texts: What is the meaning of venue in this context?

texts:
This logical
  convergence of technology has triggered an explosion of
  demand for virtual, searchable, content-rich data types of
  not just text and tables, but images and sounds, and companies are working to develop advanced search routines to
  supply this demand. The audience for these data includes
  consumers, businesses and government organizations with the venue for interaction a virtual online data super-store.

The last sentence sounds vague to me, if not grammatically incorrect, especially the meaning of venue.


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American scientist

  The question of how one overcomes these sorts of divisions, which affect who gets to speak for what, is a serious challenge in representative democracy.

I wanna comprehend the meaning of  “for what”

Is it an anaphoric word that being used instead of saying the name of a particular person?

Could we paraphrase it this way
“Who gets to speak for someone”?


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I bought two new movie tickets from eBay, which are for my son's birthday.

I bought two new movie tickets from eBay, which is a nice website for buying and selling personal things.

In the first sentence, "which" represents "two movie tickets"
In the second one, "which" represents "eBay websites"

Which "which" is correct usage?


texts: What is the meaning of the numbers in this case?

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I came across phrases like this:

I haven't read it, but a lot of 130s students love it.
Most of my exposure to this book comes from tutoring and grading for 161
which are just a little hard to swallow for an average 257 student

Are these numbers some sort of American class system or what is the meaning of them?
EDIT: I found this here. I am not familiar with the US education system, sorry I can’t bring more information. I am confused by this number system.


texts: Looking forward to going {to go} on holiday?

texts:
I found this question in an online test.

  We're really looking forward to going on holiday.  (Right answer)

or

  We're really looking forward to go on holiday.    (Wrong answer)

I do not understand why the first one is the right answer.


texts: Up the pole an' 'alf-way round the flag?

texts:
"What do you think o' that one?" asked the inspector of the sergeant when Pender had stumbled out of the station.

  "Up the pole an' 'alf-way round the flag, if you ask me," replied his subordinate. "Got one o' them ideez fix what they talk about."

  "H'm!" replied the inspector. "Well, we've got his name and address. Better make a note of 'em. He might turn up again. Poisoning people so as they die in their baths, eh? That's a pretty good 'un. Wonderful how these barmy ones thinks it all out, isn't it?"

I can't figure out the above bold part of the sentence, which is from "The Man Who Knew How" by Dorothy L. Sayers.

Sounds like the policemen regarded the guy (protagonist in the story) as a gaga.

But I am not sure about the exact meaning of 'up the pole and half way round the flag' and 'got one of them ideez fix what they talk about'.


texts: How to use "more" as adjective and adverb

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Where should I use more as adjective (comparative) and adverb?

  Sometimes, it seems like Mary does things only to make it more inconvenient for her husband to have a good time when he’s out with his friends.

In the above sentence, the bold word "more" is used as adverb (I think). So in which case should I use more as adjective (comparative)


texts: "That be me" in the movie The Hateful Eight

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I watched Tarantino's The Hateful Eight and heard the following dialogue between Major Marquis Warren and John Ruth:

  I know you too.
  We shared a steak dinner once upon a time in Chattanooga.
  You John Ruth, the hangman.
  That be me

So for me, John Ruth phrase sounds pretty strange like there is a skipped word like will or would. Is there really a skipped word? If yes why is it skipped? Maybe it's common for dialects?

What is a difference from just "Yes it's me"? I suppose the meaning is the same, but nuances are different. Did John Ruth wish to sound kind of peculiar saying this, or maybe it's just a common way of saying that in the context of the movie?


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Why is unfounded correct? Shouldn't it be just unfound? Why is there -ed added? Is it changing meaning?

In my understanding, I would use unfound to express something was not possible to find in past (or just now). But as found is past version of find I don't see reason why to add -ed.


texts: The afternoon had been utterly still and airless, with a sultry brooding in its silence. --"sultry brooding"?

texts:
I have been reading a story by C.A. Smith, and I am not sure how the following can be understood:

The afternoon had been utterly still and airless, with a sultry
brooding in its silence.

For the context: A lone tramp is roaming the land. A few sentences earlier he was thínking of his wife and children, whom he had left.
Does it mean that the weather was inviting or enticing the person to think (brood)?


texts: what is the meaning of "squat spitting"?

texts:
He grumbles a little about his possible eminence; the cardinal loves
  his country, its May garlands, its tender birdsong. In his nightmares
  he sees squat spitting Italians, a forest of nooses, a corpse-strewn
  plain.

  — Wolf Hall by Hilary Mante

What is the meaning of "squat spitting"?


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I've never seen "Add-in salt to injury" but I know "Add insult to injury" exists. I had a grammar exercise that asked for the most suitable idiom
 or proverb for expressing:

  To make something bad become worse

So I wrote "Add insult to injury". But the scheme says the correct answer is "Add-in salt to injury". So, which one is correct?

I've googled for "Add-in salt to injury" but the only result was the "add insult" version.


texts: Modal and tenses: if only+before, would have+by now

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Let's say you have regretted that you didn't read books before, as a result you have a very minimal understanding about life at your present state. And you say:

  If only I had read many books before, I would have learned more about life by now

*a regret in the past that has a result in the present.

Is this a correct usage of modal verbs?


texts: information of case studies vs. information about case studies

texts:
I have read this link but still I have a problem. Which preposition is correct?

  information of case studies

  information about case studies


texts: Is "eventually" possible to use in that case

texts:
Could you let me know if the lp has been sent, I sent many emails then eventually I made a paypal claim . None of my emails have been replyed.

This sentence means that I stopped sending messages once the claim was done, but if I had kept sending emails after the claim, should I have written that ?

  Could you let me know if the lp has been sent, I have sent many emails but none of them has been replyed and eventually I made a paypal claim.

I think eventually is not possible here  because it would mean that the paypal claim was the last thing I had done which was not true because I kept sending emails after the claim.


texts: How to ask: Named group from where they are in the world?

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How to ask the question in right grammar:

<Group A> is from where in the world?
or
From which country <Group A> in the world?
or
<Group A> is from?

I need it as I writing a quite


texts: A question about using "not only .... but also"

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I was exercising on inversion in English. It came to my mind to write a sentence using the "not only, .... but also" pattern. I wrote:

  I believe not only does it work perfectly, but also it outperforms the previous devices.

After this I thought something is wrong with this sentence and I started to search about similar topics. I found this discussion on the Cambridge Dictionary website:

  To add emphasis, we can use not only at the beginning of a clause. When we do this, we invert the subject and the verb:

  Not only did she forget my birthday, but she also didn’t even apologise for forgetting it

My questions:

Is my sentence  grammatically and idiomatically acceptable?
Should I put the pronoun between but and also as what we can see in Cambridge's example?


texts: What are the differences between 'proof' and 'prove'?

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I've been wondering for a long time when I should use proof and when prove. They seem so awfully similar and I can't get hands on any good examples that would show the key differences. I know both of the words have to do with confirming or considering as truth of some sort.

What are the key differences between 'proof' and 'prove'? Examples would be much appreciated.


texts: Could you show me a synonym for "let alone"?

texts:
The baby cannot even yet sit up, let alone walk.

Would you please show me a synonym for the bold part?

Cheers,
Nima


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Is "known" a correct word choice in the following?

  It has long been known that Fruit A contains an enormous amount of vitamin C. However, recent research has disproved this conventional wisdom.

By describing something as "known," the speaker is committed to its truth. By saying it has been "disproved," the speaker is committed to its non-truth. To acknowledge something is a truth and has been disproved is a gross incompatibility in the speaker's belief, isn't it?

I'd appreciate your help.


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My brother was sweeping the house the other day, and I asked him:

  Have you already swept the place under the bed?

As a learner I didn't find any other alternative to talk about the place / space under the bed.

How would native speakers say this?


texts: "buying stocks in large quantities" or "buying stocks in large quantity"?

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What do we say if we buy 400 shares in IBM.

Do we say "I bought stocks in large quantities" or "I bought stocks in large quantity"?

ex:

  I bought stocks in large quantities, 400 from IBM to be more specific.

Also, why do I hear "buy a stock" instead of "buying stocks". Do they really mean buy 1 share of a company or buy several shares of a company? Because why would you buy only 1 share of one company in a single transaction when the transaction fee can be more than 10% of the share?


texts: have experience doing sth and it's up to you what we learn - how much incorrect?

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My friend and I kind of disagree on the nature of 2 errors in a sentence.

The sentence + the context:

My friend read an advert from an English teacher who wrote (I'm only quoting the relevant sentence):
'I'm most experienced teaching conversation, but it's of course up to you what we learn.'

Now, he's adamant that this sentence is incorrect and that it contains 2 basic errors and that it should have been:

I'm most experienced IN teaching conversation, but it's of course up to you what we'LL learn.

In essence, I agree with him in the sense that I also would have said 'experienced in' and 'it's up to you what we'll learn'. However, I'm of the opinion that I wouldn't really be shocked if I heard it from someone. It does sound a bit clumsy but I don't consider those 2 errors to be  unforgivable. To me, they seem as something a person could write when not paying attention or not taking enough time to properly put their sentence together. He keeps arguing that this is something a native would never write while I keep saying that it's not super natural but I wouldn't be surprised to hear 'I have experience teaching' and 'it's up to you what we learn'. Basically I think this error is not as tragic and unforgivable as he makes it out to be.

Do you consider this to be standard usage or would you consider it an error?


texts:
Chop the tomatoes and onions and saute them/it?

Should it be "them" or "it"? because I have heard that them is used only for people.


texts: How does the hyphen connect the meaning of these sentence parts?

texts:
I read this in Word by Word by Kory Stamper.

On that page, it says:

  It will become clear to you, in the space between heart beats, why you are having a hard time with this entry: it is because you realise now that you do not in fact actually speak English---that the words you are reading are in some low German dialect and you are no longer certain that they mean anything.

The book is an account of dictionary writing by a lexicographer, which might clarify the meaning of "entry".

