texts: Is it necessary to use the possessive determiner in this sentence?

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English uses the possessive determiner where in Italian would not use it. For example, "Take your hands out of your pockets!" is translated in Italian as Togli le mani dalle tasche! Even if I am using any possessive determiner, the phrase is understood to mean the hands of the person to whom I am speaking from her/his own pockets; if I meant somebody else's pockets, I would use the possessive, as in Togli le mani dalle mie tasche! (The highlighted phrase means "my pockets.")

Is using the possessive determiner strictly necessary with the following sentences?

  Those comments are replies to my comments I deleted.

  Those emails have been sent after I sent my emails I deleted.

Could I rephrase them as follows?

  Those comments are replies to the ones I deleted.

  Those emails have been sent after I sent the ones I deleted.

I know that I could delete comments/emails I didn't write, but could not those sentences be understood, in some circumstances?
For example, if I am talking about comments I wrote on this very site, the comments I can delete are only the one I wrote, since I am not a moderator on ELL; if I am talking about emails while I am using my computer, I am probably talking of my emails.

Is such context sufficient to avoid any possessive determiner, or does English require to always use possessive determiners?


texts: Please help me with a vacancy announcement

texts:
I'm writing a vacancy announcement in English, and I want to express that whoever gets the job is supposed to work primarily in the workplace. Now I'm wondering:
(i) how I best refer to 'whoever gets the job' (I'm looking for a less informal expression here)
and
(ii) how I best express that the person in question is expected to spend most of their working time at the workplace (the job as such is possible to perform anywhere, hence this perhaps rather odd specification).
Are there fixed idiomatic phrases I could use here? Any and all suggestions are much appreciated!


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I want to express an approximation of a share of a whole by using a fraction close to a known value, but, knowing that I have chosen a fraction that is smaller than the known value, I add "and some" to express that it is more than the fraction.

"Of those in this category, one-third and some (34.9%) have this quality. Less than one-third (30.5%) have that quality."

I could say "more than one-third", I know.  In the rest of the document I have, several times;  I would want to use this to break up repetition.  Do I believe I have knowledge of this phrase because there are examples of this phrasing in literature, or am I thinking of the phrase "and then some" and subconsciously subtracting "then"?  In the end, is this a good use of the word "some"?


texts: What kind of verb is "is" in this sentence?

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She is crying for help.

What kind of verb is the verb "is" in this sentence? Whether it is finite or helping verb or both?


texts: Should I use 'is' or 'are' in this sentence? which one is correct?

texts: You can't trust people with secrets these days. The majority [is or are] gossips. which one is correct and why?


texts: How should I present my telephone number?

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How should I write my mobile telephone number in an email?
I want to send something like

Hi,
Following is my mobile number 0000 000 000
Thanks

or

Hi,
My mobile number is 000 000 0000
Please feel free to call me whenever needed.
Thanks

Should I use spaces in the number? Or write it in one single block 0000000000? Or some other way?


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What would a TV host say to his guest when the time for the show is about to end?

  Our time is low/short. Can you answer the last question in 20 seconds?

What are the other possible variations?

I hope I can ask another question here in order to prevent opening another thread.
How can I say something gives good news about future. What is the exact word?

  This report ...... a good year. (declares? proves? .....)


texts: What is mean digest in computer terminology?

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I have some sentence on this webpage, it sounds like:

  Its fields contain digested information about the names that are imported by the module and its concrete methods use this digest to link, instantiate, and evaluate the module.

What does mean digested or use this digest to link?


texts:
does "revolving the disc" caused by "attachments" or "sliding the table"? what is the meaning of "follow" here?

  Mr. S. B. Brittan, editor of The Spiritual Telegraph, gives the
  following condensed account of some of Hare's experiments:
  First, to satisfy himself that the movements were not the works of mortals, he took brass billiard balls, placed them on zinc plates and
  placed the hands of the mediums on the balls and, to his very great
  astonishment the tables moved. He next arranged a table to slide
  backward and forward, to which attachments were made, causing a disc
  to revolve containing the alphabet, hidden from the view of the
  mediums. The letters were variously arranged, out of their regular
  consecutive order, and the spirit was required to place them
  consecutively or in their regular places. And behold, it was done!
  Then followed intelligent sentences which the medium could not see or
  know the import of till they were told him. Again he tried another
  capital test. The long end of a lever was placed on spiral scales with
  an index attached and the weight marked; the medium's hand rested on
  the short end of the beam, where it was impossible to give pressure
  downward, but if pressed it would have a contrary effect and raise the
  long end; and yet, most astounding, the weight was increased several
  pounds on the scale.

source:http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks03/0301051h.html _ hos by acd


texts: Rephrasing of "a person with this habit/with a habit of"

texts: Is it grammatically and lexically correct to call a person with a particular habit "a habit holder" or "a habit carrier" for short?


texts: The river bank is fully covered with reeds or?

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I want to describe a river bank which has a lot of reeds, to the extent that I can see nothing else but reeds on the bank, till now I only came up with:

  The river bank is fully covered with reeds

Is this sentence correct, and is there a much more beautiful way to say that?

  When the wind blows, the rustling of the reeds is very good

I need to replace this adjective too, to convey such a feeling that I love listening to the rustling?


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In the following quote, why does it use "go" instead of "goes"?

  Only dead fish go with the flow. Don't be a dead fish!


texts: How is it called when a police officer puts handcuffs on a criminal?

texts: In Spanish, when a police officer traps a criminal it's called "reduce", i.e. "El policía redució al criminal". The literal translation of "reduce" to English is also reduce, but I believe this is one of the meaning the English word doesn't have (correct me if I'm wrong). Therefore, how should I call the act of a criminal being handcuffed or trapped by the police?


texts: Verbs to use about someone who walks after someone they're chasing

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Seeing the man, Kevin turns and runs. The man walks after him.

(The man starts chasing Kevin)

What could be some good verbs to use instead of walks in this context to imply walking quickly but not run?

I have found strides. Is that the best option you can think of as well?


texts: Native speaker doesn't follow grammar rules

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One of my clients who is a native English speaker said to me, "I need the design a stunning app icon"

To me, the sentence or phrase should be "I need the design to be a stunning app icon"

The question is: Do both sentences express same meaning and is my client's one grammatically incorrect?


texts: how to say yes to the question "do you want me to take a look?" in a polite way

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how to say yes in a polite way to the following question.  for example to our

supervisor.i want to know a polite way to answer the above question.

"do you want me to take a look?"


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A: You can do that on your own.

  B: You can do that by yourself.

There were several occassions, when I was wondering what's more appropriate, like:

  I can write this on my own / by myself.

  I can fix that on my own / by mysel.


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In the following sentence, is it correct to use 'no continent'? Or should I use 'no other continent'?

  There is no continent in the world as big as Asia.


texts: What's the meaning of "take" here (He takes it all in ...)?

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The word take has multiple meanings, and I don't understand what does "take" mean in sentence below:

  He takes it all in with a practiced eye, and feels unaccountably
  weary.

So,

Could you tell me please what the meaning of take is here?
And Could you please tell me what the relationship between this sentence and
following phrase "and feels unaccountably weary" is?

Note: David is a defense attorney.

The full text is:

  David squats down and studies the body without touching it, a grimness
  taking hold of him. Finally he says, “She’s been dead for a while. She
  must have fallen in the middle of the night.” He wonders aloud, “Why
  would she have been out of her room?” He’s noted the terrible gash on
  the side of her head, the blood on the edge of the bottom step. He
  takes it all in with a practiced eye, and feels unaccountably weary.

An Unwanted Guest By Shari Lapena


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Let me put these verbs in the following sentences

Why did the Mahabharata happen ?
Why did the Mahabharata come about ?

Google doesn's show any results with 'come about' with reference to the above usage.

Could you please explain which on is correct and why ?

Thanks


texts: Are there any words to replace the word "improve" in the phrase "improve your efficiency"?

texts: I am writing an article about myself and I want to write "I need to improve my efficiency to speed up my progress." But I want to use a different word than improve to represent the similar meaning because I've already written "improve" for several times in the previous sections of the article.


texts:
What does "The policies are designed to cover inadvertence and negligence." mean?
Inadvertence usually means the quality of being not intentional.
Does it mean that the policies are well designed so that people unintentionally violating the policies will not be penalized?


texts: I've looked up the definition of "gorge on" in Lexico dictionary and it says "eat a large amount greedily". But I don't quite get it. How is it different from "binge on" and "devour". Could you please give me some examples and situations in which the use is appropriate?


texts: Is this sentence correct? Does it sound natural?

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The next bill you would pay one year in advance. The bill after the next bill, you will refund the one-year-in-advance amount of money that you paid the previous bill.

I know that I made a long adjective with too many dashes but that's because I can't express it. How can I do this?

Also, I feel like the sentence is long and confusing. What does native English speakers say in USA?

Here's the timeline in case you don't understand my sentence:

Bill number 1: Pay one year in advance.

Bill number 2: Refund what you paid in bill 1.


texts: hadn't money or didn't have money in 2nd type hypotheses

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He wouldn't be so popular if he hadn't so much money.

or

He wouldn't be so popular if he didn't have so much money.


texts: Is it natural to say "Look up from under the table. Can you see the note?" in everyday conversations?

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There is a table and a note.
The note is stuck on the bottom surface of the table as shown in the above picture.
Is it natural to say in everyday conversations?
-Look under the table. Can you see the note?
-Look up from under the table. Can you see the note?
-Look at the bottom surface of the table. Can you see the note?


texts: The only female/woman among the police officers

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(A group of police officers is gathered.)
Ben was talking with Gina, the only female/woman among the police officers.
Is both "female" and "woman" natural to use in this sentence?


texts: How could you say the following in a proper way?

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I am preparing a speech and I want to translate a sentence in a dialouge to english.

My translation is like this:

"As far as I can tell from working with you for a short time, you are a good manager"

or

"As far as I knew you during the short time we worked with, you are a good manager"

Could you tell what I am trying to tell in a better way? Thanks.


