texts: What the first/second part of the day referring to?

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I heard this phrase in a weather broadcast on a radio. It says something like:

  on the first part of the day, the temperature is ... and on the second part of the day, the temperature is ...

My question is whether the first part of the day is referring to the morning or the whole day time, and the second part of the day is referring to the afternoon or the whole night time.

My impression to that context is that they are referring to the morning and afternoon respectively. But I am not quite sure about it. Appreciate if someone can help me with this.


texts: "I saw him crossed the street" & "I saw him to cross the street"

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My English teacher taught me that "I saw him crossed the street" was correct. But I'm not sure that the sentence is correct because I have never seen it like that in any writing.
I've ever read sentences like "I saw him cross the street" and "I saw him crossing the street"
In case that is correct, please teach me what it means.

And he also said "I saw him to cross the street" was wrong. However, the dictionary says the sentence is correct only in the written language and the passive voice.


texts: With or without a "be" when a verb in past participle form qualitys a subject

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Chinese new subway cars start operation in U.S. Boston

  New subway cars built by a Chinese company for Boston residents
  started their first run in the U.S. city of Boston on Wednesday.

If I make a sentence which add a "was" between "cars" and "built",

  New subway cars was built by a Chinese company ...

Is that grammatical correct? If that is correct, then what's different between with and without the "be"?


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What are the similarities and differences? When are they interchangeable and not?

I ask my question in general, but thought to offer an esoteric example, which I chose because its difficulty enticed me. Source: p 249, Critique of Pure Reason, Volume 2, by Immanuel Kant.

  If we only mean
  objects of a non-sensuous intuition, to which our
  categories do not apply and of which we can have
  no knowledge whatever (either intuitional or conceptual), there is no reason why noumena, in this
  merely negative meaning, should not be admitted,
  because ...


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Which one is correct?

  A: I set my bottle of water in the freezer.
  B: I put my bottle of water in the freezer.

Is there any difference?


texts:
What is the correct option of these two following options?
I'm talking about the beak of the Bulbul birds.

  Bulbul bird beak

  Bulbul bird's beak


texts: Sentence Understanding : "at certain phases of the moon"

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What "at certain phases of the moon" Means, is this a slang:

Jesus: The whole point of going into the desert is not eating bread. If I wanted bread I'd go to a shop. As for throwing yourself off a mountain and letting the angels catch you … Does that sound tempting? Or am I missing something?

Kay: Throwing yourself off a mountain and actually hitting the ground. That sounds tempting. You know, at certain phases of the moon.


texts: Is "revolutions" being used correctly in the following case?

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The doll fell inside the washing machine, becoming trapped in its
  continuous revolutions.

(Here revolutions means the number of "spinnings" that the washing machine has.)

Is this usage correct? If not, what's a better alternative?


texts: {I've been reading} vs {I'm reading} (present progressive vs p. perfect progressive)

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I think both

  I've been reading that book (lately)

and

  I'm reading that book (this week)

are correct. But I struggle to find a difference in meaning. Is there one? Should I avoid one tense or the other?

EDIT:
I know how the present-progressive is usually used, but it can also be used for things that are not currently happening. That's the point of the question.


texts: I pronounce "attached to" like "attach to" when the two words are linked and spoken a little fast ([əˈtætʃ.tə]). Is this OK? Or do I have to say [əˈtætʃt.tə]?


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sometimes I hear the word "Fission" as "Fishon" and sometimes I hear it as "Fijon".
What is the correct american pronunciation? do you pronounce the "ss" as "j" or "sh" ?

Also, What about the word "fusion"?


texts: "I did go to school" vs. "I went to school"

texts: During the 2005 Stanford Commencement, Steve Jobs said "Seventeen years later I did go to school". Is this incorrect usage or is there any difference between "I did go" and "I went"?


texts: British Punctuation versus American Punctuation

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I've learned that American English use double quotation marks and place periods inside quotation marks while British English use single quotation marks and place periods outside quotation marks.

  American: He called this phenomenon "the memory of water."

  British: He called this phenomenon 'the memory of water'.

But some media adopt another style similar to the following sentence. Is this style British or American English?

  He called this phenomenon "the memory of water".

Another question about American punctuation: Which of the following is correct in American English?

  Did he call this phenomenon "the memory of water?"

  Did he call this phenomenon "the memory of water"?


texts: I want you to speak English / that you'll speak English / that you speak English

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My friend just started to learn English and I want to listen to him speaking English. My question is what is the best / correct way to tell him it out of the following three choices (or more others that I didn't mention):

1) I want you to speak English (optional: already).

2) I want that you will speak English (already).

3) I want that you speak English (already).


texts: Is 'vertex' the correct term for peak (and valley) point on a curve?

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This is about mathematical terminology in English.

A simple curving line can have a top peak and a bottom valley. What is the correct term to use for the top/bottom point?

In my native tongue, we call it a toppunkt, literally meaning top-most point (although it counts for both peaks and valleys). When looking it up I have found the word vertex, which Wikipedia agrees with. Is this really the correct term?

Oxford Dictionaries doesn't seem to agree but only defines vertex as opposite angular points in a geometrical shape.

Vertex literally means turning point in Latin, so it does make sense. But from simple google searches, the word vertex doesn't seem to be used very often and the term turning point actually seems to be used as well.

I would appreciate help with sorting out the terminology here.

Note that I am aware that such a point is called a stationary point in 2D (and higher dimensions). I am specifically asking to the 1D case, though, where there is a special term.


texts: have difficulty vs have hard time vs have trouble vs struggle

texts:
have difficulty/
have a hard time /
have trouble/
 struggle + ing

Among the four expressions above, what are the most common expression in daily conversation when I simply want to say it was hard or tough to do something?
Are there any expressions that sound a little awkward in casual situations?

(ex- I struggled/ had difficulty/ a hard time/ trouble explaining the cultural difficulties)


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Example:

  To my parents, who once purchased a small LEGO set for a long and frightening plane trip, beginning an obsession with creativity and organization that continues to relax and inspire.
  Finally, a heaping third spoonful of gratitude to Jennifer and Hadden, who continue to inspire and encourage me even as I pound out words and code every day.

I specifically don't understand heaping third.


texts: Differentiating between the pronunciation of "woman" and "women"

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. . . woman . . . women . . . [audio source]

Women is still easier to hear than woman. /w/ and /i/ have considerable different positions horizontally and vertically in IPA chart, but for woman, /w/ and /u/ have almost the same vertical positions. I hear /wəmən/ instead of /wumən/.

What do I have to know in order to hear the /wu/ sound?


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Is it

  It is possible that several rules be matched by visiting a node

Or

  It is possible that several rules are matched by visiting a node

In Persian, after "its possible that" a subjunctive form is used, I want to know if it is the case of English too or not?


texts: "There was no way could I fall asleep again" - is it right?

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"There was no way could I fall asleep again".
It just sounds logical to me. Is it understandable? Do native speakers say that?


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'when shone through a prism, a beam of white light breaks into all
  the colours of the rainbow'

Is the usage of shone correct here? Is it an adverb clause?


texts: Words to refer to "starting level", "begin level", "entry level" of knowledge

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In the following sentence, I want to express that in smaller classes, teachers are able to pay more attention to the individual level of knowledge that each student brings to the classroom when they first start the course.

  There are more opportunities to adjust to differences in ... .

I have "entry level" in mind, but I think that's often used in an entirely different context (i.e. to describe the level of the course itself). "Beginning level" and "starting level" are other possibilities, but they sound a little odd to me. I also don't mean starting competencies, because that is more often used in the context of a requirement and that is not what I want to express here.


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I used to think that "come home" is  only used when you are at home and ask someone else to come back home. ("is only" or "was only" here? It always confuses me.)But then I learned you can say "come home" to anyone who lives with you? (Again "can" or "could"?)  So if you don't live with your parents, you can't say that, right?

But I wonder if "come home" is proper in this situation. A child wants to go home when he's still at school and he murmurs to himself "come home"? Or should he say" go home"?


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In Talking Tom and Friends, Season 1 Episode 5, "Magnetic Ben", when Ben became a magnet and got stuck to the garage door, he said to Angela:
"I need you to reverse my polarity!"

Immediately, Angela responded:
"That's disgusting!"

Which means "reverse my polarity" here must have a not-so-innocent meaning... I tried searching around, even on Urban Dictionary, but no websites mention this term at all. Does anyone know, or can anyone figure out the meaning of "Reverse my Polarity"?


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There is a sentence like, "She has changed a lot, and she is not what she was.",
and when it comes to make the tense of this sentence one more past, which do you think is better?

She had changed a lot, and she was not what she was.
She had changed a lot, and she was not what she had been.


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What is the meaning of used a call in the following sentence

  The President of the European Council used a call with Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani to call for a de-escalation of tensions after Tehran carried out missile strikes on U.S. military bases in Iraq in retaliation for the assassination of one of its top Generals.

 Link

Is it correct to use used a call, I think it should be made a call


texts: Can I apply Inversions to the sentences that include " When "?

texts: Like " When I got back home, went the lights out/went out the lights " or " When got I back home, the lights went out ".


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what is the word to use when I want to say that I rearranged possessions in my room: furniture and other stuff?

My question is about expediency of using the word "reshuffle" , can I use it in this context?

and what is the correct formulation? Should I say "I reshuffled the the possession"?  or should I say " I did/made a reshuffle "?


texts: what is the meaning of long-term enduring?

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As Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh recently shared with me, “If employees weren’t happy, they would not make customers happy. If customers weren’t happy, we wouldn’t be where we are today. We believe that if we get the culture right, then most of the other stuff, like delivering great service, or building a long-term enduring brand will just happen naturally on its own.”

I have problem in understanding last sentnece


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Here are a few new sentences I have written in my diary:

  Our manager was asked to negotiate with the retailing shops' managers and signed the agreements with them. These retailing shops will have to keep our cakes in good condition in their window cabinets. Because the cakes will occupy some of the places in their window cabinets, we need to pay each shop more than a thousand dollars monthly.

