texts: What's the meaning of the sentence "the code never became shared among all organisms - a number of distinct codes remained in use"?

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... the code never became shared among all organisms - a number of
  distinct codes remained in use no matter how long the team ran their
  simulations...

While I know the meaning of each words I don't understand the meaning of the sentence.
I think there is a contrast(or relatoinship) between "became shared" and "remained in use" but I am not able to understand it.

  Does "shared" mean " divided" here?

Could you please explain it to me?

The fuller text is here:

  Starting with a random initial population of codes being used by
  different organisms - all using the same DNA bases but with different
  associations of codons and amino acids - they first explored how the
  code might evolve in ordinary Darwinian evolution. While the ability
  of the code to withstand errors improves with time, they found that
  the results were inconsistent with the pattern we actually see in two
  ways. First, the code never became shared among all organisms - a
  number of distinct codes remained in use no matter how long the team
  ran their simulations. Second, in none of their runs did any of the
  codes evolve to reach the optimal structure of the actual code. "With
  vertical, Darwinian evolution," says Goldenfeld, "we found that the
  code evolution gets stuck and does not find the true optimum."

https://www.jwz.org/blog/2010/01/darwins-bootloader/


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I have been doing this.
I have got a letter.

Can the sentence above be recent past of the past participle?


texts: Is it allowed to not write a space after a period?

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I have come across quite a few cases where there are no space after a period:

  This is a sentence that ends here.A new sentence starts here.Note the lack of a space after the period.

A few contextual observations:

This is done consequently in the entire text.
All the posts in question are apparently written by non-native users. (A bit hard to determine, as I am not a native speaker myself.)
From the user profiles of the authors, a majority of them are Indian. This may be purely coincidental due to a small sampling size. (approximately 8-10 cases)

What is the reason?


texts: "No other except" or "no other besides" when talking about a single exception?

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Consider this sentence:

  She has no other family ___ me.

Should I use "except" or "besides" here? I already know that "besides" means to include while "except" means to exclude. However I think both explanations work:

  She has no other family except me

  =If I am excluded as her only family, then there is no other.

and

  She has no other family besides me

  =Even if I am included as her family, there is no other.

Can anyone help me with this confusion? Thanks


texts: The use of the preposition "to" in the third conditional when talking about places

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Tell me please if it is correct to the preposition to in the following sentence.

  If I had studied well, I would have been to California.

  If I had had the money, I would have been to the university of Cambridge.

Would it be better to use the preposition in in the first sentence, and at in the second one.


texts: Is it correct to put 'to be' at the end of question?

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For example, I could ask:

  How accurate is that answer?

But would it be correct to say:

  How accurate that answer is?


texts: would have + participle v.s. would + verb

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I can't grasp the difference between their usages. Could you explain them over the following examples?

It was half past five. Dad would have finished work.
It was half past five. Dad would finish work.

I can't perceive any difference. But if I guess, in first sentence, the speaker is not sure concerning finish of the work. Yet, on the second, he is sure.


texts: What does "hence the Greek tradition of the "law-giver", which has captured the imaginations of scholars like Goody." mean?

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In Athens, the early development of a written law code was
  retrospectively mythologized as the critical factor in breaking the
  power monopoly of the old aristocracy: hence the Greek tradition of
  the "law-giver", which has captured the imaginations of scholars like
  Goody.

I don't understand the part from "hence" to the end. Could someone explain what that part means and modifies?


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I'm here to ask you about using 'be invited'.

(Situation : A is asking about B's tomorrow schedule. )

A : Do you have any schedule tomorrow?

B : Yes I do.

I've been invited to the James' dinner party.
I'm invited to the James' dinner party.
I was invited to the James' dinner party.

Which is correct?


texts: What's the meaning of "It's amazing what you can store without refrigeration nowadays."?

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It's amazing what you can store without refrigeration nowadays.

Are they saying #1 or #2 ?

The fact that you can store without refrigeration is amazing.
The things you can store without refrigeration is amazing.

And, could you be so kind to find a fitting dictionary entry for the usage of 'what' here for me please?


texts: I have a problem with the past tense narrative

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So, I have some issues about tenses in a story I'm writing in past tense.

[Jack and Bill sat at the table, eating their meals.]
(This is to mean that they are currently sitting and eating.)

Does the message convey like so?
Is the usage of 'eating' inappropriate?
Or is it 'were sitting' instead of 'sat'? Is 'sat' inappropriate?


texts: How to parse this sentence. What kind of clause of "that you would ask him to pull your beard."?

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He bet me $100 that you would ask him to pull your beard.

How to parse  this sentence?

What kind of clause of "that you would ask him to pull your beard."?


texts: A future change in how things are seen - "will be seen" or "will have been seen"

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I want to write a sentence which says that in the future current events at some point in time might start to be seen differently.

  It would be fun to know which events from the present will be seen
  as milestones in the future.

or

  It would be fun to know which events from the present will have been
  seen as milestones in the future.

Which one is correct?


texts: "Shoot it" in meaning of "say it"- could it be?

texts: Today I asked my friend a riddle. He told me that he knows the answer, then I told him "shoot it" in meaning of "say it", but later I decided to check it out in the dictionary but I didn't find such meaning. Maybe I heard it in the past and that's why I used it, or maybe I didn't use it correctly in context. Is the such meaning to "shoot it"? I used it correctly in context?


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I apologise about the proof-reading-like questions which annoy some of the experts here. But from them, I learn and apply in future. I have the following sentence:

  There is a small probability that something bad will happen. To get an
  insight on such probability

Is it:

  on such probability

or

  on such a probability


texts: Meaning of "tea-spilling": shocking or too personal?

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I came across the word "tea-spilling" in a video where a girl (a vlogger) is talking about moving into a new apartment:

"We're moving house and I'm still not sure of whether I want to tell you the whole story because it's a bit dramatic, a bit of tea spilling and I'm not sure I can be bothered..."

Link to the video: https://youtu.be/EHmsLnnt3IY, timing: 0:09-0:20.

What does "tea spilling" (or maybe tea-spilling) mean?

If I hear this word I imagine this: you've just heard some shocking news and your eyebrows go up and you spill the tea you're drinking in surprise. :) For me this is a "tea spilling" reaction. Thus, tea-spilling might mean shocking, or startling.

On the other hand, there's an idiom "spill the tea" meaning "tell the truth", "tell me everything". Does "tea-spilling" mean "revealing something secret, deep, or personal" then?

The point is that I can't find "tea spilling" on the internet at all, it would switch to "spilling tea" which is not an adjective.
Is it a good word? An informal word? Is there such a word at all and why I cannot find it anywhere else?


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"She was exhausted from a day of playing soccer"

Can someone help me understand the use of" a day"? Does it mean whole day or something else?


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I submitted the Inspection report to my boss one day ago before our office closed.
I submitted the Inspection report to my boss one day  before our office closed.

which one sentences above is correct. as i put ago in a sentence and in another without it so these double i want to clear.


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The Bill to Address the Humanitarian Health Crisis passed the first of two votes in Venezuela's unicameral National Assembly on Tuesday. After a health crisis is declared, Venezuela can then receive medications as a form of aid from other countries, specifically in Latin America and Europe. Venezuela would also be allowed to request assistance from the World Health Organization.

Source:
http://www.upi.com/Top_News/World-News/2016/04/06/Venezuela-seeks-foreign-medical-aid-amid-health-crisis-genocide/1691459953798/

I suppose the meaning is that the 'other countries' in question are in Latin America and Europe. But does the sentence really work with the intended meaning?
Could 'specifically in Latin America and Europe' be used to postmodify 'other countries' adjectivally?

Gratefully,

Navi.


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I want to express that both of us are not quite right but I am closer. Should I put:

  I'm more close to right than you.
  I'm closer to right than you.

So, which way is correct to express this?


texts: Usage of 'increase in' and 'increase of'

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People with A exhibited a significant increase in proteins A, B and C.

  XYZ is an event resulting in the decrease in protein C.

  A is increased in people with PQR. This increase of (in) A is particularly significant.

From 1, 2, 3 and numerous other pages on this topic I was led to understand that sentences 1 and 2 would use the preposition 'in' instead of 'of'. But in sentence 3, since the stress is more on the 'increase' and not the 'amount', would we use of or in?

When I read 'increase of A' as a single 'entity' it sounds right. But since the word 'amount' or 'level' is implied, 'in' also sounds like it fits. In fact, the more I think about it, the more confused I get. Can someone please help?


texts: The meaning of a sentence including the verb "bid"

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Here is an example that Longman dictionary provided for the verb "bid":

  What am I bid for lot 227? Shall we start at $500?

I've red the definition of the word "bid". Yet, I need to make sure that I'm not mistaken. My question is that: can we say the meaning of "what am I bid for" is close to "what is the base price I am supposed to pay"?


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It does not matter how many days there are in a week.

Can I omit there in this sentence as follow?

  It does not matter how many days are in a week.


texts: "Despite the fish begging me for mercy, I still ate it." "Despite the fish that begged me for mercy, I still ate it."

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I wonder if these two sentences mean the same thing.

Despite the fish begging me for mercy, I still ate it.

Despite the fish that begged me for mercy, I still ate it.

my guess is that in the first sentence emphasis is in "begging me for mercy" and "the fish" is put there only to show its subject ,so it is different from the second one which suggests that I ate it in spite of the fish of such kind.
or maybe there are more than one ways to understand the first sentence?


texts: what's the difference between "juvenile" and "childish"

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According to the merriam-webster dictionary:

  Definition of juvenile

  1 : physiologically immature or undeveloped :
  young juvenile birds

  2 a : of, relating to, characteristic of, or
  suitable for children or young people juvenile fiction  b : of or
  relating to young people who have committed or are accused of
  committing a criminal offense the juvenile justice system juvenile
  crime

  3 : reflecting psychological or intellectual immaturity :
  childish juvenile behavior juvenile pranks told him he was being
  juvenile

  4 : derived from sources within the earth and coming to the
  surface for the first time —used especially of water and gas

I am wondering what's the difference between he was being juvenile and he was being childish?