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In this sentence, would I use the word "involve" or "involved", and what is a way to be able to tell which is the correct usage in a sentence?

There is a wide variety of careers that involve diving in not only oceans but also aquariums, rivers, lakes, ponds, and even water tanks.

OR

There is a wide variety of careers that involved diving in not only oceans but also aquariums, rivers, lakes, ponds, and even water tanks.


texts: It is difficult for me to understand 'of'

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I'm not a native English speaker. In our nation it is very difficult to understand meaning of 'of'.

It's easy to understand :  noun of noun  ex) a friend of mine,  a tire of the car

but this is very difficult : adjective of noun, verb A of noun

1 He is proud of his son.
why does this sentence has 'of' instead of 'from'? for me 'He is proud from his son' is more natural.

2  She should convince him of his mistake.  why does this sentence has 'of' instead of 'about'? 'She should convince him about his mistake' is more natural to me.

Could you please teach me about nuance of 'of'?


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I have some problems with zero and first conditionals . Sometimes ı can't distinguish them.

1-I could see if anyone wanted to break in .

About the context : The speaker has a shop and he says this sentence after leaving his shop on its own.And he is worried about the shop.

So the sentence 1 is "past real conditional" right? meaning it is "zero conditional".

2-Let me know if you need anything.

Again I don't know if the sentence 2 is "zero conditional" or not .


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Shopping, I ask a customer service person where I can find eggs to buy. And I go:

  "Excuse me, where are the eggs?"

Now, I am not sure, but I suspect that this is not the right way to ask the question. It sounds a little stupid, as if I were asking my spouse where the eggs I plan to cook for breakfast are.

Is that  how you ask the question?


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If you use your private car for a business trip, usually the company pays the fuel, and also gives you extra money for car maintenance etc. — I'm not sure how is this extra money called in English.

In Czech we use the word "amortization", but is it used in English as well, or is some other word preferred?


texts:
'If I ain't in luck' means, I think, If I am not lucky. But I don't understand some part including that sentence, which is from 'Baker's blue-jay yarn by Mark Twain.

  Then he cocked his head down and took another look; he glanced up
  perfectly joyful, this time; winks his wings and his tail both, and
  says, 'Oh, no, this ain't no fat thing, I reckon! If I ain't in
  luck!--why it's a perfectly elegant hole!"

*This is a story about blue-jay, and that scene above is about the bird talking about a hole that he/she has just found.


texts: Should I use "would notice" or "would have noticed" in the following case?

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Mary expected the foundation to be a mansion. Instead, she met such a
  ordinary apartment no one would (have) noticed if a demolition company
  destroyed it and drove it away in trucks.

This excerpt is written in past-tense narrative. Should it be "would notice" or "would have noticed"? And why?


texts:
Why should you use a comma before which in this sentence:

The fire, which occurred in 1666, destroyed a large part of central London

Is an example without a comma incorrect?


texts:
1)What are other ways of saying hello?

  2)What are the other ways of saying hello?

I was just wondering which of these two sentences is correct.
To me somehow both of these sentences seem to be correct, if they're both correct then is there a difference in their meanings?


texts: What does Adjusting mix and spend mean here?

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https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/match_2#mix_idmg_3

Adjusting mix and spend to where the consumer is now (go digital, ensure full coverage of bottom-funnel marketing and demand capture, think region-by-region)

Source


texts: If I say : " my hair is still wet because I have washed it", is it clear that the washing of the hair was a recent event or do I have to add "just"? To me the fact that the hair is still wet makes it clear that I washed it only a short while ago. Someone told me if I don't add " just", it could mean I washed my hair at some indefinite time in the past. I find this very strange, because like I said before, the fact that the hair is still wet is prove of recent action. What do you think?


texts:
An editorial means:

  A newspaper article written by or on behalf of an editor that gives an opinion on a topical issue.

I'd like to know a term that means:

  A newspaper article written by a news reporter that gives a factual account of an event.


texts:
In 2008, a remote Russian missile station was overwhelmed and held for
a week. When the station was retaken, 241 on one warhead was three
quarters of a kilo lighter. The missing 241 surfaced at the opera
house siege in Kiev on the 14th.

What does "241 on one" mean?
Source: Christopher Nolan's movie Tenet (2020)


texts: May You Use a Predicative Complement in Front of I Feel, I, Subject, Feel, Copular Verb?

texts:
Badness, I feel.

  Badness, feel I.

  Bad, I feel.

May you grammatically use a predicative complement in front of feel (copular verb)?


texts: Shouldn’t “if pleasure be happiness” be written “if pleasure would be happiness”?

texts:
Why is there a simple form “be” after the subject in the following sentence? Isn't it that it should be like 'if pleasure would be happiness'?

  My courtiers called me the Happy Prince, and happy
  indeed I was, if pleasure be happiness.

This is from a short story, The Happy Prince by Oscar Wilde.


texts: Difference between "see a movie" and "watch a movie"

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I'm learning English now so I need some helps to build on my English.

My question is if I can use the word "see" in "see a movie", because I understand that the correct word to "see a movie or to see tv" is WATCH but I heard some people saying "see a movie" not "watch a movie".

I am so confused really. It's too basic I know but help me please, thanks.


texts: How to understand the sentence if it is unreal Conditional Present or future?

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a) If you did not study hard, you would not pass the exam.

b) If you studied hard, you would pass the exam.

b) If I had time, I would visit him.

c) if you helped me, I would finish the work early.

My question here is without context, is it possible to determine that above sentences are used for present or future conditional? Or same can be used for all tenses?


texts: usage of 'the' [the City Hall]/[City Hall]

texts:
City hall
City Hall
the City hall
the City Hall
the city hall

I need to write about certain city hall, but I don't know which one is correct.

ex)

Only the City Hall and the Central Post Office manage to keep their places.


texts: Why not add ‘the’ before the last ‘steps’ word？

texts:
I see a paragraph in a book:

Editors of newspapers and magazines often go to extremes to provide their readers with unimportant facts and statistics. Last year a journalist had been instructed by a well-known magazine to write an article on the president's palace in a new African republic. When the article arrived, the editor read the first sentence and then refused to publish it. The article began: 'Hundreds of steps lead to the high wall which surrounds the president's palace.' The editor at once sent the journalist a fax instructing him to find out the exact number of steps and the height of the wall.

May you tell me why not add the before the last steps？


texts: Difference between "becomes" and "is becoming", "makes" and "is making", "I make" and "I'm making" etc

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What is a difference between sentences in each of following pairs?

  This product    becomes  cheaper.

  This product is becoming cheaper.

  I   make   fruit salad.

  I'm making fruit salad.

  My friend    makes  fruit salad.

  My friend is making fruit salad.

As with most people asking questions at this Q&A site, English is not my native language. I do not went through any of the course of the language, so my theoretical knowledge about it is negligible. For years, on the Internet I find most valuable content in English, so because of the frequent checking of unfamiliar words in the dictionary, this language automatically came into my head. For this reason, I would like to know whether the answer given is also applicable to the other two examples, which I added only after the appearance of answer. I often find the term "becomes" in a similar context that "is becoming" so I concluded that both means either the same or something similar. Likewise is in the case of terms "makes" / "is making" and "I make" / "I'm making". Are all of given examples follow the same rule?

P.S. Which of the following questions is correct?

  Are all of given examples ruled the same principles?

  Are all of given examples follow the same rule?

  Are all of given examples are subject to the same rule?

If neither, then how this question should be composed?


texts: "Percentage of ... Higher than that [of/in] ..."

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Which one is correct (using of or in):

  The percentage of tiny devices in the IPs dataset is higher than that
  of the top websites.

Or

  The percentage of tiny devices in the IPs dataset is higher than that
  in the top websites.


texts:
Would you like to be a truck driver?

  No, I wouldn't definitely like to be a truck driver.

Is the above sentence grammatically correct?
Can I replace "I wouldn't definitely like to be" with the below? Is it still has the same meaning?

  No, definitely not a truck driver


texts: What's the synonym word when you DO NOT get on with someone?

texts: Could anyone tell me what is the synonym word for describing when you don't get along with someone. the word must include 5 letters. Thank you


texts:
turnpike

  noun

  a wide road, where traffic can travel fast for long distance and "that" drivers must pay a toll to use

(Oxford Advanced Dictionary)

What does "that" mean? Is it a relative pronoun? Must drivers pay a toll to use a wide road?


texts: Why in meetings, and when classes finish the teacher would say “dismissed!”, but not “dismiss”?


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In fact, that morning, as Mr. MacPherson hesitated on a scalp of
  glittering white ice, there were already three Gentiles in the school
  (that is to say, Anglo-Saxons; for Ukrainians, Poles, and Yugoslavs,
  with funny names and customs of their own, did not count as true
  Gentiles), and ten years hence F.F.H.S would no longer be the Jewish
  high school.

  -The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz by Mordecai Richler -

Can I take 'for' here to mean 'because'?


texts: I just got $100 back Vs. I just got back 100$

texts:
I bought something online, and I cancelled. I got a refund.
What's more idiomatic?

I just got $100 back.

Or

I just got back $100


texts: Do I have to use a comma after it in "We appreciate it when..."

texts:
Given that online many people don't use many comma, I'm a bit unsure about how much have to be set.

Is it correct to write "We appreciate it, when..." or  "We appreciate it when..."?


texts: Last two days/ In the last two days / For the last two days

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can anybody explain me the difference in usage of these three?

For example, is it correct to ask: How many cars did you buy last two days or How many cars did you buy in the last two days?

is there a difference in meaning if I say: How many cars did you buy in the last two days vs. How many cars have you bought in the last two days?

Does present perfect include today ? For example if I say:  How many cars have you bought in the last two days? The person will tell me how many cars he bought today and yesterday? Or he would tell me how many cars he bought yesterday and the day before yesterday?

If doctor asks me how have you been feeling in the last 2 days/for the last 2 days. He means today + yesterday or yesterday + the day before yesterday?

