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The committee members took turns talking about why we were there. And then I got up and did my piece.

Then in there, "did" refer to "took turns talking about"?
And that means "I said my opinion"?
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This quote is from Harry Potter, and the next sentence is

said how Buckbeak was a good hippogriff.

I've missed 'said' in the next script ㅠㅠ!


texts: Which one do you call "pepper", pimienta o pimiento?

texts:
So I always thought pepper was the english equivalent of the spanish word pimienta

But now I look the translation for pimiento and it also returns pepper (Google Translator)

Do you call both pimienta and pimiento "pepper" or the translator isnt working properly?


texts: What is the meaning of Weiss's answer to Mary's question?

texts:
Weiss asking Mary about her daughter Precious who got sexually abused.

  Weiss: Okay, Mrs. Johnston, let's talk about the abuse.

  Mary: There were no drugs in my house. I didn't play that. There
  weren't no drugs in my house. Precious knew I would whup her ass if
  she gonna bring some drugs up in my house.

  Weiss: You know what I'm talking about. I'm referring to specific
  sexual and physical acts involving Precious.

  Mary: Why you ain't say that?

  Weiss: Yes, that.

Weiss replied somewhat different to Wiess's Question. What is the meaning of "Yes, that" in this context?

The source is the opening of the film Precious (2009), here.


texts:
[Ron] "Look –– they're off Ouch!"
       Someone had poked Ron in the back of the head. It was Malfoy. "Oh, sorry, Weasley, didn't see you there." (Harry Potter and
  the Sorcerer's Stone)

They say adverbs can modify the head of noun phrase, not nouns. So ‘there’ does not modify ‘you’. What does ‘there’ do: is it a predicative over ‘you’ or is it just an adverb––meaning ‘in that place’?


texts:
I am writing a technical article and one of the reviewers had a comment for the following statement:

  When compared to a generic setup, our technique can potentially store more number of blocks per set due to compression.

The reviewer pointed out that the grammar of this usage "more number of blocks" needs a second look.

What is wrong with the same? How do I correct it?


texts: What's the difference between mixture and admixture?

texts: In French the translation is the same but I wonder why in English you have two words for this ? I think that's because there is a slight difference between these two words but I don't get what it is !


texts:
Which one of the following is correct in terms of grammar?

  It is there for to read.
  It is there for reading.
  It is there to read.


texts: Which is correct: "the picture has been taken from the camera" or "a picture has taken from the camera"?

texts:
Which is correct?

  The picture has been taken from the camera.

or

  A picture has taken from the camera.

I want to know when do we apply passive voice and active voice. I am trying to practice active and passive voices.


texts: What the difference is here? Are you seeing ? VS Do you see?

texts:
Are you seening family members arriving at the hospital to find some of the miners? ( exact quote from BBC presenter asking someone over the phone )

Do you see .......

Difference in meaning not grammar.


texts: The precise meaning of "often" in this sentence?

texts:
Old houses are often damp.

Does the sentence mean:

  Many/a lot of old houses are damp.

or

  Most of old houses are damp.

?


texts: What is the name of the profession that makes mattresses?

texts: A mattress maker is called what? I'm looking for an older description, the oldest the better. Is there a name for this profession?


texts:
I wonder what do you call two things that are related to one another in such a close way that each one "needs" the others in order to exist and none of them can last without the other one? I know just two adjectives and their associated verbs. Whilst dictionaries couldn't help me much, I wonder which choice doesn't work in this sense:

  1- They are interdependent.
  2- They interdepend.
  3- They are correlative.
  4- They correlate.

I would appreciate it if you could let me know about even a bettrthere option if exists.


texts:
What is a proper response to "Good luck with X"?

Example:

  Hi Franck, thanks for sharing the paper draft with me. Good luck with the submission! Bob

Is it ok to reply with "You're welcome, thanks for the wishes"? Are there any preferable alternatives?

Note that replying with "You too" does not make sense if Bob hasn't submitted anything.


texts: Can anybody put this sentence in a simpler way, please?

texts:
I don't quite understand the phrase "As a guide to the missed opportunity that this represents" in this paragraph:

"As a guide to the missed opportunity that this represents, according to international business representatives of the B20 Trade Taskforce the reversal of all of the trade restrictive measures implemented since 2008 could boost global GDP by $423 billion a year and support 9 million jobs."

And by the way, what does "B20 Trade Taskforce" mean? I googled it but I couldn't get any good answer.

Source


texts: Meaning of 'formal' in 'formal equality'

texts:
In analysing [A. V.] Dicey’s version of the rule of law, it can be
  seen that it venerated formal equality at the expense of substantive equality. In other
  words, he thought that the law and the State should be blind to the real concrete differences
  that exist between people, in terms of wealth or power or connection, and should
  treat them all the same, as possessors of abstract rights and duties.

Source: p 23, The English Legal System 2012-2013, Gary Slapper. Italics are the book's, bolds mine.

Which definition of formal applies here? Defn 3 states

  Of or concerned with outward form or appearance as distinct from content: ,

but wouldn't these outward substances contradict Dicey's preference of 'abstract rights and duties'?


texts: Tense agreement and sentence construction

texts:
So, she called me yesterday; we talked about a lot of stuff, and then she kind of slipped it out that it wouldn't be all that bad if I asked her out today. I found myself wondering how it'd go, and decided to give it a shot.

  So, she had called me yesterday, we talked about a lot of stuff, and then she kind of slipped it out that it wouldn't be all that bad if I asked her out today. I had found myself wondering how it'd go, and decided to give it a shot.

Are both the above grammatically correct?
What's the difference in their meaning?


texts: How should I interpret “...and what modern epistemologist would...”?

texts:
The sentence goes as follow:

...and what modern epistemologist would greet an authoritative
pronouncement that she in fact possessed knowledge by trying to refute
it?

I have two different understandings of this sentence:
a) What kind of modern epistemologist (i.e. among all kinds of modern epistemologists, who) would greet an authoritative pronouncement that she in fact possessed knowledge by trying to refute it?
b) How (i.e. in what way) will modern epistemologist greet an authoritative pronouncement that she in fact possessed knowledge by trying to refute it?
Which one is correct? If neither, what does this sentence mean?
Furthermore, what does "greet" in this sentence mean? Does it mean "embrace", or "view"? And, what does "possessed knowledge by trying to refute it" mean? Does the preposition "by" indicate time - as if, modern epistemologists have already possessed knowledge before trying to refute it, or means - as if, modern epistemologists possess knowledge by means of trying to refute it?
I noticed that a past tense of "possess" is used here. That somehow troubles me. Thanks so much!


texts: What does "he told her flat as their food" mean?

texts:
I was reading a short story and came across a vague part. Here is the part:

What she liked most about Ken Krieg? He didn’t mind she was taller or
a volleyball star. Eating Buddhist cuisine in Buffalo, he told her
flat as their food, “I want to marry you, work on Wall Street, and
live in a mansion on Long Island.”

I have three questions. Firstly, what does "flat" mean exactly in this context? Secondly, as far as I understand "as their food" means "he told her flat when they eat food" But I am not sure if it is correct. Finally, what is the overall meaning of the bold one in quotes?
Source: https://everydayfiction.com/say-cheese-by-gerald-so/


texts:
I have seen and heard many times 'to spend time -ing~.'
But I have encountered a few times 'to spend time worried~.'
Is that grammatically correct?
If so, can I understand that as 'to spend time (being) worried~?'


texts:
I am wondering what you would say when you would like to say that someone should know the fudamental or basic of something (know the basis of something) or should know the basic elements or parts of something like writing an essay, so that one can write it well.

Take this, for example:

  You should know the basis of research so as to your article to be accepted or published somewhere.


texts:
Suppose a mother is advising her son who eats too much; then which one of the following sentences would be correct:

  Gluttony is harmful to one’s health.
  Overeating is harmful to one’s health.

  Don’t eat too much.
  Don’t over eat.

For me all of the above sentences sound idiomatic and natural.


texts: What is a literary style to reinterpret this situation in a phrase?

texts:
"I don't had to take the full 120 college credit for this post-baccalaureate bachelor degree instead I just need to take 60 credit."

What is a more advanced way to reinterpret that.


texts: Conjunctions in negation: "no/neither" and "and/or/nor"

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When I have these facts,

French coins were not found in the ruin.
German coins were not found in the ruin.

which of these sentences are grammatically correct?

1.

  No French and German coins were found in the ruin.

2.

  No French or German coins were found in the ruin.

3.

  No french nor German coins were found in the ruin.

I think 1 is correct but I'm not sure.  By the way, I can also say

  Neither German nor French coins were found in the ruin.

Also, when you have an additional fact

Italian coins were not found in the ruin

which of these statements are grammatically correct?

1.

  No French, German and Italian coins were found in the ruin.

2.

  No French, German or Italian coins were found in the ruin.

3.

  None of French, German and Italian coins were found in the ruin.

4.

  None of French, German or Italian coins were found in the ruin.

Thanks,


texts: Is "a couple of something" plural or singular?

texts:
Which of the followings is correct?

  There are still a couple of months left until the end of semester.
  There is still a couple of months left until the end of semester.


texts: Are "at which", "to which", and "after which" all synonymous?

texts:
I thought about it and it seems they can often be substituted for one another? Is this the case? When would you use each of them?

  He glared back at his brother, to which his brother told him to go out of the house with him.
  He glared back at his brother, after which his brother told him to go out of the house with him.
  He glared back at his brother, at which his brother told him to go out of the house with him.

Are these sentences interchangeable?


texts: Difference in the meaning between present and perfect infinitive

texts:
What is the difference between the meaning of the following sentences:

  To get the job in the face of such a stiff competition was a great achievement.
  To have gotten the job in the face of such stiff competition was a great achievement.

Can I use present infinitive(to get) to indicate the past event?
 I mean can I say:

"To get the job in the face of such a stiff competition was a great achievement' without changing the meaning of No2 sentence ( To have gotten the job in the face of such stiff competition was a great achievement" )

Again,

To have won the race would have been fanstastic.