But I want to ask: does it mean that you are so obsessed with writing an entry that you forget the language you speak? And most important of all, how does it relate to the sentence after hyphen?


texts: Difference between a "block" and a "building" in this situation

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Here is a brief description about my residence:

  There are around fifty apartment buildings in ABC Garden.
  Each building has thirty stories, and there are 10 flats in each story.
  One day, a stranger spoke to me telling that he was my new neighbour.
  He told me something like this,"...we live in the same block."

I am wondering if he was trying to tell me that we live in the same building but on different floors? Or A block is equivalent to a building in English language?


texts: How do English speakers pronounce "I've found"? Is it pronounced like /aiv faʊnd/ or /aif faʊnd/?


texts: What does "Pull oneself up by something" mean?

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Sometimes I've come across the "phrasal verb" "Pull oneself up by something" and I really don't understand the meaning. I researched, but I couldn't find  the meaning.

For example:

  Farm people are stoic folk, and are taught to “pull themselves up by their boot straps,” “get over it” and not talk about such issues.

And I made up this one:

  He pulled himself up by his radio.

Could you guys help me?


texts: "The place where I work." or "The place where I work in."?

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"The place where I work." or "The place where I work in." ?
Which is correct ?
Should I add "in" ?
I have problem with prepostions.


texts: Should I use "was" or "would" in the following sentence?

texts:
I had to find a place to keep my dead dog. I thought of the house, but then
  decided it was/would be too unsanitary."

What's the correct option? And why? (Or maybe both are correct but just mean different things?)


texts: What preposition to be used in "student ? [field of study]"?

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I want to introduce myself as a physics student, but I don't know which preposition is appropriate.
Which one is correct:

"Undergraduate/MSc Student in Physics"
"Undergraduate/MSc Student of Physics"
"Undergraduate/MSc Physics Student"


texts:
I saw this ad, which I feel like is not good English.

How does it sound to a native speaker? is it ok to say "many positions to fill" or is there another way to say it?


texts: What is the term for the electricity, floor tiles, etc in a house or office? Like when you can't move in yet because those things are still lacking

texts: What is the term for the electricity, floor tiles, etc in a house or office? Like, when you can't move in yet because those things are still lacking. Thanks.


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Hello I have this two vocabulary at english :

when we are way upstairs

when we are up

that for example at spanish is similar, look this traslate to spanish:

when is :cuando

and

 we are : nosotros estamos

 way upstairs is: camino a arriba(I am walking up)

and  up is : arriba at spanish

someone that speak english how language mother , can tell me what is more similar in a day daily in american (US)

I am very confused because for me this two vocabulary mean some similar , what is the more similar or common and American North?

I hope my question


texts: The reason for me 'going' there or 'to go' there - which is correct?

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Which one is grammatically correct?

  The reason for me going there is obvious

  The reason for me to go there is obvious.

My problem is not only with "reason+...." in particular.I'm also ambivalent as to  which formation I should use ,for example , take the word "motivation". The motivation for them to start this project ..or the motivation for them starting this project.


texts:
The swimsuit top featured a knotted front design while the bottoms were designed with a high-waisted fit. (source)

I thought it meant "a matching piece" but can't be sure because it appears to have some fashion-specific meaning.


texts: "This is not always used." vs. "This is not used very often."

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Are the above sentences interchangeable?

Do they have the same meaning or there is a little difference between them?

What is the most common way?


texts: "Baker House" or "Baker's House" for combined business and home

texts: I'm trying to say by this expression that I am baker and this is my home. This is the name of my business - cafe & bakery. And customers is like a guests in my home. Are this expression is correct? Or will be more correct Baker's House?


texts: Past Simple Passive vs Past Simple with 'follow'

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Here is an extract from my grammar practice book.

  A young man was walking through a supermarket. Suddenly he noticed that
  he (follow) by an old lady.

As far as I understand, in that situation we should use Past Simple for short and Past Continuous for long actions. The man from the example is being followed, thus we must use Passive Voice.

So, here we have

  A young man was walking through a supermarket. Suddenly he noticed that
  he was being followed by an old lady.

Is it correct?

I kindly ask you to clarify it because the key says was followed.

Thank you in advance:)


texts:
Are my sentences correct?
"Sometimes it is warm."
"It is sometimes warm."
"It is warm sometimes."


texts: What is the difference between stand silent and stand silently?

texts:
He was standing silently  behind the  curtain.
  He was standing silent behind the curtain.

What’s the difference between these two sentences?


texts: 'Chairs left outside' 'Apples brought to the market'. What type of construction are these sentences?

texts:
Chairs left outside get taken.

What type of (passive) construction is the sentence above?

And why is it preferred to the present passive construction 'Chairs that are left outside get taken'?


texts: Plural or Singular: "a return on investment" or "returns on investment"

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Often, they can’t precisely see what to do with the data to get a return on investment.
  Often they can’t precisely see what to do with the data to get returns on investment.

I have thought an investment could yield many returns, but the original text use singular form.

Another question, should we say "a return on the investment" or "a return on investment"

The full context:

  The threshold for companies to participate in an SDIL project is low. “If a company says it can provide the raw data and has a real scenario, their application will be decided within ten days,” he says. “Often they can’t precisely see what to do with the data to get a return on investment, but SDIL will make it clear whether there is a return on investment or not.”


texts: How often is "best of a bad bunch" used in the Anglosphere?

texts: I found this expression at the COBUILD Advanced Leraner's Dictionary which for the most part is a British English dictionary, and I wonder whether it is commonly used by English speakers all around the world as if it were a very common phrase in the Anglosphere.


texts: Word for "a legal order stripping a mentally incapacitated person of his right to control his assets"

texts:
If my father has shown signs of insanity, for example, I might file a lawsuit demanding that he be denied his right to control his property. This legal order annuls any purchase, sale or donation made by him on the grounds of his being unable to make wise financial decisions. What do you call such an order in English? And if I want to let my father know of my intention to take away his property control right, how can I properly say this in English? I'm thinking:

  Dad, I'm going to file a lawsuit against you to take away your control over your assets.


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While looking for gerund and infinitive tests, I have found an interesting question whose answer isn't as simple as I think. In the question presented in bold below, we're asked to write the appropriate form of the verb work in the blank: work, to work, working.

My sister decided to take a job in the summer _____ in the local cinema to earn some extra money.

I can't see any reason why "to work" cannot go in that place, however, it has the gerund form of the verb as the answer.
Would you mind helping that why  the infinitive doesn't seem OK there?


texts:
She want a divorce (indefinite article with countable noun)
The idea of divorce (no article in front of countable noun)

Why?

She is still in school (no article)
Why not in front of countable noun?
She is going to school (no article)
She is going to a school (is it correct?)


texts: What do you call a set of protruding bars, some mobile, some not, which are used to carry a load and manipulate it?

texts:
I loaded a huge chainsaw on my * and off of it.

I am not sure if there are words for such a thing. I am thinking of a set of bars that can be used to hold heavy objects with mobile bars like arms that are used to manipulate the heavy objects in order to drop or load these objects off and on the set of immobile bars.


texts:
I was looking for the usage of "all", and came across this thread.
According to an answer in that thread, "all", when used with a plural noun, means "every". So, I was wondering if I could say,

"All the devices(=every device) are to be given a number."

Would it be misunderstood as those devices as a whole to be given only one number?

Thank you for any comment.


texts: There are a couple of movies I heard actors using Godspeed as a way to say goodbye. At least I interpreted it this way. I though never heard anyone use this expression in the UK, Ireland, Australia, U.S. or Canada. Is this really a common expression? Does Godspeed have anything to do with the speed of god? Originated from religion?


texts:
I did research. However, I could not make out the correct usage and meaning of 'way away':

  She lives a long way away.
  The pond was a little way away from him.


texts: My lawn which is/has overgrown needs weeding

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Is it correct to say :

  My lawn which  is overgrown needs weeding.

Or it's better to replace is with has ? We use present perfect to denote that the action which is still going on, in the above sentence the growth is still going on. So isn't it better to use has here ?


texts: What if I own a house or an apartment, but I still need to pay to the state every month for providing water and electricity to my house. Would they still refer to it as "rent" (Like "You need to pay the rent.") or should this be another word?


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Source: http://www.espncricinfo.com/india/content/story/993291.html

Please look at the following

An encounter with 87-year-old Deepak Shodhan, who played three Tests for India in 1952-53, but had the talent and the record to have played many more."

Is the usage of 'to have played many more' correct here? If yes then please tell what the difference is between the following two sentences in this context

but had the talent to play many more
but had the talent to have played many more

Thank you


texts: Should I use 'the' with the word 'forces' (in the military sense)?

texts:
Here are two examples from the Longman dictionary. I see no grammatical differences between them, and yet there are different articles. Why?

  He strengthened [nothing] US forces in the Gulf.

  a plan to disarm the rebel forces

(from here)


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I am confused as to when to use "a need" and "the need".

  I felt a/the need to take a shower.

With this sentence, we are assuming that there was no mention about the need to take shower before.

I do not think it is defined by first mentioned rule. I am assuming that it depends on the speaker.

If the speaker acknowledges that it is a definite need, that of taking a shower, then he will use "the".

If he feels no need to denote its definiteness and acknowledges that it is told for the first time, he will use "a".

Am I right?


texts: Words to describe the state of being in a marriage

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Just a brief question about marriage-related words in English.

You see, in Russian language we have two words to describe "state of being in marriage", one for man (женатый мужчина = married man), and different word for woman (замужняя женщина = married woman).

In English, so far as I know, there is no such variations. Am I right?

  In Russian we can make some jokes or give an extra meaning, based on using these two words, for example one can say "замужний мужчина", which may mean:

  man who married on strong, masculine, or feminist-like woman;
  man who spend too many time with one particular man (gay-related joke);
  real gay couple (gay marriage are prohibited in Russia, so we use in more "figurative" sense)
  and so on...

  Same is true for "женатая женщина".

So I am wondering, does English have a special word to describe:

  Man who married masculine (strong, independent) woman
  Woman who married feminine (weak, spineless)  man
  Man who married man
  Woman who married woman

I think we can use "lesbians couple" and "gay couple" words in third and forth cases, but they describe more "state of being the lovers", not "state of being in a marriage", are they?