Because the word place sounds like it is very big in size, I want to replace it with some better word, but my vocabulary is weak.


texts: How to improve or get rid of an Indian English Accent?

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As you might suspect, that the only person who can ask this kind of question must be an Indian. What's wrong with an Indian accent, that makes it difficult for other people to understand. I have communicated with Japanese, Chinese, American and French, and all have told me that your Indian English accent is difficult to understand.

Can anyone tell me how to improve Indian English Accent or get rid of Indian English Accent. Please tell me how to improve specific pronunciation of alphabets, that can help other understand me clearly.


texts:
We propose method A and method B, which collectively enables
  smart exploration of search space.

  We propose method A and method B, which collectively enable
  smart exploration of search space.

Which one is grammatical?


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Consider:

I have not heard from him since he lived here. (Activity)

How long is it since you were in London? (State)

John is now with his parents in New York city, it is already three
years since he was a headmaster. (State)

He has studied very hard since he came to our school.
(Accomplishment)

I have learned to be dangerous upon points of honour since I served
the Spaniard. (Activity)

It is three weeks since you have been here. = It is three weeks since you were here.

These are all taken from a paper written by a Chinese college teacher who teaches English.
He said different verbal aspects in these since clauses could lead to different interpretation:

#1 implies some time ago he left here and I haven't heard from him
since then.
#2 again implies you haven't been living in London and I ask for how
long you haven't been living in London.
#3 implies he resigned as a headmaster three years ago.
#4 is easy. He has been studying hard in our school.
#5 is different than #1, 2, 3. It means I have learned to ... since I
began to serve the Spaniard and during the time I have served the
Spaniard.
#6 is an idiosyncrasy. He said that in the "It's some time since
clause" pattern the use of present perfect or the past simple makes no
difference in meaning: You haven't been here for three weeks.

I'm not very confident about his explanations, especially #6. I think at least in #6 the choice of tense does have an influence over the meaning.
And why would #1, 2, 3 have the opposite meaning from #5?
I'd like to hear what a native speaker would say about it.


texts:
Science is capable of wonderful things - but not always, and rarely as quickly as we would wish.
Science has capability of wonderful things - but not always, and rarely as quickly as we would wish.
Science has capability of doing wonderful things - but not always, and rarely as quickly as we would wish.
Science has capability of making wonderful things - but not always, and rarely as quickly as we would wish.

Are 2, 3 and 4 acceptable variations of 1, which is quoted from The New York Times? Or, in any case, is 1 the best way to word that sentence and the other versions are, at best, examples of sloppy phrasing?


texts: Can we use the preposition "at" before the noun (hands)

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I am a learner of English. Usually I use and see the prepositions by and in before the noun (hands). As these prepositions make sense when they come before the noun. But today I read an article on a news website. Where the reporter used the preposition at before the noun and it completely did not sound natural to me. So, as usual I landed here to get some help on it.

  On the news website:

  Ms Muhia says she would leave if her husband brought home another
  woman, and that many others would do the same.

  "Where are we heading, we are going to have many divorces," she says.

  Some men clearly feel threatened by such talk. Nderitu Njoka, who runs
  a men's empowerment group, says Kenyan men often suffer economic,
  legal and even physical abuse at the hands of women - and he
  defends polygamy.

  "If your first or second wife doesn't respect you as a man - does not
  care for you, cook for you, do all those things that she's supposed to
  do, then you're not supposed to just stay there and live a stressful
  life."


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Here is a dialogue from Dilbert:

  Pointy-Haired Boss:  Now let's hear what Dilbert did this week.

  Dilbert:  I unnecessarily duplicated Ted's work because you forgot you asked both of us to do the same task.

  Pointy-Haired Boss:  And how about Alice?.

  Alice:  You're three for three.

What does three for three mean here, or how can I parse it? She did the same task also?

I have not managed to find a definition for three for three, but apparently two for two comes from baseball and means "successful at both attempts".


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The lake was near bursting point as it had been raining heavily for weeks.

What part of speech is NEAR here? and WHY?


texts: via survey or via a survey? Which one is grammatically correct?

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I've found a similar topic related to "via the Internet", but I'm still wondering if you can use the phrase without a preposition - "via survey."

I conducted primary research via survey.

vs.

I conducted primary research via a survey.


texts: Using the phrase "the fact" rather than dummy "it"

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She doesn’t like it when you are so quiet.

Could you use "the fact that" instead of "it" that is used as an empty or dummy subject or object in the bold part?


texts: Meaning of "work of much labour and learning" in context

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"The Life of Franklin", by James Patron, is a work of much labour and learning which has fallen into unmerited neglect.

Q1) Was this work so difficult to write (by author) or it takes so much labour for a reader to read it?

Q2) What "learning" refers to here?

Link


texts: What does the sentence "Alma did not visit Edna before both Cleo and Dina" mean?

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What does the sentence "Alma did not visit Edna before both Cleo and Dina" mean ?

Alma, Bess, Cleo, Edna and Dina are friends.

Does it mean,
1a) Alma did not visit Edna before Cleo.
1b) Alma did not visit Edna before Dina.

Does it mean,
2) Alma visited Edna before Cleo or Dina but not before both Cleo and Dina.


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Can I use just "lot" to refer to a "parking lot", when it is accompanied by the place where the parking lot is? Example:

I park in the hotel parking lot. (correct)
I park in the hotel lot. (?)

It seems to me that the last sentence refers to a generic unconstructed terrain.


texts: Looking for expressions like "First sight memory."

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I'm looking for an expression to describe something like "first sight memory."

For example, if I remember the word interesting as intresting  because I got it wrong the first time I saw it.
And then, I say:

  I always spell it wrong because of the first sight/glance memory.

What's the standard expression of that?


texts: A child has been saying a sentence many times for 5 minutes, then now you answer: "I didn't get it", "I don't get it", or "I haven't got it"?

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A child has been saying a sentence many times for 5 minutes,

then now what would you answered:

"I didn't get it",

"I don't get it",

or "I haven't got it"?

I think "I haven't got it" is the best option because you have not understood since he started saying that sentence.


texts: Meaning of "Harry was never much of a guy for meetings"

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What does guy for meetings mean in the following sentence about a man who decreased his alcohol consumption?

  Going cold turkey hasn't been easy, but Harry was never much of a guy for meetings.

Source: Michael A. Stackpole, 21 days to a novel.


texts: Why 'receive' and 'relieve' have different spellings?

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Why they have different spellings although they have same pronunciation?(Iam referring to the 'ei' and 'ie' part of that words respectively)

I always get confused between them during exams.Can somebody give an easy way to remember them.


texts: Verb-subject agreement with "Which courses is everyone going for?" and "Which courses are everyone going for?"

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I sometimes get confused whenever there are both singular and plural nouns in one sentence such as:

"Which courses is everyone going for this semester?"

"Which courses are everyone going for this semester?"

The first feels like the correct one to me, but I was still hesitating a bit. Is it because "everyone" is the subject, and "to go for" has to agree with that? What is the official grammatical term for "courses" here?


texts: What is the meaning of the phrase "no sooner than"?

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1. He was no sooner graduated than he was on his way to California.

2.  No sooner had the plane taken off than I regretted not taking the train.

Above are the examples of using the phrase "no sooner than" which I found in some textbook. Why is not used Past Perfect in the first sentence as it is so in the second one? Would it be a mistake to write: He had not been no sooner graduated then he was on his way to California.


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What is the difference between sports and sporting when both are used to modify noun. We say

  Sports shoes, sports car

But cannot use sporting here

  Sporting country

We cannot say sports country


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"Singing teacher Miri Gellert is nearly 30, has lived at home for the past nine years (Vs. for the last nine years) and has had her share of awkward encounters." (BBC)

Is there a difference between 'past' and 'last' in this context?


texts: Do you say to a kid "Please don't stomp in the puddle. You are splashing my face with the water"?

texts:
splash [transitive] to make somebody/something wet by making water, mud, etc.
  fall on them/it

  splash something on/onto/over somebody/something He splashed cold
  water on his face.

  splash somebody/something with something He splashed his face with
  cold water.

  My clothes were splashed with mud.

  splash somebody/something Stop splashing me!

  Try not to splash the leaves when you water the plant.

Look at the picture

Your child is stomping in the puddle.

Do you say "Please don't stomp in the puddle. You are splashing my face with the water"?


texts: Adding the reporting subject in passive voice with reported verb

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Take a look at this example :

  Henry said a subject did something

Now if I use the passive voice to report this, it can go like :

  The subject was said to do something

But I want to add that Henry is the reporter, should I add "by Henry" after the reported verb or at the end of the sentence ?


texts: What does "modulo conformance" phrase mean?

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Standards version switches in the compiler page has the following text:

  The /std:c++14 switch enables the set of C++14 features implemented by the Visual C++ compiler, modulo conformance bug fixes and ongoing feature work (such as for constexpr, expression SFINAE, 2-phase name lookup, etc.)

I treated this text as: "/std:c++14 switch enables some set of C++14 features, including bug fixes and changes made for constexpr, expression SFINAE, 2-phase name lookup, etc". My practice has shown that I was wrong. In particular, "2-phase name lookup" isn't affected by /std:c+14.

In a topic devoted to Visual C++ I got an explanation, that:

  The wording you quoted means it enables C++14 features except for constexpr, expression SFINAE, 2-phase name lookup, etc., which are not yet implemented.

I neither could ask English language specific question in the programming topic, nor write a private message to the man.

Therefore, I asked my question here: why the first quote in this post means the second quote?


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I am not a native speaker. I wrote:
"I want to have more present the things I love."

Someone who is native speaker and knows much more, corrected me:
"I want to have more availability to present the things I love"
But this has a different meaning, it's not what I wanted to write.

What I was meaning is that I want to have the things I love, closer, easy to find, easy to remember. Is there any problem with my original sentence. If so how can express that idea better?


texts: What does 'pick up' mean in: The questions are picked up in the ... cognitive science tradition

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I'll reword the phase "picked up" as "improved" in the following context Please kindly point it out if I am wrong.
I'm curious about whether "pick up" has the meaning "improve". What's its etymology?