(Source: cambridge dictionery perfect infinitive http://dictionary.cambridge.org/grammar/british-grammar/perfect-infinitive-with-to-to-have-worked)

I think this sentence is conditional. But, i don't know when and how to use this kind of conditional sentence.

I would appreciate your helpfull answer. Thank you.


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From Dickens:

  Dear reader!  It rests with you and me, whether, in our two fields of action, similar things shall be or not.  Let them be!  We shall sit with lighter bosoms on the hearth, to see the ashes of our fires turn gray and cold.

But hearths seem not to have places for sitting on them, except maybe the narrow shelfs fit for cats and suchlike creatures. I would understand 'sit by the hearth' or 'sit close to the hearth', but why on?

I found some instances of the same use of the on preposition at Google Books, like this one:

  I took a couple of snap shots of Judy, who had moved to sit on the hearth to get closer to the warm fire.

and

  She set down the bellows and stood, saying, “Please, sit on the hearth and dry yourself. And can I get you anything? Hot tea . . . or wine?” Finn sat down on the wide stone hearth, and held his hands up to the flames. “No, thank you,” he replied,  ...

Could one sit on any hearth or only on a hearth that has a special area extending into the room?

I just can't help recalling James Winterbottom, Esq. when I read "please, sit on the hearth". (0:


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Does the adverb "for some moments" fit the sentence? Does the sentence make any sense?

  "I was scared to death for some moments, and then I realized that it is not a full-grown shark."


texts:
I wonder which of the following sentences are grammatically correct? Is there is a technical term for this kind of structure.

  On watching the news, I immediately called him.

  As soon as watching the news, I immediately called him.

  The moment watching the news, I immediately called him.

This question is from a test. For me the first two sound okay but I cannot explain if one them is wrong.


texts: About a word "feel". Are my example sentences are natural?

texts:
I feel beautiful for the flower.

I know "feel + adjective" is correct like "I feel sad" and "I feel sad for him", so I think I  may say "I feel beautiful for the flower.".

  I feel the flower beautifully.

I hear "I feel the beauty of the flower" makes sense. Then, I wonder if "feel + a noun + adverb" make sense.

Could someone explain this?


texts:
Are "due to" and "because of" equal - i.e. due to something and because of something?

Can I use it with context of reason?


texts: Do stretching or do stretches,which ones are correct and more commen? If both are right, where and when should I use them?


texts: words to describe the sound bombing makes?

texts: I report in English in a conflict zone. I often need to describe the sound bombing and airstrikes make when slammed into their target, mainly nearby. The only word I use in such situation is "explosion" or "blast" but I do need a variety of options to choose from. Is there any other word, whether it's verbs, nouns, adjectives, that can describe the above mentioned situation?


texts:
I've just came across the following sentence "Send food direct to houses via taps for those times when you don't want to cook."

I know what is tap, but cannot imagine food going through it. Is it me or does this sentence sound really weird?


texts: 'A decapitated head' from the Huffington Post sounds strange to me

texts:
The headlines on the Huffington Post reads

Grandfather Of Australian Boy Pictured Holding 'DECAPITATED' Head In Syria Tells Of Shock

Decapitated? It's used as an adjective here. That seems strange usage to me.

How? This way...

  decapitate (verb) - Cut off the head of (someone)

The sentence could be - A cruel militant decapitates a soldier. This means he cuts off the head of the soldier.

So, once this brutal procedure is done, the head is separated from the body and then we can use the adjective decapitated. But then, it is the body that takes the adjective and not the head. That's how OxfordDictionaries defines the adjective decapitated in its example:

  a decapitated body

So, it is decapitated body and not the head. What do we write a beheaded body or a beheaded head?

I would not have any problem with this headline (hypothetical)

A shocking image of boy holding severed head with decapitated body lying nearby in the pool of blood

To prove my point further, I would cite here something authentic that I as a doctor have read and used.

Let's take the word 'amputate'. It means to remove an organ from the body. It's a surgical procedure to save someone's life. For instance, if you have a diabetic foot, to prevent it spreading further, surgeons amputate that foot and the patient is saved. In this case, after surgery, we have amputated foot and not amputated patient! The latter simply means dead patient! Because you amputate a limb from the patient's body.

In the same way, we may have amputated limbs and not amputated body. If the surgery has been recently performed, we say, "That's the patient of diabetic foot, operated amputated."  Yes, looking at the cut foot we say, "That's the foot, amputated." That is because the surgeon did not amputate the patient, but his foot. :)

Again, back to the question, if you cut off the head, the process is decapitating. After decapitating, you have severed head and decapitated body not decapitated head. So, would you confirm that the usage of the word is incorrect. Or am I missing something?

Thanks for reading! :)


texts: What is the meaning of blissfully in in this sentence?

texts:
I read a sentence in 'the Hindu' which was:

  The Congress, which is meant to be a premier forum for scientists to present and discuss their research, has in recent years become the stage for a series of blissfully evidence-free claims about Indian achievements in Science through the ages.

Now consider the part "blissfully evidence-free". Does it mean that one doesn't bother about gathering evidence? Or is it just blissful ignorance towards claims?


texts: "I hear what you are saying" vs. "I am hearing what you are saying"

texts:
As this dictionary puts it I hear what you are saying means to acknowledge what someone has said. But in the 13th episode of the 7th season of Friends Phoebe said I am hearing what you are saying. Here is the context:

Phoebe: (on phone) Hi, this Phoebe from Empire Office Supplies, can I
speak to your supply manager please? (Listens) Earl, thanks. (Listens)
Hi Earl, this is Phoebe from Empire Office Supplies I’d like to talk
to you about your toner needs. (She’s reading from the script.)
[Cut to Earl’s office, who is played by Jason Alexander, George from
Seinfeld. They cut back and forth between Phoebe’s and Earl’s offices
with each of their lines.]
Earl: I don’t need any toner.
Phoebe: I’m hearing what you’re saying, but at our prices everyone
needs toner.

Is there any difference in meaning between I hear what you are saying and I am hearing what you are saying?


texts: The way of using ''with honey color '' in sentence below

texts: Plastic products that we make , are honey-colored. In this case can i say '' our product come out with honey color''. Did i use '' with honey color '' correctly in this sentences ?


texts: Different positions of an object when it rotates

texts:
Suppose a stick rotates as shown in the picture, what are called the positions shown with numbers. Or how do you describe these positions by some words? Specially the number 1,

can I say "the number one is horizontally aligned"

or maybe just "the number one is in horizontal position"?

Moreover, it's not much a formal mathematics question.


texts: Why prep 'on' used in the phrase "being held on an additional $50,000 bond"?

texts:
Stine was arrested and booked with four misdemeanors including resisting arrest, criminal trespass and disorderly conduct. He was also charged with felony robbery for the incident and is being held on an additional $50,000 bond.

As I understand "being held on an additional $50,000 bond", it means Stine was taken into custody and he would be bailed out after he pays that additional $50,000 bond. Is my understanding to that phrase correct? why is 'on' used? Maybe, it's just an idiomatic usage in that setting and there is no reason for it. I figure "being held over an additional $50,000 bond" probably denotes the same meaning here. I am unsure if "held on" is a set phrase here.

The full source.


texts: In "Approval was given, and Ju's art displayed." how can the transitive verb 'display' be used without an object?

texts:
I have read a sentence like that from a magazine:

  "Approval was given, and Ju's art displayed."

Since the word display is a transitive verb, how can it be used like this without an object?


texts:
Could anybody help me to understand what "start left" means here?

We get it. You're here because you want to start left but maybe you don't know where to begin? And we want you to start left because we want you to think and act with a secure coding mindset; without needing to become a security expert. We ultimately want you to ship secure code with confidence - and we can help you learn how to do it.


texts: How to understand the `on behalf of` in this sentence

texts:
Sorry, I don't know how to write a proper title for such question in English, please edit my title if you have better words.

I am reading an article at here. There is a sentence I can't understand well:

  the web server will not be able to do any processing on behalf of the concurrent requests that the process has already accepted.

I read this sentence again and again , thanks to I know web server is used to process requests, which finally make me understand web server must be on behalf of the process in logical.

But it's hard to understand at first sight. It is very easy to be confused as: AAA do something  on behalf of BBB that/which description of BBB.

Such sentences are quite hard to understand for foreigners. I wouldn't understand the meaning If I don't know what web server is .

Is there any knack to understand such sentence's construction  easily?

The technical words:

request: in computer science, a message sent between objects; some massage send from one cumputer to another(which hold web server)

web server: who process(handle, make some computation on) income massage(request)

process/processes: a process is an instance of a computer program that is being executed. wiki here

Update for @djna's answer:

Seems processing on behalf of the concurrent requests is the correct saying, this sentence do not have something strange grammatical inversion/preposition(I think it has when I post this question).The key is on behalf of.

The paragraph and its key idea I understand. Just that sentence is hard to translate for me, so as @djna said

  processing is on behalf of/in the interest of a single request.

I just can't translate those into Chinese which would look very weird.

@djna says on behalf of means in the interest of here, in the interest of means something like stand for someone's benefit in my English-Chinese dictionary. Why a request has benefit? Only process/web server/computer can have benefit, request is their target which should not have benefit .Such as parallel processing requests would gain a good performance, I can say web server/computer gain benefit from that technical method . But the requests which are processed would not gain something for themself, they just death things, they don't have or care benefit. That is the logic of thinking in Chinese. Is English different?


texts:
I confess! I found them really hard! I think the jokes are all about using witty words in English. Here is the original source.
Please help me understand them all.