Maybe some idioms exist?

Thanks.


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I was reading prefixes in essential words for Tofel
but in some words, I don't see the relation between the prefix and the created word meaning.
for example:

anterior made with the prefix ante means before and rior(which I don't know what is it)
anticipate made with the prefix anti means against and the cipate (which I searched it and it says it would mean to take)
biased made with the prefix bi means two and as(which I don't know the meaning )

and many other words.
in these examples, I don't see any relation between the prefix meaning and the created word meaning, so my question is: how does a prefix related to the meaning of the created word? is there something that I am missing?
in the other word


texts: How to understand in perpetuity of +noun phrase?

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For the sentence here:

  We intend this dedication to be an overt act of relinquishment in perpetuity of all present and future rights to this code under copyright law.

(from the copyright of sqlite)

If the sentence is simply as

  We intend this dedication to be an overt act of relinquishment.

I understand it .

How to understand in perpetuity of +noun phrase here?

in perpetuity of all present and future rights to this code under copyright law maybe a sub-clause?
Or
in perpetuity of all present and future rights to this code under copyright law is a attribute ，if  so ,which is modified by it?


texts: Is "We were going to meet tomorrow" correct?

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If we made plans yesterday to meet tonight, but we didn't meet, I think it's correct to say

  Weren't we going to meet tonight?

and

  We were going to meet tonight.

But if we made plans yesterday to meet tomorrow, is it correct to say

  Weren't we going to meet tomorrow?

or

  We were going to meet tomorrow

?


texts:
When I ran across the movie,
I found that I can't understand it.

what does "how much like them we are" mean?


texts:
I have run across such a sentence:

  Yesterday I was ill, so I went to the doctor's.

What is the function of possessive here, that is doctor's?


texts: What's the reason that I hear the L's snap or something?

texts:
. . . look . . . looked . . .  [audio source]

The first L sound is plainly pronounced by BBC presenter. Yet the second one is from an Irish professor, and it seems to a bit vibrate by his tongue’s tightly wiggly snap or something else. What’s the reason I hear like that; what I said before is the real reason?


texts: Meaning of the word "Stones" in a quote from Californication

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Here is a quote I heard on Californication.

  "Here it comes, she thought. Another self indulgent, whiskey soaked, diatribe about how fucking great everything was in the past. And how all us poor souls born too late to see the Stones at - wherever, or snort the good coke that they had at Studio 54 - well, we all just missed out on practically everything worth living for".

Somebody please help me with meaning of the word "Stones" in the quote?


texts: Should "person" be replaced with "a person" or "the person" in this sentence?

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In our European company we’re just working on our new identity cards and we need your help :-). There must be an important text on the ID cards, which says to everyone, that an employee (ID owner) is really from our company... The idea of the board of directors is:

  “This is to certify that person, whose signature and photograph appear hereon, is an employee of COMPANY-NAME.”

(Person’s name, photo and signature is placed above this text.)

Please – is that correct?

I’m in a doubt – may I use “person”, “a person” or “the person”?

Please help. We don’t want to look like a fools after creating hundreds of cards :-).


texts: What is the meaning of "the bigger risk is doing nothing"?

texts:
I was reading this article on Wired website which I think it quotes this sentence from Bill Ford:

  The bigger risk is doing nothing.

I wonder what does it mean?


texts: "You have to be on top of the game, really know/really knowing/and really know what are you doing"

texts:
What is differences between these sentences :
Sentence 1: you have to be on top of the game, really know what are you doing
Sentence 2: you have to be on top of the game, really knowing what are you doing
Sentence 3: you have to be on top of the game and really know what are you doing


texts:
Can both scaffold and scaffolding be used about the scaffold/scaffolding as a whole an not just the platforms? And the same with the platforms? I'm only interested in the American definition of it.
He climbed up the scaffold/scaffolding.
Afraid to fall down, the man lay flat on the scaffold/scaffolding, holding onto it with everything he'd got.


texts: What's the difference between "The process is no easy task" and "The process is not an easy task"?

texts:
When reading a passage in VOA English, I found a sentence:

  The process is no easy task.

It comes to me another sentence:

  The process is not an easy task.

What's the difference between them?


texts: what's the exactly noun form of "academic" which has the meanings like academic thesis or learning or research?

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What's the exactly noun form of "academic" which has the meanings like academic thesis or learning or research ?
we know the academy means a college-like noun (organization), but can not for academic thesis.

such as,
beautiful(.adj) --- beauty(.n)

we can say a woman is beautiful, and she is a beauty.
when we say a research is academic(something with high value, high level useful), but we can not say the research is academy(there the mean prefers to an organization).
the academic(.adj)'s meaning, should corresponding to academy(.n), but the academy is mean organization related, is not the mean of learning or research related.


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“just so you know” (Urban Dictionary)

What does this mean? And what grammatical role does “so” have?


texts: 'Will' instead of 'Would' with a past tense sentence

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I've bumped into a YouTube clip (Here is the extracted text for the sake of convenience and context) that deals with the difference between 'Will' and 'Would'.

Among other examples, they have chosen to present these two sentences:

  A. We told people the doors of our English school will be open on
  January 2, 2019. (Minute 02:26)

  B. We already agreed this will happen! (Minute 03:11)

I can't help but wonder why they have chosen 'Will' over 'Would', as British council's website says that:

  We use would as the past tense of will: to talk about what people
  wanted to do or were willing to do in the past.


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I have a question related to the following sentence :

  "I have always been interested in electronics" .

What is the tense that used in this sentence?

Is it present perfect (have/has + PP), or is it present perfect continues (have/has been +verb + ing).


texts: According to some dictionaries I checked, we have to use a preposition or an adverb with the word "drip" if we use a liquid as the subject like in "The water dripped down the wall". On Collins dictionary though, it says we don't have to use a preposition or an adverb and the example sentence for it is, "Amid the trees the sea mist was dripping." So I wonder if it is only an idiom or if we can do this with other subjects than "mist" too. For example, let's say the water is dripping from a bottle someone is holding. Can we say, "Hey, the water is dripping!" to that person without using an adverb or a preposition; or do we have to use a preposition or an adverb with "drip" in the sentence like in "The water is dripping from the bottle"?


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How would you interpret this sentence?
"my persistence dragged me to solve it"


texts: In the case that adverbs don’t modify verbs

texts: For example, ‘I run happily.’ I notice that doesn’t mean running is happy, but I run, being happy. However why is it called ‘verb modifier’? Do I misunderstand adverbs?


texts: How Can I know if is "that is" "it is" "to be"?

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I do not know when to correctly use the expressions "to be" "that is" or "it is"

In Spanish, all that means "que sea"

For example:

1)

  I want you to be honest with me

  Quiero que seas honesto conmigo

2)

  I want a room that is big"

  Quiero una habitación que sea grande

3)

  I dont like it but I hope it is good for you

  No me gusta, pero espero que sea bueno para ti

How can I know when do I have to use "to be", "that is" or "it is"?


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In the following sentence:

  It contains privileged and confidential information which is not to be disclosed.

if I replace the bold part with "which should not be", how the meaning changes? Are these two phrases interchangeable?

Thanks


texts: "It was an admission that all might not be right between them." - that-clause as subject.. or not?

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“Here, snag my hand!” Alai called.

  Ender held out his hand. Alai took the shock of impact and helped Ender make a fairly gentle landing against the wall.

  “That’s good,” Ender said. “We ought to practice that kind of thing.”

  “That’s what I thought, only everybody’s turning to butter out there,” Alai said. “What happens if we get out there together? We should be able to shove each other in opposite directions.”

  “Yeah.”

  “OK?”

  It was an admission that all might not be right between them.

  (Source:  this ELL question)

What is the grammatical role of the that-clause here?

I first thought it's a noun clause serving as the subject of the sentence:

  That all might not be right between them | was | an admission.

But such reading strips the sentence of its original meaning.

And is this really a noun clause?


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why would is used instead of verb 2nd form mean past indefinite to talk about past? Look at the sentence

I would take sleeping pills.
I took sleeping pills.
Both sentence are looking accurate then what is  the difference?


texts: Why does he go "pink with the effort" while watching morris dancing?

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This is a follow-up question to my previous one, WHY did he go slightly “pink” ?? Does it mean angry, embarrassed, healthy or other meaning in this sentence?, as in that one I have established that "pink" in this context mean "embarrassed" other than "angry or healthy."

Then it leads to my second confusion, why is he embarrassed? I have checked the definition of morris dance on wikipedia, so far as I know it's a culture dancing, some cultural heritage. but why embarrassing? is there some culture gap I have missed??

Here is the sentence:

  We, in the meantime, had gradually been increasing Will’s outings—and
  the distance that he was prepared to travel. We had been to the
  theatre, down the road to see the morris dancers (Will kept a straight
  face at their bells and hankies, but he had gone slightly pink with
  the effort), driven one evening to an open-air concert at a nearby
  stately home (more his thing than mine), and once to the multiplex
  where, due to inadequate research on my part, we ended up watching a
  film about a girl with a terminal illness.

  Me Before You by Jojo Moyes

I searched the whole novel, and there are only two times "morris" are mentioned, the other is in a conversation in a horse racing watching:

  ‘Don’t be grumpy. They say you should try everything once,’ I said.

  ‘I think horse racing falls into the “except incest and morris
  dancing” category.’

  ‘You’re the one always telling me to widen my horizons. You’re loving
  it,’ I said. ‘And don’t pretend otherwise.’

  Me Before You by Jojo Moyes

The context is that Will is a quadriplegic in wheelchair and he rarely goes out, and he does not like go watching horse racing. "We" means Louisa, his carer.

Could anyone help with this question?


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"Do" or "Does" schools for the blind in Delhi equip enough assistive products for teaching?

Which one is correct to use either "do" or "does" in the above sentence


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I always stumble to understand the use of "ARE" as the start of the question.

is this the correct grammar as written below? :

  Are you required to hold a work permit in this country?
  Are there any water or is there any water?

Normally i would use the word "Do" instead of "are" but i notice more and more application used this phase and some in writing. How do the word "are", in term of grammar, used in such question like the one stated above? or is it even correct?

