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Asked on December 24, 2021 in Word choice.
The second one is correct.
What is your doubts may come from another rule, that following the auxiliary did or did not, the form use to should be used. If you or any other reader want to ask someone if they were hitmen, you would
say “Have you never been hitman”?
Was I a hitman or
what?
I used to be hitman.
I wouldn’t like to call it the “many” thing I do. If it was true, I was.
What are the arguments about a “noo”?
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Asked on December 24, 2021 in Word choice.
The second one is correct.
What is your doubts may come from another rule, that following the auxiliary did or did not, the form use to should be used. If you or any other reader want to ask someone if they were hitmen, you would
say “Have you never been hitman”?
Was I a hitman or
what?
I used to be hitman.
I wouldn’t like to call it the “many” thing I do. If it was true, I was.
What are the arguments about a “noo”?
- 263252 views
- 22 answers
- 97001 votes
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Asked on December 24, 2021 in Word choice.
The second one is correct.
What is your doubts may come from another rule, that following the auxiliary did or did not, the form use to should be used. If you or any other reader want to ask someone if they were hitmen, you would
say “Have you never been hitman”?
Was I a hitman or
what?
I used to be hitman.
I wouldn’t like to call it the “many” thing I do. If it was true, I was.
What are the arguments about a “noo”?
- 263252 views
- 22 answers
- 97001 votes
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Asked on December 23, 2021 in Word choice.
The second one is correct.
What is your doubts may come from another rule, that following the auxiliary did or did not, the form use to should be used. If you or any other reader want to ask someone if they were hitmen, you would
say “Have you never been hitman”?
Was I a hitman or
what?
I used to be hitman.
I wouldn’t like to call it the “many” thing I do. If it was true, I was.
What are the arguments about a “noo”?
- 263252 views
- 22 answers
- 97001 votes
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Asked on December 23, 2021 in Word choice.
The second one is correct.
What is your doubts may come from another rule, that following the auxiliary did or did not, the form use to should be used. If you or any other reader want to ask someone if they were hitmen, you would
say “Have you never been hitman”?
Was I a hitman or
what?
I used to be hitman.
I wouldn’t like to call it the “many” thing I do. If it was true, I was.
What are the arguments about a “noo”?
- 263252 views
- 22 answers
- 97001 votes
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Asked on March 28, 2021 in Word choice.
I felt stressful. I guess the preposition introduces a person who feels stressy and what
is his or her reaction to it, regardless of the verb length.
When it comes to work, it is very stressful.
I am quite stressed to do my job.
I cannot even define my stress.
NGrams shows that to is also used but for is the preferred preposition. And it also shows that stress was popularised in the late 20th century.
Why are so many people upset?
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Asked on March 17, 2021 in American english.
Why we British people have discarded a million million billion dollar idea? How do we calculate the American billion and the American trillion?
In American English, a billion used to be equivalent to a million million (i.e. a million equals a million). In American English, it has always been equivalent to 1,000,000,000. British English has adopted the American figure, though, so that a billion equals a thousand million in both varieties of English.
The same kind of transformation has taken place with the meaning of trillions. In British English, a trillion used to mean a million million million (i.e. 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000). They are available in the form of thousands and thousands of different sources around the world. Today, it’s generally held to be equivalent to 1 million million (1,000,000,000,000,000,000) as it is in American English.
http://oxforddictionaries.org.au. How
many billion dollars are there in the world?
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Asked on March 17, 2021 in American english.
Why we British people have discarded a million million billion dollar idea? How do we calculate the American billion and the American trillion?
In American English, a billion used to be equivalent to a million million (i.e. a million equals a million). In American English, it has always been equivalent to 1,000,000,000. British English has adopted the American figure, though, so that a billion equals a thousand million in both varieties of English.
The same kind of transformation has taken place with the meaning of trillions. In British English, a trillion used to mean a million million million (i.e. 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000). They are available in the form of thousands and thousands of different sources around the world. Today, it’s generally held to be equivalent to 1 million million (1,000,000,000,000,000,000) as it is in American English.
http://oxforddictionaries.org.au. How
many billion dollars are there in the world?
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Asked on February 27, 2021 in Other.
As you were said in the previous answer to one of your questions, this is called Mid-Atlantic English and was common in American films of the 1930s and 40s. Where did these items come from? How did they relate?
Wikipedia gives the following reasons for someone using the accent: Intentionally
- practiced for stage or other use (as with many Hollywood actors of the past). U.S.: A version of this accent is taught in acting schools as American Theater Standard. Edith Skinner, head coach, writes the book.
- Conceived naturally by spending extended time in various Anglophone communities outside one’s native environment, most commonly in North America and the United Kingdom.
- How was the transition of elementary education for the boarding school in America before 1960s?
Originally, this type of speech would have been natural. But in essence, it would have been common in the case of ex-pats. And consequently, if all non-pats were born in English settlers would have no problems.
I’ve studied voice coach in
the Mid-Atlantic
and I’ve heard Katherine Hepburn and I’m worried I’m trying to mimic her, but I can’t breathe.”? Did you like her voice?After moving
to the United States, he managed to lose his accent, developing a clipped mid-Atlantic speaking style unique to his own personality.Claude Rains
I have “a very serious cockney accent and a speech impediment”.. Mr. Brown had elocution lessons in England and then moved to America where he played British, American and Europeancharacters.
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