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The following context is given:

Two friends are talking about by-time. One of them want to express very strong decision of to swim the next year. How it can be said?

My understanding:
I think it is a fixed arrangement. This implies we can use Present Progressive to express that:

  I'm swimming the next year.

But how to express very strong decision? Will this sentence express very strong decision, if we emphasize to be+ swimming during the speaking?


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It wasn't clear whether Jett had been the mastermind behind this accounting glitch or if more senior management had been aware of the false profits, but these two facts were clear: (1) Kidder's accounting system had failed to disclose $350 million of losses from Strips trading, and (2) Jett, before he was fired, had been Kidder's head of Strips trading. It also appeared that some of the $350 million in losses had migrated to First Boston, where it accounted for at least a portion of the $50 million of Strips trading profits.

Source, FIASCO: Blood In the Water on Wall Street by Frank Partnoy

Context, Jett worked at Kidder and made kidder lose $350 million.

How can I interpret "migrated" here? What does it mean for the loss to migrate to First Boston?

  Migrate (Merriam-Webster Learner's Dictionary):

  1: to move from one country or place to live or work in another

  2: of a bird or animal : to move from one area to another at different
  times of the year


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He's got more wealth than that of Steve, John and Michelle put together.

I was wondering if an apostrophe 's' could be used in front of the names:

  He's got more wealth than that of Steve's, John's and Michelle's (wealth) put together.

Would it be a grammatically correct sentence ?

More Sentences

He's got more wealth than that of all of them put together. (not 'their's - right?)
He's got more wealth than that of all of us put together. (can't be us' right?)

Are the above sentences grammatically correct ?


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I wonder if it's grammatically correct to say that the traffic is jammy. If so, does this sentence make sense at all?

Thanks


texts: How to understand "trainspotters who enjoy a nice game of chess while indexing their stamp collection"

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From a article which introduces HTML5:

  Error handling might not be of much interest to web designers, especially if we are writing valid, well-formed documents to begin with, but it’s very important for browser makers. Whereas previous markup specifications were written for authors, HTML5 is written for authors and implementers. Bear that in mind when perusing the specification. It explains why the HTML5 specification is so big and why it seems to have been written with a level of detail normally reserved for trainspotters who enjoy a nice game of chess while indexing their stamp collection.

So, what is meaning of "trainspotters who enjoy a nice game of chess while indexing their stamp collection" in the context?


texts: "These" or "Those" as adjectives for non-tangible nouns?

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I know which one to use when describing objects.

  These pencils are cool.

  Those trees [300 meters away] are blocking my view.

But what happens if the noun you're describing is not tangible?

Ex.

  I experienced many great adventures last year. These/those adventures were captured on film.


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She must have had her hair cut.

Just wanna ask whether the sentence above is grammatically OK. I try to use the causative and the past tense for the modal verbs ("must have done"). I want to express that I am convinced that she used the services of the hairdresser.


texts: Can we use "later" instead of "from now"?

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It is Jan and you will fly to Japan in March. In American English, you say: "I will fly to Japan 2 months from now". Can you instead say "I will fly to Japan 2 months later"?

Is there any other alternative for "from now" in this case?


texts: "a pretty good snuff on the nose" meaning

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The NBA is adamant about one thing: It respects Morey having an opinion and hasn’t suspended or disciplined him or anything like that. It’s a fair point, although having the league itself apologize for a single individual’s comment is a pretty good snuff on the nose.

I saw it from this article. I haven't found the phrase "snuff on the nose" anywhere. Is it slang? What does it mean?


texts: Using "I wanted to know (I was wondering)" instead of "I want to know (I am wondering) "

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Last night while asking a question on ELL, I came up with another question. I had written this in my post:

  I wanted to know if there is a word or phrase in English for this kind
  of friendship.

Then I thought since the tense of the second part of my sentence is present, I should change wanted to want.

I googled these terms and I found two different ideas about using past form (wanted) instead of present form (want).

One insists on tense agreement:

  Want - for now,
  Wanted for past time. Both are correct. You need to use them in a
  context so that we can see. (reference)

Another says "wanted to" is more polite:

  Both are correct, but we use wanted to show more politeness,
  especially if your addressee has a higher status than you or is a
  person that you respect. (reference)

And also this one about "I am/was wondering":

  While technically the three phrases differ in tense, they all have the
  same meaning. I'd suspect that "I was wondering" is used most often,
  followed by "I wonder". "I am wondering" would probably be reserved
  for cases where you're really perplexed because it suggests the wonder
  continued over a longer period of time.

Since there are different ideas about this, I'm a little confused. My question is if we can use "I wanted to know (I was wondering)" instead of "I want to know (I am wondering)".


texts: What's wrong with "Most people in the country would like to own their house some day."?

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The following is a problem from my textbook.

  The following sentence has an error. Find it and correct it.

  (1)[Most people] in the country (2)[would like] to own (3)[their house] (4)[some day].

It seems to me that there is no error in the sentence. Could anyone help me?


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A dictionary gives the following example sentence. What does "crash out" mean? Does it refer to defeat in a sports event? But how can there be victory or defeat if the activity is only practicing?

  Schumacher crashed out in practice for the Australian grand prix.


texts: What does 'out of' mean in this sentence?

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In the past cheap oil has buoyed the world economy because consumers
  spend much more out of one extra dollar in their pocket than producers
  do.
  Source: Who’s afraid of cheap oil? | The Economist

I cann't figure out what doest it mean 'spend  much more of one extra dollar...than producers do'. Much more than one dollar? but why produces do? Does producers also spend much more dollars?


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In this sentence, should I use the or a?

  Mom: I think making a copy of this picture would be a good idea since your aunt wants a copy.
  Me: Sure, I can make the copy.

Should I say "a copy" in order to make sense? Do I need to say "a copy" first and say "the copy" later in the conversation when referring to that copy? I'm not sure how early into the conversation I can start using the instead of a.


texts: weep "to have" that which it fears to lose

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This thought is as a death which cannot choose
But weep to have that which it fears to lose.
Sonnet 64, Shakespeare

What is this to after weep?
Is it like "I am sad to hear your father's death?"


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As almost everybody knows, the verb "confess" means "to admit", especially to the police, that you have done something wrong or illegal.
But, Longman Dictionary says:

In everyday English, people usually say admit rather than confess:
I know it was him – he admitted it.
I admit I’m not very good with money. Source

Now, I was wondering which choice sounds naturally idiomatic in the example below:

I know you have an affair with her Samuel. .............

a. Confess!
b. Admit it!
Prior to reading this register, I used to simply say:  "Confess!" But now, I think it is something more related to legislative atmosphere than everyday speech.
Please kindly make me aware about it.


texts: Is it okay to use "software" after version number?

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The possible functional effect of the single nucleotide variations (SNVs) was assessed using the PolyPhen-2 v1.3.5 software.

Since "software" is a noncount noun, and "v1.3.5" clearly indicates a specific version, it is okay to use "software" here, or it would be better to use "program"?

  The possible functional effect of the single nucleotide variations (SNVs) was assessed using the PolyPhen-2 v1.3.5 program.


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On Quora this question seems to have a lot of wrong answers:

  What is the passive voice of "She has all the things''?

When we put a phrase with a stative verb like "have" into the passive shouldn't we simply change it to some other verb?

All the things belong to her.
All the things are hers.
All the things are owned by her.

However, the answers on Quora indicate that the correct passive is "All the things are had by her" which is wrong in my opinion.

Some say that the passive isn't possible here, but I can't understand why they are saying it.

Another example.

She has some money.

Can be said in the passive like this:

Some money belongs to her.
Some money is owned by her.


texts: Here's a schedule sheet of a seminar. I'd like to know more expressions to explain to a person

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Here's a schedule sheet of a seminar.
8th Annual Vegetarian Seminar
1st Day: vegetarian Products and Industry
8:00 welcome speech - Melinda Bay
9:00 Introduction of New vegetarian Products - Lisa
-
Here, I know the following sentence is possible.

Lisa will introduce the new vegetarian products at 9:00

But, I'd like to know more expressions. So I've made several sentences.

There will be a session to introduce the new vegetarian products at 9:00, led by Lisa

There will be the introduction of the new vegetarian products at 9:00, given by Lisa.

Lisa will give the introduction of the new vegetarian products at 9:00.

Lisa will give a speech on the introduction of the new vegetarian products at 9:00.

Are all of these sentences possible to use and natural?


texts: What does "of these" mean? How to use that correctly?

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This guy is lecturing (https://youtu.be/_nRtCVJIToA?t=194)

  "By the way" is probably the most commonly used of these expressions.

I understand that means

  "By the way" is probably the most commonly used expressions.

What does "of these" mean here?

I googled "of these" and search on Cambridge dictionary and didn't find an explanation.

What does that mean? How to use that correctly?


texts: Reducing adjective clauses with Perfect Passive

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I know we can contract adjective clauses (subject clauses) to phrases. For instance:

  People who learn English are very smart individuals. / People learning English are very smart individuals.
  Those two persons who are learning English look awesome / Those two persons  learning English look awesome.
  People who are interested in learning English are incredible ones. / People  interested in learning English are incredible ones.

We just leave out the verb subject pronoun + "to be". In most cases.

Nonetheless, my question is connected with the third case when we have Passive Voice. I am wondering, what should I do if I have Present Perfect Passive? The same thing? Omit the auxiliary subject pronoun + "to be"?

  This work which has been done by my best friend is impressive. / This work done by best friend is impressive.

Although I have never thought about it so deeply, I want to know if I understand it correctly. Passive means that something is performed or done by someone else, especially when the person who makes it is unnecessary for us or simply obvious. In virtue of the examples I found. We can consider action expressed by Passive as that performed by subject?


texts: Is this sentence grammatically correct - voice use?

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The sentence is "Which major you selected in the candidate information form?"

My colleague is arguing that the sentence doesn't make sense because "if you read it aloud, it sounds weird."

His/her suggestion is to use "Which major did you select in the candidate information form?"

Although I am sure his/her suggestion is correct but please tell me if there is a grammatical error in my sentence.


texts: Zero Article Usage on Dissertation Title Page?