Thanks


texts: What is "Sock Puppet"? Does it mean "Sockpuppet"?

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I've seen the word Sock Puppet used here.

The page says to earn this hat: ask and answer your own question, each with a score of 1 or more.

Does this use of "Sock Puppet" actually mean "Sockpuppet"?


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Please tell me what "would" means in this sentence.

  In AmE, the phrase "go to hospital' would be not correct. One of the articles, a or the, would be necessary.


texts: Can I end my question with a preposition in this case?

texts:
May I say the following sentence, which ends with the preposition in (the same as happen as with from).

  What does Insulin play role in?


texts: Which is correct? “To be done business” or “to do business with”

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Could some help to clear my confusion as I am uncertain which sentence is grammatically correct:

  He is not the right person to be done business with.
  He is not right person to do business with.

Lastly, as far as I know "to be" is always followed by verb3rd form, but some one told me that in this case:

  ...to be doing business

is correct, but I highly doubt it.

Can some one give a link explaining this topic? I searched on Google but couldn't find to be + ing. It's mostly to be is followed by 3rd form.


texts: Is the phrase " in the direction" commonly used?

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I came across the sentence "The bird went off in the direction from which it had come.". I wonder if why "in" was used instead of "to".

Is "in" commonly used instead of "to" like I go in the U.S instead of I go to the U.S.


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The terms "pretty nice" and "nice" can perhaps not be compared in regards to nicety.

I find "pretty nice" to be a more informal way of relaying that something is rather awesome.

In one way the adverb (?) in this example also tune the somewhat ecstatic adjective down a bit. At the same time I notice the use of, for example, "pretty nice" when it looks like the person intend to say "very nice" – which in turn is not to tune down. Can one perhaps say that "pretty nice" in general means "very nice"? (Thus nicer the nice. :P)


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Is "a band which I'm a huge fan of" correct?
Or is "which" out of place there? I know I can simply say "a band I'm a huge fan of". I just don't know whether the version containing "which" is also correct. I guess not.


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I read an article about folate, on the link below;
http://www.globalhealingcenter.com/natural-health/folic-acid-foods/

When talking about Avocado the article cited, The most beloved vegetable of Mexican fare, the butter pear, or avocado, holds up to 90mcg of folate per cup, which accounts for appoximately 22% of your daily needs

full context: "The most beloved vegetable of Mexican fare, the butter pear, or avocado, holds up to 90mcg of folate per cup, which accounts for appoximately 22% of your daily needs. Not only are avocados one of the best foods with folic acid, but it’s also an excellent source of fatty acids, vitamin K and dietary fiber. Adding them to sandwiches or salads will make for an extra-healthy treat".

My Question: One cup is how much avocado?i mean, how do i know by looking into Avocado that it is one cup? because per one cup is mentioned so many times in the article.

by the way, i am not from U.S


texts: Confusion over "It does no" or "It does not"

texts: I've read a sentence which stated as " It does no good to get upset.." . Can this sentence be "It does not good to get upset"??


texts: I exactly will come\ I will exactly come

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I got a little stuck with "exactly" in the word order:

Don't doubt about me, I will exactly come to the party!

Where should I put it? Can it be:

Don't doubt about me, I exactly will come to the party! ?

Or even at the end:

Don't doubt about me, I will come to the party exactly! ?

To be on the safe side it's possible to use "shall":

Don't doubt about me, I shall come to the party!

I'd heard it wasn't used much anymore in the sense of some guarantee, high determination and so on but I got some comment that it was possible and possible with "I, we", too, not only with "you, he, she, it, they". Though it's a different thread.


texts: what's the difference between cautious and wary?

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Collins dictionary says:

  If you are wary of something or someone, you are cautious because you do not know much about them and you believe they may be dangerous or cause problems.

I found some examples in dictionaries.

  Brands need to be cautious about which environment they place
  themselves in.
  They were very wary about giving him a contract

What would be the difference between wary (of/about) and cautious (about)?


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Brief question:

  If I were a teacher, I would be planning a trip there twice a year.

Is it ok to use a gerund in the main clause? Is the usage correct?

Thanks in advance.


texts:
What is the difference between these sentences:

  The motor has started.
  The motor has been started.

  The Motor has been starting.

Thank you.


texts: What is the difference between "burned the lamp" and "burned of the lamp"?

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What is the difference between "burned the lamp" and "burned of the lamp" ?

Does "burned the lamp" mean "A fire burned the lamp, and the lamp burned out and disappeared" ?
Does "burned of the lamp" mean " Light came out of the lamp. In other words, the lamp was not on fire, so the lamp is still fine" ?

what's the difference between "burn something" and "burn of something"?


texts: What am I supposed to say when 6hours felt like 1 hour to me. Is it true if i say “it doesn’t felt so long”? I’m confused about felt or feel?


texts: What's the difference between "prime", "primary" and "primal"?

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From https://en.oxforddictionaries.com, I found they are very similar when used as adjective to describe importance:

  primal: Most important; primary or fundamental.

  primary: Of chief importance; principal.

  prime: Of first importance; main

Is there any differences?


texts: Which preposition follows the word 'ingredient'?

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MSG is an additive(in/from/to) many foods.

Sugar is an ingredient(in/from/to) most sodas

I choosed "to" as preposition for both sentences. Am I right? I have no clue how I should recognize the correct answer. For example I searched the word "ingredient" in OALD and it is the result:

We can see other preposition after "ingredient" in the examples.


texts: Make somebody laugh Vs crack somebody up

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Suppose someone makes you laugh so much that your stomach starts to hurt. In this case do the following sentences mean the same if you want to tell that person about what he has done:

  You made me laugh so much that my stomach hurts.
  You cracked me up so much that my stomach hurts.


texts: How to call a tiny house made of cardboard by a person who would otherwise be homeless?

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Some homeless people gather cardboard boxes to build a tiny volume where they can sleep with less wind than if just outside.

How to call such a "home"?

I see "homeless house" being used but it sounds a bit paradoxical.
A Google Images search for "street dwelling" shows images of small but brick-and-mortar houses, so I guess it is not the word I am looking for either.

I am writing a reference text, so I would prefer a term used by government agencies or NGOs, rather than slang.


texts: The confusion between "The" or "A" article

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I was reading about articles in Wren & Martin and found the following explanation:

1)Use the definite article when a singular noun is meant to express a whole class.

  The cow is a useful animal

[Or we can say, "cows" are useful animals]

2)Use the indefinite article in the sense of "any" to single out an individual as the     representative of a class; as,

  A cow is a useful animal.

Can you please explain me the difference between 1 and 2.

I also found a given below sentence in wren & martyn's exercise.

  __ lion is ___ king of beasts

As per above given explanation of definite and indefinite article, I am not sure which one should be correct: "The lion" or "A lion", or both are correct.

Could you please help me understand the difference better.


texts: What to reply when you hear someone dies

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Is it appropriate to reply on chat with RIP when you hear someone dies
I read up RIP = Rest in Peace
Also saw that it means something like in original language -
Requiesce cat in pace
Does it look decent to simply reply RIP. Especially when someone posts a message on a chat group I have seen several people replying RIP. Not sure if there is a good alternative to that..


texts: A seemingly difficult task at the beginning (while you've not started it yet)

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How do you call a simingly quite difficult task (not necessarily mental or physical one) which requires lots of efforts and looks too difficult "at the beginning"?

The term / expression / idiom which I'm looking for often is sarcastically said to someone who finds a task unpreformable and far away from their capabilities and the realm of their abilities which is normally used in order to undermine their belief about the situation!

The only founded expression based on my researches is daunting task! Please consider the following self-made example:

  A) Hey dude! What's up?
  B) Nothing! Just I'm fed up with all these  unnecesaary math subjects! Tomorrow, I'll have an exame and I've not even cracked the book open!
  A) No worries bro! That's not a daunting task. You'll pass it.

Now, I need to know:

  First) If this sentence works here.
  Second) If works, then whether it seems to be natural and idiomatic here.
  Third) Whether there are some other alternatives in common use for this concept.


texts: What is the abbreviation of A/D office in sec sic info?

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What is the abbreviation of A/D office in sec cid ifo?

There are so many A/Ds in http://www.abbreviations.com/AD.

so many A/Ds here

Maybe it is assistant director office?


texts: What's the meaning of 'cover the ground'?

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This is the line from a novel 'Baker's Blue-jay yarn' by Mark Twain.
I know the meaning of both 'cover' and 'ground', but have no idea 'cover the ground'.

  You may call a jay a bird. Well, so he is, in a measure - because he's got feather on him, and don't belong to church, perhaps, but otherwise he is just as much a human as you be. And I'll tell you for why. A jay's gifts, and instincts, and feelings, and interests, cover the whole ground.


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Should I use 'have' or 'has' for the following sentence?

  I hope you and your class has a great day.

  I hope you and your class have a great day.


texts: Preposition to use for challenge (in or of)

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I'm struggling with the choice of preposition to use for the following sentence.

  Amy enjoys the challenge of doing X,Y,Z to improve her run time.
  Amy enjoys the challenge in doing X,Y,Z  to improve her run time.

Are they both acceptable?


texts: What does "nor can I doubt but that" mean?

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The following excerpt comes from Mary Shelley's Frankenstein.

  Prepare to hear of occurrences which are usually deemed marvellous.
  Were we among the tamer scenes of nature I might fear to encounter
  your unbelief, perhaps your ridicule; but many things will appear
  possible in these wild and mysterious regions which would provoke the
  laughter of those unacquainted with the ever-varied powers of nature;
  nor can I doubt but that my tale conveys in its series internal evidence of the truth of the events of which it is composed.

Here, what does "nor can I doubt but that" mean? Does the speaker doubt that his tale conveys in its series internal evidence of the truth of the events of which it is composed, or does he not doubt it?


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Is below sentence correct? Or what is a better form for it?

"It is good news (that there is no problem) since I thought a problem has raised"

I am not sure about using the verb "has raised". Is it correct? Should I use "had raised" instead?


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Which of the following is a phrase fragment?