But what's distinctive about this course is that in addition to the contributions that are made by the philosophical side of the equation, we're also going to be drawing from a number of other disciplines. So one of the main themes of the course will be to think about how the questions raised by the traditional philosophers that I've mentioned already are picked up in the contemporary cognitive science tradition.
--from Transcript: PHIL-181: PHILOSOPHY AND THE SCIENCE OF HUMAN NATURE


texts: Is the use of 'trade off' wrong in this sentence?

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Plenty of evidence has shown that human beings actually have to sacrifice some benefits of the other creatures on the earth for trading off the development of human beings, which in turn proves that other creatures on the earth are regarded as fuel for the wheels of human beings' evolvement. (This is talking about animal testing.)

I did look up 'trade off' in the dictionary, but I didn't see any examples that use the phrase as it is in the above sentence. So did the author use it wrongly? Thank you!


texts: "Could it be" or "could it have been" when asking about the reason someone did something or something happened in the past?

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Do I have to use the question could it be or could it have been when asking about the reason someone did something or something happened. For example:

  I can't believe Kate got the job. Could it be because she was lucky?

  I can't believe Kate got the job. Could it have been because she was lucky?


texts: meaning of the phrase "as far as" + a verb in its progressive form?

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Here it goes:

  Today I am going to show you exactly how a lot of people will improve their hip flexion as far as going into a physical therapy clinic.

It is from this video. It is at around 1 miute and 3 second. I have checked all the meanings of the phrase as far as, but I still have no idea what the coach was trying to say by that.


texts: "Hamlet was written by the William Shakespeare" or "Hamlet was written by William Shakespeare"

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I need some suggestion about the article in both these statement which one is grammatically correct ?

I was in school when my teacher teach me about articles.Its use with unique or big personality whether that was right or wrong.


texts:
Is the phrase 'being bid for' correct?

For example:

  All documents pertaining to the contract that is being bid for.


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Are these two sentences correct? Are they the same?

I swear if my mother didn't do that, neither you nor your friend could bring me to this place.
I swear neither you nor your friend could bring me to this place, if my mother didn't do that.

Does each sentence above mean the following?
'I swear if my mother didn't bring me to this place neither you nor your friend could.'

I want to form a sentence like sentence number 1 and 2 above to mean this: (I swear if my mother didn't bring me to this place neither you nor your friend
could.)


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From the song "I Am Australian" by the Australian pop group The Seekers.

  I'm a daughter of a digger
  Who sought the mother lode
  The girl became a woman
  On the long and dusty road
  I'm a child of the depression
  I saw the good times come
  I'm a bushy, I'm a battler
  I am Australian

All the dictionaries I looked in, bushy is only listed as an adjective.


texts:
Why does he steal things when he could easily afford to buy them?

What does “when” in the sentence mean? Does it mean “in what situation”?
Is “when he could easily afford to buy them” a time clause?


texts: comma question when a part leaded by the preposition "as" is set off by commas

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A high demand for AI technology as a means of solving complex problems is expected.
A high demand for AI technology, as a means of solving complex problems, is expected.

I have four questions on whether it's okay to add commas into sentence A to set off the part "as...problems" with commas.

Q1) If I consider "as...problems" as non-essential information, can I set off the part "as...problems" with commas?

Q2) Even though there are commas in 2, is "a means" still referring to "AI technology", not "A high demand" ?

Q3) If I consider AI technology will be used only for solving complex problems, is sentence 2 the correct one, not sentence 1, because the part "as...problems" restricts the category of AI technology by modifying it?

Q4) Have you ever seen "as" part set off by commas like in 2, in an English book or writing?

Could you please answer my four questions one by one?


texts: "Putting the number billion in a tangible way blows your mind" is this sentence correct?

texts: So I want to convey the message that the number billion when expressed in a realistic example that even a layman can relate to using the word tangible. And how can I say the same thing using the word palpable?


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I haven't been able to find a straight answer if I am properly writing this sentence:

  “What’re you staring at, huh? Got something you wanna say?”, piques the guard.

Soooo, I was taught to use a comma after a quote, but I'm not so sure that is correct. Any help on this would be greatly appreciated!


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I am confused with present continous tense in reported speech do we need backshifting or not ? and if we do backshifting should we backshift the second part of the sentences? ( "when" part )

He said ‘I was having breakfast when you phoned me.’

1- He said that he was having breakfast when I phoned him.

2- He said that he had been having breakfast when I phoned him.

3- He said that he had been having breakfast when I had phoned him.

Which sentences should I use in reported speech ?


texts: “Who is it?” vs “Who is this?” vs “Who is he?” In this context the gender is unknown

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Who knocked at this heart? Who is it? You are, indeed, inside. Who is outside?

The speaker is taking to her love that you are inside my heart, then who else wants to enter my heart/ an admittance to my love?


texts: Which tense does "just now" correspond to, past simple or present perfect?

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In my other post (Are "directly" and "immediately" interchangeable in some situations?) I said

  I went through a nice tutorial if and whether: indirect questions on Cambridge grammar just now.

Actually, I am not sure whether I used the right tense.

I was trying to convey the fact that I have studied the question a lot, which is what is supposed to be done before any inquirer brings forward a question.

Beside that, I was also trying to convey that I did my research just before I proposed that question.

In this context, which tense should I use to correspond to "just now", past simple or present perfect?


texts: "the problem was my nerves" or "the problem were my nerves"?

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They tried anti-acids, also anxiety drugs in case the problem was my
  nerves. In the end, they sent me home since my life wasn’t in danger.

Should it be was or were and why?

I tried using Google but I couldn't get an answer.


texts: Correct use of preposition in this sentence

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For Eritrea, a lasting settlement to the prolonged conflict on the Horn of Africa will constitute a major milestone, one that has come 25 years after it gained independence from Ethiopia in 1993, following a prolonged guerrilla war.

is it correct to use conflict on the horns? according to oxford advanced learners conflict over sth is correct,


texts: Does the collocation "~ is next" sounds natural?

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I need an English speaker opinion regarding following phrase:

  The outline of a document creation is next:

And after this phrase there are steps describing the actions to be undertaken. Is it appropriate to say "is next" in the end of the sentence like this? Does is sound natural?

Any help would be appreciated!


texts: What does 'I am feeling greatly humbled to think you are my future partner, darling' mean?

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What does humbled mean in the following sentence?

'I am feeling greatly humbled to think you are my future partner, darling'

humbled means :cause (someone) to feel less important or proud.
So does the person who said that want to say that he or she is feeling less important because of her or his future partner ?
Am I wrong ?


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I think I have read "accommodate for" in many places (and it actually has millions of hits on Google), but I am having trouble finding if it really is a correct or recommended expression or not. Looking at the definition of "acommodate" from Merriam-Webster does not mention it, and it provides an example for what I thought "accommodate for" was used for:

  4 : to give consideration to : to allow for
  // trying to accommodate the special interests of various groups

Is "accommodate for" correct? If it is, can I always use "accommodate" in its place? And is there any reason to prefer one over the other?


texts: Difference between first condition clauses

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Use COULD for possibilities in the future

I am confused is there any difference between the following sentences?

If it rains on the date of the wedding, we could have the ceremony inside the church instead of in the park.
If it rains on the date of the wedding, we would have the ceremony inside the church instead of in the park.
If it rains on the date of the wedding, we will have the ceremony inside the church instead of in the park.

Use WOULD to talk about unreal or unlikely situations. Does the 'would' in the second sentence indicate this meaning?


texts: What is the meaning of the expression two can play this game ? I have often heard it as a reply to a statement. When and in what context is it used ?


texts: Should I treat quotes from God as universal truth for narration?

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This is totally for my assignment not a theist atheist thing.
Actually the sentence I need to narrate is

  Lord Shiva once said, "I am responsible for everything."

Now Shiva is actually a Hindu god so should I treat this as a universal truth and not change any tense or should I treat this a normal quote?

So option 1 will be like without considering it universal truth

  1) Lord Shiva once said that he was responsible for everything.

And if I consider it universal truth then

  2) Lord Shiva once said that he is responsible for everything.


texts: What does 'choo mean in " 'Choo fall over for"?

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"Fell over," said Harry.

" 'Choo fall over for?" sniggered Stan.

What does 'Choo mean?  I suppose it's a dialectal spelling of some word, but I can't figure it out.

-- From Harry Potter.


texts: usage of the word "have" in "I have her"

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I  can't do with anything unless I have her all to myself.

In this sentence, what does have mean?
Does it mean control?


texts: A technique of using similar sounding words, instead of swear words

texts:
What is called a technique or method of using similar sounding words, instead of swear words in a sentence? For example:

I'm not going to invite that mother trucker or mother father to the party.


texts: A practice(?) I have ... since I was an undergraduate student

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I wonder what verbs can be used before the noun "practice". I want to say something like

  I am currently organizing a student study group. Organizing study groups a practice I have ____ since I was an undergraduate student.

What verb can I use in _____?(done, conducted?) Is it better if I change "practice" to something else?


texts: What do you call the roof window in a car? You know, many sedans had something like that. You could then stand up on your car and enjoy the view. I am not sure what it's called anymore. Is there a word for it? I am assuming there's a word since it was all the rage during the 2000s.


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The following is a passage from an article on the origin of the idiom fall off the wagon:

  The term references the water wagons which were once drawn by horses to water down dirt roads so that they did not become dusty.

What does water down mean? Does it simply mean to water like watering plants and the down is just there to add emphasis because the water pours downwards? I looked up the phrase and I couldn't find any definitions relevant to the context. The senses of water down I found are:

  to make a liquid weaker by adding water
  to change a speech, a piece of writing, etc. in order to make it less strong or offensive


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When I had gotten used to coffee, I went on a trip to Brazil to try many different types of coffee.

a. I think it means, when I was in the state of being into coffee after having gotten used to it, I went to Brazil

b. It describe the state not an action, so "When" is the same meaning as "During".

c. had gotten used is a past version of have gotten used(present perfect)

d. had gotten used is not working as past perfect. So, doesn't need an past event that corresponds with past perfect.