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I'm close to finishing my Ph.D. at a state university and the required text on the dissertation title page appears incorrect to me.

As specified by the university graduate college, the required text should read, "Submitted to the Faculty of the Graduate College of the "My State" State University in partial fulfillment of the requirement for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy"

Replace "My State" with any U.S. state.

Is the "the" just after "Graduate College" necessary? It appears to me that it is not since this is not part of the official university name. This is also shown here.

Am I justified in requesting a change to the text?


texts: Risks/Benefits Surrounded The Transaction

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I have a question about the usage of the verb "surround".  The following seems to be standard English:

  Mystery surrounded the questionable transaction.

Could I then write these:

  A lot of risks surrounded the transaction.
  A lot of benefits surrounded the transaction.

as standard English?


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If I'm talking about a promotional offer that one can take advantage of more than once within a given period, should I say "The offer can apply multiple times" or "The offer can be applied multiple times"?

Is there anything unusual about "can apply multiple times"?
I've found a few Google hits like the following:

Select this check box if the offer can apply multiple times. This is normally used for duration discounts when the contract says that for each block of 7 nights the customer gets one free.

http://downloads.dolphind.com/training/traininglibrarybmm/Product Database User Guide - Land.pdf

The promotional offer cannot be used cumulatively with customer conditions. Only one offer can apply.

The offer will not apply or be extended outside of the promotional date or uplift date ranges.

http://www.sustaingain.co.nz/Content/PhaSedNQST&Cs.pdf

These come from a British and a New Zealand business, respectively.

Could this be a British thing, given that New Zealand is a member of the British Commonwealth?

I'd appreciate your help.


texts: How to respond to "Good Morning" from a colleague who's in place with 10 hr time difference?

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So, a colleague of mine, who's in a place with 10 hr time difference than mine, called me up during my morning (9am), his late night (11pm), and said "Good Morning". As this happened for the first time with me, I just replied with "Oh hello. Good ... err Night ... to you" & had a few seconds of awkward moment & continued with our work talk.

So I was wondering, what would be my proper response in this situation?


texts: Does "meaning" imply "aims" in this context?

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Institutions, historical development and meanings of direct
democracy
In today’s welfare state, decentralized governance has
modern meanings, as we have illustrated using the example of
public health: it is more responsive to the different values and
preferences of different peoples.

- Swiss Democracy by Wolf Linder

The word meaning have some definitions on Cambridge Dictionary:

a) The meaning of something is what it expresses or represents.
b) Importance or value.

And on Merriam Webster:

a) Something meant or intended : AIM

My question is: What does the word "meanings" mean in above two sentences?


texts: The ground is going to fall apart/crumble

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Let's say a heavy rain is going on:

  The torrential downpour has loud-banging sound because of thunder that is so intense the air waves from it seem to slam the ground, like it is going to fall apart/crumble.

Do the bold letters collocate with the 'italicized' word? Can I say this without sounding awkward?

P.S: This is an idiomatic expression so don't take this literally. I think this is a difficult question, I need more answers so please help. I have just put a bounty on this one.


texts: Should I use past simple or present perfect here? I think both would work

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I got a call from a website

He said I'm speaking from xyz company

I replied
You called for human verification?

He said when

Maybe he thought
I'm asking

Did you call for human verification (earlier)

Btw can we use past simple for current actions?

As far as I think in informal talks
We can use past simple for present ..

Or should I have said the whole thing

You've called for human verification?


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Let us consider this sentence, comparing Latin and Greek languages :

"They have many formal similarities, both depending a good deal on endings"

1)Why did we use a gerund (depending) here? Can we use a verb (depend) instead? How will the meaning change?

2)Is the word "endings" a gerund here?


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I just looked up the word 'avalanche' in Longman Contemporary and it gives this definition:

  a large mass of snow, ice, and rocks that falls down the side of a mountain

Why does does the verb that follows 'that' ends with an 's' ? Here, 'falls'.

Shouldn't 'fall' agree with what is preceded before 'that' i.e. 'snow, ice, rocks'. Becasuse 'rocks' is plural, isn't it? Grammar, I think, says the verb after a relative pronoun must agree with the nouns before the relative prounoun.

Thanks


texts: Where should “efficiently” go? “…to use ___ the money we collected ___.”

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I need to answer a business-related e-mail. The intended thing is using the money efficiently.

According to some sources are expressed as follows:" to use technology wisely ". Which one is correct grammatically?

We request your approval to use efficiently the money we collected.
We request your approval to use the money we collected efficiently.
We request your approval to use the money efficiently we collected.


texts: Question on interpretation of a sentence involving the phrase "each and every"

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I am trying to read a book and the following is the quote:

  "Christian belief in Communion of Saints means that in heaven, we will have deep, intimate, strong, loving and fulfilling relationship with God and with each and every angel and heavenly human."

Does the quote mean that in heaven, we will have deep, intimate, strong, loving and fulfilling relationship with God, with each and every angel, AND with each and every heavenly human?

Thank you,


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To make things simpler I assume that getting and being in the following sentences have the same meaning. So I will use being as less colloquial.

I am being (getting) married. (passive)

This sentence is in the passive form. What would be the active form? I suppose:

Something is marrying me. (active)

Sounds to me like the object is in the middle of an action. The bride and groom stand before a priest who is reading the common lines. And the bride thinks: "I am being married."
But people say it long before the wedding:

I am being married in July. (Active ~ The church is marrying me in July.)
Congratulate me, I'm being married. (But he / she is not in the middle of a marriage.)

Wouldn't it be more accurate to say "I will be married in July." or "Congratulate me, I am going to be married." Because the marriage is a kind of a contract (a one shot deal.)


texts: would be + verb(ing) in the future prediction sentences

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Is it OK to use "would + be+ verb(ing)" construction when we talk about future projections or predictions. like in this example:

  Over the 50-year period or By 2067, people aged 15 to 59  would still be predominating the other age groups in the sense of majority


texts: "I don't know what [is] the difference [is] between some words [is]"

texts:
I was proofreading an earlier question which was phrased in this way:

  i am learning English and i do not know what is different between some
  words.

Apart from the correction of some other minor details, when I was proofreading the sentence above, I had some doubts while trying to figure out where "is" should be put:

I am learning English and I do not know what is the difference between some words.
I am learning English and I do not know what  the difference is between some words.
I am learning English and I do not know what the difference between some words is.

Can anybody explain?


texts:
a. A discussion of his behavior when he was under the influence of medications was helpful to him.
b.  A discussion of his behavior, when he was under the influence of medications, was helpful to him.

Do the commas change anything?
Can we tell whether

the discussion took place when he was under the influence of medications

or whether

what was discussed was the behavior he had when he was under the influence of medications

?


texts: "The summer before last", "in the summer last year", or "last summer"?

texts:
Let's say today is September the first, 2020 and I want say that I did something in the summer of 2019. I cannot say I went on vacation last summer because even though the summer of 2020 has just ended, it would still reffered to the summer of 2020,right? What would be the most natural way to refer to the summer of 2019, when I am in September the first 2020? Do the following sound natural?

  I went on vacation in the summer before last.

  I went on vacation in the summer last year.


texts: A word/expression that encapsulates all your familiar people

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As we all know, acquaintances are the people whom we know but do not know well and therefore they are not considered as a friend.

We have a term which can encompass all the people we know, including: all the familiar people including friends, and people that comparing your close ones, you know them less.

As I know, "acquaintace" cannot be used in this sense, because it cannot encapsulate close people to you.

I wonder if there is a term/word/expression which can indicate such a meaning in current English.


texts: How to make a time modifier modify only a phrase and not the whole sentence?

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Revolutions have thrown countries back in their development for
  decades!

In the sentence above I want to state the length of time that the countries went back in their development each time a revolution happened in them. However, it turns out that I am stating the time of how many years until now revolutions have negatively affected various countries (like in "Revolutions have negatively affected countries' economies for decades").

This confusion is, as far as I understand, due to the fact that the time modifier "for decades" can, on one hand, modify only the verbal phrase ("to throw back in development"), and yet, on the other hand, it can also modify the whole sentence.

So, how can I avoid this ambiguity in my sentence?


texts: What prepositions to use in a sentence with "Know where I stand..."

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I created a rating chart to be used as a reference in my reviews. In the chart's description, I want to say "This rating chart is for the readers to know where I stand ____ the video game."
I know the "on" preposition can be used when telling my opinion on an issue, debate, or these sorts of things. Does the same apply to this case or what other preposition should write down?


texts: "consumers choosing to rely" vs. "consumers to choose to rely"

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Signals that are related imperfectly to actual quality will mislead those consumers choosing/to choose to rely upon these inaccurate signals.

In the provided context, is choosing and to choose interchangeable?
Or do they provide a different meaning?


texts: What does "drinking all of you" mean in this sentence?

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I don't quite understand the grammar for drinking all of you that they could. And the meaning of the whole sentence is not quite clear to me either.

  They treated you as if they were never going to see  you again,
  drinking all of you that they could.

Update with more context:

  Do you remember the night of my first high school party? You were
  there. My  friends
  were intrigued by  you. They treated you as if they were never going
  to see  you again, drinking all of you that they could. I spent two
  hours that night helping my  friends who had fallen completely. “I‟m
  so embarrassed,” they said as I held their hair  back so that they
  could vomit. “I‟m sorry,” they said when I called taxies for them,
  walking them out and paying the driver in  advance. “This won‟t happen
  again,” they  said as they were sent to the hospital to have their
  stomachs pumped. Two 15-year-old  girls slept in hospital beds that
  night thanks to you.


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I believe that

The length of [something] is 2 meters.

is basically equivalent to

[Something] has a length of 2 meters.

where the following is invalid:

[Something] has the length of 2 meters.

I'm curious about the grammar behind it. Is it

[Something] has a length (that is) of 2 meters.

?
Also, are the following sentences related to the examples above? Are they valid?