(a) Your mother is so classless, she could be a Marxist utopia.
(b) Why did the chicken cross the Mobius strip? To get the same side
(c) Schrodinger's cat walks into a bar. And doesn't.
(d) What's good anagram of Banach-Tarski? Banach-Tarski Banach-Tarski
(e) What does a dyslexic, agnostic, insomniac spend most of his time doing? Styaing up all night wondering if there really is a dog (I think I understand this. I'm a doctor!).
(f) There are two types of people in this world. Those that can extrapolate to find missing information.
(g) Yo momma's so fat, the probability of her being in an arbitrary point in a room is 1.
(h) How many surrealists does it take to screw in a light bulb? A fish.
(i) There's a band called 1023MB. They haven't had any gigs yet.


texts: Is it "evaluated as" or "evaluated to be"?

texts:
For example, when we write programming code or math formula, would we say
If obj is foo.bar, then would we say
fn(foo.bar)

is first evaluated as fn(obj) (and then fn is invoked), or should we say it is first evaluated to be fn(obj)?
Likewise, if it is
fn(1 + 8)

would we say it is first evaluated as fn(9), or should we say it is first evaluated to be fn(9)?
Is it very similar to the case of "we consider him to be correct", vs "we consider him as a father, not as a king" (we examine him thinking of him as a father, not as a king)?


texts: I understand that "family" is usually followed by a singular verb in American English, but how about the sentence in the title? Is it ok to say "My family is all doctors." in AE?


texts: Is "that" superfluous in "What happens is ..."?

texts:
I searched for what happened is he and found many example where "that" is omit.
So my question is, is "that" unnecessary when paired with "what happened is?"
Example sentence (with a small tense change):

What happened was (that) I got into an argument with my co-workers,
so I headed back home alone.


texts: "he can move faster than Severus Snape confronted with shampoo when he wants to" meaning

texts:
"Well, who wouldn't want a nice little holiday after all the hard work he's been putting in?" asked Fred. "Point is, people, don't get lulled into a false sense of security, thinking (Voldemort)he's out of the country. Maybe he is, maybe he isn't, but the fact remains he can move faster than Severus Snape confronted with shampoo when he wants to, so don't count on him being a long way away if you're planning on taking any risks. I never thought I'd hear myself say it, but safety first!"

  Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

I don't understand "Severus Snape confronted with shampoo". It seems to be a metaphor or simile. How should we understand it?


texts: How many items are actually "a few items"?

texts: When we use a few, how many items are usually indicated? My intuition tells me it's something between 3 and 9, but what is the most common range for a few?


texts:
This is taken from an interview (emphasis added):

  If you think of a musician who practices, who's never satisfied with their craft, with their playing, always looking for something new, always looking for (to) expand and grow upon his craft, that's Russell.

I have never understood why and how you can start speaking of someone and then change from singular to plural to singular again within the same sentence.


texts: Is there any difference between "the flight / train / bus / coach... for New York" & ".... to New York"?

texts:
Is there any difference between "the flight / train / bus / coach... for New York" & "the flight / train / bus / coach... to New York"?

In the Dictionary

  For (preposition): used to show where somebody/something is going;
  used to say where a person, vehicle etc is going

  Is this the bus for Chicago?

But we can also say

  She booked a flight to Chicago. Source


texts: "They have harmed oneself" is wrong in this sentence?

texts:
They have harmed oneself? It should be better instead they have harmed themselves? Or it's referring to they are harming someone in the highlighted part?

retaliation NOUN
mass noun
1The action of returning a military attack; counter-attack.
‘the bombings are believed to be in retaliation for the trial of 15
suspects’
1.1 The action of harming someone because they have harmed oneself; revenge.
‘she rejected as preposterous any suggestion
that she had acted in retaliation’

Retaliation (Lexico)


texts:
I fought with one tutor about grammar because
I said:

  She is intelligent owing to being teacher

She said:

  She is intelligent owing to be teacher

Or are both of us mistaken?


texts: What does "carbon-based predecessors" mean?

texts:
Cyberspace, as it exists now on the online networks, is only a
  harbinger of the screenless, image-based, computer-generalized worlds
  of future long-distance communication. More than downloadable
  photographs and instantaneous chat, future electronic worlds will be
  entered, reconnoitered, touched, monitored and replayed, in part
  supplementing their carbon-based predecessors. Surreptitiously,
  almost insidiously, machines integrate themselves in our lives.

Intuitively, I would think it means the previous electronic worlds. But if I adopt this explanation, the carbon-based seems to be somewhat weird since it is usually related to creatures. Hence I think maybe its meaning is human beings and predecessors indicates inventors. Am I correct?

A picture of the original passage is available at https://s22.postimg.io/fosdxav8x/e8c6d2798c5fc82_Copy.jpg


texts:
The trials that followed the murders of Falcone and Borsellino convicted the people who planted the bombs and planned the assassinations, but a wider investigation into powers behind the attacks had to be closed for lack of evidence.

Source: Newsweek

Should there be the definite article before the word "lack"?


texts:
Generally on time means at the exact moment and in time means within the given time.

Example:

  We should be disciplined like seasons, as they are very punctual.

  Summer comes and goes in time.
  Summer comes and goes on time.
  Summer comes and goes with respect to time.

What should be used in case of seasons?

Thank you.


texts: The US/UK word for Turkish sandwich filled with meat, salad and sauce

texts:
One of the users on the page created by me asked this. Since the page is for non-native speakers, I don't think she'll get the answer. So, I'm asking it here. In her words...

  What is your word for the Turkish sandwich filled with meat (kebab), salad and sauce? In German (and maybe in turkish too) it is "Döner". I am pretty sure there is another word for it in the US :) I found "doner" in an online dictionary but I am not sure if this is correct.

The sandwich bread is cut from a round bread and one quarter is filled.

Here it is:


texts: Can I use the phrasal verb 'grow apart' in this way?

texts:
Sentence:

  I grew this idea apart  (I'm not interested in some idea because I'm older now, therefore I consider some idea as inappropriate)

As far as I understand, the phrasal verb 'grow apart' usually used for defining some person as former friend only and then I came up with the idea to involve some different entity instead of friend

Question:

Can I use the phrasal verb 'grow apart' in this way; if the expression isn't correct could you please give some alternatives


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source

  Shi told the Record Searchlight that he’d been “grounded” for the
  past two months, restricting his ability or fly or train at the school
  where students are “required to use English in all their
  communications to better prepare them for their pilot careers,”
  according to IASCO’s website.

I looked it up. It maybe means "study the basic knowledge" or "be treated badly (force to the ground)".

What is the real meaning?


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Poor crazy Cissie, my Nurse that I was telling you of,
  she took three solid silver tablespoons.' 'Took! But isn't that
  stealing?' Una cried. 'Hsh!' said Philadelphia, looking round at Puck.
  'All I say is she took them without my leave.  I made it right
  afterwards. So, as Dad says--and he's a magistrate-, it wasn't a legal
  offence; it was only compounding a felony.

This is from  "Marklake Witches" by Kipling.
http://pinkmonkey.com/dl/library1/digi300.pdf

What does "only" mean here ?

Does "compounding" mean  "there is possibility of being a felony"  ?

I am glad if some one  kindly teach me.


texts:
From this answer:

  Depending on where you look, you'll get slightly different answers. I've read about the subject a lot, and here's my distillation; again, these are slightly wooly and others may disagree.

Could you say, please, what does "slightly wooly" mean?


texts: What is the difference between "disown" and "break up with" and "break off"?

texts:
For example, he just "disowned his friend" or "broke up with his friend" or "broke off the friendship with his friend".
Which are correct? Is there any difference between correct ones"?


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"Payroll was cut by more than half. Oil reserves jumped. The time it took to drill a deep-water well plummeted. Profits soared."

Is it that it takes the same time to drill the well as it takes to get empty?

I don't understand if the word "plummeted" refers to the value of the oil or the content of the well.


texts:
''I don't want to go back to/from/in my dark past.''

Let's say this example was an unpleasant period. What is the correct preposition?


texts: "They had lost all hope" vs. "They lost all hope"

texts:
The Napoleonic War had begun in 1816.  When it ended, they had lost
  all hope.

OR

  The Napoleonic War had begun in 1816.  When it ended, they lost all
  hope.

Which one of these sentences is correct?


texts: difference between the prepositions "to" and "for" in context?

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Tell me please if there is any difference between the following sentences!

  To me that mistake was a disaster.

  For me that mistake was a disaster.

Does in the first sentence the speaker mean that the disaster has a huge affect on him, and in the second he mean that the mistake is a disaster in his opinion and that didn't experience any consequences?


texts: Which one is the correct/preferable form of the word "Word "in the sentence: a word or words

texts:
Which one is the correct form of the word "Word "in the sentence: word or words

  Can I have a word with you?

or

  Can I have words with you?


texts: Get back=resume/continue (word/phrase usage)

texts:
Let's say you are cleaning your motorbike parked in your house. Suddenly, your sister come to you asking for your help to print her project using a computer in her room, temporarily swapping it with your cleaning.

You agreed, then printed all what is/are needed to print in her room, following that, you return to your sister cleaning your motorbike. And you say:

  "I'm done printing. Now let's get back to what we were previously doing.

GET BACK here means: continue/resume right?

Is this a correct wording to express it?


texts: "the moment [where/when] he has been waiting for"

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Which is correct?

  This is the moment where he has been waiting for

or

  This is the moment when he has been waiting for

Can someone please explain


texts:
A fat, soft teat people cling to their entire life

This quote is from WestWorld Season 1 Episode 5.
What does soft teat people mean?


texts:
Person 1: Could help me with that file. I am unable to find it in my Inbox?

Person 2: Ok Sir don't worry I send you that file again.

Is above answer suggest future course of action or question must contain shall / Will?

Ans: Ok Sir don't worry I shall sent you that file again.


texts: What adjective can I use to describe someone who is promiscuous, uses drugs, etc.?

texts: What adjectives can I use to describe people who are promiscuous, use drugs, and do other things that are traditionally frowned upon by society, especially the older generation (like the teenagers from the TV series Euphoria)? I feel like I forgot some word for that but thesaurus couldn't help me. I would appreciate if you offered several options belonging to different styles (neutral, formal, slang).


texts: Which is the right preposition to use: in/on/at the campus residences?

texts:
There are two examples for which I am looking for the right preposition:

Students who live in/on/at the campus residences.
Poor internet connection in/on/at the campus residences.