In my country we also have this kind of grammar.

For example we can say here something like. Last two days I am worrying too much. By which we mean that I was worrying yesterday and I am worrying today too. Can I use it the same way in English?

Thanks, if there is any resource about this grammar rules online, I would like to have a look thanks!


texts: Are sentences containing "not only... but also" complex or compound?

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Is this sentence complex or compound:

  I have not only a book but also a computer.

Here, I think two independent clauses have been connected by the conjunction but. So, as per my idea, it's a compound sentence?
What do you think?


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I saw in a textbook,

  “He studied the slipperiness of banana peels. (...) He is an expert in medical science.”

I have seen “expert on —-“ many times but this is the first time I saw “expert in —-“.

“Expert on” is understandable for me because “on” is often used like “a book on animals”, which shows that the book is for specialists of animals.

When I looked up the word in a dictionary, the word “expert” is used even with “at” and “with”.

Is there any difference between these combinations?


texts:
According to @StoneyB's Cannonical Post #2 . States cannot serve as the complement in Wh-cleft constructions. As an example there,

  What John did was have written three novels. – This is not idiomatic English

But what disturb my mind is, what if the state serve as the complement in this kind of sentence

  All John did was have written three novels.

Is this sentence grammatical and idiomatic?


texts: Can I say " If you would have questions; please contact us"

texts: Is that a conditional sentence? Seems like it's either not conditional or just dramatically inconsistent. If it's not a good one, how can I say that if there will be any questions in the future, you can ask me. If it's good, which conditional is it?


texts:
Do the following (1) and (2)sentences have the same meaning ?

Being taken to the hospital, he died.
While being taken to the hospital, he died.

( Do both sentences mean: while he was being taken to the hospital, he died)?

Is it correct to use No1 and No2 sentence? What kind of sentence construction they have? I Was told by @P.E Dent in previous question Past participle vs being+past participle
that first example sentence is in "continueous participle clause in passive voice". I don't understand what "continueous participle clause in passive voice" mean.


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I want to talk about achievements of someone who is already dead. What tense should I use? Past perfect or past simple?
E.g. "He had achieved so much in his life, he had sent such a powerful message out there." or something like this.

Thank you.


texts: "I wanted/have wanted/was wanting to be a doctor since I was ten"

texts:
Please help me answer the following question:

  I have wanted to be a doctor since I was ten
  I wanted to be a doctor since I was ten
  I was wanting to be a doctor since I was ten

Which one should I use?


texts:
The tree is/was fallen on my car.

In the above example, is word "fallen" used as a verb or an adjective?
If I use "fallen" as adjective, then it means I am showing someone a fallen tree which is lying on my car. Using as adjective to show status.
If I use "fallen" as a verb, then it means I am telling the event of fallen tree. Using fallen as intransitive verb.
Like

People are/were gathered for meeting

In my second example, how I can identify whether "gathered" is used as an adjective or a intransitive verb?


texts: Can inversion happen in a relative clause with a preposition?

texts:
One company developed what it called a 'technology shelf', created by a few enginerrs, on which [was placed/were placed/placed] possible techinical solutions that other teams might use in the future.

According to the guildeline, it is said that 'were placed' was grammatically correct, because the subject of the sentence is 'possible technical solutions' as inversion happened in the relative clause.

However, I feel somewhat awkward about the it, and still can't understand that the inversion could happen in the relative clause with preposition.

If so, why not always does the inversion happen in relative clause with prepostion?


texts: What are the more formal words for "clerk"?

texts:
As title, what are the more formal words for "clerk", who deal with the paper works.
Administrative jobs, managers, secretaries, people standing behind the counters taking your forms...

Edit:
It should be a serious formal word to express that this person is specialized or interested in dealing with PAPERWORKS, DOCUMENTS, and so on.

Finally:
I must have some sort of delusion. I found that the word/phrase I was looking for is simply Clerical workers.

Note: While Matt has given the "correct" answer, the findings from J.R. are also quite mentionable. I'm sorry that my "accepted answer" could only go to one of you. Also thank you Sean despite got a little off.


texts: What is the verb for extinguishing the candle flame with your fingers?

texts:
If I have a candle which is lightning and I want to stop it by my touching the wick and stop it mechanically by my fingers at the moment because I want to sleep. Do I want to extinguish it, or to put it out, or to blow it out?
What verb usually describes this action in the spoken English?


texts: Which option would we use with this sentence?

texts:
I wanted to see Harry. How long ago ____

A) has he left ?
B)did he leave ?

Which option would fit ?


texts:
Can you please explain difference between two structure below;

First is

  “It is my turn to drive “ .

This means that my turn to drive has come .

Second is

  “ It is my idea to buy a new car” .

And this means that buying a new car is my idea.
Are my ideas correct ?


texts: How to capitalise the capital of Mongolia

texts: If you're referring to the abbreviated form of the Ulan Bator (also spelt Ulaanbaatar), the capital of Mongolia, in a reasonably informal context, is it typically "UB", "Ub", or are both ok?


texts: Does a repetition of an article change the meaning and grammatical number?

texts:
What are the differences between:

the inflow and outflow channels

the inflow and the outflow channels

the inflow and ouflow channel

the inflow and the outflow channel

Are they all correct?
In German there are differences between,

der Ein- und Auslaufkanal

der Einlauf- und der Auslaufkanal

die Einlaufkanäle und Auslaufkanäle

The first example talks about one channel, which can used for inflow and outflow, the second about 2 channels (one for each) and the last example talks about more than one of each. However,

der Einlauf- und Auslaufkanal

is ambiguous in my opinion.
How is it in English?


texts: What does 'do' mean in 'The sweetest dream will never do'?

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I can't comprehend what a singer/writer means singing this song.  Would anyone explain 'Do' for what thing used?

For example:

  Cause even when I dream of you
  The sweetest dream will never do
  I'd still miss you baby
  And I don't want to miss a thing


texts: - Have you already finished your essay? - No, I will ___ it by this Thursday

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In an online placement test that is, frankly, not the best of the best, this sentence is provided with a gap to be filled:

Have you already finished your essay? - No, I will ___ it by this Thursday

The correct answer is, obviously, "have finished", but I wonder: Why is "finish" (just Future Simple) listed as incorrect?


texts: Is it correct to write "Although not ... it was ..."?

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Example sentence:

  I closed my eyes, listening in Mary's voice. Although not balanced and
  ladylike like my ex-girlfriend's, it was cheerful and melodious.

It this construction correct? Or the correct construction is Although it wasn't?


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In the following sentence:

Johnson never scrupled to ignore the standards of decent conduct mandated by company policy if literal compliance with instructions from his superiors enabled him to do so, whatever the effects on his subordinates.

What role is the word literal playing here?
From the sentence, what I understand is that, whenever Johnson had some instances which were completely in compliance with superior's instruction, he ignored the standards. So, the word literal is playing the role of complete or absolute in the above sentence.


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Some people hate noise. They should not live in the city.

Connect two sentences with who.

  People who hate noise should not live in the city.

Why the answer does not include the first word some?


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In Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary, the adverb characteristically means "in a way that is very typical of something or of somebody's character."
In the following extract from Frankenstein, who or what is the phrasing "advancement in his profession" characteristic (or typical) of?

  . . . he is madly desirous of glory, or rather, to word my phrase more characteristically, of advancement in his profession.


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This is going to be silly but I know some people who don't really leave the house for anything but groceries. It's impossible to hang out with them because they just sit around at home and the only thing they leave the house for are groceries. Today I told a friend about them and said

  all they do is getting groceries

and would like to know if it's right to use the continuous form.

Other sentences that follow the same pattern:

  All they can do is cut/cutting them down

  All he/she is able to do is yell/yelling at people

I think you guys get the picture.


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In the following lyric, a song by Ed Sheeran, I believe the highlighted word should be "I" because it is part of the subject. Can you explain it from a grammatical viewpoint?

  The club isn't the best place to find a lover. So the bar is where I go.
  Me and my friends at the table doing shots. Drinking fast and then we talk slow.


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Which of the following two sentences is correct, and why?

  A good example of that phenomenon would be....

  A good example of that phenomenon is....

What exactly are the differences between these two constructions (in a science setting)? To give my two cents, "would be" sounds more natural. However, I do find it logically incoherent, as you are giving what you believe a good example is, and using 'would be' would denotes a hypothetical situation (modal verb), making the sentence sound like "It would be a good example if it weren't for the fact that..."

Please provide your understanding in addition to the sentence you believe is correct.
Many thanks in advance


texts: pick the nits - what does that expression mean?

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From the book XML for Dummies.

  If you’re worried that building well-formed documents by hand will be tedious and not worth the effort, don’t abandon us (and XML) here. Take a look at the sidebar “Staying well formed with good tools” elsewhere in this chapter to find out how a good XML tool picks the nits for you.

What does that expression mean?


texts: which sentence is correct: "Ella and Rosy were absent in today's class." OR "Ella and Rosy were absent from today's class."


texts: Non of these/those marriages lasted very long

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I get confused every time I come across this/those like in the follwing:

"We all know that he's a self-centered, egotistic, and  and opinionated bast*rd. And it's not a secret. Even he knows that everyone knows that hes all of these/those."

None of these/those marriages lasted very long.
(I was talking about celebrities and they were on my phone screen when I said this. So I think 'these' fits better in this context. And 'those' would be correct if someone else mentioned the celebrities. Please correct me if I'm mistaken. )

Mission impossible, Top gun, Jack Reacher, yes these/they are good movies but Edge of tomorrow is something else.

Please help me to understand how to use them correctly.
Thanks in advance.


texts: Why did the author use "her" for captains?