A) Since the weather forecast is beautiful this weekend.

B) Let's ask our parents if we can go tubing.

C) Did you just say that?

D) A great dog, that’s what we have!

I think the answer is A because there is no subject in A, correct?
Also is A classified as an adverbial clause?


texts: Let it happen, you'll cure it or forget it once

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When someone is dealing with a big difficulty, there is a proverb in my language which says: "die or cure". It means if there is a way to solve the problem then do it in any possible way, and if not forget about it and then don't worry about it anymore.
Example:

  Person B) What's wrong with you George?

  Person A) Nothing! Just Kate is going to come to my work and make me lose face. She is going to tell all the story to the boss. I asked her not to do that, but she didn't agree and threatened me to come today. I'm really worried what will happen when the boss hears these all.

  Person B) Don't worry man! Let it happen .......[the proverb].......

Is there any equivalent for this proverb in English?


texts: Is "Always err on the side of giving [...] information" obvious?

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I found a comment on one of the videos in the Khan Academy site, which is something along the lines of...

  Always err on the side of giving too much information.

(The subject was maths, and the poster's English seemed idiomatic enough.)

I'd parsed the above as:

  While writing an answer to a maths problem, you're stuck between the choice of giving or not giving some information. Your answer could be either "lacking" or "have unnecessary/more than required info" if you choose to go with any one option. Either way you could make a mistake. But it's always safer to go with the latter (option). At least you've included all the possible information you can. So it all boils down to this — if you've to err, err on the side of giving too much information.

To my non-native ear, it doesn't sound immediately obvious. It might even be ungrammatical, but that doesn't seem very likely.

Question:

  Is the sentence

  idiomatic
  obvious enough to native speakers
  grammatical

  ?


texts: Use of "would" to depict uncertain future

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Consider the following scenario:

A clinical trial that was initiated in Jan 2021 is currently recruiting participants.
The estimated enrollment of the trial is 50 participants.
It is not always sure that all the participants will be enrolled in a clinical trial – the study can decide to reduce the number of participants during the study.

In that case, if I have to report the trial information in a report, can I use “the trial would enroll 50 participants” to depict an uncertain future event? Moreover, will the use of “the trial is estimated to enroll 50 participants” depict a higher level of uncertainty than the former?
Given the option, which one would you prefer to depict a situation with all the uncertainties involved in a setting of technical report writing?


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I have encountered a phrase "think sth well" and I cannot seem to find any sources explaining the meaning:

The demon thought it well to conceal his consternation.

Does it mean to "think sth through"?


texts: What is flag-wagging (possible: flag wagging)?

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I found a word flag-wagging in a dictionary, but couldn't find any en-en definitions or references. What is it? It is used in modern English?

Is it, by any chance, a synonym for sabre-rattling?


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From NPR: The Beatles' Yearlong Journey To 'The Ed Sullivan Show'

Remember now, the Beatles' U.S. arrival is still more than a month away. With the buzz building, NBC's Jack Parr pulled a scoop on rival Ed Sullivan on January 3rd that almost derailed the Beatles express.

What's the meaning of "buzz building" and "pull a scoop on"?


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That sounds like a rounding endorsement. Thank you Peter. (from a BBC show)

I can't find a definition in major dictionaries related to this usage. "Rounding" seems to mean "resounding", "emphatic", rather than "concurring" (as in around the group/room), while all the dictionaries I have consulted tend to focus on the mathematical sense of "rounding". Google shows that a "rounding endorsement" is not common but does occur:

  Citing Perkins' extensive background in education as well as being a college professor, Senator Dodd offers a rounding endorsement while throwing out some red meat and taking a swipe at the Democratic nominee's challenger...and I think it's safe to assume that we know who the senator was talking about. (source)

  The party firmly endorsed Lorri Galloway for Mayor. Galloway, who has never lost a race for Anaheim city council, got a rounding endorsement from Party chair Henry Vandermeir and a round of applause from the assembled members. (source)

What does "rounding" mean exactly here? Any dictionary sources to back it up?


texts: A lot of experience or a lot of experiences?

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When I'm in a job review, and I want to say that I'm experienced in something, what is the correct form to say it? (Of course, except of "I am experienced" etc.)

  1) I have a lot of experiences

  2) I have a lot of experience


texts: "March to the beat of one's own drum" Positive or Negative

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In the view of the dictionary definition, the idiom "March to the beat of one's own drum, is more or less something negative which has a connotation of being inattentive, inconsiderate or reckless and even regarding someone who doesn't observe the societal norms.

  Example: Look, I respect the fact that you like to march to your own drum, but do you have to make a point of doing everything in a counter-cultural way?

But despite this definition, I have faced some occasions in which people tend to use this idiom in a positive way too.

Please kindly let me know about it.


texts: What could/can excite you the most right this very moment?

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What could excite you the most right this very moment?

  What can excite you the most right this very moment?

How the usage of "could" and "can" make the meaning of the sentence different?
How can and could should be used?


texts: When refer to where to put adverb, which one is more idiomatic, location or position?

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This post (The usage of "also": could someone please give an example to illustrate where is the location "after the verb to be when it is a full verb"?) is talking about some sentence structure.

location_1: between the subject and the predicate
location_2: after the modal verb
location_3: after the first auxiliary verb
location_4: after the verb to be when it is a full verb

When refer to where to put "also", which one is more idiomatic, location or position?


texts:
I have seen that you sent me some pictures.

I have seen that you have sent me some pictures.

I saw that you have sent me some pictures.

I saw that you sent me some pictures.


texts: "I did not complain and tell/told myself to calm down and try to solve this difficult problem."

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Which sentence is grammatically correct?

I did not complain and tell myself to calm down and try to solve this difficult problem.

Or:

I did not complain and told myself to calm down and try to solve this difficult problem.

Some notes:

I want to mean that I did not complain, and I did tell myself to calm down, instead of complaining and not telling myself to calm down.

I don't know whether I should use told or tell in this sentence. Since "complain" is present tense, I should be using "tell", right? But it sounds (to me) weird to be using tell. But if I use "complained" it seems wrong...?


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The title is pretty self-explanatory, but let me give some detail.
I'm a native English speaker from the USA. I know exactly what that statement means and how to use it. I heard my Pastor use it recently in a sermon, and it got me thinking how one would respond to the charge:

Person 1: "That happened, and you don't give a rip!"
Person 2: "Yes, I do!"

Ok, so that makes sense. But without the initial statement to which you can respond, how would you indicate the opposite of:

"I don't give a rip?"

Obviously, there's the straightforward:

"I do care"

But can one say this?

"I give a rip!"

I don't think I've ever heard that except as a direct response to not giving a rip.
Which brings me back to my question:

In this context, what's a rip and how does one give it, anyway?


texts: Why should we use "is" here instead of "are"?

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I was watching an Instagram video posted by Woody and Kleiny account https://www.instagram.com/p/BqxY4lflIKQ/ and here is a sequence of it:

A: Knock-Knock

B: Who is it?

A: It's the Police

B: What do you want?

A: We just want to talk.

B: How many of you are there?

A: There is two Sir.

B: Talk to each other then.

Question: Why it is right to say there is two, instead of there are two?

Update: I didn't recall it had subtitles. Know I am seeing that was there's.


texts: “Hopeful”, “Promising” and “Hope-giving”

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I need an adjective to imply that something is hope-giving.
I know two relevant words here, but I have no clue if they can be used interchangeably in this sense! That's why I decided to look for the nuance between the adjectives "hopeful" and "promising".
As you can see, dictionaries cannot help learners to distinguish between these two specific words. Please have a look on the following example and let me know whether there is any considerable nuance between them that I have to know.
Example:

The commercial future of the company looks very ......... .
Nearly all projects are just in the initial phase, but everything is going swimmingly.
a) hopeful
b) promising

To me, they both mean the same here.


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I encountered a phrase like this: we can Monte Carlo approximate it, and it is not uncomprehensible but I wonder if we can always use a noun as an adverb? Also refer to this sentence: The reason for log transforming your data is not to deal with skewness or to get closer to a normal distribution.
I learned from this answer that it might be a compound verb, but in my opinion, it works as an adverb since it is used to modify the preceding verb approximate, and I cannot find that form in this list: Compound Verb.
If it acts as an adverb can I follow that formula and utilize that as the following? And what the grammar rule is it?

Please Facebook message me
I Google searched the keyword

The comments noticed me that all the above four examples can be transformed into a noun form, then I thought there should be something grammatical underlying these phrases.


texts: "check out", "check in", or just "check"?

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what is the grammatically right way to say I enquire is some new letters come into my e-mail post-box. I mean is one of the following correct:

I check my e-mail
I check out my e-mail
I check in my email.


texts:
What should happen to someone who _____ convicted of murder?

The options are

  has
  get
  gets

I translated it but the three options has sense in Spanish.

Which word is correct in this sentence and why?


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I may have been on some particular island (and probably not in it, unless I explored a cave). But in this specific case it sounds better to me to say "I was in Mallorca", perhaps because the island is large enough to count as a region of its own. Online I can find examples for both, but of course other Germans may make the same mistakes I make.

Which preposition is correct for a larger island?


texts: About the usage of been been in the passive sentence

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Respected sir,
     I want to know that if i can use "been" instead of "being" in the passive form of perfect continuous tense. Ex - I have been beating you. You have been been beaten by me. Is it a correct sentence. Guide me


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I would really, really appreciate it if you would kindly leave comments or make corrections.

I thought the if-clause in such a construction takes a past subjunctive like:

  if I were you, I would choose the red one

  I would buy a doll if I went to that city

But in the sentence above two woulds were used.

Is it different from:

  I would appreciate it, if you left comments.

Could you please describe the rule.


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I am looking for a band name. I am German, so I am not quite sure if not [Adjective] nor [Adjective] is grammatically correct.

Is not yellow nor pink or not famous nor envied a possible phrase, or should  I use neither instead of not?


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I wonder if there are other ways of saying the following sentence:

  Children should begin learning a foreign language as soon as they start school.

Is it possible to replace "as soon as they start school" by other phrases without changing the original meaning?