  When I got used to coffee, I went on a trip to Brazil to try many different types of coffee.

e. I think it means, The moment I got used to coffee, I went to Brazil.

f. got used to is an action verb, not a state verb, so "when" is the same meaning as "the moment"

.
.

What's the difference between #1 and #2?


texts: What do you have to say for yourself? / What have you got to say for yourself?

texts:
Which of below is American and which is British English when you want someone to explain themselves?

What do you have to say for yourself?
What have you got to say for yourself?


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In Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004), Lupin says to Harry Potter:

Lupin: Somebody did betray your parents...somebody who, until quite
recently, I believed to be dead!

What's the purpose of "until" here?


texts: My colleague sent a meme but i dont really understand the reference

texts: i know smeagol and gollum are basically the same person, but what does it mean in this meme?


texts: "Dripping with sweat" versus "dripping sweat"

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Is there any difference between these sentences?

  The hand that held the gun was dripping with sweat.

  The hand that held the gun was dripping sweat.


texts: Question about the meaning of “tie [something] back to the individual”

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Meanwhile Facebook said of the purchase: “The Moves team has built an incredible tool for the millions of people who want to better understand their daily fitness activity, and we're looking forward to the app continuing to gain momentum.” The app runs in the background of users' phones, using location data to monitor activities through the day. The free app has been downloaded more than four million times for both iPhone and Android phones, according to the firm. Many of the big technology firms are seeing money to be made from health technology. There is a range of fitness bands and smartwatches on the market already. Apple is rumoured to be on the verge of launching its own smartwatch with fitness features and Google last month launched software for wearables. But for Facebook, the purchase of a fitness app is likely to be all about new data which will allow it to better target adverts, thinks Alys Woodward, an analyst with research firm IDC. “They want to know more stuff about what people do and where they are. This is useful information even if they don't tie it back to the individual,” she said.Source: BBC News – Facebook buys fitness app firm

What is the meaning of “tie it back to the individual” in this context? I would appreciate your help if you could determine what the words "it" & "they" refer to when saying " This is useful information even if they don't tie it back to the individual"


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What is the antonym of ‘post’ in the next case?

  Somebody posted my writing on his website.


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Consider this sentence:

  I study medicine too, but am I ready to act like them in a similar situation?

Suppose you finished reading a book about the actions of some people in battle filed. Now you want to put yourself in their shoes. Should I use "am" or "would be" in the sentence above?


texts: What do you call the fact of ignoring certain facts purposely?

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For example, politicians say that "Medicare for all" is realistic without mentioning that their plan require drastic cuts to the military budget, which can come with very dire consequences. What do you call such a deliberate act? Is there a name for it?

For example:

  The politician ignored certain facts of the matter when asked about
  the financial implications of his policies. He was ___.


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Is it correct to say

  She's gonna ring the phones off the hook asking for money...

meaning that she will continue calling over and over asking for money. I've heard the phrase "Phones have been ringing off the hook", many times. I just wanted to know if this phrase can be used in this way also.


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I wanted to understand the correct use of "used to". For example:

  I used to play cricket over the weekends.

Here, I am talking about the past, not the present.

Can I use "used to" in present tense as well?

Please advise.


texts:
Which of the below statements is correct and why?

  This practice was brought in to prevent certain abuses.

or

  This practice was brought about to prevent certain abuses.


texts:
If a holy man reads some verses, blows on something that we eat or drink such as water, can we say?

  Water with holy words read over.

OR

  Water with holy words recited on.


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But you should only use ‘was/were able to’ with action verbs to talk about an ability related to a single event or incident in the past.

  Examples:
  I was able to surprise my teacher yesterday.
  Don’t say: I could surprise my teacher yesterday.

This is an excerpt from a site. (https://blogs.transparent.com/english/cancould-vs-to-be-able-to/)

I can't understand what that means.

Why can't "could" be used with action verbs in the past tense?


texts: Is there a phonetic change in the pronunciation of 'anybody' in this audio?

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Here is audio.
The audio is from video at 2:10.
I have subtitles:

Anybody want to log on to second life and go swimming? I just build a virtual pool.

I'm an English learner. For me, it's hard to identify the word "anybody" due to the speed of its speech. However, even I play the audio in 0.2x speed, I still can't hear it clearly, especially the syllable "dy".
Is there a phonetic change? Could anybody give me some advice?


texts: "I'm waiting you" or I'm waiting FOR / TO you"?

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What's the correct way to say someone about your waiting?

  "I'm waiting you"

  I'm waiting for you"?

  I'm waiting to you"?

I am not sure if I should use prepositionals, and if I should which of them is the correct one.


texts: Direct To Indirect Speech : Conversion of 'do'?

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I was practicing direct to indirect conversion, when I saw something peculiar in the sentences. Consider the sentence given below -

  1) He said to me, "Where do you live?".

I considered various sources and everywhere the correct answer was -

  He asked me where I lived.

My question is, why it wasn't transformed like this? -

  He asked me where did I live.

Rule says that - The present indefinite is changed to past indefinite, so shouldn't the 'do' of present be changed to 'did' in past? Why in such sentences we omit 'do'?

Now, consider the following sentence -

  2) The doctor said to the patient, "If you don't take medicine properly, you will not get well".

The answer was given as -

  The doctor warned the patient that if he didn't take medicine properly he would not get well.

Now why didn't we omit 'do'? What's the correct rule? When should I change 'do'? When I should not?


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Should it be

  This helps understand something

Or

  This helps to understand something

Note that it is not

  This helps us understand something,

although this is what I want to express.


texts:
How could you say this:

  ...where name itself contain "bad".

I am confused whether it will be "contain" or "contains". If the answer is "contain", then why?


texts: "Have you ever had surgery?" Why does surgery in this sentence have no article?

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Can't we ask instead, Have you ever had a surgery? Is surgery a countable noun? I guess we can speak of surgeries in the plural form. Why should we use zero article in this sentence?

Update:
What about the phrase, You will not be emperor. Emperor is a countable noun according to the Cambridge dictionary. Why should we use zero article in this case?


texts: What does "You know it to be true" mean? Is it grammatically correct?

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I came across this example.
In the book, the girl deceives and convinces the main character of her goals and at the end says :

You know it to be true.

I have a question, why is there no is here?

You know it is true.

I know what else you can say:

You know it is to be true.

But why is it just to be in my example? I will be glad to help you


texts: What's difference between 'fall on the ground' and 'hit the ground'?

texts: I feel like 'fall on the ground' means you fall unintentionally by mistake while 'hit the ground' means to get to the ground intentionally and urgently. Do they have this difference? Or do they convey the same meaning without nuances?


texts:
What is the joke with the sentence "Past instances in which I professed to like you were fraudulent"

  Homer: Ned Flanders, I mock your value system. You also appear foolish
  to the eyes of others.

  Flanders: Well howdy, Homer! [partition slides up] Ooh, thanks for
  dropping by!

  Dr. Foster: Hmm. He's not responding. [into microphone] Proceed to
  level 2 antagonism. [slides down partition]

  Homer: Past instances in which I professed to like you were
  fraudulent.

  Flanders: Oh, well, I'll just have to try harder. Heh heh. [partition
  slides up] Ooh! Thanks for dropping by!

  Dr. Foster: Ah, he's still repressing. [into microphone] Maximum
  hostility factor. [slide down partition]

  Homer: I engaged in intercourse with your spouse or significant other.
  Now that's psychiatry! Eh? Eh?

http://simpsons.wikia.com/wiki/Hurricane_Neddy/Quotes


texts: Schools are the only place or schools are the only places?

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Consider the sentences below:

"Cinemas are the only places where movies are being played"
"Schools are the only place where teachers teach"

My gut reaction is that "places" should be in plural form. However, when I Googled the second sentence with a singular "place", more results are returned with the plural form "places".
I am confused by it. Could anyone explain to me which one is correct, and why?


texts: Is this right to say "It has been 20 years since they have seen each other."

texts:
I saw this sentence below on the internet.
It has been 20 years since they have seen each other.
Is this right expression?
Should I collect like "It has been 20 years since they saw each other."


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The workers must struggle against Capitalism and against Fascism and must extricate themselves from their grasp; they must have their own independent policy. In flattering ourselves on having found this, we only ask to be refuted, corrected or helped by all comrades, workers and those who wish to live in honor and freedom and want to spare the world the insult of a new slavery.

Source: https://www.marxists.org/archive/rizzi/bureaucratisation/index.htm

I am not able to understand the bolded passage. I thought that "flatter on" is a phrasal verb. But this is not that case. Can you tell me please what "In flattering ourselves on having found this" means in the context?


texts: Can I use "but" and "because" in the same sentence?

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Example:

  One resident said the fine rain looked like snow but she couldn't be sure because this was the first time she had seen such a phenomenon.

Is the above sentence correct?


texts: How can you express when somebody makes a claim more solid?

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I would like to express that somebody gives a reason to believe a claim. Something among the lines

They fortify their claim by ...
They back their claim up by ...
They support their claim by ...

In German, I would say

  Sie untermauern ihre Behauptung mit ...

How can I say this in English?


texts: What may seem a grammatical function of "And indeed" and "while the wind beats against the window and the lamp is burning"

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"And indeed, what is better than to sit by one’s fireside in the evening with a book, while the wind beats against the window and the lamp is burning?"
  ― Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary

How may you dictate a grammatical function of And indeed in this? Why may it go former to a comma? What grammatical phrase may you dictate while wind beats against the window and the lamp is burning? May it seem an adverbial clause placing information on when? I thought a comma gets placed when independent clauses go former to dependent clauses?

May you write it like this?

  While the wind beats against the window and the lamp is burning, what is better than to sit by one's fireside in the evening with a book?


texts: Fix ambiguity in "You're Not Obligated to Work Until You're 30"

texts: The sentence in the title has two, almost contradicting interpretations. (1) that you are not obligated to do the task "work until you're 30", or (2) you are not obligated to do the task "work" until after you turn 30. What's the easiest way to clear up this ambiguity?


texts: Grammar -Negative Imperative ( Weep not, Strive not.... or Don't weep)?