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Egwene hung on to a smooth face with an effort. There was no real hope
  of ships to block the harbor, though none of them knew that. Gareth
  had made it plain enough to her, however, long before leaving Murandy.
  Originally, he had hoped to buy vessels while they marched north along
  the Erinin, using them to ferry supplies until they reached Tar Valon,
  then sinking them in the harbor mouths. Using gateways to reach Tar
  Valon had put paid to that in more ways than one. Word of the siege
  had left the city with the first ships sailing after the army arrived,
  and now, as far north and south as he had sent riders, ship captains
  were carrying out their business ashore by boat, from anchorages well
  out in the river. No captain was willing to risk the chance her ship
  would simply be seized. Gareth made his reports only to her, and his
  officers only to him, yet any sister could have known if she talked
  with a few soldiers.

  The Wheel of Time: Book Ten - Crossroads of Twilight (Chapter 17 - Secrets)

There are two mentions of captains in the above excerpt.

  Word of the siege had left the city with the first ships sailing after the army arrived, and now, as far north and south as he had sent
  riders, ship captains were carrying out their business ashore by boat,
  from anchorages well out in the river.
  No captain was willing to risk the chance her ship would simply be seized.

Why is their used in the first sentence and then later her is used in almost similar phrase. The group of captains should be referred to by using their in my opinion. Is the usage of her somehow related to ship being used as a feminine term?


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Have the two sentences below the same meaning?

I'll have finished my work by tomorrow.
I'll be finished with my work by tomorrow.

I also came across "I'll be finished by tomorrow", it has the same meaning of those sentences above in the context, but which makes me think as if I were chased by, say, a Terminator :-)
Could you please explain it to me?


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Should I use the definite article in the following sentence:

  "Slipping on ice often leads to the disruption of tendons."

would it be better to omit the article, like:

  Slipping on ice often leads to disruption of tendons."

The use of articles before mass nouns or action nouns and "of" is so confusing. In one case it requires not to use "the" like:

  "He took control of him."

In other cases it requires to use them like:

  "The teaching of English is not an easy thing."

or:

  "The distribution of power in the country is not fair."

Could anyone help me to figure out when to use "the" and when not?


texts: grammar/ meaning “To look at him, you'd never think he was 80!”

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Is the title sentence the short form of

  (If you were) To look at him, you'd never think he was 80!

Likewise,

  In other part of the country again, to give the example of Minnesota, you would probably pay only half of that maybe $400 or 450 a month.

Is the short form of

  ------ ,(If I were) to give the example of Minnesota, ----

As far as the short form is concerned, what do you think the full sentences are for the following examples?

Suffice it to say that they're having marital problems.
Say what they will about our cafeteria, I still think they’re the best tater tots money can buy.
After that, the golfer thinks that because a certain method worked for them...it will automatically work for everybody. And to make matters worse, they believe that there are a lot of absolute imperatives to the golf swing that all golfers MUST do in order to hit the ball effectively.

My guess is:

“If it” suffices to say that
“Though they” say what they will about our cafeteria,
“If they are” to make matters worse, ----(with a hint of irony ?)

Frankly, I really do not understand the sentence meanings of (2) and (3).


texts: I don't understand the meaning of the phrase in bold?

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To make their democracy work, citizens not only had to take  part in the assemblies, serve as government officials and pay taxes, but also had to pay an active role in the administration of justice

I have got no idea whether the meaning is "help government officials" or "work as government officials"


texts: Dictionaries list two pronunciations for you're, a weak pronunciation and a strong pronunciation. In which situations do we use the strong version of you're  /jɔːr/, and in which situations do we use the weak version of you're /jər/?


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Suppose this sentence

  Otherwise, if it has an ancestor which encloses the target section, another anchor within the section which shares the same ancestor is required;

Can I say it as

  Otherwise, if it has an ancestor which encloses the target section, another anchor within the section is required which shares the same ancestor

Specially in passive sentences?


texts: Is it a good idea to use the past perfect in constructions like the one given in the example?

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It came to me how I had yelled at her was wrong. So, I went to her and apologized.

It came to me how I yelled at her was wrong. So, I went to her and apologized.

In both the sentences, is it understandable that the yelling took place before the speaker had the epiphany?

In constructions like these, is it a good idea to use the past perfect?


texts: I feel flattered means the same thing as I'm flattered?

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Flatter is when you compliment someone in a way that is not sincere.
To be flattered although is kinda saying "it's so nice of you"
And what about "I feel flattered"?


texts: Which one to use in an enumeration, to-infinitives, bare infinitives, or gerunds?

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I am writing a summary paper about a report I read with this sentence in it:

  This report follows two steps: determine the population density increase and analyze the productivity growth influenced by the population density increase.

I feel uncertain about whether to use bare infinitives or gerunds. I know it is idiomatic to say

  All you need to do is go up and ask them.

But can you say it using the gerund or the to-infinitive?

  All we need to do now is getting this job done
  All we need to do now is to get this job done

What about sentences about events in the past? Can the past tense be used?

  There are two things she should've done: listening (listen? listened?) to her mother and going(go to? went to?) to college.

Going back to my sentence, is it correct with the bare infinitive and can it be written with the gerund or the to-infinitive?

  This report follows two steps: determining (to determine?) the population density increase and analyzing (to analyze?) the productivity growth influenced by the population density increase.

Is using semicolons possible as well?

  This report follows two steps: determine the population density increase; analyze the productivity growth influenced by the population density increase.


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I'm aware that it is common to write:

  8 oz of an energy drink can contain 100 mg of caffeine.

I'm also aware that "of" is often omitted in short texts, like in charts.

Anyway, is it plain wrong to write in an article:

  8 oz of an energy drink can contain 150 mg caffeine.

?


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My brother in the middle school had a question in his vocab exam.

It says: The roof was .....  high that no one can touch it.

to
so
such
too

He thinks so high is correct, however, I am more into using too instead of so.
What would be the correct answer ?

Thanks


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Is it correct to use get (a) doctor, get lawer, get security guard
instead of hire (a) doctor, hire lawer, hire security guard in sentence
if the person's services are used temporarly, on a contract basis?


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I've looked in the dictionary about the meaning of these 2 words, but I can still not process how they're different.

For example, when should I use up? If the word match up means the same as match already?

  The prices in-store do not match with the prices online.

  The prices in-store do not match up with the prices online. (Not very sure whether this is natural speech).

  When are our time zones ever going to match? (Be equal)

  When is our time zone ever going to match up with each other? (Not sure about this one either).


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I was used to working long hours.
I got used to working long hours.

What meaning do the verbs be and get have here? My textbook doesn't explain it. But from the examples they're used in, I have an impression that get emphasizes that there is some transition between one state and another. For example in my sentence got used means that I was not used to it before but then became used to it. While was used doesn't imply that, maybe I was always used to it.
And this usage in Present Simple:

I am used to it.
I get used to it.

Does get imply that however I am not used to it at the moment but I will be used to it soon?


texts: What do here understudy, substance and entertainers mean in this passage?

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Even though the prime entertainers in every one of the three generations remain the equivalent— instructor, understudy, and substance—the advancement of connections among these three increases from the primary job of understudy interaction in constructivism to the understudy content interrelationship celebrated in connectivist teaching methods, with their emphasis on relentless systems and client created substance.

What do here understudy, substance and entertainers mean?


texts: What is the difference between "one is to do" and "one should do"?

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When we frame questions, what is the correct format?
"What one is to do when they are locked out?"
or
"What one should do when they are locked out?"
I have come across both variants but I'm not sure which one of them is correct. Are there any subtle differences?


texts: What does "You're a stroke of genius" mean?

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I was playing Max Payne 3 and this dialogue appeared in one of the cutscenes

  "Wilson Da Silva," replies Max, "You're a stroke of genius!"

Can anybody explain what it means?


texts: Is "Negro" an offensive word, or do some people just take offense to it, and why?

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I was not born in the US, so let me clarify why I'm asking such question:

In Portuguese, the word "Negro" is the correct term when referring to the race, where calling somebody "Black", the color, would be considered offensive most of the time.

So is "Negro" in America a bad, offensive word, or is it the right term when referring to the race?


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How is "it's" different from "its"? They look pretty much the same. How do they work? For example, in sentences such as:

It's collar was shaking.

Its collar was shaking.


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The word 'shed' means

a small structure for storage
to cast off hair, skin

And I don't know which meaning is right for the sentence below.
Here is the example (from 'Baker's blue-jay yarn' by Mark Twain)

  You may say a cat uses good grammar. Well, a cat does - but you let a cat get excited once; you let a cat get to pulling fur with another cat on a shed, nights, and you will hear grammar that will give you the lockjaw.

The words in bold is what I don't understand the meaning of exactly.

Does it mean

a cat fights with another cat on a shed (a small structure for storage) every night?

or

a cat fights with another cat every night while shedding (casting off hair)?


texts: What's the difference between meaning of 'A happy new year' and 'Happy new year'?

texts: Their appearance different is the sentence has 'A' whether or not, but I have heard both... What's their difference? or no difference?


texts: When to add "in" before "this way" or "adj +way:

texts: It's my own example:"I was just born this way" "you should carry out this ceremony in more simple way" "he scolded me (in) the worst way"


texts: Why should we worry about the hormone level in our body OR bodies?

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This is just one example:

  Why should we worry about the hormone level in our body or bodies?

Similarly,

  In postmortem, doctors found that they all (dead) had poison in their stomach or stomaches?

Okay, is there any example sentence that uses "...plural....and singular something that belong to that plural?" as in my first options of 'body' and 'stomach'?

Frankly, I don't find any problem in using body over bodies there. It's understandable.


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It means the memories last, even if contact is lost.

What is the meaning of even if contact is lost here?


texts: Meaning and usage of "vitrine" in the US

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I would like to know if, in the US, people say vitrine/vitrines like window shopping.

In France usually they say "vitrine" as window shopping. And English has some mix of French words too. So, I would like to know.


texts: Which one is correct, below is the transaction summary or below are the transactions summary?

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Which one is correct from this 2 sentences?

Below is the transaction summary of your purchase

or

Below are the transactions summary of your purchase

I will use it on a payment receipt that contains Customer Name, Email Address, Phone number, Item name, Quantity, Price, etc.


texts: Word for a small burst of laughter that can't be held back

texts: What do you call the small burst of laugh that people let out when they want to refrain from laughing, but can't? You know the "pfft" sound? I am not sure if it only happens when you refrain from laughing, but yeah some people I guess laugh like that.