The function f has a form of f(x) = x^2.
The expression has a form of x^2.


texts: 'For now until the next year' or 'During now until the next year' or 'During the period of now until the next year?

texts:
I want to tell something like;

'From the present moment until the next 1 year from now on'.

How do I say that in a more natural way / How usually a native speaker explains what I mean?

1: 'For now until the next year?'

2: 'During now until the next year?'

3: 'During the period of now until the next year?'


texts: should we say "sleep close to me" or "Sleep near me" or "don't sit close to the TV" or "don't sit near to the TV". Normally we should say "Come closer" or "Come nearer"?


texts:
"The match would have started by now."
Could you give me a situation  we could use this sentence?


texts:
I should / "had better" be going.`
I should go.

What is the actual difference between these two? I hear the first one more often.


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A friend of mine from USA posted this:

  "So much fun was had tonight with this fantastic group!"

I am not a native speaker so, I do not understand "was had tonight". I have never heard this expression before. What is this in terms of grammar?


texts: A verb to describe all possible precaution measures one takes in order to provide safety for some of his very valued things

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What's the best verb in English to describe all possible precaution measures one takes in order to provide safety for some of his very valued things?

For example, he _____________ this gemstone all his life.

Guarded, secured, cherished, protected or simply kept?


texts: Could I use "so much so that..." in this context?

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I was wondering if I could use "so much so that" in the following way

" I usually don't enter on Skype, so much so that I've just seen your message, and you sent it one week ago."

Thank you. It's a real example. I used it just like that and then it kept me wondering whether I could use it in that way.


texts: Why should not past perfect be used here?

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Source

  Before his death, Zeenat filed for divorce.

Since, we are talking of two events with one occurring before the other, we should use the following structure:

  Before his death, Zeenat had filed for divorce.

Am i wrong?

What should be my approach to get acquainted with all these grammar concepts?


texts:
I have just started reading a book on Unix and came across a sentence which says:

  Fig. shows the 20,000 foot view of the organization of the GNU/Linux Operating System.

What is meant by the 20,000 foot view? Is it a technical term? Or is it just English?


texts: meaning of "a billion to one" and "50 million to 1"

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I'm reading Forensics: A Guide for Writers by D. P. Lyle. When the author talks about the probabilities of forensic testing results, he says:

'No two people have the same DNA, but the testifying expert will not say that the DNA “absolutely matches” that of the defendant. Instead he will say that the probability that it matches is a billion to one. That is almost, but not quite,  absolute.'
'The probability that the theory holds true could be 50 percent (coin toss), 90 percent (probable), 99.999 percent (highly probable), or 50 million to 1 (virtually 100 percent probable).'

Does "a billion to one" mean "one in a billion" and "50 million to 1" mean "1 in 50 million"? I thought both phrases mean that something is extremely unlikely. But the context of the above two paragraphs seems to suggest that the two phrases mean that something is extremely likely.

Now I'm confused. Do they mean something is likely or unlikely? Can anybody explain the idea for me?


texts:
My friend is going to board into the train.
To give a sarcastic sent off… shall I say,

  "Make sure your train doesn't derail"

Is "doesn't" appropriate here?


texts: A driving offence including overtaking vehicles frequently from their left and right

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What's "overtake vehicles from their left and right" called in English? You know moving like you are drawing a squiggly line on the highway in your car.

If there is a special legal term as a driving offence and also there is an informal word to describe this action, please mention both.

Thanks


texts: Understanding past perfect and past simple tense

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I am a bit confused about using past perfect tense.

Are both of these sentences correct, or is only the past simple tense correct?

  Sara went to bed as soon as she had (she'd) finished homework.
  Sara went to bed as soon as she finished homework.

Do both of these sentences mean the same thing?

  Everyone had gone home when Sarah got to the party.
  Everyone had gone home when Sara had got to the party.

If the sentence was rephrased as

  Everyone went home when Sara had got to the party.

does it mean the same thing? Which event will be 1st action and which will be the later or 2nd action?

What happens if I use both "when" and "before" before past perfect sentence while the mostly used before past simple sentence?

Would you give some examples and explain them please?


texts:
made by VS made in
Example:

This film is made by India.
This film is made in India.


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Example:

  Anyway, we should start today's episode. And today we are doing a chatterbox episode and that is where we talk about a subject in depth and just sort of chat it out.

What does that expression mean exactly? Could you please give me some additional examples of how it's used in everyday conversation?


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Example:

  Delmar’s Standard Textbook of Electricity, 5th edition, is intended for students in electrical trade programs at high schools and community colleges, as well as those in industry training. It assumes that the reader has had no prior knowledge of electricity but also provides enough comprehensive coverage to be used as a reference tool for experienced electricians.

What exactly is a trade program?


texts: Is it an introduction or a type of something?

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Articles are so confusing :)

1) "I got an idea to leave this place."

2) "I got the idea to leave this place."

Can they both mean the same and if there can be difference, what is it? Every time I encounter similar structures used interchangeably.
Does the first sentence makes the first mention of the idea, or tells what type of idea I got? Or it can mean both?

3)

I. "I got an idea to leave this place. That I got an(the) idea to leave this place means I was consious."

II. "I got the idea to leave this place. That I got an(the) idea to leave this place means I was consious."

What will be the difference saying with different articles in the second sentence of each pair? Are they both correct?

Please, help me to understand. I really rack my mind.


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What I'm trying to convey is that there is a screen in an app, which is supposed to show jobs, but is not showing them.
Is this sentence correct:
The jobs screen for customers does not show jobs
or
The jobs screen for customers does not shows jobs
PS: Are there any other errors in my post ?


texts: I'll make "all my effort" to do that - acceptable idiom?

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If I say:

  I'll make "all my effort" to come on the time"

Is it considered an acceptable / correct English?


texts: Comma in "The difference in the colours is a combination of the effect of this, and the change of that"

texts:
From Chemguide:

  The difference in the colours is going to be a combination of the effect of the change of ligand, and the change of the number of ligands.

Is this comma justified? Wouldn't it be better to use no comma in the coordination?

  The difference in the colours is going to be a combination of the effect of the change of ligand and the change of the number of ligands.


texts:
Here the sentence:

  They of seem so helpless and frail (about flowers in the context)

The phrase "of seem" confuses me.
Why the verb "seem" follows the preposition of.
What the grammar of it?
Is it normal?

Rephrased the sentence it could become correct:

  They seem so helpless and frail

  It seems that they are so helpless and frail


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Asking about ‘to-infinitive’
The phrase below is a part of a sentence and I want to know how this is grammatically correct.
“~a world that had stripped him of his manhood, of his power to provide.”
The book translation sees ‘provide’ as the meaning of ‘support.’ (provide for=support)
However, as i know, if we want to mean ‘provide’ as ‘support’, it should be the intransitive verb. Thus, I’m curious if this phrase is grammatically correct without adding ‘for’ after ‘provide’ as in: of his power to provide for.
Help me to understand this!


texts: What does this "put nose in someone's life" mean?

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"Why should I put my nose in his life" I read this in article of apathetic co-worker.

What exactly it mean?


texts: Is the language of The Economist artificially complex?

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I wonder whether reading the articles of the journals similar to The Economist (including Time, etc) are in a style that make them difficult to flow even for native-readers?

Is the effort to read them is as smooth as other every day text for a native speaker (not a language learner)? For example consider the first paragraph of the following article:

  SEPAHUA, a ramshackle town on the edge of Peru's Amazon jungle, nestles in a pocket on the map where a river of the same name flows into the Urubamba. That pocket denotes a tiny patch of legally loggable land sandwiched between four natural reserves, all rich in mahogany and accessible from the town. “Boundaries are on maps,” says a local logger, “maps are only in Lima,” the capital.

As a non-native speaker I can read almost all academic papers in various fields smoothly. It's not the case for The Economist. The above example is not a complex one the context neither in vocabulary. But its sentences are composed in an unnatural way. So the question is:  Are any native speakers with a bachelor degree able to flow the Economist as smooth as Wikipedia articles?

There are certainly far better examples to support the question, such as the following sentence which is convoluted enough to puzzle even native English speakers:

  “That they were mysteriously thwarted by Democrats over the measure for three legislative sessions in a row suggests that some compromise may still be possible, if only behind closed doors—and, perhaps, among the university working groups that right now are hammering out what campus carry—a phrase that almost everyone seems to have a strong view on—actually means.”

https://www.economist.com/news/united-states/21677664-texass-new-campus-carry-law-may-yet-er-backfire-revenge-nerds


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Does it mean "continuous movement" like No 1 in this link: https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/flow_1?q=flow

  Tracy Kidder spent a year embedded in a group of engineers, intimately observing it in operation. The unusually in-depth and close-grained story takes us directly to the symbolic roots of flow, spirit, and magic. Very few studies of teams can match Kidder’s rigor and attention to detail.

Source: https://books.google.com.vn/books?id=iRArDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA266


texts: "It's you, not Tom, who {is/are} to blame for what happened"

texts:
It's you, not Tom, who is/are to blame for what happened.

The model answer here is "is". When I search for the reason, I come across a rule as follows.

If your sentence compounds a positive and a negative subject and one is plural, the other singular, the verb should agree with the positive subject.
The department members but not the chair have decided not to teach on Valentine's Day.

Then I am totally confused. Why does this rule contradict the model?


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I am trying to translate a sentence about having breakfast from Italian, but I don't know which tense I should use.

  Facevo colazione alle 9:00.

The sentence is about something done in the past; it's not something done in the present days or in the foreseeable future. It is about something done more than once, but nothing is said about the periodicity (it could be every day, once per week, or when there was the occasion). Nothing is said about when the action was not anymore done; I could have stopped one year ago, or a week ago. Every time I had breakfast, it was 9:00 AM.

I thought to use the following sentences, but each of them sounds not correct, for a reason or another.

  I had breakfast at 9:00 AM.

It seems talking of a single event; without nothing else being said, I would take the sentence as referring to the past 24 hours.

  I have had breakfast at 9:00 AM.

I would understand it as talking about something habitual, but that still happens.

  I had had breakfast at 9:00 AM.

The Present Past alone, as far as I recall, it is not used in a simple sentence.