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I would like to know if those sentences are gramatical. I believe that is an old-fashioned way of saying "don't + base verb", but I'm not sure

  Strive not  to be a success but rather to be of value  (Einstein)

  Weep not for roads untraveled (Linkin park)

Is this correct or it should be written "Don't arrive, don't weep"?


texts: Does -wich suffix (as in Greenwich, sandwich, etc.) have a meaning?


texts: Will the word 'proportion' take 'has' or 'have' for singular?

texts:
I have a sentence that goes like

  A large proportion of people _______ started giving up on the government.

I know here the missing word—has or have—has got to refer to proportion and not people.
So the right word would be has.

But MS Word prompts up, saying have is right.


texts: Word order - automatically before or after verb?

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which sentence does sound better for a native speaker?

A list update process automatically selects accounts that need an intervention.
A list update process selects accounts automatically that need an intervention.
A list update process selects automatically accounts that need an intervention.


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Michael and Ryan, like so many other veterans, sought help from the Department of Veterans Affairs. Eric Shinseki, the secretary of veterans affairs, declined to speak to me, but the most common view among those I interviewed was that the V.A. has improved but still doesn’t do nearly enough about the suicide problem.
“It’s an epidemic that is not being addressed fully,” said Bob Filner, a Democratic congressman from San Diego and the senior Democrat on the House Veterans Affairs Committee. “We could be doing so much more.” (https://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/15/opinion/sunday/kristof-a-veterans-death-the-nations-shame.html)

He dispenses advice, tinged with just enough humor so that the condescension is not immediately apparent. (“You know what you should do is, go out and make a billion dollars first, and then run for office.”) Or he chides, gently, “Why are you wasting your time doing this? You could be doing something really meaningful.” <...> (https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2009/08/24/the-untouchable)

We want to gain a more accurate idea of what our community think about the issue. Have you experienced a mental health issue related to your work in the sector? Or do you have something to say about how organisations are supporting their staff on these issues? And what they could be doing better? (https://www.theguardian.com/global-development-professionals-network/2015/sep/23/share-your-stories-mental-health-and-wellbeing-in-the-aid-industry)

Q) What does "could be doing" mean? Are they really doing those things in the present in (1), (2) and (3)? Can I replace the "could" with "would" or "should"?


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News from Bloomberg:

  U.S. tax reform breakthrough  Senate Republicans have reached a tentative budget agreement that is said to allow for $1.5 trillion in tax cuts. The agreement represents a pronounced departure from traditional Republican doctrine that a tax-code overhaul shouldn’t add to the federal deficit and underscores the difficult path ahead.

"a tax code overhaul shouldn't add to the federal deficit and underscores the difficult path ahead." I'm having trouble with that negative before and. Does this mean "shouldn't add.... and shouldn't underscore.... (both negative)" or "shouldn't add..... and should underscore...."


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Should I use "if there is any" or "if there are any" in the following sentences? Are they all correct? Can I ever use if there is any with singular countable nouns?

Please let me know if there is any problem.
Please let me know if there are any problems.
If there is any book that is better than yours, it is this one.
If there are any books that are better than yours, it is this one.
If there is any scooter or bike parked in front my door, I will throw it away.
If there are any scooters or bikesparked in front my door, I will throw them away.


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Lessons in maths, in history, in geography...Today we had two lessons in maths.

Is there any other acceptable preposition expressing the "school" meaning of a lesson? For example, OF, AT? ("Lessons of history" is gramatically correct but it means quite the other things.)


texts: "has yet" means already happened or not?

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“They are asking you to put your life on the line and not paying you
  —,  it's ridiculous,” said Donald Mihalek, 49, a 20-year Secret
  Service veteran whose own retirement paperwork has yet to be processed
  because of the shutdown.

I think here it means didn't happen.

By my colins bilingual dictionary

  No decision has yet been made.   尚未作出决定。

"No decision has yet" means didn't happen. So "decision has yet ..." should be means happened?


texts: What verb is appropriate to use for dream?

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What can I use instead of ... in the following sentence? I mean some verb that "make true" / "support"  my childhood dream!

Later on, in high school I was always thinking about choosing a field of study that not only increases my technological knowledge but also …. My childhood dream to be a business woman.


texts: How does ellipses work in these sentences?

texts:
In the book Angel and Demons, Dan Brown says under chapter 3:

The camber was dark. Medieval. Stone.

To me it looks like a very telegraphic kind of describing a space, which is very different than some older styles of writing where they describe a place in as much as a paragraph! Now, I'm thinking that since "dark" is an adjective, he could use those 2 other subsequent words as adjectives too, and wrote:

The chamber was dark, medieval, stony.

And it would have made more sense to me as a non-native speaker. I'm also thinking why it is better to write like he'd written, mixing noun and adjective forms. Is it ok in writing, to shorten as much as he had done ? and say "Stone." instead of saying "the chamber was made of stone."


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When referring to an industrial product’s manufacturing process we use the term fabrication batch or fabrication lot.

I would like to know whether there is a difference between these terms.


texts: What does "stereo" mean in "ıf you ever see your 'stereo' again"?

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After all you don not really want to hear that you will be lucky ıf you ever see your 'stereo' again.

"Stereo" was not clear when I checked it out by dictionary what it meant, the explanation was not suitable for the meaning.


texts: The Earth as seen from the Moon; why "as"?

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The Earth as seen from the Moon.
  The Earth seen from the Moon.

I know the first one is actually "as it's seen from", but exactly when do you put 'as' and when not? How are the two sentences different?


texts: Proverb - If someone inadvertently makes their life worse

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Let’s say someone takes a wrong decision instead of thinking clearly, which leads him to another wrong decision and on and on. I heard that there is a proverb - "give him enough rope to hang himself". This is done by someone else, whereas in my example the subject is the person themselves.

What is the best way or proverb to describe this person?


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Why do people frequently say:

“Got to run, I have class!” instead of “I have a class!”

Why is the article missing? How can this be some “class in general since” since the speaker apparently means some particular lesson he has to attend? Is it acceptable to say “I have lesson!”?


texts: How to write or read powers (math) by words?

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What's the way to write or to read power (math) it in words?

Does "powered by" is correct?

For example:
"2 powered by 5 divided by 2 powered by 3." works?

Also "What 4 powered by 3 does equal to?" is correct?


texts: Meaning of "failure on the part of loved ones to act"

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This is the context I saw the phrase in:

  Some people say that suicide is a result of cowardice or failure on the
  part of loved ones to act, but those people are, to use the clinical term,
  fucking idiots;

What does this phrase mean?


texts: Why do people speak quotes at the wrong position? (saying "quote-unquote")

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I very often notice that speakers who want to transport what would be quotation marks in written, very often speak the quotes at the "wrong" position. That is, someone who wants to say

  yada yada "something"

might formulate this as

  yada yada quote unquote something

or possibly as

  yada yada something quote unquote

In fact, I think I have heard the "correct" way

  yada yada quote something unquote

only very seldom. Is there a reason for that (i.e., is the "wrong" order idiomatic)?


texts: How to express my negatively positive response?

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Wow, awesome, wonderful, and the like are good expressions and indeed they denote that you are happy because the event is happy. But I just came across a weird situation!

In India, medical students, when pass their finals, are placed for the internship where they learn things from their seniors. The purpose of such an internship is to learn newer things that they might have missed in their previous academic years.

Heart murmur is one of the abnormal heart sounds and we medical students seldom find such cases. Now, imagine that the senior got a patient with such 'murmur,' and he then asks the fresher to hear it because the fresher hasn't heard it ever. Here comes the question of expression!

  Dr Anderson, senior doctor, after examining the patient : Ah, a clear case of heart valve defect; Dr Jackson, you should listen to this.  Dr Jackson, a fresher who has never heard that before : (EXPRESSION??????)

No word fits there! The event is not happy. He cannot utter wow, amazing, awesome, super... The patient is alive, listening to his utterance. The doctor wants to express something exclamatory but which word then? 'Damn, holy s**, nothing will work!


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Does it mean "in theory"?

"While population growth of about 1.5 percent has helped underpin the economy’s expansion for 26 years, that’s only at the headline level. Drilling down, the economy expanded just 0.2 percent on a per capita basis in the year through the first quarter."

Source: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-07-12/australians-are-divided-over-their-economy-like-never-before


texts:
What is the correct sentence?

He fell and broke his arm.
He fell and his arm broke.


texts: What to Call IT things when they are out of order?

texts: can anyone please let me know? What to Call IT things when they are out of order ? for example Xbox, computer, laptop etc.


texts:
Our little hero had some difficulty in lifting the burden upon his
  back; but he at last succeeded in getting it placed to his mind.

This is from a English fairy tale "The history of Tom Thumb" http://www.sacred-texts.com/neu/eng/eft/eft26.htm. What's the meaning of "mind" in this sentence? I think he can't place a burden to his mind because mind is sprite.


texts: What're the differences between these - There + "be supposed to be" or "appear(s) to be" or "seem(s) to be"

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What are the differences between these:
There +

"is supposed to be"
"appear(s) to be"
"seem(s) to be"

I can't distinguish those usages because those seem to be quite similar to me in meaning.
First, what does this sentence imply?

There is supposed to be a letter for me here.

Is it saying that the letter should be here because someone said it would be here? Or is supposed to be here?
And I know "seems to be" and "appears to be" are almost similar, but I think there are the exact moments when you use them differently.
Like which sounds more formal or polite or in which situation you don't use this, something like that.


texts: What is 'Arab Spring to Indian Winter' in the title?

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In this blog, I could not understand the title: 'Arab Spring to Indian Winter'.

When I tried to find it on the Internet, I found other phrases like Arab Spring to Arab winter and Arab spring to Libyan winter.

What is a significance of this phrase in this blog? Also, the phrase is not included anywhere in the blog.


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A) Which of the following sentences are idiomatic and grammatical?

B) Is it necessary to say "every day" if I used "commute"?