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The villagers advised him to run uphill if he 'were' / was ever unfortunate enough to be chased by a bear.
Which out of the two is correct? Was or were?
The word 'if' makes the sentence a conditional clause ... but some people say that 'was' is correct.


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"Take your orni and fly due south-west."

I heard this quote in a dialogue from the game "Dune" and I am wondering if the usage of "due" is applicable in this case.


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I am going to make up a sentence.

(ex) Most of John's work experience arises from teaching high school students.

Does the word arises fit my sentence?


texts: I need a proverb or idiom which can roughly mean "He has taken up more jobs than he can handle"

texts: Something like "His head is in ten different places".


texts: correct usage with commas in this example

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While introducing someone, we use commas.

·         This is Jane, my sister.

·         The distinguished scientist, Mr. Stephen, of AKL University, will be addressing the crowd tomorrow.

In the second sentence, the comma before and after the name indicates we are talking about a specific scientist of AKL University. The comma after the name also tells us that the information after the name is essential to identify the person.

https://www.grammar.com/the_correct_way_to_use_commas_with_names_and_titles

Doesn't the comma before the title of the University define it as non-essential not essential to identify the person in this example?

Not least because there would likely be many distinguished scientists within any given University but were talking about a specific one.


texts: Should it be "in" or "to" in "teach history education in / to early childhood"?

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Can I use either "in" or "to" in the sentence below?
For some reason both sounds awkward to me..

According to the majority of opinions, playing traditional games, visiting cultural sites, and using fairy tales as appropriate ways to teach history education in/to early childhood.


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What is the difference between "patient notes", "clinical notes" and "clinician notes"?

I have encountered these three terms and they seem to be used interchangeably. Examples:

https://doi.org/10.1136/amiajnl-2014-002945:

  the system extracts content from the patient notes

https://doi.org/10.1093/jamia/ocv062

  a random sample of 100 000 clinician notes retrieved from an electronic health records system

https://doi.org/10.1197/jamia.M3173


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I've just read the next sentences:

  'I wanted to see her again', John said.

  'And you did, you did see her again', Jennifer said.

Why not say "you saw her again"?


texts: "This is the first time I've seen a person who have become..."

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Let's say you have never seen a woman who have become prettier compared to her previous look before she got pregnant. And you say:

  This is the first time I've seen a woman who have become so hot after she gets pregnant.(possibly a run-on sentence)

Is my sentence construction grammatical without any unclear thought when read.

Disclamer: The register is informal. The sentence constructed is only for the query.


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The guy fell and the police car bumped over him.

I was told on another forum that "bumped over" would not be natural here, but is it still okay to use it instead of "ran over"?


texts: Is it correct to say "Return the investment"?

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How can I say a project can return its investment?

Is my following sentence correct?

  Although this approach is costly  to establish due to a need to gather a huge amount of data, it is reliable and a smart solution and can return the investment.


texts: Use of the future tense after the phrase "I'll let you know when..."

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Which sentence should I use?

  I'll let you know when I have more information.

  I'll let you know when I'll have more information.

Also, what is the proper grammatical explanation for the correct version?


texts: What is correct: x doesn't have, y does/has (it)

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I am comparing two countries: Norway and Greece. Obviously, Norway has a lot of moose. Which sentence is correct?

Greece doesn't have moose while Norway does.
Greece doesn't have moose while Norway has (them).


texts: What's the difference between these three phrases?

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I think I don't know much about the preposition 'of'.

"The five of us", "Five of us", and "Five all of us".

Would you please explain to me the difference between them?

Thank you.


texts: When can we use the words "presume" and "assume"?

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According to Merriam-Webster, presume means

to expect or assume especially with confidence
to suppose to be true without proof

while assume means

to pretend to have or be
to take as granted or true

Does it mean they are somewhat synonymous and can be used in a sentence interchangeably? For example,

  Students, tomorrow we will have a school activity, therefore we will
  have no Science class. However, there will be checking of attendance
  at 8:00 in the morning. I'll assume/presume that you are absent
  the whole day if your names are not on the list.


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Source:  An Interview With David Foster Wallace, by Larry McCaffery

  [David Foster Wallace's answer to Question #2] ...But now realize that tv and popular film and most kinds of “low” art—which just means art whose primary aim is to make money—is lucrative precisely because it recognizes that audiences prefer 100 percent pleasure to the reality that tends to be 49 percent pleasure and 51 percent pain. Whereas “serious” art, which is not primarily about getting money out of you, is more apt to make you uncomfortable, or to force you to work hard to access its pleasures, the same way that in real life true pleasure is usually a by-product of hard work and discomfort. So it’s hard for an art audience, especially a young one that’s been raised to expect art to be 100 percent pleasurable and to make that pleasure effortless, to read and appreciate serious fiction. That’s not good. The problem isn’t that today’s readership is “dumb,” I don’t think. Just that tv and the commercial-art culture’s trained it to be sort of lazy and childish in its expectations. But it makes trying to engage today’s readers both imaginatively and intellectually unprecedentedly hard.

1. How do you determine the right meaning ? Why not 'artistic audience'? My guesses:

2. Any audience, possibly lay or amateur with respect to art, who still cares about art.

3. An audience learned in art, who still cares about art.

4. An audience, about which we know nothing, for which the art was intended.

Obiter dictum: I lighted upon this article through reading this.


texts: Must I read books to improve my vocabulary and grammar?

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I have a major problem. I can't really decide what I should do.

In school, I'm in an english performance class. We're going to read some books, and already are reading "To Kill A Mockingbird", but I'm not really interested in them. I know that it would be a nice challenge to read them, not just to meet and greet new words, also, to be better at grammar things. Still, I think the books are boring, really boring. Until now, I just read summaries of books we read. I just read these to keep pace with my class, so I can still participate in class. I recently asked my teacher about it, and she was surprisingly shocked that I'm not reading. "If you don't do it, you won't be able to pass your A levels since you won't have learned to use grammar properly!", she said.

Is she right that I miss some important things, if I won't read books like "Othello", "Lord Of The Flies", or "To Kill A Mockingbird"?


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Scarcely had John begun speaking when he was again booed by the audience.

This sentence sounds strange to me, it sounds like John had been booed before and now he was booed again, and during the "booing process", he started his speaking.

That doesn't make sense since it is much more reasonable he first started the talk, and then been booed.

What exactly is this sentence mean? John is somehow disliked by audience and whenever he occurred, the audience booed even he didn't start talking?

(BTW: please let me know if I made any strange usage or grammar incorrect when writing this question)


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Hard fate when women are compell’d to woo!
(The Silkworm, by Robert Galbraith)

What is the sex of the person who woos in the example? By OALD, the doer of wooing is a male. Then, ‘Hard fate when women are compelled for men to woo them women’ is what the sentence mean? Or ‘Hard fate when women are compelled for them to woo men'?


texts: writing details for house sale advertisement

texts: I was posting an house sale advertisement and wanted to say that all the rooms of the house dont have any problems with light and fresh air passes through the rooms. How can i write about that in the advertisement .


texts: Seeking a much simpler words to replace " forced" and " dispersal" in the sentence below

texts: Most of the defendants at Monday's hearing were detained during clashes which erupted in the southern province of Minya after the forced dispersal of two Muslim Brotherhood protest camps in Cairo on August 14.


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What is the meaning of dollar hotels in the following sentence:

  After a couple of days in dollar hotels and one night in the
  pokey, I finally landed on my mother’s doorstep.

Source: The Vicious Cycle by Jim B.


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I want to add at the end of an email the following sentence. I basically want to ask politely the other person to update me as soon as she has any news on the topic discussed in the email body.

  Please keep me updated if any news arise.

Does it make sense in British English?


texts: "I worked the whole day yesterday" vs "I was working the whole day yesterday"

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Could you tell me if there is any difference in meaning between the following sentences?

I wasn't at Julie's birthday, because I worked the whole day yesterday.
I wasn't at Julie's birthday, because I was working the whole day yesterday.


texts: Are the terms "girlfriend" and "boyfriend" limited to some age in the spoken language?

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Are the terms "girlfriend" or "boyfriend" limited to some age in the spoken English?

I'm asking it because the word "girlfriend" is a closed compound noun which literally (in the narrow meaning of these two components of this closed compound word) means a friend who is a young (girl). The same for "boyfriend" which means a friend who is a young (boy). Now, so far as a non native English speaker I've not noticed using of both after some young age, and if it's used in old age it may be to me a little weird. But my personal impression of it may be wrong since it's not my native language.

By checking in Cambridge dictionary I found that the definition of girlfriend is "a woman or girl who a person is having a romantic or sexual relationship with". From this definition I understand that it is not only for girls but also for women. Isn't it in the colloquial English?


texts: Wondering about the grammar of “we keep remaining confident”

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"We are on his side during his long and difficult fight, together with the team of the hospital in Grenoble, and we keep remaining confident," Ms Kehm said.Source: ABC News – Michael Schumacher: Formula One champion showing 'moments of consciousness' after skiing accident

Does “we keep remaining confident” mean “we are continually remaining confident”?

What grammar is used here? Could you provide me with some examples and also simplify them in order to clarify the issue?


texts: is to be used only vs is to be only used

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I have some trouble with putting an adverb to a sentence. Which one is correct in the following sentences.

This fire extinguisher is to be used only in an emergency.

Or

This fire extinguisher is to be only used in an emergency.

I studied the adverbs part in a grammar book. It says that the adverb is located after "be verb" and before other verbs.


texts: I remember seeing a word that has the same meaning as aside - something that a character in a play says to the audience, but which the other characters on stage are not intended to hear - perhaps longer than this one. But I don’t find it on synonym dictionaries. Is it my illusion that I saw it?


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I think the following sentence is perfectly ok without can

Every year this IT company conducts training programmes for employees so that they learn new skills.