There are four synonyms of "as soon as" given in Merriam-webster:
when, immediately [chiefly British], instantly, once.

But I think replacing "as soon as " by any one of them will change the meaning of the sentence.

For example, "immediately" and "instantly" are too strong. One usually says:

  I turned on my cellphone immediately/instantly when got off the airplane.

On the other hand, "when" and "once" don't emphasize the tone in this sentence as well as "as soon as", since one can say

  I will study algebra when/once I go to elementary school.

while he means

  I will study algebra in the last year of my elementary school.


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So, the rule I have been taught is that 'for' and 'since' must be used with perfect forms, i.e. I have been living in London for 3 years/since 2017.
This presents two problems for me:
1.- What if the action is finished? For example, what if I have already left London after spending 3 years there? Should I use past perfect? I had been living in London for 3 years.
2.- What about future? For example, if my plan is to stay in London for* 3 years. Do/should I use a perfect form? In that case I think I perfect form might not be correct. For example, something like I will have been living in London for 3 years means, in my opinion, that at some point I stayed in London for 3 years AND that I moved, so I am not there anymore. In that sense, my previous sentence is missing that extra time reference, is not it?
Bonus track. I met a native last week and he told me people do not use present forms so often. Maybe in present yes, but for a past action we would use some simple past or 'used to'. What about this? Is it something that can be used but is not correct strictly speaking?
*Here it is a use of for without perfect forms. Is it correct?


texts: In russian we have a word "приласкать" - verb, which we can use to say, "treat with much tenderness". Usually with animals that means they'll start following you around. What is the English equivalent?


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I am reading "Head First Design Patterns" book, chapter 2 ,entitled "Keeping your Objects in the know" but the title doesn't make sense to me.

what "Keep Something In The Know" means in this case and also in generally speaking?


texts: Can we use "then" before the main verb? "... we'll then go."

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Each page takes less than a minute to produce, although for colour pages four versions, once each for black, cyan, magenta and yellow are sent. The pages are then processed into photographic negatives and the film is used to produce aluminium printing plates ready for the presses. ROBOTS AT WORK

but I'm always use then between to phrases (when it is mean: next or after that).

  Let me finish this job, then we'll go.

My question is: Can we use it before tha man verb?

  Let me finish this job, we'll then go.


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So fast went the bus I couldn't catch it.

Is the structure grammatically correct?


texts: Are old and former always interchangeable

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She is my old friend.
She is my former friend.
She is my old business partner.
She is my former business partner.


texts: Is there a word to describe "see wrongly"?

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e.g. misunderstood, misread

It does not sound formal to say "understood wrongly" or "read wrongly". The only way to make it sounds formal is to use a single word to describe that act.

However, I cannot think of a word to describe "see wrongly" although it is commonly spoken (in Singapore).


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Suppose your child is about to untie the bow on his shirt & you say "leave it as it is".

is it idiomatic to say "leave it as it is" when you want someone not to alter the current structure of something?

Also, are "leave it what it is" or "leave it where it is" idiomatic?

Note: when I googled "define: 'leave it as it is'", it showed no definition, but just 1 forum. I am not sure I can trust the definition in the forum.


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Is "glass harmonicon" the same instrument as devised by Benjamin Franklin?

Moreover, actual contact is not always necessary. I have had these
sounds proceeding from the floor, walls, etc., when the medium's hands
and feet were held—when she was standing on a chair— when she was
suspended in a swing from the ceiling—when she was enclosed in a wire
cage—and when she had fallen fainting on a sofa. I have heard them on
a glass harmonicon—I have felt them on my own shoulder and under
my own hands.

The History of Spiritualism   By A.C Doyle
XI.THE RESEARCHES OF SIR WILLIAM CROOKES (1870-1874)


texts: Why don't these countable nouns have articles in this sentence?

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Why exactly don't "header" and "body" need articles in the following sentence (as per this answer)?

We've improved the visual separation between header and body in classes with multiline headers.

What are the rules behind this? Don't such nouns always require a determiner?


texts: Please teach me what these sentences mean

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It wasn’t that she looked as if you could have given her shillings—it was impossible to look less so.  Yet when she finally drifted toward him, distinctly handsome, though ever so much older—older than when he had seen her before—it might have been as an effect of her guessing that he had, within the couple of hours, devoted more imagination to her than to all the others put together, and had thereby penetrated to a kind of truth that the others were too stupid for.
(https://www.gutenberg.org/files/1093/1093-h/1093-h.htm)

The sentences above are quoted from the second paragraph on chapter.1 of "The beast in the jungle" by Henry James. Then I have three questions.

What does "she looked as if you could have given her shillings" mean? Is shillings in the sentence something like tips?
Does "it was impossible to look less so?" mean more or less "it looked so"?
What does "it might have been" mean?

(The three points that I am asking about are emphasized.)
I would appreciate it if you would answer my very long question. Because this story is intriguing, I really want to understand.


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Let's say you are getting old and you have a lot of white hairs on your head because of aging.

Now, you ask your child to get rid of them for you.

Do we say "could you pick / pull my white hairs off, they make me itchy?"

  pick [transitive] to pull or remove something or small pieces of something
  from something else, especially with your fingers

  pick something + adv./prep. She picked bits of fluff from his
  sweater.

  He picked the nuts off the top of the cake.

  Names were picked at random out of a hat.

  pick something to pick your nose (= put your finger inside your nose
  to remove dried mucus)

  to pick your teeth (= use a small sharp piece of wood or plastice to
  remove pieces of food from your teeth)

  pick something + adj. The dogs picked the bones clean (= ate all the
  meat from the bones).

  pull [transitive] to remove something from a place by pulling

  pull something If these weeds are not pulled, they will spread
  rapidly .

  He pulled a knife and stabbed the man.

  pull something + adv./prep. Pull the plug out.

  to pull out a gun/knife

  She pulled off her boots.

  James pulled his shirt over his head, letting it fall to the floor.

  They were still pulling bodies from the rubble.

  She he was spotted in the water and pulled to safety.

  He pulled a gun on me (= took out a gun and aimed it at me).

It seems that people say "pluck grey hairs" and I am not sure if people say "hair turns grey when aging", "white hair" may not be the word. But Asian people's hair turns white not grey when aging.

  pluck [transitive] pluck something (out) to pull out hairs with your fingers
  or with tweezers

  She plucked out a grey hair.

  expertly plucked eyebrows


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My painstaking grammarphobia is making me pull my hair out trying to figure wrap my head around the usage of "one of the most" and "some of the most".
Take for example:

A cheetah is ONE of the fastest animals on the planet. (Singular Subject)

Cheetahs are SOME of the fastest animals on the planet. (Plural Subject)

Then this should technically be wrong or less accurate, right?

Cheetahs are ONE of the fastest animals on the planet. (Plural Subject)
(I feel like in this case, "one of the most" shouldn't be used and keep the sentence "Cheetahs are the fastest animals on the planet.")

The reason I ask is because I have run into this by somebody, who is supposed to be a skilled writer but could be wrong:

Cigarettes are ONE of the leading causes of lung cancer.

Cigarettes are SOME of the leading causes of lung cancer.

Grammatically, my logic is telling me that SOME should be used, but then there is another voice in my head saying ONE sounds better even though it’s not technically just one cigarette.


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What to say while asking a person not to dirty (verb) my room?
The context in which I'm using this sentence is that the person who's going into my room has a habit of throwing wrappers anywhere and making a mess of the room.
Here what will be the correct substitute for dirty, as dirty seems a bit awkward?


texts: Why you say 'Hold it.' what means 'Stop.'. What does 'it' means in this command?


texts: What is correct: the X algorithm or the algorithm X

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To extend this question:

Which is correct: "the variable X" or "variable X" or "the X variable"?

1) what is the best/correct use:

1.1) "the X algorithm",

1.2) "the algorithm X",

1.3) or "algorithm X"?

For example it is said "the A* algorithm", but in the same Wikipedia page it is also written "Algorithm A".

2) What is the difference with "the variable X" (see the link above)?

Thank you in advance.


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Amory Blaine inherited from his mother every trait, except the stray inexpressible few, that made him worth while.

Source: Francis Scott Fitzgerald: The side of Paradise – (it is the very first sentence)

I am not sure if I understand the meaning of the clause, especially the phrase "except the stray inexpressible few". Does the author want to say that the majority of the properties was after his mother but there are a few that was probably inherited from his father? Not sure to which part the subordinate clause "that made him worth while" is connected. To "every trait" or "the stray inexpressible few?


texts: off shore or off the shore and use of "the"

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We had a couple of hours on shore.
The island is about three miles off shore.
Rubbish of all sorts is washed up on the shore.

Why did we not use the in the first and second sentences? Aren't there already a specific place in the sentences?


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I have a question regarding the question-tag. I hear that the negative question-tag can be made out of the following construction: helping verb + subject + not?

  I have a meeting every day, don't I/do I not?

  You should see me today, shouldn't you/should you not?

  I am a great teacher, aren't I/am I not?

  They had better do it, hadn't they/had they not?

  They used to be kind, usedn't they/used they not?

Are all the ones in bold type grammatical?


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I would like to know which preposition to use - by or from in the following sentence:

It was handed down to me from/by my dad.

Examples of both can be found on the free dictionary website, and I don't know if they are interchangeable or BE and AE difference. are there any subtle variations in usage.

After some research, I hypothesised that if 'to' is in the sentence, I also need 'from'. Otherwise, 'by' is used.

The guilty verdict was passed down by the jury.

Please give a detail answer that would explain the differences.
Many thanks.


texts: What does "coming to a theatre near you" mean?

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I've seen

  coming to a theatre near you

many times.  But I don't really get what it means. I have tried searching online but still don't get it. So what does it really mean?

What is more, is it a famous sayings or subtitle or something?


texts: Does "the proceeding" mean "the following"?

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The proceeding file naming should then follow the rules detailed
  below.

I read it from a manual on how to name a file, and does "proceeding" mean "following" here?


texts: What is the meaning of the expression "...where rules are a convenience"?