I know we say "to live on campus". But, I can not find any information for this specific examples.


texts: Is the tense-agreement in this question specific to "dare not", or are there other examples?

texts:
He knew she dare not tell her father.
Kim daren’t tell them so I had to do it myself.
-- The Cambridge Grammar of the English Language, p109n

My mother tongue, Korean, has tense inflectional options: to have tense agreement in a sentence or to put tense inflection only onto the last verb. The example cases remind me the Korean rule. So when I interpret English in my brain two or more past tenses in a sentence, I naturally ignore the other past tenses except one.
What I now want to know is that the pattern of the above cases be only restricted to ‘dare’, or are there more cases that in a sentence one verb is past, and the other present?
(I know in some cases, present perfect is replaced by simple tense for a kind of simplification.)


texts:
Is it the same as I'm not short of bitcoin?

I don't own bitcoin. I'm not short bitcoin," Gates said on CNBC's "Squawk Box" on Thursday. He added transitioning money into a digital format was something that he was also trying to do. "I do think moving money into a more digital form and getting transaction costs down, that's something the Gates Foundation does in developing countries," Gates added.

Source: https://www.ibtimes.com/billionaire-bill-gates-finally-speaks-about-bitcoin-does-he-own-btc-3148198


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I know that if and when are conditionals and you don't say "If I will" OR "when I will".You use present to talk about future:

  When I become a millionaire, I will go to Paris

But what if I actually want to talk about the present

  When I get money, I spend it instantly
   Or
  When I get tired, I become very ill-tempered

Are the above sentences correct? Do I have to use "whenever" in such scenario?


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I know for a fact that for some verbs like 'say', 'indicate', 'know', 'claim', the deletion of 'that' is usually optional, though it's safer to include it. However,  does the same apply when 'that' is used to linked a subject to a independent clause?

To clarify with an example:

The worst thing is you don't even know who did it.

Or
The worst thing is THAT you don't even know who did it.

Which one is grammatically correct, if not both?

Note: I am having trouble finding something to refer to that specifically discusses the omitting of 'that' after verb-to-be. Providing me with a link would be greatly appreciated.

Many thanks in advance.


texts: Has reached its natural boundary (meaning)

texts:
This is I think a bit idiomatic:

  "Of the 26 species that are known to have become successfully integrated into the local environment, only one, an African species released in northern Australia, has reached its natural boundary.

What does this phrase mean exactly? This is vague...


texts: why is it right to say ""mark someone's emergence as a crusader"?

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The Everglades: River of Grass. Published in 1947, the book educated the nation about the dangers facing one of the most fragile ecosystems and marked its author's emergence as a famous conservation crusader. (From ACT test)

Why is it "mark someone's emergence as a crusader"? I don't think "sb's emergence" is in coordination with "a crusader".


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How should I understand "short the pound" in this sentence? My first guess would be "we all didn't need the pound anymore", though that sounds weird to me and I feel it's somehow not entirely correct. Another idea would be "to bring it down", "to cause it go down"?

  The pound was supposedly fixed at a high arbitrary level and a lot of us knew that we were all short the pound


texts: What does "have a signing with someone" mean?

texts:
I stumbled upon it in the third episode of the fourth season of Rick and Morty. Here is the context:

Rick: This dork. He has a convention now? Come on. What are we doing?
Morty: Huh! Tuxedo scuba lessons? Ooh! A signing with Catherines Alpha
through Omega Joneses! You know, this is great source material for
this heist movie that I'm writing.


texts:
The man, along with he and they, chopped down the tree.

or

The man, along with him and them, chopped down the tree.

I think it's the first one, but I'm not sure why.
Thanks!!


texts: Inversion in the sentence: "More substantially dealt with is a suggestion [...]"

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In The Independent I found this sentence:

  More substantially dealt with is a suggestion, repeated over the phone by an Estonian minister to EU foreign affairs chief Cathy
  Ashton, that the snipers who killed so many protesters in Kiev were
  cynical opposition plants.

I would like to know whether the inversion is used at the beginning of the sentence.  I was taught that inversion is possible when using e.g. hardly, never, little, seldom.


texts:
article + noun + conjunction + [article 2] + noun 2

Should we use [article 2] and in what situation?


texts: Writing lyrics of songs/poems: end in rhyme or complete phrases?

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I was wondering if someone could help me figure out readers' preferences when writing down versions of lyrics/verses as I seem to have lost judgement somewhat.

  1A) Hey Jude, don't make it bad
  Take a sad song and make it better
  Remember to let her into your heart
  Then you can start to make it better

  1B)Hey Jude,
  don't make it bad
  take a sad
  song and make it better
  remember to let her
  into your heart
  then you can start
  to make it better

  2A)There was a writer loved by folks
  who liked to sit and read his jokes
  he'd play word games
  and think up names of books
  which amused all these folks

  2B)There was a writer loved by folks
  who liked to sit and read his jokes
  he'd play word games
  and think up names
  of books which amused all these folks

*by the way, does removing the rhyme make any difference to you? e.g.

  3A)he'd play word games
  and think up lines of books
  which amused all these folks

  3B)he'd play word games
  and think up lines
  of books which amused all these folks

If anyone could offer opinions as to which one is more appealing/legible/less disruptive, that would be much appreciated!


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Please explain to me why we use the present continuous tense in the following sentences:

  I want to lose weight, so this week I am not eating lunch.
  I am getting tired.


texts:
I read this sentence in a story:

"Could you come with me a moment, Joe," she said."

As a learner of English I would write this sentences as:

"Could you come with me FOR a moment, Joe," she said.

Is it right to use "for"? Why hasn't the writer used "for"? Does it change the meaning?


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Can "so that" be used to indicate consequence? According to searches on the web, "so that" can only be used to indicate purpose or intent (with "in order that" being a synonym), while "so" is used to indicate consequence.
However, contrary to this, I have found many uses of "so that" to indicate consequence.
Examples:

Their eyes were holden, so that they did not fully recognize divinity in humanity. (source)

Intemperance has beclouded the faculties of many, so that Satan has almost complete control of them". (source)

The first difficulty I have with this argument is that severability was not pleaded, nor explored in the trial (never mind fully explored), so that it is too late to try to raise it now. (source)

Can "so" be used instead of "so that" in these examples without any problem? If yes, then why was "so that" used in these examples? If we replaced "so that" in these examples with "in order that", wouldn't the sentence sound unnatural?


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I know how to use possible but I am doubtful how to use feasible in a sentence.

  It is not possible to speak like a native speaker.

I have referred to Longman’s Active Study Dictionary and The Word Master but they did not show any examples to make the distinction clear.

They treated both  possible and
 feasible almost similarly.

I here with attach a link which can not clarify  my question.

https://sentence.yourdictionary.com/

My question is:

what is possible is also feasible?


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As a student you take exams and a professors sets the question. So he is the one who is the authority on the exam. I am looking for a word which can be used in the following sentence-

  Professor Charles ____________ three exams last month.

If I were to translate from my first language, I would use took, but this seems ambiguous because it is students who take exams. Other words that I thought of but am not sure about are gave, and set.

Which word should I use?


texts:
I recently read a text that includes this sentence:

  My father’s words ought to be my own.

I checked Oxford Dictinaries and it means:

Used with a possessive to emphasize that someone or something belongs or relates to the person mentioned.
1.1 Done or produced by and for the person mentioned.
1.2 Particular to the person or thing mentioned; individual.

I think the 1.2 definition fits with the phrase but I am not sure. So, Could you please tell me what the meaning of own here is?  The fuller text is:

  Charles and I spent the next afternoon in the park, rocking lazily in tire
  swings. I told him about the scholarship. I’d meant it as a brag, but for
  some reason my fears came out with it. I said I shouldn’t even be in
  college, that I should be made to finish high school first. Or to at least start
  it.

  Charles sat quietly while I talked and didn’t say anything for a long time
  after. Then he said, “Are you angry your parents didn’t put you in school?”
  “It was an advantage!” I said, half-shouting. My response was instinctive.
  It was like hearing a phrase from a catchy song: I couldn’t stop myself from
  reciting the next line. Charles looked at me skeptically, as if asking me to
  reconcile that with what I’d said only moments before.

  “Well, I’m angry,” he said. “Even if you aren’t.”

  I said nothing. I’d never heard anyone criticize my father except Shawn,
  and I wasn’t able to respond to it. I wanted to tell Charles about the
  Illuminati, but the words belonged to my father, and even in my mind they
  sounded awkward, rehearsed. I was ashamed at my inability to take
  possession of them. I believed then—and part of me will always believe—
  that my father’s words ought to be my own.


texts: "Electronics consultant" or "Electronic consultant"?

texts: The first form sounds to me the correct one (I'm not English mother tongue), describing a freelance consultant in electronics (or electronic engineering): is it right?


texts: the comfort of opinion and the discomfort of thought

texts:
Please rephrase the last sentence from the quote of John F. Kennedy

  Too often we hold fast to the cliches of our forebears. We subject all facts to a prefabricated set of interpretations. We enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.

I don't quite understand what John F. Kennedy meant by "the comfort of opinion" and "the discomfort of thought".


texts: 'I have been on vacation for two days' vs 'I was on vacation for two days'

texts:
I've been on vacation for two days.

What does this sentence mean? I mean, it means that the action happened in the past and ended in the past but has no specific date. But it also means that I'm still on vacation.

I've, many times, heard people say, for instance,

  I was on vacation for two days.

And this one means it ended in the past and has no impact on the present.
Can 'for' also be used with the past tense? I'm super confused. Would anyone please explain to me?


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I have one question when you the word " Unless "
I saw it in my textbook as following :

A: Hey Tim, My I tell your story with Barch.
B: Not unless he asks you about it.

Why they use Not here? May I use "No" like:
" No unless he ask you.

Please explain it. Thanks.


texts: What is the difference between squeeze and squash?

texts:
I am learning English. what is difference between "squash" and "squeeze". For example
1) squash the lemon.
2) squeeze the lemon.
Thanks.


texts:
In the following sentence, is the use of that necessary

  I told her when she came to Delhi, I would show her all historical monuments.

I think with that and without that the sentence is correct both ways


texts:
Mrs. Dursley came into the living room carrying two cups of tea. It was no good. He'd have to say something to her. He cleared his throat nervously. "Er -- Petunia, dear -- you haven't heard from your sister lately, have you?"