But in my book it is given that can should be used before learn.

Every year this IT company conducts training programmes for employees so that they can learn new skills.

Is the first sentence wrong?


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Doctor informed the court on Monday that it had terminated the over 22-week pregnancy of a minor rape survivor as continuing with it would have had severe impact on girl's physical and mental health.

Why would have had why don't would have impacted on girl's physical and mental health only?


texts: Can we say "happy" in sentences like "Happy reading!" is a verb and means "enjoy"? If not, what is that?


texts:
does "about four inches square" refers to "some phosphorescent material" or "hand"?

  very extraordinary phase of Mrs. Fox-Jensen's mediumship was the
  production of luminous substances. In the presence of Mrs. Makdougall
  Gregory, Mr. W. H. Harrison, the editor of a London newspaper, and
  others, a hand appeared carrying some phosphorescent material, about
  four inches square, with which the floor was struck and a sitter's
  face touched.

from http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks03/0301051h.html


texts: What is the exact definition of endeavor as a noun?

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From Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's Dictinary | 8th ed (En-En):

  endeavour
   N-VAR [oft N to-inf ]
  An endeavour is an attempt to do something, especially something new or original. [FORMAL ]

And in many others famous dictionaries, endeavor has almost the same definition.

But in real life, it seems endeavor should be better defined as a career.
Like:

As you may have heard, Tom made the decision to leave the company to pursue other endeavors.
If you are not all aware, Mike has left LA to pursue a new endeavor.
Bayliff went on to pursue other endeavors, which opened an opportunity for Dan Wilson to join the group.
I wish you all the best in your future endeavors.
We wish Tom the best of luck in his new endeavor.
It takes a lot of guts to go out on a limb, quit your job, and pursue a new endeavor.

So, here're my questions.

Should I understand the word endeavor (noun) as career from now on?
Is it kind of an advanced and cooler word for career?  :)


texts: Determining someone's gender from their name

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A Japanese person was asking how to tell the gender of someone based on their name. Someone else claimed that if it ends in "a", it's usually female, and if it ends in "o", it's usually male. How reliable is this rule? I suspect it's only true of names derived from Italian, but I could be wrong.

Assume that the names are of people of European descent in western countries such as America, Britain or Australia.


texts: "Live in the moment" vs "Live for the moment"

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There have been numerous times when I've read the phrase "Live in the moment" but today I got a question in a quiz wrong according to which "Live for the moment" is the correct usage.

Then I checked online and found Live for the moment is a phrase while I can't find live in the moment defined anywhere (in known and reliable dictionaries).

My question is, have people been using the phrase "live in the moment" incorrectly from a long time?

EDIT: Yes, I know use of "live in the moment" is not uncommon. But why is it I cannot find it in any known and reliable dictionaries? I even got a question wrong in quiz...


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I think i am not good at in English tenses at all, So I am seeking for your kind suggestion to start studying English tenses using any kind of online sources.

Regards


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Please do NOT rephrase or rewrite the sentence.  Only the bolded can be reworded.

  [1.] It would be to say that to go to a place, or from a place, means the same thing.

Instead, what are some synonyms of the bolded?
Or is it an adverb? Can I rewrite it as:

  2. It would be to say that to go to a place, or from a place, means equivalently/identically.

Footnote: The quote above is from this essay, but beware of this version's many typos.


texts: What the term "devastating milestone" mean literarlly?

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The United Nations Refugee Agency has marked what it calls the "devastating milestone" of registering the one millionth Syrian refugee in Lebanon.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-04-04/united-nations-syria-marks-one-millionth-refugee-lebanon/5367310

My perception is that it is " Very Shocking Event" as oppossed to "Significant event" milestone?? Sad milestone?


texts: "Put a knife to/at/on throat" - which one is preferred?

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I see three different versions on Indian media. The context is threatening someone to do some work forcefully.

  Put a knife on my throat  Put a knife at my throat  Put a knife to my throat

I feel 'on' should be the choice. Kindly enlighten me.

Okay! Are those all three possible?


texts:
When “-ing” comes after verb , does it make it noun like :

  A legislation contains giving some right to homeless people.


texts: The difference between "devil" and "demon"

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As far as I recognize, people use "demon" as a kind and can be used in plural form yet devil is not being used in plural.

  He is a demon, stay away from him!
  He is the devil, stay away from him!

So what's the difference? In which situations I use demon and devil?


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The lyən is in phonetics of words like million and billion. And both lɪən and lyən are in the BRE and AME phonetics of Brazilian respectively.

I have been using lɪən sound. And I think they are different when pronounced slowly but are same in speech. Please help on these sound.

Clarification: I hear the word like million sound like alien. I mean the vowel sound is like Ian Fleming name. Is it true?


texts:
When I search for a particular word in google or any other dictionary I will get multiple results like same word can be used as adjective and verb.
How to understand the results.

Please look at the image.


texts: Make clear where the reply should be given

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As part of a task I make as webmaster of a site, I sometimes contact users through the Contact form made available from the site, asking them to reply on a specific page on that site (the one I link). The sentence I actually use is the following.

  Please reply on https://example.org/link/to/the-issue.

In some cases, I get a message via email, and this not where I want the reply, since I don't usually read the email as often as I visit that site to check any change on the posts I partecipate in.
I think they understand my sentence as Please reply to this message about the issue reported on https://example.org/link/to/the-issue.

Is there a way to make clearer I am asking them to post their reply/comment on the page I link?


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What means "To be drafted with something"?

Could it mean to be distracted or deviated or forced to do an undesired thing?

I used this phrase to say when one is doing something may be drafted with something else.

For example when writing a paper, one may be drafted with finding the proper word.

Is it a proper usage of the phrase?

Update: I think I confused draft with drift, if drift convey the meaning please let me know


texts:
What is the difference between a carpenter and a construction worker?

Are the people who repair your house’s roof or walls construction workers? Or carpenters? Or both? If both can be used, which one is used more often?

In Cambridge dictionary, a carpenter is a person whose job is making or repairing wooden objects. As much as I have searched, carpenters seem to do other jobs related to construction too.

There is also a builder, but a builder seems rather to plan the construction, not to actually work on the construction site.

If there is any better way to express a person who works on the construction, please let me know.


texts: Is the past perfect necessary when one action clearly precedes another?

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When I describe two actions in the past, one of which precedes the other, when is the Past Perfect more preferable than the Past Simple?

  Jenny put on a mask after I put on goggles.
  Jenny put on a mask after I had put on goggles.

  I was scared after you yelled at me.
  I was scared after you had yelled at me.

  After the ghost said, “Hello, children!”, we all screamed.
  After the ghost had said, “Hello, children!”, we all screamed.

Which of the sentences, the first or the second, is preferable in the three situations above?


texts: using articles for the words "time" and "money"

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I understand when I have to use "a" or "the" article with these two words. However, I don't understand clearly when I may omit any article.
Could smb explain me when I shouldn't use any article with these two words?


texts: How to politely ask for clearer explanation when getting lost in workplace?

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As a second language speaker, I always concern if my interpersonal reaction is proper and polite enough.

For instance,sometimes I got some email from other native colleagues who wrote in phrases or slang that lost me. So far I had no good idea to properly say I didn't get it well and could you please make it clearer.

So I replied as 'sorry ***, I didn't get you well but if you meant that ... I can do ...'

Could someone please suggest some more better replies for this case?

Cheers


texts: What does it mean "I've been meaning to phone Jane"?

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I've been meaning to phone Jane. I keep forgetting.

Can you explain what the first sentence mean? Can you justify this usage of the Perfect Progressive tense?

(I guess that to mean stands for to intend here.)


texts: "We have to put up new skyscrapers in the downtown."

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Is it possible (and natural) to say so?:

We have to put up new skyscrapers in the downtown.


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I am not sure what it means in this sentence by using "devastating extremes". Can "extreme" be used as a noun meaning "extreme conditions" or "extreme weather"? Is it very dry there in the Valley?

  Death Valley National Park is a place of staggering beauty and devastating extremes.

What's native speakers' first reaction to "devastating extremes" on reading this sentence?


texts:
meaning of "with" in this sentence?

"2 bathrooms with one in each bedroom"

"with" has many meanings.. I do not know which it is


texts: Is it natural to say "around when" in questions to ask for an approximate time that somethimg will happen?

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Is it natural to say around when in questions to ask for an approximate time that somethimg will happen? For example:

Person A: Around when do you think you'll call?
Person B: I'll call around 5PM.

If it sounds off, would it be more natural to say around what time as in the example below?

Around what time are you going to come over?


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Which of these sentences are correct?

I saw an asleep person.

I saw some asleep people.

I saw some asleep persons.

I saw some people asleep.

This is a question in my English book that I couldn't get my head around it, it would be great if someone could give me an answer with an explanation.


texts: Translating into English correctly (boiling down to Past Perfect usage matters)

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This is the example of the text which needs to be checked out:

  A: Is he a student?

  B: Yes, he studies at our university. He worked at our factory before
  he entered our university. Now he doesn't work.

Thus, I used worked instead of had worked. I did it because the process of working is a habitual, permanent state in the past and now it's not connected with the current situation: Now he doesn't work.

Since it's no longer valid I could use used to work as well as the above variant, but not Past Perfect.

As far as I understand, the process of entering the university is a reference time; some point or may be past time to which he worked at the factory.

So, am I right? Is my understanding of the case correct?


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I've read that no article is used before cardinals (one, two, three... etc) but ordinals, but here in the following sentence this rule is voided. What is the reason behind it?

  The cities show an absence  of automobiles (which is "neither backwardness nor delay, but a rejection," to quote Robert Guillian), advertising, neon signs, and the three fevers of money, alcohol, and sex.


texts: which is the best option for the sentence

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What is the difference if we use the below three words in a sentence. Is there any grammatical error?