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I encountered the phrase

"Paida fun is free-wheeling player fun, where rules are a convenience."

in the context of roleplaying games.
As a native German speaker, I am uncertain of the meaning of the phrase, am I correct to guess:

"Paida fun is free-wheeling player fun, where rules are not so important, but simply used beacause it is easier to use rules than not to have rules at all."


texts: Single word request for rings formation on water

texts: While throwing stones in water, we will see lots of small rings formed. Can anyone say single word for the rings formation?.


texts: Expression for "running/getting out of somewhere really fast"

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I am looking for a word or expression to mean
 running out of somewhere very fast because of being terrified of something, or to avoid meeting someone.


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I quoted the following sentence from The Guardian.

  Then, before any significant change could be made to the Cuban system, the Soviet Union imploded, and with it went the extensive economic network that it had maintained.

How could the preposition "with" be followed by "it went the extensive economic network.."? Is there any inversion of subject (it) and verb (went) so that we can understand the above sentence as follows?

[ 1 ] The Soviet Union imploded before any significant change could made to the Cuban System.

[ 2 ] The extensive economic network went with it (the implosion of the Soviet Union).


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I always struggle with the complexity of my sentences. I'm a native German speaker and I'm used to make complex sentences, not every time, but here and then.

When I try to express myself in English and I start with a sentence, I get - somehow - lost in between. Sometimes I just don't find the word to combine two parts or I struggle with the grammar. On the the other hand, I don't want to sound like a five year old.

How can I train this? I actually do a lot English. I read and watch TV shows in English and I try to speak a lot.


texts: I work in a restaurant. Sometimes I need to inform English-speaking customers that all of their dishes have been served. What are some common phrases that I can use?


texts: Is there any difference between "talk over" and "talk through"?

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Is there any difference between talk over and talk through? For example:

  I will have to talk my initiative over with the CEO.

  I will have to talk my initiative through with the CEO.

In my previous question I asked about the difference between talk about and talk over and was told that talk over can mean to talk something thoroughly. Does that mean that talk over and talk through are complete synonyms?


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How many of your "breathe" you took for granted so far?

"how many" with breathe.. would go right?

How to construct the sentence more punchier way?


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Other statistics come from
  a separate survey of about 160,000 business establishments that employ over
  40 million workers. When you read a headline that says the economy created a
  certain number of jobs last month, that statistic is the change in the number of
  workers that businesses report having on their payrolls.

Do I understand it correctly that businesses report the number of employees that they keep on the staff ? I am not sure whether they report the number or the change in the number.


texts: Does dawned on me actually have a tense?

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Does the phrase "dawned on me" actually have a tense or is it just an expression?

  "I know why you have been unable to do it. The reason is that it is physically impossible for you. It dawned on me just now."

See, if it does have a tense, I don't think this sentence makes sense, since "it dawned on me" at one point but I'm explaining reasons for being incapable in present tense. I think this sentence sounds like it dawned on me while I was explaining my reasoning, which couldn't have happened, right?

Another sentence:

  "It dawned on me that the reason you have been unable to do it is that it is physically impossible for you."

Like the first example, this doesn't make sense if "dawned on me" has a tense, right? Should I correct this to "It dawned on me that the reason you had been unable to do it was that it was physically impossible for you."

Is this correct at all? I don't even know where I should begin to fix it:

  "It dawned on me that the fact that he lives there didn't bother me at all."

Please help!


texts: The meaning of "slow-boiling" in this sentence

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I came across a sentence in an NYT article

  A plaintive, slow-boiling, quietly soul-stirring drama about a woman coming into her own, Middle of Nowhere carries the imprimatur of Sundance, but without the dreary stereotypes or self-satisfied politics that can (at times unfairly) characterize its offerings.

Most search results appear to be about cooking. I understand the word is used figuratively here, but what does it mean exactly?


texts: Using a positive phrase to explain a negative one vs. the opposite

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Are the two sentences bellow grammatically correct and semantically equivalent?

  I don't think it rained yesterday.
  I think it didn't rain yesterday.

I was told that sentence 2 is grammatically incorrect and that I can't use a positive phrase to explain a negative event. I have to use phrase 1 instead.


texts: Is "should be able to" the same as "will be able to"?

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Can I use "should be able to" to mean "will be able to" in a sentence like this?
"They should be able to work with anyone."


texts: Can you fix the sentence? There is a verb tense error

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I wrote a letter and my teacher gave me feedback on it. I wrote this sentence:

  Since I bought Playstation when I was 12 years old, I played it almost everyday.

My teacher wrote that the verb tense was wrong in the word "played".

How can I fix it?

Thanks.


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“I have only been able to borrow about RM100,000 from friends and
  relatives so far. I can’t get any more,” Chin said when contacted.

What does "have only been" mean in the sentence above?


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"When we are done, we rise up into the sky and become a star..." (Source)

I accidentally came across this website and bumped into "rise up". I would like to know if it's a superfluous usage or some usage I'm not aware of?

The idea of "up" is already contained in the verb "rise", which means moving something to a higher level and "rise" means "to move upwards; ascend". What difference is there between "rise up" and "rise"?


texts: Is it a little bit wordy to say "wake up at 5:00 in the morning"?

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I guess these 3 sentences are all idiomatic.

I usually wake up at 5:00.
I usually wake up at 5:00 AM.
I usually wake up at 5:00 in the morning.

The last one seems a little bit wordy, isn't it?


texts: Is it correct to say "I slump/slumped on/onto the stool/barstool?"

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I wrote this sentence: "I buy a bottle of beer and slump on/onto the last stool."

A native English speaker told me that "slump" doesn't work here. That you can't slump on a bar/barstool.

Is this correct? If so, why?


texts: In The Context In Which-> Any replacement?

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I have this sentence:

  "Many people's personal information on the internet has been stolen by hackers. In this context, we can build a better security software to combat the problem".

However I want to put the phrase "we can build a better security software to combat the problem" at the beginning of the quote:

I make myself a sentence:

  "We can build a better security software to combat the context in which many people's personal information on the internet has been stolen by hackers."

Eventually, I feel that my sentence sounds unnatural. Am I correct? If so, is there other ways?


texts: what does it mean when someone says "it is one of the ones"?

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Marriage is one of the ones to keep couple committed for lifetime.

I want clarity on the usage of word ones here?


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Let's say you are writing a past event of a diabetic patient to a doctor.

  "The patient had consumed 1 whole canned juice of 'del monte' pineapple 240ml, which the patient usually consumes just a half of the juice. Also, 1 pc. of rice cake HAD EATEN/HAD BEEN EATEN as her late afternoon snack, before the blood sugar check.

As you can see, the patient had had her juice & a snack before the blood sugar test. But should I use had eaten or had been eaten?


texts: When to use combinate vs when to use combination?

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I recently came across

  This method combinates both previous methods.

Which seems to be the same as combines. I've never come across combinate before but this is apparently the definition.

  Noun combinate (plural combinates)
  The result of a combining of two or more components.


texts: primary stress of "Flying Squad" and "Flying Scotsman"

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Do you know why the primary stress falls on the "Scotsman" of "Flying Scotsman" but on the first component of "Flying Squad" according to the dictionary?

Here are the definitions of the two expressions:

  Flying Squad: a group of police officers in the UK who are ready to travel very quickly to the scene of a serious crime

  Flying Scotsman: a British steam railway engine, built in 1923, which was the fastest of its kind for many years.


texts: Using the preposition 'by' instead of 'via'

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I would be really thankful if somebody tells me if using 'by' instead of 'via' in the sentence below sounds idiomatic and natural:

  Hey Jim, did you send me that package?
  Yea, I sent the package to you via a courier service a several minutes ago.


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I referenced ♦ and Why are the subject and the verb inverted after the conjunction 'as'?, but they discuss only declarative statements (like my French question here).

Sadly, the technical linguistic terms in ♦ confuse me. It discusses (majuscules mine)

  the exclamative's subject getting postposed (with the resulting overall effect SIMILAR to subject-dependent inversion)
  ...Notice that version #2 has the exclamative phrase ("how widespread") fronted

Does subject-verb inversion differ from "the subject to be postposed "? What's the latter called?
Where does fronting feature here? Is it  another separate concept (so the third one)?
Does a question always allow inversion of the subject and verb? Where might it not?

For example, I guess that the author inverts below, because it's easier to place the short verb ahead of the lengthy subject clause (that I've greyed)?

  Can the law hold that consulting
  God for guidance is permissible but consulting any other non-corporeal entity is not allowed?
  If so, what will the court say is the validating element in religious faith in contradistinction to superstitious faith?

Source: p 160, How the Law Works, Gary Slapper, 2014.


texts: Does the expression "tendency of how" make sense?

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In companies A and B, an increase in age by one year yields an increase in
  a fixed portion of monthly salary by 100 dollars.

I am trying to rewrite the sentence above I created by using "tendency". My example is as follows:

  Companies A and B have the same tendency of how a fixed portion of monthly salary increases with age.

I think neither are an idiomatic English, but would like to know whether the rewritten sentence is acceptable (understandable).


texts: What do you call a person who is always keen to learn new things?

texts: What do you call a person who is always ready and keen to learn new things?


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He is asked to investigate [what the police believe to be the root of the crime (to discover the truth.)]

The first infinitive to be the root of the crime,
the understood subject is what, right?
Can the noun phrase be viewed as: The police believe what to be the root of the crime?

The second infinitive to discover the truth is a purpose adjunct,
and the understood subject is he,correct?

  He became what his [friends wouldn't expect him to be] (to prove them wrong.)

the understood subject of the first infinitive to be is him , and the object of be is what , right?
Can the noun phrase be viewed as: His friends wouldn't expect him to be what.

And for the second infinitive, to prove them wrong is a purpose adjunct ,
and the understood subject is He,correct ?


texts: Is "standard basis" countable or not? I guess not and need a double check

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This question comes from this post.

  This figure is trying to illustrate 4 spaces defined by 4 different
  set of standard basis.

In mathematics, the standard basis (also called natural basis) for a Euclidean space is the set of unit vectors pointing in the direction of the axes of a Cartesian coordinate system.