I have three doubts in this paragraph

It was no good. -- Does it mean that the tea was not good?
He'd have to say something to her. -- Here what is the full form of 'He'd'? is it 'He had' or 'He would'?
What is the exact meaning of the sentence' He'd have to say something to her.'?


texts: "Should not be null" vs "Should be not null"

texts: Is there a significant difference in meaning between "Should not be null" and "Should be not null"? Or, maybe, one of the options is wrong?


texts:
The sentence is
Because of the thought-of complexity of the equations, they did not take this approach.
Here, what I want to express is that, they thought the equations were complex, but actually the equations were not that complex.
Am I using the word thought-of correctly? Is there any more appropriate word?


texts: What tense should I use past simple or past continuous?

texts:
He_____ (ride) a horse when he was a child.
She ______ (sing) in a school choir many years ago.


texts: What does it mean "to shade in a map" and "outline a map" in this context?

texts:
I don’t understand the meaning of this sentence. A person is disappointed, and she expresses it like a school teacher expressing her disappointment in the sixth grader who simply shaded in her map of America without bothering to outline it, too.
What does it mean exactly to shade in her map of America, and outline it, in this context?


texts:
Once I was told that

  I am the second cousin of my uncle's son?

Where the number before cousin doesn't depict the number of cousins, but rather it tells how close of a relation you are in with the person.

But how does this works out? What would be my real brother be to me if the relation is evaluated using the above method. And how many cousins could exist like that? can there be fourth/fifth...eighth cousin also?


texts: I've come to see my favorite online dictionary in my native tongue says that "stagger to one's feet" means "to come up to standing position in staggering way (this is my translation so might not be so good)", but is this true? I thought it means totally opposite and come to sitting position in staggering way. No?


texts:
Are these two sentences interchangeable?

1) "He teaches me Mathematics"

2) "He teaches Mathematics to me"


texts: What is the meaning of "nothing's written in stone."?

texts:
Rhonda is Alex's fan

  Rhonda: Could I get a picture too?

  Alex: Only if you're single.

  Rhonda: I've been married 16 years, but nothing's written in stone.


texts: What is the opposite (antonym) of "live" in TV?

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In TV there is the term live that means in "real time". But what is the opposite (antonym) of live in TV? Is non-live? pre-recorded?

E.g.: The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon is live - The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon is non-live/pre-recorded.


texts:
In the corner were corralled a few old desks.

Is it fine to put "were" in front? And why?
please give more examples to me. Thank you!


texts:
Which is correct:

  I (had / have had) no idea you were such a good chess player.

The book said that 'had' is correct, but why? Why the present perfect is not correct?


texts: What does “charge my card up” mean in this song?

texts:
33 Days (feat. gnash & Anna Clendening)

  You stole my heart
  Then we grew apart
  You charged my card up
  You totaled my car


texts:
The following quote is from Inception movie:

— I've had ample opportunity to observer Browning and adopt his
physical presence, study his mannerism and so on and so forth. So now
in the first layer of the dream , I can impersonate Browning. And
suggest concepts to Fischer's conscious mind.

I have some troubles to understand what the sentence I emphasized means. I know what these words mean apart. As far as I Understood, in that particular sentence 'suggest concepts' means to put that concepts into one's mind. But I can't get the point of using conscious mind. If we just leave out conscious from the sentence will the meaning be the same?


texts: Should I use an article in “extract text from document” phrases?

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I am writing an article about the extraction of an entire text from a document. I am not sure if I should use "a", "the", or nothing in "extract text" phrases.

Sample sentences:

"How to extract text from non-searchable PDF."
"You need to perform OCR to extract text from non-searchable PDF documents."
"For searchable PDFs, you can extract text without recognition."

Here I mean the extraction of all text in the document. I.e. we cannot extract 2 different texts from the document. And I do not mean that we need to extract some specific text. We just need all document's text.

Am I right that "text" is uncountable in samples 1-3 and does not require an article?

"You can extract a text manually. Open a document, then select and copy some text."

Am I right that "text" is countable here and requires "a" article?


texts: there was a building a few miles into the town

texts:
Is this idiomatic to say,

  There was a building a few miles into the town.

Somehow, this preposition "into" makes me uneasy. I think it sounds a little strange, but I'm no native. Is it grammatical and idiomatic to write/say this sentence?


texts: What is the door frame hole called (where the door latch goes)?

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I am looking for the proper English name of the little hole in door frames where the latch goes in. Specifically, I want to know what that hole is called for "indoor" doors, without a lock, e.g. the door to a bedroom. Please note that I want to refer to the hole itself, not to the metal plate surrounding it.

Is there a term in common use, as opposed to a professional term? For example, "I got my finger stuck in the ....". Even if there's not one word to describe it, how would a native English speaker finish that sentence?

Here's a picture of what I'm talking about:


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This is an extract from Chinese Cinderella by Adeline Yen Mah.

  Something in his manner caused me to hesitate. To be summoned by Second Brother out of the blue and be treated so royally was cause for suspicion.

After receiving the answers from a test paper, I found out that in this context it made the literary device of out of the blue to be a metaphor; not an idiom. I am confused as the sites that I came across either said a metaphorical idiom or simply an idiom.

Can anyone show me how metaphor is the correct literary device in the context and not idiom? And how to identify if it is a metaphor or an idiom in other contexts to prevent further mistakes?


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Why we have to use "the" before "extended family" in this sentence.

  He studied the roll of the extended family in caring for older
  people.

I mean what is the grammatical reason?


texts:
The context:

  The uses for UWB in automotive and industrial settings are even more immense.

  Since UWB can sense location in 1/1000th the time, it takes traditional technologies so that decision-making will get faster and more precise. The technology will enable new ways for cars and industrial robots not only to sense their environments, but take actions, or actuate based on that data.

for more context, please check at https://readwrite.com/2019/12/13/follow-the-puck/

What does the word "take" mean in the sentence below? does it mean replace?


texts: Why Matthew say this words & how is it helpful to his plan?

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Matthew already got duplicate CD made by Samuel who leaved the CD in mysterious way in Matthew's House, but he want to find its original CD in Samuel's house. so he took Joseph help to attain the Original CD. Joseph calls Samuel to get out from house so Matthew will steal the original CD from his house.

  Joseph: I want to talk about your CD. No, meet me downtown coffee shop
  at 20 minutes. (In phone conversation with Matthew on other side)

  Matthew: So, don't move from the phone. Call the second you see his
  pickup. Let it ring once. Then get into the woods.

  Joseph: I know what to do, Just go to his house.


texts:
Does this sentence make sense, and does it mean that you will reach a place earlier than someone else? Or would you have to say "ahead of you" or the aforementioned "earlier than you"?

  I will be there before you.


texts: meaning of "honor" as in "honored his country with..."

texts:
What does "honor" mean in the following sentence?

The soldier honored his country with 20 years of service.

I'd appreciate your help.


texts:
I was looking up “cameo” and came across this definition:

  A gem or shell carved in relief, especially one in which the raised design and the background consist of layers of contrasting colors.Source: American Heritage Dictionary definition of “cameo”

This just confuses me more. What does “carved in relief” mean?


texts: Is this correct: 'Every other line is white'?

texts:
Every other line is white.

Is this correct?

I know we say "I play tennis every other day" to mean I take a day off and then play then a day off then play, but in the example, it is the subject.

So it felt strange?


texts: "Food safety is of utmost importance" Vs "Food safety is paramount."

texts: I read one article about food safety. It tries to state that food safety is the most important to the government. The writer put "Food safety is of utmost importance". But I think "Food safety is paramount." is ok too and would be better. Which one would make the sense to a native speaker?


texts: Sentence structure - Does + Subject + Verb

texts:
I stumbled across the following narrative in Guardian:

  The political implications are potentially far-ranging. Anxious to avoid personal blame for twin health and economic disasters, Putin has shifted responsibility for managing the crisis to the regions, which have effectively been left to fend for themselves. Wealthy businessmen – the so-called oligarchs – have stepped into the breach. In such ways does a leader’s power erode and slip away.

As I understand, there seems to be a myriad of reasons, rules or conventions for the inversion of a sentence just like that one in bold.

Would you please explain why this example follows the inverted structure? If you could also lay out further examples to illustrate your explanation, a thing you normally do, I would be grateful.

Many thanks in advance.


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I hear this line she just pronounced "with his" as "tis". This is the way the native speakers do?

It always makes me frustrated. Even after studying English more than 2 decades, can't understand the simplest lines in TV series.


texts:
Consider:

  I left the taxi and stood beside the freeway under the rain (without any umbrella and hat), to catch  another taxi, but after (passing?) 10 mintues, (still?) no taxi stopped/had stopped? for? me in that rainy weather.

What is the proper tense for "stop" in the sentence above? Are the words in parentheses make it more fluent?


texts:
After lots of searching and googling, I was not able to find any sense or meaning for the expression "is singular to" in the sentence below:

  The capacity to release this pure language is singular to translation.

Could any one help me, please?

References would be really appreciated.


texts:
In our language, the difference between the two sentences is very vague.
What is the difference between "I was there" and "I have been there"?


texts:
Can "in a like manner" and "in like manner" be used interchangeably, or do each of these phrases have a special meaning? (or perhaps one is incorrect)?
I've seen both expressions in the Google dictionary:


texts: When I must use `shall` and when I must use `will`?

texts:
I know, shall we use only with I and We.
Is it right?
But can I use will with I and We?
Is it true in the USA shall use rarely?


texts:
Mr. Dursley hummed as he picked out his most boring tie for work, and
  Mrs. Dursley gossiped away happily as she wrestled a screaming Dudley
  into his high chair. (Harry Potter)

Why is ‘a’ put, although the Dursleys have only child? Is it implying one of the Dursleys?


texts: I can't distinguish words while listening to someone

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I can't know that how can I explain. When listening to English speaking people I cannot understand some words. It's like they roll in their mouths. There are times when I cannot understand a sentence because of a word. How can I overcome? Is there a way that are you know?
(I hope I did use true that "distinguish" word. )


texts: Which one is right? "You've been doing great!" or "You are doing great!"