  1) It's 30-minute commute to my work every day.

  2) I commute to my work in 30 minutes every day.

  3) I drive 30 minutes to work every day.

  4) I commute to work by my private car for 30 minutes every day.

  5) My commute to work takes 30 minutes every day.


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This allows for the proper sizing of equipment.

What does the sizing here mean? Is it an action or a noun?
If it an action, is the use of 'the' correct?
If it is ok to use the with an action, then how about "stop the brushing"? (Stop brushing your teeth)


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This day would constitute the greatest challange our production would ever face.

Why is WOULD used in this sentence?

Source: https://youtu.be/ivfspJOAtBI at 12:54.


texts: "except finish his homework" vs. "except finishing his homework"

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When talking about some children, should I say

  he can do anything except finish his homework

or

  he can do anything except finishing his homework


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Do the weaving

  Do the hovering

  Do the drying

I found 'do the cleaning', ' do the vacuuming', 'do the cooking', but also

  Do some writing

  Do a lot of reading

I am confused whether I have to use 'the' or not. Sometimes we use 'the' and sometimes we use other determiners like 'some’, ‘a lot of’, ‘a little’ etc.


texts: which of the following words is more appropriate to use - native vs. foreigner

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When I wonder if someone is outlander or native people (especially considering province or area), can I use these words below?

Native people/aborigine/indigenous/local
foreigner/outlander/the people from out of the town

Like

  "Are you local? Or are you native (people)?"
  "Are you outlander? Or are you from out of the town?"


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I am wondering about the many uses of "if". These are the ones I know about:

Zero    General truths  Simple present  Simple present
Type 1  A possible condition and its probable result    Simple present  Simple future
Type 2  A hypothetical condition and its probable result    Simple past Present conditional or Present continuous conditional
Type 3  An unreal past condition and its probable result in the past    Past perfect    Perfect conditional
Mixed type  An unreal past condition and its probable result in the present Past perfect    Present contditional

What type of "if" is used in the following sentence:

"If you feel a little bit stiff (doing this yoga exercise) just don’t care about it!"

This doesn´t seem to fit into any category.


texts: "Plus, ..." at the beginning of a sentence. Is it usual and / or always correct?

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Does it sound usual to use "Plus" at the beginning of a sentence to say "moreover" or "furthermore" or it is a form to use only in specific cases ? I'm wondering because I don't see it much. (And I don't hear it too, but I'm in France so ...)

If so, would it be always correct to replace "moreover" by "plus" in that context, or not ?

Here is a simple example :

  I don't want to tell him the truth because (...).
  Plus, I don't like him.

Maybe is it better to use it when writing, or is it ok when speaking too ?


texts: Why is "are" placed in the middle rather than the end?

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I saw the following sentence structure in an American textbook from 2010:

  Metal A and B are much more brittle than are metal C and D.

Why is the "are" placed where it is (emphasized in bold)?

This sentence would mean the same thing without this "are", and it does not seem grammatically correct to add it here in the start of the secondary part of the sentence. If I really wanted the "are", I would have placed it in the end like this:

  Metal A and B are much more brittle than metal C and D are.

What is the reason that the former sentence structure is possible?


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I am confused with the following two sentences. Which one is correctly written?

the manner in which a person behaves
the manner which a person behaves


texts: What does "I have never looked back" mean?

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Being offered that job in Las Vegas was my lucky break. I have never looked back!

What does I have never looked back mean?


texts: In what instances can the word 'war' on its own i.e. without numerals and/or names/titles be used without any article?

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Negotiations broke down and war was declared.

War broke out between the two countries.


texts: Can we say "to put the leash on the dog"? or Do we always have to say "to put the dog on the leash"?

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People say "Dogs must be kept on a lead (leash)" in the dictionary.

on (prep)
5 ATTACHED attached to or hanging from something
She hung her coat on a hook.
Dogs must be kept on a lead (or leash) at all times.

The dictionary also says "It's as if somebody put June Cleaver's pearl necklace and apron on Madonna.", so I reckon "to put a necklace on somebody" is a valid construction, thus I think "to put the necklace on the dog" is valid.
Now, a leash and a necklace look similar because both have a round piece that can be put around the dog neck except that a leash also has a long rope connecting to that round piece for the dog's owner to hold.
Say, now the dog is wearing nothing and you want to prepare for the dog for a walk.
Can we say "to put the leash on the dog" the same way we say "to put the necklace on the dog"?
But the dictionary says "to keep the dog on the leash" so I am not sure if we always have to say "to put the dog on the leash"?
Very confusing?
Note: we can say "to put the collar on the dog" but you can hook a rope with a hook to the collar and turn "the collar & the rope" to a thing that can be used like a leash. That is even more confusing.


texts: How to talk about putting water in the freezer to become ice?

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I have to tell the child that I have put the water in the freezer and after some time it will convert into ice.

I say:

  I have put water in the freezer for ice to set.

Does "for ice to set" make sense here?

What is a short way to convey the conversion process of ice to water?


texts: What is the meaning of a drag on profit ?

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But Intel’s failures in memory were becoming a drag on profits

According to the free dictionary

  Drag on:

  Last unnecessarily long
  Proceed for an extended period of time

I think That meaning doesn't apply to the previous context, And i guessed that it may mean either a burden or a curse but i'm not sure about that.

So what do you think it means here?


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I searched in dictionary and it returned "in its present condition". Here is the corresponding example:

  the country would struggle, as it stands, to host the next World Cup

Can I simply replace it with "now"? More examples will be appreciated.


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1- I am saying that alcohol made you more susceptible to infection,
  as did AZT. (AZT is an antiretroviral  drug.) (Original, from a dialogue in a movie)

  2- I am saying that alcohol made you more susceptible to infection,
  as AZT did.

  3- No one understood the gift of life as you did. (Source)

  4- No one understood the gift of life, as did you.

I don't understand when to invert the subject- verb order. Can I use the sentence 2 instead of 1? or 4 instead of 3? Is there a difference in meaning between and 1  and 2 or 3 and 4?


texts: Using "could" and "couldn't" to express permission in the past

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1.A As a child, I was allowed to watch as much television on Saturday and Sunday mornings as I pleased.
1.B As a child, I could watch as much television on Saturday and Sunday mornings as I pleased.
2.A As a child, I wasn't allowed to watch as much television on Saturday and Sunday mornings as I pleased.
2.B As a child, I couldn't watch as much television on Saturday and Sunday mornings as I pleased.

"1.A" sentence is quoted from The Guardian, and is presumably grammatical,  while the others are modified in order to ask this question.
Due to the not clear correspondence between English and Italian in using "could" and "potevo", I would like to know whether "1.B" and "2.B" sentences are grammatical and, if yes, whether they have the same meaning, respectively, of "1.A" and "2.A".
In other words, how are "could" and "couldn't" used to express permission in the past?


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What is the use of had been in this sentence:

  We were assured that this had been an exception and we had nothing to fear.

I can understand that some event was an exceptional event.

So can I use "was" instated of "had been"? And what did the writer intend by using had been?

Thanks


texts: meaning of "to get their hands on one of their hand"

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Can anyone tell me please what this sentence means?

"As the doors opened for the launch of the gadget, swarm of people rushed inside to get their hands on one of their hand."

Thank you.


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I guess "meaning" is one of the most commonly used words on this site. However, I am not sure whether I understand and use it correctly.

Cambridge Dictionary gives this definition about "meaning"

  The meaning of something is what it expresses or represents

and gives this example

  The word "flight" has two different meanings: a plane journey, and the act of running away.

which means that, a word could have multiple meanings.

so far so good.

An ELL post says

  I think the two sentences have identical meanings.

I understand the sentence conveys that those two sentences mean the same thing. I don't understand why do there exist two identical meanings. Provided two sentences mean the same thing, there should be only one meaning. What am I missing? Could someone please give a hint? Thanks in advance.


texts: Comma needed in the sentence "I sold the ring that I bought for 25$ from one of my friends a few years ago for 5$ "?

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My original sentence is

I sold the ring that I bought for 25$ from one of my friends a few years ago for 5$.

I mean that

I sold, for 5$, the ring that I bought for 25$ from one of my friends a few years ago.

While I want to keep "for 5$" at the end, can I write the first sentence or should I use a comma like

I sold the ring that I bought for 25$ from one of my friends a few years ago , for 5$


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I have done all my homework = There is no more homework to be done.

I am tired because i have done a lot of homework. "a lot" is a quantity, which requires present perfect simple.

Is it possible to say: I am tired because I have done all my homework? Can "all" be seen as a quantity or does "have done all" always mean that there is nothing left to do?

I am tired because I have been doing my homework. It is the activity that made me tired, so present perfect continuous is used. Can the continuous be used with a quantity, for example:
I am tired because I have been doing all my homework, or lots of homework?


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1) If I had found a good house , I would have bought one.
2) I would have bought a house if I had found a good one.


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The following is from The African Queen by C. S. Forester

  ... not that Von Hanneken and his troops had descended upon the place
  and had swept off the entire village, convert and heathen alike, to be
  soldiers or bearers in the Army of German Central Africa, which he
  was assembling.

I looked up the word 'bearer' and googled, which produced 'standard bearer' and 'stretcher bearer' for the military. They wear uniforms and they are soldiers, part of an army and doing different duties. The bearers don't have the meaning of soldiers in this context?


texts: Is the expression "When the temperature is less than 15℃ and not less than 10℃...." is unnatural?

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One of the English textbooks I have says as follows:

  "2 ≤" can be written: "greater than or equal to 2", "not less than 2",
  "2 or more"

  "≤ 5" can be written: "less than or equal to 5", "not more than 5", "5
  or less"

The book also says that in the case of "2 ≤ X ≤ 5", it is not appropriate to combine these expressions because such combinations are unwieldy and unnatural in English, and that "2 ≤ X ≤ 5" should be written as 2-5 (inclusive).

I would like to know whether my example written in the Title" When the temperature is less than 15℃ and not less than 10℃, ..." is unnatural.


texts: What can be used instead of the word 'depressed'?

texts: I heard that 'depressed' is used for serious conditions such as melancholiacs. Then what word could be used for daily lives?


texts: Can continous tense be used with "after" or "before"?