Is "standard basis" here countable or not? I guess not and need a double check.


texts: Can I say "to get money off (of) someone"?

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"To get money off (something)" can be used when talking about deals and discounts, for example:

You can get money off drinks if you order a full course dinner.

However, can I use the same expression when talking about someone gaining money from someone else? Examples:

Don't trust everything she says, she's just trying to get money off you.

Don't trust everything she says, she's just trying to get money off of you.

Are these two uses correct? If so, which one should be preferred?


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By 2030, New well-paid jobs ______ available. ("will be" or "will have been"?)

I'm not really sure if will have been is the right answer here. I mean this isn't a completed action so wouldn't "will be" be a more fit answer?


texts: I don't usually go wrong doing sth vs .. go wrong with doing sth vs ...wrong when doing sth...Do all these mean the same?

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I don't usually go wrong when i'm playing song X on guitar.

I don't usually go wrong with playing song X on guitar.

I don't usually go wrong when it comes to playing song x on guitar.

I don't usually go wrong playing song X on guitar.

Do all the above sentences mean the same?

Are constructions that go "I don't usually go wrong doing sth" grammatically correct?
Could i use it in any situation?
Like,

I don't usually go wrong solving puzzles.

I don't go wrong playing chess.

I mean if i choose to drop out prepositions constructing similar sentences in any given context, ANY, would it be grammatically correct?
If not, give me an example of the usage of " I don't usually go wrong doing sth" where it'd be deemed incorrect.

And i'm sorry, if the title of this post is a bit vague.

And if you feel the tags i've used are not right, feel free to edit them and change them.


texts: Is "conspicuously missing" or "conspicuously" the subject of this sentence?

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I can't understand the meaning of this paragraph!

  But in our brief description of TCP and UDP, conspicuously missing was any mention of throughput or timing guarantees— services not provided by today’s Internet transport protocols.

is "conspicuously missing" the subject of the sentence? or "conspicuously" is the subject?
What does that dash mean before "services"?
It doesn't make sense to me not at all!

In other words I can't understand meaning of

  conspicuously missing was any mention of throughput or timing guarantees—

part!

I can't detect the verbs too! One of them is "not provided" and another is "was" but I don't know the role of "missing" in the sentence.


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Do you have the forms of which I speak in order to make this renewal official?

In this sentence , why "of which" is used and why?

This sentence appears in Smosh video.

The link is https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f1e38s1feKg.(It's at 1:30)


texts: What is the difference between "In many ways" and "In many means"

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Can "in many means" be used at all? Like here, for example:

Tea and Ceylon are synonymous in many means

Or is it better to use "in many ways" in this situation?


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She has too much pride to pull the sheets above her head.

Is above the head modifies sheets or pull??

To my understanding, it can be either.

  She can pull the sheets that above her head off somewhere

OR

  She can pull the sheets from somewhere to cover her head.

So which one is right???

EDIT

This is a song lyric, you can read the whole of it here.

The little part of it is here:

  She shuts the doors and lights and lays her body on the bed
  Where images and words are running deep
  She has too much pride to pull the sheets above her head
  So quietly she lays and waits for sleep

And an additional question:
Does the sentence mean that she has too much pride, so she won't pull the sheets above her head???


texts: Confusing about phrase which I should use after "than"

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Young people's expenditure in Canada is more evenly split than in Poland.

or

  Young people's expenditure in Canada is more evenly split than  that in Poland.

I always have the challenge with this grammar; could you please tell me a point to clarify which I should use after "than".


texts: How to indicate rank in graduating class?

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I want to indicate that I graduated first in my graduating class in my CV.
I've written:
"Ranked first in graduating class"
Is it correct ?


texts:
How this situation arose the present volume graphically sets forth, as well as the reasons interest in the case has persisted to the present day, exciting a continuing stream of books and articles by both lawyers and laymen.

I would like to ask whether there would not be a preposition between "reasons" and "interest". If I understand the sentence properly, it say that the book describes in a vivid detail how the situation arose and as well as it describes the reasons for/of interest that people still have in the case. I do not know what preposition to choice but "reasons interest" seems to be odd to me. "Interest reasons" is probably nonsense so I am really confused.


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"Well, wudga marry him for, then?" Mary Jane said.

This sentence comes from the story Uncly Wiggily in Connecticut by J. D. Salinger. I suppose that "wudga" here means "why do you". Can you tell me how this word is created. On the Internet I have found only "wudga" meaning a hero from old German and Scandinavian legends.


texts: What's the difference between 'in the distance' and 'from a distance'?

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Is there any difference in the meaning of these two phrases:
'in the distance' and 'from a distance'?
And the following two sentences sound different?

He looks good in the distance.
He looks good from a distance.


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If you find no time for politeness and for checking that the guests are comfortable, because of your remaining  busy with the schedule, I shall give you less than what I give to those who are hospitable.

I believe that the commas are correctly placed, but it makes it sound as if the words between the commas are not necessary and can be removed. But that’s not the case. They are essential for the correct meaning. So do I remove the commas or not?


texts: Passive clause and use of verb 'are' in a statement

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(Passive clause) We learn language when messages being communicated are compelling.
We learn language when messages are communicating are compelling .

Is the 2 sentence correct ? Why use verb 'are' here I mean it is just a statement not a state, it is not happening right now. Is it a universal truth(atleast for the speaker) ?


texts: What is meant by "parental discretion advised"

texts: Maybe everything about discretion you know it will perhaps come in handy?


texts: Why "book" is considered as a subject in the following sentence?

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"Books which cost half price are sold quickly"

Can anyone explain to me please why "book" in this sentence is the subject? And why it is not the object?


texts: What does "On what subject did you conduct studies?" exactly ask about?

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I know that a question can directly be related to a verb.
However, can it refer to a noun rather than the verb?
For example;

On what subject did you conduct studies?

I think that this question can be evaluated in two ways that have the same meaning, indeed. Despite that, I'm curious about grammar.
How we can evaluate the question is firstly

I conducted [studies on the biography of Da Vinci.] = I conducted studies that are on the biography of Da Vinci.

and secondly

On the biography of Da Vinci, I conducted studies. = I conducted [studies] [on the biography of Da Vinci].

I surely know that what I'm focusing on is totally unnecessary and weird. Nevertheless, as you can see in my sentences, the first answer to the question refers directly to "studies" while assuming "on what subject" to modify "studies", and the second answer to it refers to "conduct" rather than "studies" while assuming "on what subject" to be an adverb.
So, can this and these kinds of question be really evaluated and understood like this?


texts: Is there any word mean `split text into sentences`?

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From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tokenization_(lexical_analysis)

  In lexical analysis, tokenization is the process of breaking a stream of text up into words, phrases, symbols, or other meaningful elements called tokens.

Usually, we call a function/tool which split text into words as tokenizer.
So, is there any word used to denote split text into sentences?


texts: "the example below" or "the below example"?

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I am wondering which one is a proper structure for an academic writing text?

  the example below

or

  the below example


texts: What do you qualify an athlete who wasn't drafted into the premier league?

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When teams draft athletes in certain sports they sometimes already play professionally with people of their countries, sometimes they are semi-professional, and sometimes they are amateur, is there an adjective to identify these players? This is true in the NHL.

For example:

  NHL teams drafted many ___ athletes this year.


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My life satisfies so much that even though I have not as much fortune as rich people, I am not envious of them at all.(I made this sentence myself)

The meaning I want to convey is the fact that the state of my life, as it is, consists of satisfaction, so I think 'satisfy' can be an intransitive verb, even though no dictionary defines the verb can be used in the way.


texts: Indian English and with regard to Words usage

texts: When I am describing myself to the interviewer, should I say I am post graduate or Post graduated. Which one is the perfect ?


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Balliol speaks to William Wallace:

Balliol: Sir William, inasmuch as you and your captains hail from a
region long  known to support the Balliol clan, may we invite you to
continue your support and uphold our rightful claim?
Runner: Damn the Balliol clan! They're all Longshanks' men!

Rightful claim on what exactly?
Source: Braveheart 1995


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"thank" should followed by bang("!") or period(".")? which is right?

For example:

  This site vs report bug?What should I to use? I can't find (googled)
  what something about this. Forgive me,if this is a FAQ question.
  Thank !

vs

  This site vs report bug?What should I to use? I can't find (googled)
  what something about this. Forgive me,if this is a FAQ question. Thank
  .


texts: Confusion about articles/quantifiers: "a Tesco" VS "any Tesco" VS "Tesco"

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Which of these questions, if any, would work when politely asking a stranger?
If more than one works, what if any difference is there between them?

Excuse me, is there a Tesco over there?
Excuse me, is there any Tesco over there?
Excuse me, is there Tesco over there?
Excuse me, is Tesco over there?
(Something else I haven’t thought of?)

Mind you, I do not want to go to just any old generic shop: I want
to go only to one owned by the Tesco corporation. I do not care
about the size of that Tesco, whether it’s a giant superstore
or just a little local one.

In short, how would I ask people on the street when I need to go to a shop
named Tesco?

Regional Note

Tesco is the brand name of a very large supermarket chain in the
United Kingdom, so you can replace it with whatever company-name works
best for you, such as Carrefour, Aldi, Jumbo, Target, Walmart,
Kroger, Safeway, etc.

Also feel free to replace my over there  at the end with any locative
adverbial phrase, such as nearby, around here, in town, within
easy walking distance.


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I've read that if two colors hyphenated for singular type that means it is combination colors. If not, then it has part colors like:

  A1. A blue-green shirt is turquoise.
  A2. A blue and green shirt is one which has parts that are blue and parts green.

but if we are talking about plural, then that doesn't mean combination, like:

  B1. She has only blue and green shoes. Means: that all of the person’s shoes are either blue or green
  B2. She has only blue-and-green shoes Means: that the person’s shoe collection consists only of shoes in which each pair is blue
      and green.

Same here:

  C1. Yellow, pink, and red flowers refers to flowers colored yellow, pink, or red.
  C2. Whereas yellow-pink-and-red flowers denotes tricolored flowers.

Which you prefer A1-2 or B1-2 OR C1-2