  I was having breakfast at 9:00 AM.

It seems talking of a single event. Different from the first one, this sentence seems saying that at 9:00 AM I was not done with having breakfast.

To give more context, imagine that I move to New York, somebody asks me "How was your live before moving to New York?" and I answer with "It was wonderful." I then list what I liked to do and I am not anymore able to do. What tense should I use in that list?


texts: I was watching tv series where police said “he could have been wearing gloves’ I think he speculated the past event..but I really can't understand the reason behind using ing and been...because we usually speculate past thing something like that “they could have gone there” I want to know the meaning and you can give me more example like this


texts: Is the tense shifting in the first paragraph acceptable?

texts:
The Qinghai Tibet Railway, the highest in the world, begins
operation on Saturday. 【The first train will leave Golmud, the second
largest city of Qinghai Province in Northwest China, for Lhasa, in
the Tibet Autonomous Region, in the morning.】
The train leaves Golmud at about 2,800 meters above sea level, winds through the towering  Tanggula Mountain Pass at 5, 072 metres, and finally arrives in Lhasa at 3, 650 metres .
A ceremony will be held at the Golmud Railway Station at about 9: 30 am to see off the train, according to sources with the Ministry of Railways. At least 1,000 journalists from home and abroad have come to Qinghai and Tibet to cover the  event along the rail line. People can witness the ceremony and the whole day's trip live on television, radio and...

The paragraphs are excerpted from a English translation of a Chinese news report. I understand that the translator uses mostly simple present tense to indicate the railway's opening and the train's timetable was planned and somewhat unlikely to change. What confuses me is the square bracketed sentence in the 1st paragraph shifts to "future tense"(will leave). I think using "will" loses the certainty and the inconsistency in tenses makes readers think that as opposed to the railway's fixed schedule, "the train might not leave Golmud in the morning".  Am I right or am I just being picky...


texts: Is there a word that means "help someone with X", but without the implication that you're also helping with X?

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When you use the phrase "help him with X" or any other similar phrase, you also imply that you're also doing the same thing and you're receiving help from another person, but what if you're not? What phrase would you use then? Let's say you said "Albert helped him restrain Robert", but only Albert was restraining him, while you were trying to feed him medicine, what phrase or word would you use to say that Albert restraining Robert was an act of help. You can just say he restrained him, but you can't also add the idea that he was helping you without making the implication that you were also restraining him.

For example:

Albert was ____ with restraining him while I was trying to feed him medicine.


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In "Kristin Lavransdatter" by Sigrid Undset (1929), translated into English by Tiina Nunnally :

“Perhaps someday the night will come when you and I dare to fall asleep together—I don’t know what you will think once you have considered that. I have kept vigil here in the night.
There is still so much between us, more than if a naked sword had lain between you and me. Tell me, will you have affection for me after this night is over?”

Q: What does 'naked sword' really mean? If it is expressed in another word, what would it be?
I am not a native speaker of English.


texts:
Tell me please which of the following sentences is correct.

"The planet is of the size of the earth."
"The planet is the size of the earth."


texts: My friend said to me: "I am flying Germany later this week.". Is it correct English? Or should it be "I am flying to Germany later this week."?


texts: Does she pronounce differently for these fiance's?

texts:
1 fiˈɒnseɪ  ; 2 fiˈɑːnseɪ

To my ear, it sounds like both pronunciations are the same. Does she (real woman or machine, I don’t know) pronounce (1) for both symbols, or pronounce (1) and (2) differently as the phonetic symbols denote? If they're different, what's the difference between the two?


texts: What does "You can only work on so many things at a time" mean?

texts:
From the following context, what does mean this sentence

  You can only work on so many things at a time

It sounds to me like

  The size doesn't matter both when you work on so many things at a time and when you work on one thing at a time

which is contradictory. WIP in this context is work-in-progress.

  You may be thinking that allocating your workload (your capacity)
      by WIP limits won’t fly because your work items aren’t all the same
      size. This is an area where size doesn’t really matter because you can
      only work on so many things at a time. It doesn’t matter how big or
      small something is when you can only truly focus on one thing at a
      time. It could be as small as a mouse or as big as an elephant (metaphorically
      speaking). When it’s done, you move on to the next thing.


texts: Is it common to say "Your pick" to give a suggestion?

texts:
Consider the following conversation.

Daniel: What a fantastic film! Wasn’t it great?

Kae: Are you insane? It was the
worst movie I’ve seen all year.

Daniel: Why would you say that? It was
amazing!

Kae: Forget it. It’s two hours of my life I’m never getting back.

Daniel: Why don’t we get something to eat? Your pick.

I guess Daniel omits "It's" there and the following two expressions mean the same thing as the one above.

Daniel: Why don’t we get something to eat? It's your pick.

Daniel: Why don’t we get something to eat? It's your call.

From the Cambridge Dictionary

pick: a choice, or something that is chosen

Is my understanding correct?
If you were Daniel, what would you say in real life?


texts: "I don't like bread" vs. "I like no bread"

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In a comment to another question/answer I've been said that "I like no bread" means "I don't like any kind of bread" and is different in meaning from "I don't like bread".

Unfortunately, I don't understand the difference in meaning between the two sencences.
Could you please explain?


texts: Let's say someone said, "I didn't visit him yesterday.". As a response to that, can I say "You  should have." to mean "You should have visited him."?


texts:
Which form of these two sentences is correct?

  Mike finds your bag, but is disappointed that you have no apples left.

  Mike finds your bag, but gets disappointed that you have no apples left.


texts: "We are planned for audit on Friday" vs. "We planned for audit on Friday"

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Can anyone please let me know the difference between these two sentences?

We are planned for audit on Friday.
We planned for audit on Friday.

Which one is correct, or are both wrong?


texts: Uses of "have you had" and "did you have"

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When to use have you had and did you have in sentence?

e.g.

1) To ask some if he had his lunch or not?

Have you had your lunch?

Or

Did you have your lunch?

2) To ask some if he faced this situation in past or not?

Have you had this situation when you were doing this?

Or

Did you have this situation when you were doing this?


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"I'm going back home"

Vs.

  "I'm coming back home"

Assuming that both sound natural and are commonly used in speaking, is the difference between them that the first sentence is supposed to be said when I'm talking to someone outside (Friend: "What are you doing? Me: I'm going back home now.") while the second is supposed to be said when I'm talking to someone that I found at home, i.e. wife, children, parents etc. (Wife: "What are you doing?" Me: I'm coming back home.")?


texts:
In Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004) movie, Tom says to Harry Potter about Hedwig, an owl:

Tom: Right smart bird you got there, Mr. Potter. He arrived here just
five minutes before yourself.

Why "yourself" instead of "you"?
Source: Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004)


texts: "I already was about to go to (no article /a /the) class tomorrow morning."

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I was told that it is possible to say:

  "I already was about to go to (no article) class tomorrow morning."

without an article after the the preposition "to" before the countable noun "class" in this example.

Well, the reason for that is not understood to me, while I obviously understand the difference between the articles "a"/"an" and "the" I don't understand the omitting of all articles here. If it's just non specific class we can say "I already was about to go to a class tomorrow", so why we omit the indefinite article here?


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I am not sure about this:

  link
  Although Halas filmed the pornographic scenes before she was employed at the middle school -- between 2005 and 2006 -– the ongoing availability of the videos will impede her ability to be an effective teacher, wrote Judge Julie Cabos-Owen.

"Ongoing" seems to fit an activity or event better, not a quality.  "Availability" is a quality.  So, is the usage in the example sentence wrong?


texts: having those ideas as "precise" as he did - syntactic role of "precise"

texts:
what does this "precise" refer to in the following quotation?

  "But then I looked at it and I thought that actually it was pretty
  good. I was very amazed by somebody writing a song and having those
  ideas as precise as he did."

The ideas are precise or "he" is a precise man? And also, can someone explain what is the role of that "did" in the "as precise as he did"? thanks.

The quote is from: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heart-Shaped_Box#Music_video


texts: Is "said unto me" the same thing as "said to myself"?

texts:
From Myself (Mother Goose rhyme):

Myself said unto me:
"Look to thyself,
Take care of thyself,
For nobody cares for thee."

Is it an old-fashioned of saying the same thing or is there a little difference between the two? Because I never heard unto being used like that.


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In my another post I said

  A: How about/what about a vacation to Hawaii? (suggestion)

  B: Great idea, but what about the dogs? (objection, potential problem)

  A: My parents will look after them.

I am not very I should use look after or take care of.

A post says

  'Look after' can suggest to keep someone from trouble, watching over them, attending to their basic needs such as hunger and shelter, as a sort of guardian. 'Take care of' perhaps has a more maternal feel to it in the sense of protection, love in certain contexts, and of course, care.

How about "take after"? Are "look after", "take care of" and "take after" interchangeable in my case?


texts: Do I have to add it at the end of the following sentence?

texts:
It's incredible how squirrels plant trees without even knowing (it).

Do I need that it at the end?


texts: Is there any difference between "careless" and "irresponsible"?

texts: I know that they are synonyms. But is there any slight difference between them?


texts:
Do both of the following sentences sound natural to you in AE:

  They are shooting in our direction.
  They are shooting towards us.


texts: Can I say "It's right answer" instead of "It's correct answer"?

texts:
In the context of proper answering on question, what is more suitable or acceptable?

  It's correct answer!
  It's right answer!


texts: Transcription please. What is she saying?

texts:
When I was watching this ABC news,

I could not catch what the female doctor is saying from 1:25～

"For every illegal price *******************".

Could someone help me please.

Thanks.


texts:
I was considered to have completed my part . Thanks to my team.

Or

  I was counted to have completed my part. Thanks to my team.

In this sentence,I tried to say ;There is a project which should be completed by my team. Everyone would complete a part of project but I did not complete my part but as people in my team completed the project As people in my team completed the project my teacher ignore whether I did it or not . Even id it is partly completed because of me . Can I use consider in this way to explain this situation? I mean I try to say the sentence below as passive voice :

  The teacher considered me to have completed my part"


texts: In one word, how can I say that something can be scored?

