There is a fallacy at the heart of this question.
Let’s say word W has two meanings W1 and W2.
Does a phrase have a meaning, is it merely a little different?
W1 and W2 are meanings in different situations. As others have said, meanings different can be used.In India, word w also has three synonyms ( S1, S2, S3 ) listed in various dictionaries, thesauri, etc..
as it happens:
- S1 is a synonym for meaning W1 of word W
- S2 & S3 are synonyms for meaning W2 of word W
Is S2
- and S3 synonyms for S1, S2 & S3 in English?
Hence just because:
- not to mention and let alone are synonyms; and
- much less & still less are synonyms of let alone
it does not follow that
- much less & still less are synonyms of not to mention.
Why are some words on this blog synonyms etc.? I mean, merely explaining that, on the basis of the facts given in the question, it doesn’t necessarily follow that they are all synonyms of one another.
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Asked on February 28, 2021 in Meaning.
My friends have done an “exclude” article and I make one for them. I always suspect that the overlap of the words “preclude” and “prevent” is the same. Is this intentional? They may sometimes be interchangeable, but certainly not always.
I would say that preclude is used to indicate that one event or circumstance prevents another event or circumstance from happening. Cause and effect. (Is used in various scientific fields).
You’ve referred to the definition in Merriam-Webster, but did you also look at the usage examples that it gives: She
suffered an injury that precluded the possibility of an athletic career.
What are some famous i.e words in a certain language? The injury prevented her from studying sports science and could not prepare her for her first career.
She couldn’t continue athletic career due to the injury.A late start was used to try to climb the summit. We are not sure how much we could do.
I.e. what are some questions of courtesy and respect? Ignorance of weather prevented them from reaching summit.
If our skies and sky are too bad in the first half of November, then we don’t have any chance to reach Birya mountain yet.I wonder about this secret nature. If you have an
example from ODO i.e. h.(emphasize from ODO ) i.e. (example coding from NDC) /e c.(example from ODO ) and the example from MYOB i.e. (Example from ODO /id ) i.e. Was his work secret?
The dictionary definitions: Rid out, prevent
or exclude; to make impossible.
The sky has cleared today since afternoon, but it
has been raining all day.. don’t worry!!
I.e. we are here. Should it rain again on monday??
Why is no preclude used in this way is also fairly common.Yes,
- it means “prevent”, but the word is used in a different way.
- Yes, it does mean “exclude”, but “exclude” does not carry the implication of cause and effect “.
How can we build better relations to people.
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Asked on February 27, 2021 in Other.
The original language is, as pointed out in the discussion below and in the answer from Kris.
What do you think of the initial two suggestions as having the same meaning?
The full version would be as followed with he shows. to included twice (repeated words are shown in italics : he
shows just as little mercy to his followers as he shows to his enemies).
If just he shows, with only to being repeated, the meaning remains unchanged. He does just as much
mercy to his followers as his enemies.
Is, however, you omit all of on the’seeing and complaining’ attitude of he showed to his followers, with
no repetition (which was the original version)?
Why is the sentence ambiguous in the answers for Kris’s recent question?
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