The boy "told"/"asked"/"said to"  his teacher to explain the passage.


texts: Naming a function — "GetThreadCounts" or "GetThreadCount"

texts: I've seen a lot of GetThreadCounts() used in some 3rd party libraries, to get number of threads. But I also saw some use GetThreadCount()? Which one is correct? Do they both make sense?


texts:
Is the phrase "using which", as in

John has a car, using which he drives to work every day.

proper English? Is it interchangeable with "with which"?


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That curious and little advertised organisation I have just mentioned,
the creation I am told of Lord Lloyd, that British Council, sends
emissaries abroad, writers, well-dressed women and other cultural
personages, to lecture, charm and win over foreign appreciation for
British characteristics, for British scenery, British political
virtues and so forth

- The new world order by H.G. Wells
Does "I am told of Lord Lloyd" mean "Lord Lloyd told me about the creation of the organisation I have just mentioned"?
I don't understand the sentence because of this phrase. If my version is false, then where does the "that" before "British Council" belong to?


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Which preposition should I use:  on, at or by someone's side to mean to be in favour of somebody in an specific situation.

Please, I would also ask you to correct any minor mistake I have made and, If it's necessary, tell me if there is a better way to say what I am trying to convey.

Thanks in advance!


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What the difference between these two sentences?

  I am the gardener.

  I am a gardener.

The first phrase is said by Bob in "Myzzy in Gondoland" episode 1.
The second phrase is generated by Google translate (translation this phrase from Russian).
What is more correct? Or these phrases have different meaning?

First several phrases of Muzzy episode 1:

The king says:

  How do you do?

  I'm the King.

  I'm the King of Gondoland.

The queen says:

  How do you do?

  I'm the Queen.

Bob says:

  Hello. I'm Bob.

  I'm the gardener.

Put another way: How you introduce yourself? "I am a computer programmer," or "I am the computer programmer," and why?


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biweekly: happening or appearing every two weeks or twice a week. Cambridge Dictionary

In the following news articles, What the author mean by "bi-weekly"? if it is mean "two weeks" or "twice a week", Why doesn't they use a specific term to make it clear for readers?

  Niantic was, by its own admission, caught off-guard by the sheer popularity of Pokemon Go, but it has pledged to continue supporting the game with bi-weekly updates. BBC

  She's lived on Brexit Street for 18 months now but knows no-one. She only goes out to walk to her bi-weekly English lessons or to the drop-in centre round the corner. BBC


texts: Clarifying "The man saw the woman with a telescope."?

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Cited from p. 12 of Introduction to Mathematical Thinking by Keith Devlin:

The man saw the woman with a telescope.

Who had the telescope, the man or the woman?

My question
Who, the man or the woman, had the telescope accoding to the 2 sentences below? Is it ambiguous?
2 sentences I came up with:

The man saw the woman, who was with a telescope.
The man saw the woman, having a telescope.

Related post: Does “The man saw the woman who is bringing the telescope” mean the woman is bringing the telescope?


texts: Present Perfect Continuous with Present Simple in the subordinate clause

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One, whom I don't know, posted this sentence on one Russian forum, where people study English. The sentence comes from here

They've been living with his mother while they look for a house

Is it possible to place the subordinate clause in the Present Simple if the main clause is in the Present Perfect Continuous tense?

As far as I know this is a mistake. It should be either of the two:

They are living with his mother while looking for a house.
They were living with his mother while looking for a house.

The second appearance of the word "they" makes me uncomfortable too.


texts: "different eras in history" or "different eras in the history"

texts: The Ngram says here that both expressions are used; however, I think "the history" is the correct expression because there is one history like when you write "the sun". On the other hand, my gut is telling me that "in history" is the word. I think only a native English speaker can tell which one I should use in formal situation.


texts: How to understand the preposition "with"?

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She is popular with the young people.

Why use "with" here?

How should I understand the preposition "with" in this context?


texts:
Recently I was watching a movie where an actor in translation (Czech dubbing) said:

  "It was the third year I was there."

But originally in English the actor said:

  "I had been there for three years."

The translation is incorrect right? Because if person had been there for three years he would have to say it was the 4th year I was there right?

Because let's say the person starts working somewhere in 2016 and 3 year passes. So it is 2019 and saying I am here the 3rd year is wrong in my opinion, isn't it?

Because the person is there already 4th year. (1st was 2016)


texts: What does "inter-temporal evolution" mean?

texts:
Today I read a discussion and I saw a phrase "inter-temporal evolution".

A pre-trend analysis isn't a requirement, though it improves the
credibility of a study. Typically, evaluators plot the outcome trends
for the treatment group and the control group over time. We should
expect the inter-temporal evolution of the trends to be reasonably
parallel before the law/policy is enacted.
For example, the authors in the paper you referenced plot the mean change in >asset growth in both groups in the 2 years before and the 5 years after the >adoption of a leniency law.

I am wondering what does it mean in this situation.


texts: Is "None of them noticed a large, tawny owl flutter past the window." correct?

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None of them noticed a large, tawny owl flutter past the window.

I saw this sentence in the book Harry Potter. I think the sentence should be written as:

  None of them noticed a large, tawny owl fluttered past the window.
  None of them noticed a large, tawny owl fluttering past the window.

The first one takes "a large, tawny owl fluttered past the window." as a full clause with the past tense applied. And the second one takes fluttering as a present participle describing owl.

Did I get something wrong there?


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A: Have you talked to her today?

B: Yes, she called me.

A: What did she say? Did she know I'd been in a fight? Is that why she doesn't want to talk to me?

The fight that A was in was three days ago.

Is the sentence in bold as natural as possible for the context or is it not clear that he's referring to that specific fight he was in three days ago?


texts: Gas is a short form of gasoline and also is a word for gaseous form substance as oxygen for example and also we can make liquid gas as propane for example. The problem is all of these words can designate different kind of fuel. The question is how should I ask what kind of fuel some car is using? I was in Asia and they use two kinds of fuel which are gas and... gas! And I tried to ask my taxi driver something like that "Does your car use gas or gas?" which is a weird question. Can I ask "Does your car use gasoline or gas?" and more important can native American English speaker understand what I mean in this question? Or maybe there is another way to ask this question?


texts: Articles when using initialisms as adjectives

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I have a question about using articles when using an initialism as an adjective to a noun that is mentioned for the first time.

  I am studying the/a SAT checklist for the test on Monday.

I want to say that this checklist is one of many checklists but only relevant for the test on Monday. So it feels like I should put "the" in front of SAT, but I recently read that it's better not to put an article in front of initialisms that are used as adjectives. Is an article necessary in the example above? If so, is "the" better than "a" when "SAT checklist" is mentioned for the first time?


texts: {"Have become" / "Became"} "popular over the past few years?"

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"Reality shows have become very popular over the past few years."
Is it okay to replace "have become" with "became" in this sentence? :)


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I have read in some documents that they, for example, say:

  If you be here, it would be great.

I touch the meaning, well; but I would like to become sure if these two sentences have two different meanings:

  If you be here, it would be great.
  If you are here, it would be great.

I suppose that in the first one being here is the suggestion of speaker; but in the second, it is the suggestion of listener or it is the default case.

Am I true?


texts: What to call the activity of providing workshops and training

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I have organized and conducted technology workshops and trainings for my employer and several clients. In some cases, it was rather teacher-oriented and lecture-like, while in others it was rather a collaborative meeting where I was more of a facilitator.

How could the title of a list of such workshops and trainings in a self-description look like?

"Offered workshops/trainings" - sounds too ambiguous, as in "I offered them, but nobody wanted one".

"Facilitated workshops/trainings"- correct in some cases, but suggests too little involvement overall.

"Executed", "conducted", "held", "performed" - perhaps, I don't have enough linguistic intuition to decide, but "executed" and "performed" don't feel right.


texts:
I was writing an essay, and I came upon some confusing situation. Is it ok to say:

  It never said if it used several metals of same kind, or used just one
  big metal.

I thought word if in this case can be used with or only if used with not like this:

  It never said if it used several metals of same kind or not.

So is it grammatical?


texts: The difference between 'extra' and 'another'

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would you be interested in another class?
would you be interested in an extra class?
A teacher had agreed to teach a few classes in our school for next term. meanwhile a new class was scheduled and I want to ask him if he would like to take it. Which word is appropriate here: another or extra? what is the difference?
Thanks for your help


texts: Does it refer to 'an event' in the passage?

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Does it in the passage refer to an event, or their own memory?

Finkenauer and Rimé investigated the memory of the unexpected death of
Belgium’s King Baudouin in 1993 in a large sample of Belgian citizens.
The data revealed that the news of the king’s death had been widely
socially shared. By talking about the event, people gradually
constructed a social narrative and a collective memory of the
emotional event. At the same time, they consolidated their own
memory of the personal circumstances in which the event took place,
an effect known as “flashbulb memory.” The more an event is
socially shared, the more it will be fixed in people’s minds.
Social sharing may in this way help to counteract some natural
tendency people may have. Naturally, people should be driven to
“forget” undesirable events. Thus, someone who just heard a piece of
bad news often tends initially to deny what happened.The repetitive
social sharing of the bad news contributes to realism.

Cyberemotions: Collective Emotions in Cyberspace


texts: How to indicate that every medicine can have many side effects, although it can heal an illness?

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Let's suppose someone e.g. an athlete is abusing some medicinal products such as petites, steroids or some human/animal hormones like HHT etc to arrive at a short term goal, not knowing that it can cause many disorders for him in the long-term. Liver problems, problems with kidneys, cardio problems, male fertility problems etc.

It is just the consequences of abusing those standard drugs and only in sport area. But there are many other medicines which can harm body's other organs in some ways. For instance, there is a medicine called "Dexamethasone" (the generic name, perhaps it differs in the US) in the category of "carticosteroids" which can harm you by blocking calcium absorption by your body for a period of many months.

There is no doubt that it would impose some side effects to your health system. Although the mentioned drug has passed its clinical analysis, but it lunched into the market several years ago, just because there was no any cost-effective and affordable replacement for it. So how one can overlook such a thing? Nevertheless, this was not what I was going to imply.

