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Asked on December 24, 2021 in Synonyms.
tease’ means teasing any person. The verb means to tantalize by arousing curiosity often without
intending to satisfy it.
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Asked on March 29, 2021 in Word choice.
How strong must one characterize a passion for education? To say your passion “stems from” an incident produces a image of your interest growing in your passion like a plant from seed. To be saying that it was fire implies that your passion is like a fire, and this is a much more dramatic and intense
characterization.
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Asked on March 25, 2021 in Grammar.
Where you sit? is definitely not the standard in American English, at least not in terms of office location or cubicle location.
What happens when you correct ScottM? Can I imagine someone looking at me and asking, “So, where do you sit?”? ” (slight emphasis on “you”), and you could respond, “Over there”. How can you find a place or company that is supposedly doing the same job as you, but no luck? What is
the Miles law and how does the
law effect him? ”
hjspllc. In
this context, the expression is used to indicate the fact that various organisations have different perspectives and priorities, and “where you sit” describes the organization you belong to.
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Asked on March 23, 2021 in Word choice.
What would a fairly close approximation to your request be: responsibility (I need to understand people’s responsibilities within the company), or job functions (I need to understand the job functions of people within the company)?
What might be a more compact version
would be ‘ I need to comprehend the company organization’.
What are some interesting points of view on “Geography of the Nations”?
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Asked on March 19, 2021 in Meaning.
If I rewrite my sentence and try to make it correct for my grammar errors, the sentences should be correct. “Cast off” is either “cast-off” or “castoff”. Each is an adjective meaning “discarded”, although “castoff”, particularly the plural “castoffs” is also a noun meaning a discarded item or items. The noun means only the cheapest discarded item or items. Do you think cast-off is more common than castoff? Content
= castoff%2C+cast-off&year_start=1800year_end=2000corpus=15smoothing=3&directurl=t1%3B%2Ccastoff%3B%2Cc0%3B.t1%3B%2Ccast%20-%20off%3B%2Cx0 The phrase “cast off” is a verb phrase, which can mean either to discard or to throw overboard (specifically applied to ship
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Asked on March 19, 2021 in Meaning.
How do I use “shall” versus “will” in my first post? Isn’t it complicated? I shall/you will used to be the standard construction for the future tense of to be, while I will/you shall was used for express determination or certainty. Both constructions have changed since Austen’s time, at least for common usage, especially in American English, where must has pretty much dropped out of use. Even a 50 year old “I shall” was the recommended future tense for high school grammar books and of all I know still is. Where the usage has been blurred, in part because of the difficulty in distinguishing prediction from intent. What’s the difference between ‘I really intend to be there in 5 minutes’ and ‘My arrival will occur within 5 minutes’? I shall have been falling into disuse since the 60s, as shown in https://book.google.com/ngrams/graph? Content=I+shall%2CI+will&year_start=1800&year_end=2000&corpus=15&smoothing=3&share=&direct_url=t%3B%2CI%20shall%3B%2Cc0%3B.t1%3B%2CI%20will%3B%2Cc0, although that as evidenced by the long slow decline since 1800.
Was Lydia really saying the Kitty to bear a message? “For one little thing (is the usual Austen use) I’d be in your debt if I ask a girl to go and say that, “would you tell her so” to “you
tell her so”)).
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Asked on March 18, 2021 in Meaning.
How do I use “shall” versus “will” in my first post? Isn’t it complicated? I shall/you will used to be the standard construction for the future tense of to be, while I will/you shall was used for express determination or certainty. Both constructions have changed since Austen’s time, at least for common usage, especially in American English, where must has pretty much dropped out of use. Even a 50 year old “I shall” was the recommended future tense for high school grammar books and of all I know still is. Where the usage has been blurred, in part because of the difficulty in distinguishing prediction from intent. What’s the difference between ‘I really intend to be there in 5 minutes’ and ‘My arrival will occur within 5 minutes’? I shall have been falling into disuse since the 60s, as shown in https://book.google.com/ngrams/graph? Content=I+shall%2CI+will&year_start=1800&year_end=2000&corpus=15&smoothing=3&share=&direct_url=t%3B%2CI%20shall%3B%2Cc0%3B.t1%3B%2CI%20will%3B%2Cc0, although that as evidenced by the long slow decline since 1800.
Was Lydia really saying the Kitty to bear a message? “For one little thing (is the usual Austen use) I’d be in your debt if I ask a girl to go and say that, “would you tell her so” to “you
tell her so”)).
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Asked on March 13, 2021 in Single word requests.
Is Uncorrected a safe choice which would go back at least a thousand years?
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Asked on March 13, 2021 in Single word requests.
Is Uncorrected a safe choice which would go back at least a thousand years?
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Asked on March 9, 2021 in Single word requests.
Which word do you like best? Just drop the final “encouragement”. If a stronger statement is desired, substitute “overwhelming” instead of
excessive.
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