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I was actually thinking that what should I use?

You are doing great!

That means you are currently doing great! But if I use

You've been doing great!

That means you were doing great from the very beginning.


texts:
Either you tell me the truth or I will beat you.

I'd like to know whether "you" after "Either" can be used or not. Can we omit the first "you", as in:

  Either tell me the truth or I will beat you.


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Let's say your were eating a delicious ice cream at your house. Initally, you had 3 scoops of ice cream and you put them into a cup and ate them all. Then, because of the mouthwatering taste of ice cream, you unwittingly made/had another round and you say:

  "What the... did I just made another scoop of ice cream?"

Or

  "What the... did I just have another scoop of ice cream?"

It has been a confusing thing about this 'made' usage, but my answer here is made. Still, I doubt it, shed some light guys, thx.


texts: Difference in meaning in narrative tenses

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I'm trying to explain the difference in meaning of the following sentences:

  a When Joe arrived, I'd made some coffee.
  b When Joe arrived, I made some coffee.
  c When Joe arrived, I was making some coffee.
  d When Joe arrived, I'd been making some coffee.

a Pretty self-explanatory use of past perfect.
b How can I decide which action happened first?
c This is an interruption. Right after Joe arrived, the continuous action of making coffee was interrupted.
d This explains how long a past action had been in progress.


texts: past perfect continuous in negative sentence

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I was wondering if it was possible to write that:

My mother had not been writing for so long

I know that "My mother had not written for so long" would be better. But imagine that the mother  wrote a lot to her daughter(may be 1 or 2 letters per day during 4 years) and then she stopped . Could the daughter tell after not receiving any letters for one month
"My mother had not been writing for so long "


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My name - Jonathan - is fairly common in English. However, several times people have typed it incorrectly as Jonaton. This includes both people with whom I spoke and people with whom I only corresponded. What is the reason for it?

Probably-unrelated note: I'm actually Israeli, thus my actual Hebrew name is Yonatan (יונתן). However, I can't attribute the above to my pronunciation, since as I mention it happened with people who never heard me speak.


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I have learned that direct is both adjective and adverb. Then why we use directly in sentences.
One of those sentences is-

  The sun shone directly in my eyes.
  You will report directly to the boss.

Can we replace directly with direct


texts:
I've seen the following sentence in the book which teaches English as a corrected sentence. My question is why the word passenger -in the following sentence- is referred as a singular while almost never airliners isn't aimed for a singular passenger... therefore should it not be "passengers airliners"? In addition why there is not an indefinite article before the word 'long'?

  "To fly big passenger airliners calls for long training and
  experience"


texts: Can "Down to business" be a shortened version of the idiom?

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Can the idiom

  Now, let's get down to business.

be shortened to

  Now, down to business.

?

I don't want the part "let's" as it is, to some extent, a friendly approach when the speaker is far from being that. She is, in fact, strict and rough in that particular situation where she says the "idiom" if it would still be considered the same idiom.


texts:
What are the differences between them?

influence
exert influence

The latter is more emotional and stronger, isn't it?
(The translation of these two words into my language are absolutely the same.)


texts: Interrogative form for the status related sentence

texts:
Which one is the correct interrogative form of the below sentence:
This proxy server is an Apache-Http instance.
Is this proxy server an Apache-Http instance?

                       OR

Does this proxy server is an Apache-Http instance?


texts: How much certainty is there in adverb "probably"?

texts:
Merriam-webster defines probably as:

  very likely : almost certainly

How much certainty does adverb probably actually contain? Examples and contexts are greatly appreciated!


texts:
Arrested limo company operator

  The operator of an upstate New York limousine company charged with negligent homicide in Saturday's crash that killed 20 people bore "sole responsibility" for the vehicle being on the road, authorities said Wednesday.

  At an afternoon news conference, New York State Police Superintendent George Beach said Nauman Hussain knew that the 19-seat Ford Excursion limo had been ordered taken out of service after it failed an inspection last month and that the limousine's driver did not have the proper license to operate the vehicle.

Is the operator the driver?

  Nauman Hussain, the 28-year-old son of Prestige Limousine owner Shahed Hussain, was arrested earlier Wednesday after a traffic stop on Interstate 787 near Albany and charged with one count of criminally negligent homicide. He was arraigned Wednesday evening in an Albany-area court and was released after posting $150,000 bond. A judge entered a not guilty plea on his behalf.

  [...]

  Hussain's arrest came four days after the Prestige-operated
  limousine blew through a stop sign at a T-intersection and slammed
  into a parked vehicle in Schoharie. All 18 people in the limousine,
  including driver Scott Lisinicchia, were killed along with two
  bystanders.

Prestige is a company's name, how can a company operate a car?
Hussain was the limousine's driver? Scott was another driver. There were two limousines?


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Who or what is Milton and why he put mountains in hell? The name appears in the text for the first time and once in the whole story.

  When the liquor went to his head he would lie down on his bed and
  stare out of the window until he went to sleep. He drank alone and in
  solitude not for pleasure or good cheer, but to forget the awful
  loneliness and level of the Divide. Milton made a sad blunder when he
  put mountains in hell. Mountains postulate faith and aspiration. All
  mountain peoples are religious. It was the cities of the plains that,
  because of their utter lack of spirituality and the mad caprice of
  their vice, were cursed of God.

On the Divide
by Willa Cather


texts: For an article in the paper, one new or one news?

texts: I was wondering if when talking about an article in the newspaper or a blog, if there was an s for on new or news ?


texts: Singular–plural choices in subject+verb agreement, notional agreement, and pronouns with ambiguous antecedents

texts:
The original version of a particular sentence:

  EWB is a group of engineers that, unlike many engineering corporations, assist people around the world by applying its knowledge to solve problems in the health and education sectors.

My proposed improved version of that sentence:

  EWB is a group of engineers that, unlike many engineering corporations, assist people around the world by applying their knowledge to solve problems in the health and education sectors.

Explanation:
EWB is a group of [Engineers that, unlike many engineering corporations, assist people around the world by applying their knowledge ….]

Question

Does my change seem ok? Is it an improvement? Are both versions equally good, or is one of them better? Do they both say the same thing?

What about dialect? Does it matter whether this sentence is meant mainly for North American speakers of English as opposed to one from countries outside of North America?


texts:
Is this "in the hearts of every creature" right? why?
Is this "in the heart of all those..." right? why?


texts:
Which of the following is the correct usage of the word, and why?

The user can use pre-defined lists.
The user can use predefined lists.


texts:
A says: Our neighbors make a lot of noise.
B asks: Who make a lot of noise? Your neighbors above you or the ones below?
Is B's sentence correct in this context or should it be 'who makes'?
============
A says: Tom and Jane spend a lot of time on the phone.
B asks: I'm sorry. I didn't hear you. Who spend a lot of time on the phone?
Is B's sentence correct in this context or should it be 'who spends'?


texts:
If I have the following idea,

  The influence of A, B and C to the reconstruction process is
  discussed in next section.

I am not sure whether I used the correct preposition. I feel I should use for (instead of to) after A,B and C. any idea please.


texts: Why doesn't "is" get changed to "being" when I combine "I'm not OK with..." and "My friend is getting married..."

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I am just not okay with ____.

+

My best friend is getting married to my sister.

When I combine the two sentences above into one sentence, could I say these?

C) I am just not okay with my best friend being getting married to my sister.

D) I am just not okay with my best friend getting married to my sister.

Is it possible to omit "being" as I did in sentence D?
Very frequently, I guess native speakers use the object case as the subject of gerund. I am sorry that I don't know the exact grammatical terminology.
My question is why don't you transform "is" to "being"?


texts: Punctuations while using "since he has been here"

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Which of these sentences are correctly punctuated?

a. Since he has been here he has been behaving strangely.
b. Since he has been here , he has been behaving strangely.
c. Since she is a doctor he will know the answer to your question.
d. Since she is a doctor , he will know the answer to your question.

In the first two 'since' has a temporal meaning and in the second two it means 'because'.


texts: What's the difference between "what are you waiting for" & "what do you waiting for"?

texts:
What's the difference between "what are you waiting for" and "what do you waiting for"?

Thank you!


texts: Can I use 'improving' instead of 'improved'?

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So far, they have provided invaluable data on how human bodies react in crashes and have contributed greatly to improved vehicle design.

In this sentence, if I use 'improving' (as a gerund) instead of 'improved', is it correct?

  So far, they have provided invaluable data on how human bodies react in crashes and have contributed greatly to improving vehicle design.

Is this possible? (of course the meaning of sentence would be changed a little, but is it correct in grammar?)


texts:
This so sudden thrusting-on of fame paralyzed every fiber of her being, so much so that she could not keep herself in countenance for very long in public.

Is this an idiom?


texts: Which "ripple" definition could be applied to this article?

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I am currently reading this article.  and there is a line, which is,

  Pal says the U.S. dollar’s relative strength, measured on a trade-weighted basis, is rippling around the world, particularly as global central banks adopt easy-money policies that appear to be more accommodative than even the U.S. Federal Reserve, driving local currencies lower against the buck.

It is easy for me to understand this is the intransitive. But there are many definitions according to the Merriam Unabrided, which are,

  dialectal, British
  :  to scratch slightly

I don't think this can't be applicable considering the preceding and following context. And there is another, which is,

  1>a :  to become fretted or lightly ruffled on the surface (as water) :  become covered with or form in small waves or undulations

  b :  to flow in small waves

  c :  to fall in soft undulating folds or wavy lines

  2
  :  to flow with a light rise and fall of sound or inflection

  3
  :  to move with an undulating motion or so as to cause ripples

  4
  :  to run irregularly through a crowd, group, or population

Personally feeling, one of the above definitions would be a candidate, but the truth is unknown to me.

Could you teach me?

Thank you in advance.


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While mass inoculation has done far more good than harm, there are instances of vaccines for diseases such as polio and swine flu being rushed out, only for pernicious side effects to emerge later.

Here I find it difficult to understand what the second "for" refers to. Does it mean in exchange for something? The rush to develop these vaccines  brought pernicious side effects to emerge later?


texts:
When talking about a new assignment at work, the scrum master always says

  You should tackle ticket [ticketNumber] next.