I'm not an MD or pharmacist and do not have quite information about pharmaceutical affairs. I am just looking for an idiomatic and natural way to imply the sentence below in English.

P.S. We know that almost every chemical medication has some particular side effects on one or even more body organs.
Whereas based on our traditional ways to heal many diseases, some older people in our country believe that every medication can damage your body, although, it can heal one illness at the same time. In this regard, we have a saying about all chemical drugs. I need to know how a native speaker would indicate the following sentence in a natural way:

  Every medicine heals one place, but harms a hundred of other places in you (meaning in your body.)

Where "a hundred" is a way of emphasis on the possible degree of the side effects.


texts: "prize awarded him" vs. "prize awarded to him"

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The verb award is ditransitive, Oxford Dictionary says:

  1. [with two objects]
  Give or order the giving of (something) as an official payment, compensation, or prize to (someone)
  ‘The Presidential Medal of Freedom is the highest civil honor our nation can bestow and we award it today to 12 outstanding individuals.’

and until very recently I would have argued that between the verb and its recipient a preposition was needed

A striking example of this recognition is the Oscar awarded to Aleksandr Petrov for his 1999 film The Old Man and the Sea.
Marcia Basche holds the plaque awarded posthumously to her husband, Don, in recognition of his years of service
The plaque awarded to Brother Andy Watson was skillfully crafted by Rob Paxton from a piece of oak that John Hodder had provided.
Donna Cooper of Memphis, Tennessee, also returned the Purple Heart awarded to her fallen son, Pvt. Paul Cooper, who was killed in October 1951.

But I found several instances on the Net where the I̲N̲D̲I̲R̲E̲C̲T̲ ̲O̲B̲J̲E̲C̲T̲ (the recipient) was not preceded by any preposition

Over the course of her tenure, Cain has raised more than $250,000 for the American Heart Association through the yearly fundraiser as is aptly demonstrated on the plaque awarded h̲e̲r̲ this year by the association.
The literary salons, while they mourned the death of Colette, were still chattering about the exciting first novel called Bonjour Tristesse by an eighteen-year-old girl; and about the Nobel Prize awarded E̲r̲n̲e̲s̲t̲ ̲H̲e̲m̲i̲n̲g̲w̲a̲y̲ .
Also part of the exclusive club is actor George C. Scott, who refused the Oscar awarded h̲i̲m̲ for his leading role in the 1970 film Patton because of his deeply held belief that acting should not be competitive.
followed in 1995 by the Oscar awarded Michael Radford's I̲l̲ ̲p̲o̲s̲t̲i̲n̲o̲, and, in 1997, the three statuettes won by Roberto Benigni's Life is Beautiful.

This construction sounds peculiar to me because it seems that the Direct Objects perform the action,  e.g.
Q. What did the plaque do in sentence No.1?
A. It awarded Beth Cain "this year" by the association.

This sounds weird. Is it only me?

However, if we swap the position of the DIRECT OBJECT with the INDIRECT OBJECT the following sound perfectly acceptable to me

The American Heart Foundation awarded Beth Cain the plaque...
The Swedish Academy awarded Ernest Hemingway the Nobel Prize ...
AMPAS awarded George C. Scott the Academy Award for Best Actor

I am quite befuddled by the second construction.

What is this type of construction called? What's it called when the preposition is omitted?
I'm going to presume this word order is grammatical, because I found a number of instances online, but would I be correct in saying that this construction is usually found in American English?
Why is the preposition, to, omitted?


texts: Is "If you spare the rod you spoil the child" literal?

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If you spare the rod you spoil the child.

Does this sentence mean that if a child or student do anything wrong, we have to punish him by beating with a stick, smacking him/her or maybe punching, or does it have other connotations?

If it applies to my description, has it been practiced in Western countries?


texts: What does the bold part function in grammar? What is the structure?

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Machiavelli's "The Prince" Chapter XVIII

W. Marriott's translation:

  Therefore it is unnecessary for a prince to have all the good qualities I have enumerated, but it is very necessary to appear to have them. And I shall dare to say this also, that to have them and always to observe them is injurious, and that to appear to have them is useful; to appear merciful, faithful, humane, religious, upright, and to be so, but with a mind so framed that should you require not to be so, you may be able and know how to change to the opposite.

There are only non-finite forms without a subject nor a verb.

Does all the bold part function as the subject? Thus, "{To ..., and to ..., but with ...} is useful"?

H. Mansfield's translation:

  Thus, it is not necessary for a prince to have all the above-mentioned qualities in fact, but it is indeed necessary to appear to have them. Nay, I dare say this, that by having them and always observing them, they are harmful; and by
  appearing to have them, they are useful, as it is to appear merciful, faithful, humane, honest, and religious, and to be so; but to remain with a spirit built so that, if you need not to be those things, you are able and know how to change to the contrary.

The same question.

"as it is {but to ...}"?

I have no problem with the two other English translations.

N. Thomson's one:

  It is not essential, then, that a Prince should have all the good qualities which I have enumerated above, but it is most essential that he should seem to have them; I will even venture to affirm that if he has and invariably practises them all, they are hurtful, whereas the appearance of having them is useful. Thus, it is well to seem merciful, faithful, humane, religious, and upright, and also to be so; but the mind should remain so balanced that were it needful not to be so, you should be able and know how to change to the contrary.

J. Bennett's one:

  So a prince needn’t •have all the good qualities I have listed [on page 33], but he does need to •appear to have them. And I go this far: to have those qualities and always act by them is injurious, and to appear to have them is useful—i.e. to •appear to be (3) merciful, (4) trustworthy, (6) friendly, (8) straightforward, (11) devout, and to •be so, while being mentally prepared to switch any virtue off if that will serve your purposes.


texts: By this tomorrow, I will have the information you need vs By this time tomorrow, I will have had the information you need

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I wonder if the two sentences below could be interpreted based on context or if one is more appropriate than the other.

-By this time tomorrow, I will have the information you need
-By this time tomorrow, I will have had the information you need.


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I wonder if there are any differences between two sentences below:

  I was at the seaside last summer.

  I was on the beach last summer.

Are they have the same meaning?


texts: How to refer to something from a research paper?

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Which of the following expressions makes more sense when talking about Dr.X's paper ?
(1) "Dr. X wrote a paper in which he showed Y."
(2) "Dr. X wrote a paper where he showed Y."
(3) "Dr. X wrote a paper showing X."


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Should I use 'a' or 'an'  before numbers? Suppose that we have this sentence:

  Their implementation results achieved a (or an?) 85-90% accuracy rate.


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I want to refer to the text which is inside an HTML element, (you can think it is inside a paragraph), can I say containing text of the element? If no, what should I say?

If yes, what is the structure of this adjective?


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The following is an excerpt from the book "Algorithms to Live By" by Brian Christian. (p. 230)

...; so that each competitor has to pick, not those faces which he himself finds prettiest, but those which he thinks likeliest to catch the fancy of the other competitors, all of whom are looking at the problem from the same point of view.

I understand what the phrase means, but I'm not so clear about the grammatical structure.
Is "be" verb being omitted as in "those which [he thinks] (are) likeliest to..."? I assume "he thinks" is a mere inserted phrase, so "be likely to" should be the main verb.
My second-guessing goes "think likely." Can you use "think likely" in a similar way to "is/seem/appear likely"?


texts: What does "triggered on a $30 million personal loan" mean?

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Can somebody explain the phrase in bold for me, please? According to this source https://www.investopedia.com/terms/m/margincall.asp
“A margin call refers specifically to a broker's demand that an investor deposit additional money or securities into the account so that it is brought up to the minimum value, known as the maintenance margin.”
From Fortune magazine

Latam Airlines Group, Latin America’s largest carrier, whose shareholders include Chile’s Cueto family, sought bankruptcy court protection in New York. In March, Neeleman—who founded companies including JetBlue and Canada’s WestJet Airlines—unloaded more than 80% of his preferred shares in Brazilian carrier Azul SA after a margin call was triggered on a $30 million personal loan.

Source: For billionaires, investing in airlines is becoming a losing bet


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Marx – ladies and gents – was truly a "tough guy".

Is this sentence OK? I mean the postition of the indefinite article? Why is it not placed before the word "truly" as in the sentence "he was a very tough guy"?


texts: Is there any common word or expression for saying "to unload worker"? It doesn't matter what kind of workers they are - the point is - what's the right word for how to say "take some scope of work off some person"? I guess "unload" is inapplicable when talking about a person, or am I wrong?


texts: What grammar describes the noun referring the previous whole sentence or phrase?

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What grammar explains a noun referring to the previous whole sentence or phrase?

  Alan Turing is probably best known for cracking the Nazi code known as
  Enigma, a feat depicted in the 2014 film "The Imitation Game." NPR

Here, "a feat" refers to cracking the Nzi code known as Enigma, and

  A collection of Silicon Valley Executives, engineers and activists are
  quietly plotting a progressive counterattack against President Donald
  Trump, a sign of the industry's growing anger at his election victory
  and actions on immigration. Silicon Valley leaders organizing against Trump

Here, a sign refers to the whole previous sentence.

Could you please let me know what grammar should I search for to study this?
Thank you.


texts: Can I use "First, ... Secondly, ... Finally, ... " like this ?

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I would like to say :

First, I would like ...
Secondly, I am ...
Finally , I think ...

is it correct ? and what we call this kind of structure ?
is there alternatives ?


texts: Should "cooking" and "cleaning" be taken literally in "...two men at once. One cooking. One cleaning."

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Just read a tweet,

  My fantasy is having two men at once. One cooking. One cleaning.

Is it a word play in which 'cleaning' refers to a sexual intercourse or, actually, 'cleaning' is there intended having its literal meaning?


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It is from this video. It is at 14 minutes and 13 seconds.

  You better guess the folks at that Galaudet College went out and celebrate the rest of the day when somebody came up with that one.

I have got no idea what the lecturer is talking about because of that word. Help me please understand the sentence.