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In my native language, there's a single word that identifies an object as something that can get a score, let's say, from 1 to 10. I tried some translators, and I'm getting "scoring", but doesn't sound good to me. Any ideas?

Edit:
The word in Spanish would be "puntuable". I'm designing a database. So that word would be the name of a field in one of my tables.


texts: Using phrase "All the way" when giving directions

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When giving walking directions, which one(s) of the below structures would sound most natural to your native English speaker ears?

  Keep walking all the way down the hallway, then make a left (actually, do we use down or up here? assuming that it's just a flat surface.)

  Keep walking all the way (up? down? or none?) to the end of the hallway, then make a left

  keep walking till you get to (can we use reach instead?) the end of the hallway, then make a left?

Also,

  Would it still sound natural if we replaced all "then s" with
  "and then", or even "and"?

  Can we replace all "keep walking s" with just "walk"? Would it still sound natural? What id we replace them with "go"?

  What's your preferred way of saying this?

Thank you!


texts: Is "I bought this radio here yesterday, but it can't work" grammatical?

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—Can I help you, sir? —Yes, I bought this radio here yesterday, but it ____.

  A. didn’t work B. won’t work C. can’t work D. doesn’t work

I know we can choose D, and the given answer is also D. But dose C work?


texts: Past simple or past perfect in this sentence

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I was going to finalise my order but when  I saw that paypal had added 20 euros for the postage to France, I did not, because 20 seems to me, too much.

Will it be better to use past simple for added and not past perfect, I think past perfect is better in this case because first paypal added the postage then I saw it and was badly surprised


texts: Error Spotting :Whenever you are coming here, you bring a lot of sweets for me

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Whenever (A)/ you are coming here,(B)/ you bring a lot of sweets for me.(C)

This is an error correction question. But I think that this is a bad question because it can be interpreted in two ways.

1. As per my book it says since its a routine habit I need to replace you are coming in part B with you come [Whenever you come here, you bring a lot of sweets for me. ]

But I interpret it in a different way,
2. I am correcting it just by removing you from part C which conveys a meaning that I am saying the above sentence to any XYZ asking him to bring a lot of sweets for me whenever ( any day , today , tomorrow or whenever) he comes at my place. [ Whenever you are coming here, bring a lot of sweets for me.]

Am I correct ?


texts: how can I speak natively when i want to express the meaning of“ turn to the page that is 4 pages back from the last page？

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and turn to the page that is in the middle of the book？
These two expressions are ok？


texts: Why is the answer singular and not plural? (Phenomenon/Phenomena)

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During one of our English language classes, we came across this sentence where we needed to cross the wrong word out:

The statistics, carried out by a university, reveals that two-thirds of the adult population suffer from unemployment, one of the most important city phenomenon/phenomena.

Some students said the singular phenomenon should be crossed out, but the teacher said the plural phenomena should be instead, so the correct answer was "one of the most important city phenomenon". Why? As I know, when we say "one of the X" we use a plural word. Is it not correct? I searched this online but I'm still really confused, please explain thoroughly.


texts: Help understanding these cake puns from a CNN Student News video

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The paragraph below is cited from November 10th, starting at 9:39. Here is the transcript.

  Some might say it looks a little un-oven, or that its expression's a little frosty. But it's a cake artist's bread and butter and there's no getting a round the fact that it's one sweet sculpture, no ifs, pans or butter about it.
  This is CNN STUDENT NEWS where puns are a piece of cake.

I don't get the pun. (I've checked the dictionary, still don't get it.)

Please explain it to me, thank you.


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My friend wrote me this sentence and got me really confused.

  "Attached is the file you've requested."

Is this sentence grammatically correct? Why isn't it "attached is the file you requested"? I thought phrases like "ever since you sent it", "the time I went there", and "the person I talked to" always used past simple. Am I wrong?

Is it because the full sentence she meant to say is "The copy attached is the copy you've requested"?

Then is it possible to say "I attached the copy you've requested"?


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[a] She has been suffering from a lack of sleep lately. [b] Her
  problem is lack of sleep. ([a],[b] both are from Webster’s Advanced Learner’s
  dictionary)
  [c] It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes
  unhappy marriages. (Brainy Quote)

Why does [a] have a, and [b] doesn't? And why does [c] have a?


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Does "but" bring any undertone to a phrase like "all of you band members are good but the drummer is really awesome"?
Does it mean that I think that all members are good? Does it mean that I just want to highlight the drummer? Or does it have some different meaning or undertone?


texts:
I was reading an article in New Yorker. I found the following sentence:

  In his book “Vladimir Nabokov: The American Years,” the biographer Brian Boyd writes that, "as Nabokov ----."

Question #1: Would it be writes/wrote/has written?

Question: #2: Is the comma after that appropriate?


texts: How can I combine these verbs without repeating the object?

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I wrote this sentence

  We show that our proposed system provides robust and maintainable wrappers, which are not tailored to the HTML structure of the page. Therefore, they can be adapted to similar websites to gather and integrate information from various websites.

adapt, gather and even integrate needs different objects, some of which are similar but the whole meaning of each combination is different, then how can I combine them?

For example can I say:

  Therefore, they can be adapted to gather and integrate information from various websites.


texts: Why isn't a possessive pronoun used in some phrases before the word 'mind'?

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Is there a reason why we don't normally put a possessive pronoun before the word 'mind' in some phrases?

For example, it is not used in the phrases

come to mind
keep in mind

but it is used in some others such as

on my mind
slipped my mind

I also found an example in a book where it was omitted even in a non-idiomatic expression:

  A good analysis might turn the threats into stories so they stay close to mind as software is being written or reviewed.


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A similar question was asked here, but I'd like to add a few new examples and am seeking clarification.

In most scenarios, it sounds natural to say "in the 1st/2nd/3rd/4th week of a month". But below are a few examples where the statements use "on the 1st/2nd/3rd/4th week of the month". Are they exceptions (cannot see why they are) or a misuse of the preposition ?

  Example 1

  As required by the EPA and the New Mexico Environment Department, the
  Town of Silver City is preparing to perform lead and copper testing of
  its drinking water on the fourth week of July 2017 (July 24 – July
  28).

http://townofsilvercity.org/r/town_of_silver_city_NM.php?r=1,NPEBM

  Example 2

  This schedule proposes holding the departmental budget hearing on
  the fourth week of July

https://bloomington.in.gov/onboard/meetingFiles/download?meetingFile_id=1492

  Example 3

  We held a BBQ on the second week of July

https://www.nynjtc.org/news/appalachian-trail-bbq-trail-work-campout-rph-cabin


texts: Does using "yet" affects the context of the sentence?

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e.g.

I have not eaten my lunch.
I have not eaten my lunch yet.

How do the above 2 sentences differ?


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In one text I found this sentence

I just find it boring.

I know the verb 'to find' has many meanings, but in this example I do not understand why the subject I is before find. Can I say the sentence as:

It finds me boring.

What is first? What find who .... or who find what ... ?

Are these examples correct:

She finds me pretty.
She finds me she is a pretty girl.
It finds me my work is very boring.
I find them I am a bad guy.

Can you write me some examples, please?

Thanks for help.


texts: Using "Too" to disagree with negative sentence

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In a sentence I want to disagree with the speaker:

I can't speak english
I can, too.

Is right to use "I can, too" in this case?

Ps.: I found this example on 5minuteenglish (B and C say the same thing in a different way according to the website)


texts: is the structure "Either ... or ... or" correct?

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Is it grammatically possible to have the structure "either ... or ... or" in a sentence?
For instance:

  The name can be experienced either visually or auditorily or tactilely.

Putting aside the fact that this sentence might sound awkward, Would it be grammatically correct? Is it grammatically possible? And if so, what would it be the grammatical explanation?


texts: Cartoon/cartoon images/cartoony images/cartoonish images

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Could someone please tell me which of the following phrases is the best?

  They used real images instead of cartoon.
  They used real images instead of cartoon images.
  They used real images instead of cartoony images
  They used real images instead of cartoonish images.


texts: Can I replace the verb 'state' with 'express'?

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Is it possible to replace the word 'state' with 'express?' Do they mean the same? If not, what's the difference.

Example:

  I want to 'express or state' what happened yesterday


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Are the following two sentences correct, considering S-V agreement?

  All she has are a house, a car and a job.

  All she has is a house, a car and a job.

I tend to think the first makes more sense as the items mentioned together form a plural that requires a plural verb. This is even clearer if we reverse the order of the first sentence as follows:

  A house, a car and a job are all she has.

However, for some reason, my mind still accepts is. Maybe because it can still regard all as a single entity or a group of things taken together.


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I believe the below statements are correct, please provide your inputs if I am wrong.

  Having done the work, I went to home.
  Having done the work, I will go home.
  Having done the work, I am going home.
  Having done the work, I go home.

In the above sentences only tense is changed but my question is that ‘Having done’ can be used in all those tenses right?


texts: How to express "to show the inner part of one's lower lip" to show disapproval?

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The above girl showed the inner part of her lower lip.
It seems that people say "she curled up her lip".
However, the dictionary say

curl one's lip: phrase of lip
raise a corner of one's upper lip to show contempt; sneer.

So, I think "curl up one's lip" should be like the below picture.

How to express "to show the inner part of one's lower lip" to show disapproval as the girl shown in the first picture?


texts: What is hell for/to one is heaven for/to another - which preposition?

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Wanting to indicate that there are things that some people find abhorrent and others savoury, I wrote a sentence

  What is hell to one is heaven to another

. After a moment of thought, I changed it to

  What is hell for one is heaven for another.

Which form is the correct one? Or is there a third, more correct way to put it? Talk English suggest that the former is correct:

  Used to indicate the place, person, or thing that someone or something moves toward, or the direction of something:

But putting both sentences to Grammarly, only the one with "to" is marked as incorrect (it suggest removing the first to which is not the best idea).


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The previous sentence states some fruits don't respond well to 1-MCP so this is and example of that.

This came from an SAT question:

  Take Bartlett pears, for instance, unless they are treated with exactly the right amount of 1-MCP at exactly the right time, they will remain hard and green until they rot, and consumers who experience this will be unlikely to purchase them again.