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I have searched a bunch of grammar websites, and they all say continous tense can be used with "when" or "while", but they did not mention if it can be used with "after" or "before". Could somebody help me with this??
I have found some examples on the net but I am not sure about their correctness.

I was doing homework before I played video games.
I was doing just fine before you came.
I was planning to do so after you came back from your trip to the ancient temple.


texts: What's a more formal way of saying "a bit of a stretch"

texts: Say you've just read an online discussion post and want to comment on the fact that the writer has jumped from point A to point B without attempting to convince of the validity of the connection. What could you write on that would be more refined than "that's a bit of a stretch"? I should mention that I don't have continued interest in understanding their reasoning and am looking for no more than another way to say "that's a bit of a stretch."


texts: Why the Second Person pronouns for the First Person?

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Context: Martha, an eighth grade student and the protagonist of Marta Salinas' story 'The Scholarship Jacket', asks her grandpa for fifteen dollars to pay for the scholarship jacket.
The grandpa asks Martha, 'what does a scholarship jacket mean?'
Martha replies, 'It means you've earned it by having the highest grades for eight years and that's why they're giving it to you'.
Questions: Why did Martha use the Second Person pronouns instead of the First Person ones in her reply?
Is there any technical term (rhetorical device) for this kind of usage?


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In the movie Dead Silence, a man says to a woman:

  Yeah, but then you always have been a little feisty, my girl.

In this case, why does he use "always have been" rather than "be always":

  Yeah, but then you are always a little feisty, my girl.


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I've already googled this one deliberate offence, BUT, the website is indicating it as a doing in politics/online trolling. On the other hand, I'm putting the exact example here:

  Insulting can be deliberately offensive to another student.

Does this mean as:

very offensive
or well-executed/very successful attempt of insulting another.

P.S: I think this will be a useful reference.


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I think be on the way up is the correct usage, but in the following sentence

  He wrote: “Proud to be here but this wouldn’t be my list. So many films which are my favourites can’t be below my film.. and The Dark Knight deserves to be way up. The number 1 film in the list I totally agree with. That’s my absolute favourite of the 21st century.

Is this used correctly?


texts: Is "flies off" natural when talking about a cut off arm

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She strikes him with the lightsaber and his arm flies off.

Is "flies off" natural here?


texts: What does "shortly" mean in this context

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I am reading this sentence:

  Ms. Clinton is expected to visit the early voting states of Iowa and New Hampshire shortly with a message of economic equality. She says, “So I’m hitting the road to earn your vote. Because it’s your time. And I hope you’ll join me in this journey.

what does shortly mean in that sentence please?

Does it mean that the visit of Ms. Clinton to those two states are shortly? or her message for them is a short message? or what?

Thanks


texts: How can I replace "more and more" in this sentence?

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I'm pretty sure "more and more" is quite informal but I can't think of anything better.

  ...to warn readers that if you give someone a taste of power, they will want more and more until...


texts: “during his freshman and sophomore {year/years}”

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Should year be singular or plural in the following example?

  As a bass fisherman, during his freshman and sophomore year, Bob was challenged by his lack of experience in the fishing arena but never gave up.


texts: What do "that" and "it" in "That's it" refer to?

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What do "that" and "it"in the following sentence refer to ?

  Schoolwork is almost everything, so we study hard and that's it.


texts: Breakfast + lunch = brunch ; lunch + dinner = linner ; breakfast + lunch + dinner =?

texts: Is there any word to designate a meal that serves as breakfast, lunch and dinner? (i.e. only meal of the day)


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Which of these is correct? or both are correct?

a) I live in the house that my friend sold to me.
b) I live in the house my friend sold to me.

Is it ungrammatical to not put 'that' in the sentence?

Or are there certain rules explaining about when we should and shouldn't put the relative pronoun 'that'?


texts: "who knew what long-dead past" referring to in this context

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Five different voices behind him bellowed, "REDUCTO!" Five curses flew in five different directions and the shelves opposite them exploded as they hit; the towering structure swayed as a hundred glass spheres burst apart, pearly-white figures unfurled into the air and floated there, their voices echoing from who knew what long-dead past amid the torrent of crashing glass and splintered wood now raining down upon the floor -

  Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

I don't quite get what "who knew what long-dead past" refers to in this context. Any ideas?


texts: " will + verb " against " verb + ing " in terms of future time?

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Would you clarify which kind of given forms and when native speakers choose in order to speak about future. For example :
1) I'm doing it (I'm fixing the car tomorrow)
2) I'll do it (I'll fix the car tomorrow)
Are there any differences in meaning or grammar usage?
Are they exactly the same and interchangeable?


texts: "I … like to watch cities and villages just drifting back"

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I like traveling by train and like to watch cities and villages just drifting back when I look in the window from the upper foldable berth.

I ask if it is right in italics.


texts: Meaning of "charge" in a specific context

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Once upon a time I read a novel by R.A.Heinlein: "The Moon is a harsh mistress" and I was puzzled by the meaning of a remark. Today a bit of conversation popped it back.
Here follows the complete paragraph to give contxt:

I liked Prof. He would teach anything.
Wouldn’t matter that he knew nothing about it; if pupil wanted it, he would smile and set a price, locate materials, stay a few lessons ahead. Or barely even if he found it tough—never pretended to know more than he did.
Took algebra from him and by time we reached cubics I corrected his probs as often as he did mine—but he charged into each lesson gaily.

The puzzling (for me, of course) word is "charged" in last sentence.
I can translate it in two very different ways:

"He happily asked for money (in spite of not knowing more than the learner)"
"He would boldly march on (in spite of difficulties and age)"

By phrase structure I always favored (2), but the next paragraph is:

I started electronics under him, soon was teaching him. So he stopped charging and we went along together until he dug up an engineer willing to daylight for extra money—whereupon we both paid new teacher and Prof tried to stick with me, thumb-fingered and slow, but happy to be stretching his mind.

... so I wonder.
What is the right interpretation? Why?
How would You minimally rephrase it to get the "other" meaning?


texts: "would be" or "would have been" nothing to speak of

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Suppose we have two sentences:

  There would have been nothing to speak about, if only behind his passion to take the whole world to court one could not trace a motivation far more titillating than your run-of-the mill paranoia.

and

  There would be nothing to speak about, if only behind his passion to take the whole world to court one could not trace a motivation far more titillating than your run-of-the mill paranoia.

Are both acceptable? What is the difference between them? Is it that the first refers to the past? Is it more "narrow", referring to only that particular instance in the past? Or does it imply that someone did speak about something or did something while there was no need to?

Shouldn't the first option really run thus to be a grammatical third conditional:

  There would have been nothing to speak about, if only behind his passion to take the whole world to court one hadn't been able to trace a motivation far more titillating than your run-of-the mill paranoia.


texts: They agreed not to do it just to avoid AN / THE unpleasant process

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The sentence is:

  All the children of my class agreed not to learn poetry by heart just to
  avoid an / the unpleasant process.

I can rewrite dividing it into two sentences. Article "a" is obvious here:

  All the children of my class agreed not to learn poetry by heart. We
  all know that learning is a difficult process.

But should I use article "the" in the single sentence because process has already been mentioned as learning?


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I am finding difficulty to understand this rule

  the relative pronoun is generally omitted when it would be in the accusative case as:

Few and short were the prayers ^ we said.

Men must reap the thing ^ they sow.


texts: Difference between "suspected", "a suspect" and "suspicious"

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What is the difference in meaning  between

suspected: have an idea or impression of the existence, presence, or truth of (something) without certain proof.
suspicious having or showing a cautious distrust of someone or something.
a suspect a person thought to be guilty of a crime or offence:

All definitions taken from Oxford Dictionaries

Could you give me some examples please?


texts: become as well acquainted . . . as depended on

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The following is an extract from Frankenstein by Mary Shelley. I'd like to know whether the use of "as well . . . as" is natural in current English and what it means here.

When I had arrived at this point, and had become as well acquainted with the theory and practice of natural philosophy as depended on the lessons of any of the professors at Ingolstadt, my residence there being no longer conducive to my improvements, I thought of returning to my friends and my native town,
when an incident happened that protracted my stay.


texts: Difference in use between "geodetic" and "geodesic" terms

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I usually write questions and answers on https://gis.stackexchange.com.

English is not my first language, and every time I have to write any of these terms I come back into doubt about which of the two corresponds.

A geodesic, can be understood as the shortest path (contained in a curved surface) between two points. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geodesic)

But I have the problem when I have to refer to something related to geodesy (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geodesy), e.g., "geodesic distance", "geodesic calculations", "geodesic math", "direct geodetic problem", "geodetic datum", "geodetic coordinates".

I don't know which of the two terms I should use.

What is specifically the use that should be given to the terms "geodetic" and "geodesic"?


texts:
What is the difference between on the premises and at the premises.
Example:
There was no evidence to show that the recycling activity was carried out on the premises/ at the premises.


texts: Is this verbless clause 'when a student at Harvard' grammatically correct?

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Someone mentioned that "with children's books and DVDs equally second at 20% each" in the following sentence from another question is a verbless adverbial clause.

  In 2005, fiction made up the largest proportion of items borrowed at 35% with children's books and DVDs equally second at 20% each.

Actually, I would like to ask if it is or it is not qualified as a verbless adverbial clause there, but I don't want to make that question lose its focus. (If you can clear that point here too, I will be grateful. To me, it looks like one.)

So I searched for the definition of verbless adverbial clause, and this link at About.com came up. I was surprised to see these examples there,

  The following sentences contain further examples of verbless clauses (italicized):
  (38) He considered the girl a good student.
  (39) Whenever in trouble, Bill rang his girl-friend.
  (40) He married her when a student at Harvard.

I've no problems with other examples but (40). The (40) sounds very odd. It was mentioned that the examples were taken from (Herman Wekker and Liliane M. V. Haegeman, A Modern Course in English Syntax. Taylor & Francis, 1985), and I could find its PDF at the Internet Archive, so I can confirm that the example (40) has no misspelling nor omissions.