Is tackle the right choice? Can I use attack instead?

Thank you.


texts: Passive voice of "This surface feels smooth"

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What is the difference between following passive voice constructs of the sentence given and which one is correct. Please explain

Active- This surface feels smooth.

Option 1 - This surface is smooth when it is felt.

Option 2- This surface when felt is smooth.


texts: The nuance of 'met by [someone]' and 'met someone'

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The phrase from the Bible (Acts 16:16) Paul and Silas in Prison:

  Once when we were going to the place of prayer, we were met by a female slave who had a spirit by which she predicted the future. She earned a great deal of money for her owners by fortune-telling.

If I rephrase it removing were and by it still makes sense. Does she approached them? Was the meeting planned and that's why it took by? If they simply met her, why put by? Also, I think you meet with someone when it's planned and you meet someone if it's unplanned (I met Nancy - accidentally; I met with Nancy - planned). If the meeting was planned, shouldn't it be with there?

Also, how do we say the same thing in future continuous tense? "We will be meeting by [someone]"? Why not "We'll be meeting someone", which looks more convincing.


texts:
Do you say like that as below and is one of them grammatically correct?

  Let's I will do that.

  Let me you all/all of you do this.

  Let's I will let you do this.


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The boys walk through the crowds with junkie stuff being sold at stations on either side of them.

I have got stuck in the above sentence. I am not sure to which noun the pronoun them is connected. Is it crowds, stations or boys?


texts: Have a good command of something – is "command" countable or uncountable?

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I am confused, the following examples are from the Oxford dictionary, all from the same entry (2). Why in some cases it is "a command" and in some it is treated as uncountable?

  ‘he had a brilliant command of English’

  ‘For much of the season, he has struggled with command of his
  fastball.’

  "They come with a very basic command of English, " she said.’  ¨

  He has good command over English, Punjabi and Hindi languages.’


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I write a scientific text where I use my own acronyms as it is required by a publisher for saving word counts (I think). I have a problem with articles. Should I use them before the acronyms or should I omit them? I tried to find the rule but it is not clear for me. (I use British English, it seems it is different in American English but I'm not sure.)

I write:
Moving charges produce a magnetic field (MF)...
... MF from a cable can be read by a magnetic sensor.

To estimate the position the Kalman Filter algorithm (KF) can be used.
... KF shows good performance...

The surveyor platforms (SPs) move along the cable.
... When SP moves towards the utility ... - (Only one platform moves)

Is there any solid rule for such cases?


texts: Can we use past forms in a sentence with "now"?

texts:
Now that I have finished my work, I can finally have my lunch.

Can -ed be used in the same sentence as ’now’?


texts: The mayor has decided to build an amusement park because it (would/will) attract many tourists

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Is "would" correct in the following? If so, how does it differ from "will"?

  The mayor has decided to build an amusement park because it would / will attract many tourists.

I'd appreciate your help.


texts: When should you use me and when do you use myself?


texts: What's the difference between "private message" and "direct message"?

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I'm not a native English speaker, so I'm not sure whether "Private message" and "Direct message" share the same meaning.

In my understanding, "private message" directly implies privacy, whereas "direct message" does not, but the "personal message" page on Wikipedia seems to consider them as synonyms.

So, what's the difference, if any, between "private message" and "direct message"?


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he would go alone to the quarry, collect a load of broken stone and drag it down to the site of the windmill unassisted. (source: Orwell, George. Animal Farm (p. 43). Sanage Publishing House.)

I just can't understand why the word "unassisted" is used.
In my opinion, there should be an adverb instead of an adjective to modify the verb 'drag'. So I search the dictionary, and I find another case.

He has made a good recovery and is now able to walk unassisted.

Finally, I think it's something about the linking verb. I'm not quite sure.


texts:
I looked it up online and came across the same question asked on different forums online, and all the answers say the only correct way is "what do you mean?", as a stand alone question.
But I have always been under the impression that "what you mean?" is in very common usage at least somewhere (I think it might be the UK but I am not sure). Because I got the habit of saying it without "do" for many years now and never questioned it sounding off until today.
Does it sound unnatural to native speakers to hear the question "what you mean?", by itself? I don't mean grammatically correct or not, I mean if it is something you wouldn't expect an educated native speaker to do.


texts: What does "We don't need no education" mean?

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I am an english learner.
I general ( or may be I am wrong ) we use:
any in both negative and positive sentences. for example: I don't need any education
no in positive phrases ( may be I am wrong ). for example: I need no education

But in We don't need no education sentence, there is Don't and No in phrase. which I can't understand the meaning of it.
what does it mean?

We do not need any education?
We DO need education and ( don't want any illiterate !! )

Thanks. And sorry if my english is still too bad. I hope you understand what I asked :)


texts: Why don't we use the letter "s" to form a genitive in this example?

texts:
Why do we say

  Pauli exclusion principle

instead of

  Pauli's exclusion principle

When we want to say that something belongs to somebody, we should use the "s" to form a genitive, i.e.  "this is Pauli's cat", not "this is Pauli cat".


texts: How do we translate a French master in English (UK)?

texts: I would like to know how the UK equivalent/translation for a French student who is BAC+5 and going to get his engineering degree. Is it under/post/graduate?


texts: Could you simplify the last part of following piece of news?

texts:
"It was a very tough match today. I couldn't believe that I came from behind again. She played really well and she was fighting the whole match," said Halep.
"I'm very excited that I can play in my biggest final tomorrow. I hope that I can control my emotions and just play.
"I just have to enjoy it. I'm really happy that I can play the final here in Madrid."
However, the 22-year-old is aware of the size of the task that awaits her in Sharapova having lost in their only two meetings to date.
(Source)

I am confused and cannot tell what the "having lost in their only two meetings" here means.
But please, do not define the whole phrase, break it down.


texts: Which one to use here if/when or neither?

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If I study well I'll get an A+

Or

  When I study well I'll get an A+

I want to say that presently I'm studying well so I'll certainly get an A+

So I'm sceptical about both

Because if is used for possible or unreal situations

And when is used with future constructions which are certain.

So i guess these both wont work here

But when also mean considering that

So i guess in that case when can be used for present

  When(considering that) I study well(presently). I'll definitely get an A+


texts: What does "charging affair" mean in this context?

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I'm not a native English speaker, so I had a trouble when translating an article which is about wearable smart watches. I'm confusing what does "have made charging a non-micro USB charging affair" mean in the following context:

  To their credit, many of the manufacturers have made charging a
  non-micro USB charging affair, though Motorola’s Moto 360 is probably
  the most handsome execution of the idea. Sony, for reasons unknown has
  chosen the ol' plug-it-in approach with the Smartwatch 3. None of
  these methods would matter to me if didn’t have to go through the
  exercise on a daily basis though.

P.S: Author is reviewing wearable smart watches in the above context.


texts: Is it true that intransitive verbs cannot be used in passive?

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Do this grammar rule include all of intransitive verbs? If yes, so in this sense, can't I say

  this has been tried several times

it sounds pretty ok to me.


texts:
I was reading an article and come across the following phrase "bears admitting" what does it mean. i have tried to googled it but no luck of finding an answer. I think it must be a new word or not a common word.

The context it is used is

  Yet, it bears admitting that this
  model represents an ideal of fairness that may seldom be
  achieved, that strong disagreements may exist on how to
  value worker investments or contributions, and that inconsistencies and hypocrisy can often be found in the way the
  model is applied to various situations.


texts: Differences between "during travelling through bus" and "while travelling on bus"

texts:
During travelling through bus, I don't like to take food.
While travelling on bus, I don't like to take food.

Which one sounds good? And why another will be wrong?


texts: "get up a level" or "get up by a level"?

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Tell me please which sentence is correct and why.

  To get your English skills up a level, you need to use it more.

  To get your English skills up by a level, you need to use it more.

I am confused because I heard English native speakers say similar sentences without by, but I thought that if something increases we need to use by. For example:

  The ocean level has increased by a few inches in the last decades.


texts:
1) Would a fatally ill person be likely to sleep with the
  window open on a freezing cold night?

I suppose that modal would in this case has the same meaning that word likely. Why both this words are used in this sentense?

  2) What doesn’t make sense is the object the behavior’s directed
  towards.

Why "towards" at the end of a sentence?


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We have "A" and B moments in the past. "A" happened first, "B" happened second. "A" should be in Perfect. Example:

I had done when you came

I had done - "A"

When you came - "B"

"A" happened before "B"

If now we have "B" and "C" where "B" happened before "C", then "B" should be in Perfect, "C" - in Past Simple(if it's a verb). Example:

You had come by the evening

You had come - "B"

By the evening - "C"

Now we have "A", "B" and "C". "A" should be in Perfect because it happened before "B" but "B" simultaneusly should be in Perfect, either, because it in its part happened before "C". It's like if we have "A" and "D" where "A" is just "A" but "D" is ["B"+"C"]. Example:

I had done when you had come by the evening

I had done - "A"

When you had come - "B"

By the evening - "C"

When you had come by the evening - "D" ["B"+"C"]

Congratulations? Well done? Can I be proud of myself?:D


texts: "I have used programming language" or "I used programming language"?

texts: I always confuse "Present Perfect" or "Simple Past".  "I have used several programming languages such as C#, ASP.NET" or "I used several programming languages such as C#, ASP.NET", which one is true?


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I so far am worried about what is going to happen tomorrow.
  I am so far worried about what is going to happen tomorrow.

Are these two examples above grammatically correct and giving the same meaning?


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What does "it" refer to in this context?

  So speaks the citizen. Man born of Woman, the father of daughters, declares that he will and must buy the comforts and commercial advantages of his London, Vienna, Paris, New York, by conniving at the moral death, the damnation, so far as the action of society can insure it, of thousands of women for each splendid metropolis.

You can view the original source by clicking on this link.


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If there are no differences between them, so I suppose these sentences are correct:

  I'm heading the door/car/barbershop.

  I'm heading for the door/car/barbershop.

  I'm heading to the door/car/barbershop.

  I'm heading towards the door/car/barbershop.