A) No change
B) pears, for instance:
C) pears for instance,
D) pears. For instance,

I went through with elimination.

"A" doesn't work because the comma set means that the sentence should still make sense without the words inside the comma set.

"B" doesn't work because the clause before the colon should be independent and make sense by itself which I think it doesn't because of the comma behind "pears"

"D" doesn't work because "Take Bartlett pears." is not an independent clause.

So I chose C but B is the answer. Could someone explain why B is right and C is wrong?

Thanks


texts: Can present perfect be used for events occurred long time ago?

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I had a discussion with my mate about the usage of present perfect tense, and he raised the point that it can only be used for recent past events. First off, it's illogical, because we can't agree upon what is recent -- it's all relative. Now my ultimate counter example was the oldest event that can possibly be imagined. So, I came up with, "God Has existed at the time of big bang.". My mate argues this must be in the context of God still being existing -- but I disagree. Something like the following makes sense to me:

  God has existed at the time of big bang, but then got killed by the devil 100 years later.

I think simple past version like, God did exist... might sound more natural, but if you mention that as a fact -- rather narrating it -- you have to use the present perfect.

So is it legit?


texts: Multiple adjectives before uncountable noun

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If I say

  Sick, leave and benefit entitlement information is available here

Should I use is or are here in this sentence?


texts: You earn money. You also steal or launder money. Do you also "grab" the money?

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Literally as in the title. You earn money, right? You earn money by working. You can also steal money from a bank. So do you also "grab" money to mean that you steal money? Although collocation dictionaries that I have looked up do not list "grab money", I have seen it in song titles.

  "Get the Girl, Grab the Money and Run" (A hip hop song)

It sounds like having a strong negative connotation. So I looked up some pictures and here is one I have got:

I think at this point to "grab the money" means the action of stealing it but I am really not sure.

So to tidy up, my question is of two parts:

What does this phrase "grab the money" specifically mean? The action that you do to steal money or the action itself or?
If that were commonly used, why wasn't it on collocation dictionaries?

Sorry for hot linking that image, purposeprosperityhappiness.com


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Most times we hear that the letter A is pronounced as [ə], but sometimes I hear that it is pronounced as [eɪ] in American English. Such as the following sentence:
From VOA Special English:

She says governments must make that goal of a continental free trade area a reality.

The first A is pronounced as [eɪ], the second A  is pronounced as [ə]. Why? Does it have some regularity in it?


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Some time ago I've been showing my computer program to my teacher. Suddenly he began to laugh pointing at 'Please enter your name: ' statement. I tried to figure out what was wrong. He said it's better to use input instead of enter and the sentence sounds funny otherwise.

Here they're defining the word input using the word enter.

  To enter data into the computer.

What's better to use in such sentences as 'Please (input/enter) your name: ' - input or enter?


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Even if HOPE can take THAT clause like this, "I hope that you're okay", why can't it take any direct object?, but only used with FOR like this, "We are hoping for good weather on Sunday."

For what reason, can't hope take any direct object like this?, "We are hoping good weather on Sunday." In my opinion, it is acceptable because the aim of their hope is the good weather.

If you can explain it logically or semantically. Help me to understand it.


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In a letter to a university professor, I wrote "as a prominent Japan scholar with an ample knowledge of...."
But in retrospect, I wonder if I should have said "vast" or "extensive" instead of "ample."

My worry is that "ample" may suggest that something is just sufficient enough, not exceedingly good in amount. Am I worrying too much? (which I hope will be the case!)


texts: What do you say to a guest when they are departing your country and you are accompanying them e.g. to the airport?

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What do the native say to a guest from abroad when:

1. he is in the country and they are departing your country and for instance you are accompanying them to the airport in the car

OR

2. when he has left the country (e.g. in an e-mail)

a) I hope you have been pleased with your residence in Argentina.
b) I hope you have been pleased with your staying in Argentina.
c) I hope you have been pleased with your dwelling in Argentina.

I would be grateful if you could suggest me some other better alternatives.


texts: What will be the passive form of 'He walks slowly on the road'?

texts: I'm preparing for my exam and need to know how to convert sentences from active to passive. My first response to this question was Slowly, he walks on the road. But I thought that that's still active and also sounds a bit like Yoda. While giving the answer please give another example of conversion of an active simple present tense sentence to passive.


texts: Does “so” in the context give the meaning of “because”?

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SOURCE

  Normally we don’t think of space as having properties at all, so it is counterintuitive.

Doesn’t the conjunction “so” give the meaning of because in the context?

If we paraphrase it in another way:

A_ Because space is counterintuitive, normally we don’t think of it as having any properties at all.

Or :

B_ Space is counterintuitive because normally we don’t think of it as having any properties.

Which one is correct?


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I am currently reading this article, and I found a line,

  “The Administration’s objective should continue to focus on real structural reforms in China that address unfair trade and investment practices

Personally this is a bit hard for me to understand, am I OK to swap this word with these synonyms such as "focus on", "devote theirselves on", sort of words like those?

Thank you.


texts: "was" vs. "had" in "If I 'was'/'had' his age"

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“He is too old. He looks tired. If I was his age I would choose to do the same,” she said.
(The Guardian - http://m.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/feb/28/pope-benedict-xvi-s-last-day-in-office-live-updates)

Is it grammatically correct to say "If I was his age"? I'm not a competent of English language, but, even if I don't know why, I would have said that "If I had his age" is the correct form.
Can anybody explain?


texts: According to OALD and some other dictionaries, fastidious is pronounced as /fæˈstɪdiəs/ in BrE. But when I listen to the pronunciation, it sounds /fəˈstɪdiəs/ to me. Which is correct in BrE?


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Do they charge a fee for opening an account [or anything here]?

Isn't it redundant to use both the words? See this -

  charge (v) - demand (an amount) as a price for a service rendered or goods supplied.

And, fee is a payment asked by professionals for their services.

This could have been expressed as: Do they charge for opening an account?


texts: Question about use of me too and me either

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What is the difference:

-I want to drink something.
-Me too.

And

-I want to drink something.
-Me either.


texts: Is there a name for the large holes on some gothic cathedrals?

texts: Do you just call them arched holes? I doubt that's the word we use, but I have no idea what we call them. I am referring to the 4 large elongated holes in front of the cathedral on the upper part.


texts: A box BIGGER than... vs A BIGGER box than...?

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He gets a box bigger than the one I lost.
He gets a bigger box than the one I lost.

  Is there any difference in the meaning of two of the above sentences or those things are just about grammar, and they are the
  same in meaning?

Ps. I got the 2nd sentence by applying the postpositive-adjective grammar stuff. You can enjoy that matter here.


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To me it seems like come around mean come anywhere near to me in any direction, that is behind me, right in front of me, sideways etc. On the other hand, come here seems to imply to come at a specific spot near me.

So, what is the actual difference between come around and come here?


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Sentence:

  A set of deer antlers lying on a flat stone just inside [of?] one cave reveals more recent visitors.

Should we use preposition -of- in that case?

I have checked Corpus of Contemporary American English and have found examples of both usages:

  ...to plant another 20 acres of vines, finish building the inside of
  an on-site cave, and work on building a retail tasting room (Fiction)
  However, opened and remained blue as the inside of an ice cave, paler
  than the shell of a robin's egg (Fiction)
  It looked like the wall on the inside of a cave: flat and kind of
  scale (Fiction)
  ...-To protect the inside of the cave. " // He stepped inside, leaving
  the gate open.  (Fiction)
  Views outside and inside of Wind Cave in South Dakota (Magazine)
  Above, Black Hills grasslands and, right, boxwork inside of the cave
  (Magazine)
  You can see Bill Elliott's great photos of what you can see inside a   cave. (Spoken)
  So, when I am asked, what was your feeling inside the cave? (Spoken)
  At some point, we found a small river running through the inside the cave (Spoken)
  We were gathered around a small fire inside the cave (Fiction)
  About 700 feet inside El Sidrn cave, a research team including
  Lalueza-Fox excavated 1,700 bones (Academy)

I still cannot come up with a clear pattern why we are using -of- in some cases but are not using it in other. Is it more a question of style rather then a grammar? Or it has something with how speaker/writer sees things around and perceives a reality? Does absence of -of- make things sound weird/wrong for native speaker?
Thanks.


texts: Which one is correct, semester or semesters?

texts:
This information is for 4th and 5th semester?
or
This information is for 4th and 5th semesters?


texts: grammatical accuracy and meaning of the given sentences

texts:
How good are you at doing things when you're put on the spot?

How good are you at doing something when you're put on the spot?

Is the second one grammatically incorrect?
What's the difference in the meaning between the sentences?


texts: Correct usage of the auxiliary verb in a complexed sentence

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"Since my expected position is a Payroll executive, there will be some professional qualifications will be expected for applying that."

in here, I have used 'Will be' at two places, So Please clarify me if it is wrong or just fine.

Thanks in Advance


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The earth takes a year to turn around the sun one time.
The earth takes a year to travel around the sun one time.

Which is suitable, turn around or travel around?
 I found turn around on this link.
http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&cd=23&ved=0ahUKEwjf7O3u2cvQAhVEPY8KHQlXCE8QFgh4MBY&url=http%3A%2F%2Fforum.wordreference.com%2Fthreads%2Fthe-earth-is-turning-around-the-sun.694578%2F&usg=AFQjCNFxG5MM7-aMbFd4Vn_JrB_G7-9uww
https://books.google.com/books?id=3PGLAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA25&dq=%22turn+around+the+sun%22&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjD8d7h28vQAhXKOI8KHUORASEQ6AEIOjAG


texts:
This is my sentence

  XXXX is an Ontology Predicate with xsd:float data type range that indicates an optional weight for the items that the context is applied on if the time in which they are being recommended is inside the Recommendation Date Range. The value should be less than 1.

I am writing an information system report

That sentence contains many domain-specific terms such as Ontology Predicate, xsd:float, data type range, context, Recommendation Date Range ..

So I am sorry for that.