Is the sentence "He married her when a student at Harvard," grammatically correct, according to today's English grammar?


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One should study hard.

What is the question tag for the sentence?

Should I use they , he, or one?


texts:
What does "pull the trigger" mean in football (soccer)?

11' Donald Love almost opened the scoring with a cracker! Pulled the trigger as he raced down the right flank and his effort sailed narrowly over the top! Moments later Gooch tries his luck but his ball flashed across the face of goal and wide.


texts: Shall used in the first person future tense (I believe...?)

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Would it be correct to say,

  "Well then, I shall be on with it, now shalt I".


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I am trying to understand how to use the verb must in past tenses.

Found a rule in "English grammar in use:
"You cannot use must to talk about the past".

But in real life I met a lot of phrases with "must have been".

As I understand - we use "must have been" when the meaning is close to may/might.
Is it correct?


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In 2016, Forbes Magazine named her one of their 30 under 30 in media and she was working on a book due to be published in 2020.

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/breaking-lyra-mckee-shooting-two-14436462

Do you think that the preposition "due" is necessary? Would it not be sufficient just: "… on a book to be published…"?


texts: Does "that's that" always mean "end of discussion"?

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I have started a question in the sister forum but that didn't get much respond and I take it as a satisfactory answer at that time but I stumbled upon this example of use.

  The two men both looked thoughtful as they silently walked back to São Romão.

  "And if I hired you," the tavern-keeper said after a while, "would you come and live here?"

  "Of course! Why should I stay in Cidade Nova if I’m going to work here?"

  "And you’ll eat at my restaurant..."

  "No; my wife’ll do the cooking, but she’ll buy groceries at your store."

  "Then it’s a deal,” João Romão declared, convinced that this was no time to pinch pennies. And he thought to himself; “Those seventy mil-réis will end up back in the till; it’ll all stay in the family."

  "So that’s that?"

  "That’s that!"

The "that's that" in this example seems to best to replace with "that's it" or "that's all", as in this situation it just means "is it everything about the generous deal?". It contradicts with the answer in ELU that "that's that" has to be used derogatorily in a situation that a person feels that this is all he can do or take on the situation. Is this a correct use of the phrase?


texts: What does "She ran up the stairs two at a time." mean?

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at a time

  separately or in groups of two, three, etc. on each occasion

  We had to go and see the principal one at a time.

  She ran up the stairs two at a time.

  He surfs the internet for hours at a time.

When we said "She ran up the stairs two at a time.", it could be

There were a group of children for example playing running up the stairs.
They divided into many groups of two.
Each group ran up the stairs at a time.
She & her friend ran up the stairs together.

Do I understand it correctly?


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a way of criticizing people or ideas in a humorous way, especially in order to make a political point, or a piece of writing that uses this style
  https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/satire

Above the phrase, What does 'make' mean? It is just 'to produce something'?


texts: In my native language 'PS' borrrows the meaning of the process when you edit a photo with the help of Photoshop. It could be used as a verb, For example,  'Could you help me to Ps this photo to make it more beautiful?'. I dont know whether 'ps' could be used as a verb in English in this way?


texts: "Bite me" is an expression used in a lot of TV series. Does it mean "leave me alone" or something else? Example: Someone tells Penny that she is stupid. She answers, "bite me". Is it an old expression?


texts: 'all the lawyers standing on the shoulders of the butchers to get a better look'

texts:
And if all the people who say they were there had really been there,
  then the dregs of London would have drained to the one spot, the gaols
  emptied of thieves, the beds empty of whores, and all the lawyers
  standing on the shoulders of the butchers to get a better look.

  Bring Up the Bodies by Hilary Mantel

Why would the lawyers stand on the shoulders of the butchers to get a better look? Is it because they got nothing to do since there's no clients?


texts: Is there any difference between the phrase "how is it going?" and "how is it coming?"?

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Could you tell if there if there is any difference between how is something going? and how is something coming? when asking how something is progressing? For example:

  How is your assignment going?

  How is your assignment coming?


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please add this record to the parcel if you have found it or you found it

I think both tenses are ok in this case but for me the first version is better because it has an impact on  the present situation . Am I right?


texts: Why are negatives often used in rhetorical questions?

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Examples

  Do you not think?

  Do you think?

  Is this not delicious?

  Is it delicious?

In every case, the questions are synonymous.


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A doubt assails me while reading this paper.

  We can define events that occur if the random variable takes one
  values that satisfy a numerical test.

I wonder if the above sentence is grammatical? I thought "one values" should be "one value". Or I am missing something? It is from a very popular course.


texts:
The case is closed now.
The case is closed by now.
The case has been closed by now.

What exactly is the difference between them?


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I have the following statement:

  I find it necessary for you to graduate from school.

Though, I can rephrase it:

  I think it best for you to graduate from school.

I read about "for-to-infinitive clauses" and suppose my second sentence to be correct. Why should I write "...it best..." instead of "...it is best..."? It just boils down to the rule: I mean it's so because it's so.


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What should I use is or has?
How to identify is word is used as adjective or verb?

Tree (is/has) fallen on my car.

My leg (is/has) broken.

People (are/have) killed.

Train (is/has) left.

As I know fallen ,broken, killed, left are adjective and should be followed with is.
But these words can also be used as verbs.

Please correct me?


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I am seriously wondering if I am misusing the words "example" and "case". To make sure I am well understood I will provide an example:

  Borrowing money isn't always bad. An informative example/case is the
  United States. If the U.S. were to borrow money from another country
  it can do so at a very low interest rate allowing it to invest much
  more in the future than less favored nations such as Argentina.

Here, I am thinking "example" may not be the correct word, because I am talking about a country as an "example" and then explaining a hypothetical situation. In this case, the country is not an example and the example is the hypothetical situation. So would you rather use the word "case" in here? Also, what are some of the common misuse of the words "example" and "case"?


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I know that the idiom, 'vanish into thin air' means 'disappear mysteriously'. However, I'm not quite sure what 'thin air' means in the idiom.

From this post, it seems 'thin air' means foggy air. But in this post, 'thin air' means the air in the high altitude. It seems both meanings work. It disappears into the fog or it disappears into the high place. Both of them give a sense of mystery.

What do you usually imagine when you read the 'thin air' in a sentence?


texts: What's the meaning of "beyond the apparent demands"?

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This past Saturday, I spent hours photographing some of the 14,000
  peaceful antigovernment protestors. It took me back to my experiences
  at the demonstrations over the lifting of the ban on U.S. imported
  beef after a case of mad cow disease in 2008. In both cases, there was
  much going on, beyond the apparent demands.

link: http://koreajoongangdaily.joins.com/news/article/Article.aspx?aid=3012538

What's the meaning of "beyond the apparent demands" in this article?

I searched the meaning of 'demand' in the dictionary, and
I'm not sure which one suits in the context above.

  6.the act of demanding.

  7.something that is demanded.

  8.an urgent or pressing requirement:demands upon one's time.

  9.Economics.the desire to purchase, coupled with the power to do so.the quantity of goods that buyers will take at a particular price.

  10.a requisition; a legal claim:The demands of the client could not be met.

  11.the state of being wanted or sought for purchase or use:an article in great demand.

  12.Archaic. inquiry; question.

Source: dictionary.com


texts: What the right way of using auxiliary verb in these sentences?

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Sentences:

  1) "Whose dog did bite him?" or "Whose dog bit him?"

  2) "Whose children did man organize the celebration for?" or "Whose children man organized the celebration for?" (Man organized the celebration for children. The question about defining children)

What is the right way to ask these questions?


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What does "from A to B to C" mean?

Here A, B, C are nouns or noun phrases.
Maybe it depends on context.
In that case, I would like to know as many different meanings as possible.

I'm particularly interested in that if it can mean from A to B and then from B to C, in other words, if it can mean the order A, B, C in this order.


texts: I thought "plague" was a generic word for a disease. I was corrected earlier when talking about COVID that it is a virus not a plague. I am aware it is a virus. But would it be wrong to say "We live in a time of plague" or something similar?


texts: are "displayed upfront" and "hidden covertly" the same? I guess not and I need a double check

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This post says

  overlays of a symbol or text that may be hidden covertly or displayed
  upfront to protect an image from being used without owner’s approval.

to illustrate above, the post gives this picture.

are "displayed upfront" and "hidden covertly" the same? I guess not, because

covertly means “not openly shown” according to Merriam-Webster.

so, this picture illustrates only part of that description (displayed upfront), is my understanding right?


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Department, division, section and branch confuse me at times. What would you call the different subdivisions of a college? Suppose I studied at a college that goes by Faculty of Languages and Translation. The college has "different areas of study", would you call them departments or divisions? A department (or division) has, in turn, subdivisions, would you call these subdivisions branches or sections?:

  Faculty of Languages and Translation, English Language department, Simultaneous Interpretation section.

And how can I properly mention my university degree in speech?

  Speech: I have a bachelor's degree in simultaneous interpretation from the Faculty of Languages and Translation, Alexandria University.


texts: "...nowhere a programme like this one taught." or "...nowhere taught a programme like this one."

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Which sentence is right? For me, both sentences sounds right...

In Austria there is nowhere a programme like this one taught.
In Austria there is nowhere taught a programme like this one.


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This is Delhi that I was born in.

&

  This is Delhi where I was born in.

Are both of these sentences right? If not, what is the right way to say this?


texts: Can we use "the more" in comparative sentence?

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When I was solving English tests, I came across this question.
Of the two athletes, Ronald has been ..... in winning cups than Kane
a) more successful    b) successful
c) the more successful  d) the most successful
Undoubtedly, my choice was A(more successful). Because it is a well-known rule in comparative sentences. But I wonder when I saw an answer. The answer was C (the more successful). Can anybody explain to me the reason for this? Can we use the more with the comparative sentence?


texts: Is it right to say "I was annoyed about commuting ..."?

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Is it right to say:

  Yesterday I was annoyed about commuting to my work because of a big traffic jam.