Are these sentences interchangeable?


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My name is Tom and my friend's name is Anna.

Anna has a plan to go to Croatia in summer(she bought her flight tickets)

if I talk about her plans , is ''will'' or ''going to '' correct to use in the sentence?(when talking about someone else's plans)

A) Anna will fly to Croatia in summer.

B)Anna is going to fly to Croatia in summer.

if I talk about my planned actions 'going to' is used ,

EX;

I am going to fly to Croatia in summer (not I will.......)

which one (will or going to) is supposed to be used for the context above?


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Can 'the + adjective' refer to things as well as people? For example, can the essential mean essential things?
When it comes to the beautiful, Collins English Dictionary defines it either as the qualify of beauty or those who are beautiful. But I never saw the beautiful used as beautiful things.

On one occasion I was trying to explain the concept of buffers to my
children. We were in the car together at the time and I tried to
explain the idea using a game. Imagine, I said, that we had to get to
our destination three miles away without stopping. We couldn’t predict
what was going to happen in front of us and around us. We didn’t know
how long the light would stay on green or if the car in front would
suddenly put on its brakes. The only way to keep from crashing was to
put extra space between our car and the car in front of us. This space
acts as a buffer. It gives us time to respond and adapt to any sudden
moves by other cars. Similarly, we can reduce the friction of
executing the essential in our work and lives simply by creating a
buffer.

Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less
By Greg McKeown


texts: Which one is right? "Last talk" or "last talked"?

texts:
Which one is right?

  Do you remember when we last talk?

or

  Do you remember when we last talked?


texts: Use of "the" in "the long-term consequences of climate change" (use of "the" in "the noun of noun")

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I'm not sure if "the" before "long-term consequences of climate change" (and in similar cases of "the noun of noun") is necessary or optional. My instinct tells me I should use it, but I've seen so many people leave it out. I can't find any rules on this.
Here's the full sentence:

Communication around climate change has so far focused on the long-term consequences of climate change.

Or could it be:

Communication around climate change has so far focused on long-term consequences of climate change.


texts: What does "shut off a flow of payments" mean?

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Does it mean "Qualcomm stopped paying Apple"? If so, it should be the other way around.

I used this link: https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/shut-off?q=shut+off

The dispute actually started last year when Apple (AAPL, +1.39%) brought in Intel as an alternate supplier for wireless modem chips in about half of its iPhones and gave some information about Qualcomm’s business practices to regulators around the world. Apple complained that Qualcomm’s practice of charging royalties on a phone’s entire cost was excessive and should be disallowed since many of the patents involved are part of industry standards. Qualcomm in turn shut off a flow of payments—Apple described them as partial rebates on the royalties—leading Apple to sue Qualcomm and stop paying royalties. Qualcomm countersued and is trying to have iPhones with non-Qualcomm chips barred from being imported. But through it all, Apple has continued to pay for and buy wireless modem chips from Qualcomm for its newest iPhones.

Source: http://fortune.com/2017/10/31/Qualcomm-chips-apple-iphone-ditch/


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One sense of the verb "call" is "to shout loudly." I'd like to know whether the preposition "to" is optional in the following sentences:

Sheila was just sneaking out when her mother called (to) her.

She called out (to) her father for help.


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Suppose a a woman has a very impolite, naughty and bad-tempered child; once a number of relatives come by to their house as guests. Before their arrival, mother speaks to her child. She wants to mention some points to her child in order to avoid losing face; are my following self-made examples mean the same in such sense:

  Please preserve our dignity in front of the guests.
  Please maintain our dignity in front of the guests.
  Please save face in front of the guests.

For me they all mean the same excepting one point which differentiates the last one from the other tow; in my view, the last one can be used either before or after occurrence of an event in which one would lose his / her face but the first two are used just before occurring a problem (at least) in my scenario.


texts: attend or attended in "He had persuaded himself that the festivities that attend this season were vulgar and barbaric"

texts:
The result was that Philip had nowhere to go, and he spent Christmas
  Day in his lodgings. Under Hayward's influence he had persuaded
  himself that the festivities that attend this season were vulgar and
  barbaric, and he made up his mind that he would take no notice of the
  day; but when it came, the jollity of all around affected him
  strangely.

  Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maugham

Can I use the past tense "attended" here instead of "attend"? If so, what would be the difference between using the past tense and present tense here?


texts: "she is as entitled to A as she is to B" or "she is as much entitled to A as she is to B"?

texts:
Which one of the followings is the correct sentence?

  She is as entitled to A as she is to B

  She is as much entitled to A as she is to B


texts: Can I use "in" before "the" in this sentence?

texts:
I will sit the way I want to!

Can I write by using a preposition in before the in above sentence?

  I will sit in the way I want to!

Which is grammatically right?


texts: How can I detect a word members in sentence grammaticality?

texts:
Please consider this sentence:

  Members of the flatfish family, sand dabs and flounders, have an additional evolutionary advantage..........

if I know the kinds of fish I can understand these 2 sentences:

sand dabs are a type of flatfish
sand dabs are in the same family as flatfish

I know that sand dabs are a type of flatfish and family with flounders from word meaning

but if I don't know the meaning of the words, how can I detect that sand dabs and flounders are members of flatfish family?

I ask my question with another example, I say:

  My family, mother, father, sister and my friend are going to the restaurant.

in this sentence, I know mother and father and sister are members of my family but my friend is not a member of my family, but there isn't any word or symbol in that sentence to separate my friend from my family members.

Therefore, How can I separate and detect in that sentence which word "is member" or "not member"?

In the first example, if I add another kind of fish:

Members of the flatfish family, sand dabs, flounders and dolphins, have an .....

How can I write this when I know dolphins are not members of flatfish family?

UPDATE:

if I don't have scientific knowledge about fish families, is this may I detect sand dabs or flounders are members of the flatfish family from that sentence?


texts: It doesn't work AS WHAT THEY SAY IT IS (phrase/expression)

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Let's say you have downloaded an 'adblocker' app on your phone. Then, when you are testing it, it's not working, you are now grumpy due to that because you feel that you have been fooled by the app's description that it will work. You say:

  "It doesn't work as what they say it is!"

Is this the correct phrase/expression in English?


texts: Is it okay to use the phrase "try and"? Is it grammatically correct? e.g. "I will try and answer ..."

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I read the following sentence in English Grammar in Use
book (App).

  I will try and answer any questions you ask.

Why don't they use the following? (it is much common):

  I will try to answer any questions you ask.

Is there any difference in meaning?

Update:

I noticed that a lot of books and news websites are using this phrase:

  Although Katty will try and answer as many questions as she can. BBC
  He puller would have a chance to try and answer the question on her own ... The Multiplayer Classroom


texts: “We're getting your order ready to be shipped."

texts:
We're getting your order ready to be shipped.

I feel uncertain about this sentence. I understand if I write it in two sentences it will be fine.

We're getting your order ready. Your order is ready to be shipped.

But can I combine them to form one single sentence? I think this sentence is supposed to be two sentence and should not be combined together. The first sentence is We're getting your order ready. And the second is Your order is ready to be shipped. Is this understanding right?


texts:
Which option fits best in the following question?

  He hasn't the ____________ idea of the problems involved.

weakest
faintest
most minute
feeblest

And what does the sentence mean? All the options seem synonym .


texts:
" I suspect he must have told on our secret information"

(I suspect he must have revealed our secret information)

" I suspect he must have told them on our secret information"

(I suspect he must have revealed our secret information to them)

" I suspect he must have told on our secret information to them"

(I suspect he must have revealed out secret information to them)

" I suspect he must have told on me"

(I suspect he must have ratted on me)

" I suspect he must have told the police on me"

(I suspect he must have ratted on me to the police)

" I suspect he must have told on me to the police"

(I suspect he must have ratted on me to the police)

I would like to know which sentences make sense and grammatically correct.


texts: This one time/ This one time when--- Are both the sentences used in the post grammatically correct?

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This one time, I was walking down the street and I bumped into X. He proceeded to initiate a conversation, and in 20 minutes, we had had a good conversation.

This one time when I was walking down the street, I bumped into X. He proceeded to initiate a conversation.....

Is this one time usually followed by when? Or is there nothing wrong with the first sentence?
Do both the sentences mean the same?


texts: Why "Leave of absence" instead of either word?

texts:
"Leave" means one is not here.
"Absence" means one is not here.
"Leave of absence" does also mean one is not here.

My explanation: "Leave" means "I leave something" - namely my absence - where I'm usually expected to be present. So "I'm not at my desk, I only left my absence there".
Is this correct?
But even if so, I'm wondering why this phrase exists at all, instead of just saying "I'm on leave" or "I'm absent"?


texts: "scenario of the usage" vs "scenario for the usage"

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The post Usage of alternate vs alternative with "equally" starts with

Here's the scenario of the usage

Is it grammatical correct to use the preposition "of" here?
Is it better to use the preposition "for" instead?

Here's the scenario for the usage

"For the usage" seems more common than "of the usage" and Ngram Viewer could verify this, especially the examples in those links.


texts: In how many ways can something not be right?

texts:
There's this large source of confusion among learners and sometimes even native speakers. They tend to think if something doesn't sound right to their ears, it must be ungrammatical, while that's at times not the case.

Often we hear things like hey, dude, "I know it ." is ungrammatical because there's a space before period and it shouldn't be there. or "Don't eat cold water" is ungrammatical. How can you not know that?! while both of these are perfectly grammatical utterances, but err in some other ways. This post is to clear that up, by explaining why not every error in language usage is a grammatical one.

In what ways don't each of these utterances get it right?

  foon speeding

  I can't knows how to correct write this sentence.

  The little whale is eating the purple sky.

  A: How does the food taste?
  B: I love playing tennis!

  I don't understand what's wrong with this sentence,


texts: How to ask a restaurant if they provide take out

texts:
If I go into a restaurant, and I'd like to know if they provide orders to go/take out?
Can I say:

"Hi, can I take out?" or "Hi, I'd like to order to go?"

Also, I'd like to know if I ordered online and wanna pick up in the store.
Can I say :

"Hi, I want to pick up!"