My question is do I need to put comma if the time in which they.... or not?


texts: Why is the past perfect tense used in the following sentence?

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from The Economist (https://www.economist.com/leaders/2018/08/25/the-way-forward-on-immigration-to-the-west?cid1=cust/ednew/n/bl/n/2018/08/23n/owned/n/n/nwl/n/n/na/146317/n)

  A sensible approach would be to allow migrants to get public education and health care immediately, but limit their access to welfare benefits for several years.This may seem discriminatory, but migrants will still be better off than if they had stayed at home.

I am confused about the way author constructed the last sentence. In my opinion, As this is a situation applicable to either first conditional

  migrants will still be better off than if they stay at home

or second conditional

  migrants would still be better off than if they stayed at home.


texts: What is a candy or chocolate bar packaging informally called?

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Many a time I wanted to ask my daughter to pick up the "package" left on the ground after eating her Snickers.

How would you say so in everyday English?


texts: Prepositions of time ranges including or excluding the endpoints of the range

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I came across a non-authoritative source (no link to source possible) that stated the following for time ranges:
between-and, excludes both endpoints, e.g., between May and July - meaning: June
from-to, excludes the last endpoint, e.g., from May to July - meaning: May and June
from-through, includes both endpoints, e.g., from May through July - meaning: May, June, and July
This is the first time, I hear that. Is this information correct?
Would this be the same for year ranges (e.g., between 2017 and 2019 refers to 2018)?


texts: Please help me which word to Insert here

texts:
Context: A blind man is firing an automatic rifle. A man who's standing behind him turns the blind man, directing the _________ at the captor, who runs out of the room to escape the rain of bullets.
What would be the best choice of word here? Could "salvo" work?
Thank you in advance.


texts:
I encountered 'humanity which ~' or 'human race which ~' a few times.

humanity and human race both refer to humans, but why do you use which? And how about 'humanity who' or 'human race who'?

Example sentence:

  By analogy, it seems to me unnatural and unhealthy for a nation to be engaged in global crusades for some ostensible principle or ideal while neglecting the needs of its own people; indeed, it seems far more likely that the nation that does most to benefit humanity in the long run is the nation that begins by meeting the needs of that portion of humanity which resides within its own frontiers.

-- J. W. Fulbright: What Kind of Country Do You Want To Be In?


texts: Considered most unbearable = considered very unbearable?

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In this sentence, does most mean very, or is it a shorter version of the most? Are both meanings possible here?

  Well, the diseases that human beings focus on are the ones considered
     most unbearable.


texts: What are the usages of "reflect" and "reflection"?

texts:
1) He needs a reflection of himself.

2) He needs to reflect on himself.

Are they both correct? If so, which one is more common in colloquial AmE?


texts: "A garage is the most useful present I have ever received." and others variations (grammar and word order)

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I have a little confusion. Which below sentences are correct? Could you explain my mistakes if they are?

As I understand, common word order are in the 1 & 2 sentences. But may be also possible word order is as it's written in the 3 & 4 sentences.

Please explain which verb is more appropriate here: "is" or "was".

  1) A garage is the most useful present I have ever received.

  2) A garage was the most useful present I have ever received.

  3) The most useful present I have ever received is a garage.

  4) The most useful present I have ever received was a garage.

TIA


texts: When writing "first day nerves" should the words be hyphenated?

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When writing the sentence "x will hopefully help ease those first day nerves." should "first day nerves" be hyphenated?

For the record I'm referring to nerves had on the first day of starting something.


texts:
Let's say you and your ex-playstation games mate run into each other in an internet cafe, which you haven't seen each other for a long time. Catching up with one another with this conversation:

  Buddy: hello there mate! What have you been up to? I haven't seen you for ages.
  You: nothing much, just got here to research an article
  Buddy: are you not playing computer games now? Man, you are
  missing a lot of great games, enjoyable and unparalleled games.
  You:    yeah, I can say that, as it
  has always been... from our childhood years and then on.(talks about enjoyable and unparalleled)

Did I use the phrase correctly according to the situation? I googled this already, but none of them are accurate and answer my question.


texts: I have been reading "the gioconda smile". one expression that I do not know well. what is the meaning of "country doctor"?


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Do I say "log files on bug ticket" or "log files for bug ticket"? Can I say this:

I am studying log files, generated after Ben on bug ticket H-201


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Currently reading this article, there is a line saying,

His is one of many unfounded claims against the company, tied to voting fraud conspiracy theories and levied by supporters of President Donald Trump. In response, attorneys representing Dominion Voting Systems have issued notices of litigation to far-right wing media company Newsmax, Rudy Giuliani and others on defamation claims, USA TODAY reported.

I'm quite familiar with the use of such as "levy tax...".
Which definition is used for the above bold part from the below Merriam's definitions?

transitive verb
1a: to impose or collect by legal authority
levy a tax
b: to require by authority
2: to enlist or conscript for military service
3: to carry on (war) : wage


texts: What does "it" refer to in "Just because it's mental doesn't mean they're a broken person"?

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A person with bipolar disorder isn't different in that.  However, in addition to those things, the biggest thing is that they need to not be treated like they're defined by their disease.  Just because it's mental doesn't mean they're a broken person, and that needs to be respected. (Source)

Shouldn't it be they're instead of it's / it is? I don't know what it here refers to. But if it refers to those who are suffering then it must be they're, not it is.


texts: handed down to them from teachers past - past - meaning

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If you were blessed with brilliant, enlightened teachers, your
  experience with grammar has led you to understand not only
  how to use it but also why it’s essential. However, because
  you’re holding this book in your hands, I suspect that may not
  have been the case. More likely, you were blessed with caring,
  dedicated teachers who followed a pattern of instruction
  handed down to them from teachers past. That pattern likely
  focused on memorizing parts of speech and diagramming
  sentences. And here you are, years later, trying to recall what
  indirect objects are and why you should care.

First of all, is this word used as an adverb or adjective? And secondly, is my understanding that it talks about teachers from the past who were teaching the teachers who are now teaching you correct?


texts: Ambiguity in "his son killed his mother"

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Consider that Alex is the son of Bob. Alex's mother (wife of Bob) is Caren and the grandmother of Alex (mother of Bob) is Deb.
Now Alex (son of Bob) killed Deb (mother of Bob), if I want to say that Bob's son killed Bob's mother [Alex killed his own grandmother], I would probably say (suppose I am telling this to someone who knows Alex, Bob, Caren and Deb and I don't need to repeat their original names)

His (Bob's) son killed his mother

This sentence sounds very ambiguous to me. It can have two interpretations:

His son (Bob's son) killed Caren (Bob's wife)
His son killed Deb (Bob's mother)

Is my original sentence ambiguous? How do I remove this ambiguity from the sentence?


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Actually, I got a reply from the author of a blog. It is the following

  I am glad it's of help to someone! Might be dated though!

However, I understand the meaning of the first part, that the post is able to help someone. But it is the next sentence, as per my raw guess, that the author is trying to say-

  "however it is old enough.."

I am uncertain whether the author wants to express the same or something else. Is my interpretation of the second sentence correct?


texts: Extra "the" in "In the evening, my mother and I cooked the dinner"

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My name's Elsie Jackson. I'm eighty-nine years old. I was at school
  eighty years ago! Every morning I helped my mother. We lived on a
  farm, and sometimes I milked the cows. I walked eight kilometers to
  school. School started at eight o'clock. I learned reading, writing
  and math. And then I walked home with all my brothers and sisters. In
  the evening, my mother and I cooked the dinner. We didn’t watch TV,
  but we played games.

SOURCE

Shouldn't it be:

  In the evening, my mother and I cooked dinner.

Grammar reference:

  We do not normally use the with breakfast/lunch/dinner:

  What did you have for breakfast?
  We had lunch in a very nice restaurant.

Raymond Murphy, English Grammar in Use, Fourth edition, Page 146


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I have a question about the usage of the pattern "identification in" pattern here:

  Three Marines depicted in the photograph, Harlon Block, Franklin Sousley, and Michael Strank, were killed in action over the next few days. The three surviving flag-raisers were Marines Rene Gagnon, Ira Hayes, and Navy Corpsman John Bradley. The latter three became celebrities after their identifications in the photograph.

The act of identifying the flag-raisers was external to the photo and after the photo was taken.  So, is the "in" in the part "identifications in the photograph" wrong?  Would "identifications from the photograph", where "from" implies the source of information, be better?


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I've noticed that with different words the words double, two, and duo work differently. Why so and how different are they? Are they interchangeable?

A double-barrel shotgun (why not a two-barrel or duo-barrel)
A duo-core processor (why not a double-core or a two-core)
A two-headed giant (why not a double-headed or a duo-headed)

Sometimes I also see the words pair and dual used in the same way.

A pair-legged creature.
A dual-color gradient.


texts: Did vs was doing vs had done vs had been doing

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I worked a teacher before but now I work a translator.

What would be the slight difference if, instead of worked, we say was working, had worked, had been working?

What does each tense mean and imply here?


texts: How can you understand complex sentence?

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I have read the following sentence, but I can't understand it. It is very hard.

"Ask for clarifications, listing the aspects of the question that are problematic and laying out why they are problematic. Follow up on the clarifications until you get to the point that you are comfortable giving a clear, definite answer. Alternatively, follow up with a clear, definite answer, laying out the assumptions you are making in generating your answer.
Think of people's minds as submarines. When you say that they are flat wrong, the reflex action is to get defensive. When they get defensive, their minds shut down, they batten the hatches and the submarine goes into a deep dive to get away from the depth charges. And they won't resurface until they are sure that the destroyers have left the area. In your case, the interviewer's mind won't resurface from its receptive mode until the interview is over. In this case, the interview is YOUR interview, so it's going to suck to be you.
You can't count on someone's mind staying open when that someone is being told that they are wrong. I, like many users on this site, have conditioned to keep my mind open when I am told that I am wrong, but I am not everyone. Telling an interviewer that they are wrong is playing Russian roulette, and all you know about that revolver is that there is at least one bullet in it."

Would you please rephrase this sentence to understand?