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What is the rule that you have to follow to be able to use **'s** instead of **is**? For example, you can say _Jill's very happy_ , but you can't say _However happy Jill's I'd still like to tell her another joke_.
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I've noticed quite a number of religious professionals of late have used phrases such as "let's exegete this text" or "we need to exegete Paul's meaning here." Of course, an exegete is one skilled in exegesis, but I have never heard of "to exegete" being in accepted usage. Wiktionary included it as a possibility, but I...
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I'm looking for a word that describes "to enable or to disable". This related question found the hypernyms _mode_ and _state_ , but I am looking for a verb. I.e. a word for "(potentially) change mode/state". I guess _to switch_ is a good match, but unfortunately in JavaScript (my target language), `switch` is a reserve...
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Marketing emails often come with an unsubscribe link in the footer. This is what Twitter uses: > You can also unsubscribe to these emails or change your notification > settings. "Unsubscribe from these emails" seems far more natural to me because unsubscribing is an act of removal. Add **to** , remove **from**. Is ther...
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Suppose I went to the supermarket three times. Is my third trip considered my "second time returning there" or my "third time returning there?" Thanks. (I know this question sounds silly, but English is my second language...)
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> **Possible Duplicate:** > "Whereas" as an alternative spelling of "whereas" I've always wondered which is the correct spelling: "naïve" or "naive"? Are both correct, and it is just a whichever-you-feel-comfortable-with?
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You can see in the aboutCV page of Stackoverflow Careers site that the word _resumes_ is mentioned — not _résumés_ or _résumés_. What should be the common practice here? What about other words like _café_?
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> **Possible Duplicate:** > "Whereas" as an alternative spelling of "whereas" I've got an impression that there is (or was) a rule in English: If you have a rarely used word with two vowel letters in a row, corresponding to two vowel sounds in a row (as opposed to a diphthong or single vowel sound marked by two letters...
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> **Possible Duplicate:** > Should you always use the accent in foreign words like “resume”? > “Whereas” as an alternative spelling of “whereas” > Is it spelt “naive” or “naive”? Merriam-Webster lists both spellings without any comment on validity / usage. The second variant seems to be the French original, and the oth...
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> **Possible Duplicate:** > Should you always use the accent in foreign words like "resume"? > Diacriticals and non-English letters in anglicized loan words: keep 'em, > dump 'em, italicize the words, or what? This may have already been asked, but I couldn't find it. If so, I'm very willing to close this question. What...
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Wiktionary shows _whereäs_ as a valid alternative spelling of the word _whereas_ (see here). It gives the following quotations to illustrate the usage: > **1** Permanent International Association of Navigation Congresses, Report > of Proceedings — Milan (1905) > > _After a dry season, the influence of heavy rains becom...
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Which is the correct word: _pajama_ , _pyjama_ or _paijama_? Is there a difference between these three?
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Listening to the current England football manager, Roy Hodgson, speaking on the radio, he used a very curious expression while speaking about his team: > "We have to try to get back to putting the church back into the village" I heard it on the radio, so I can't remember exactly what the context was. I think he was tal...
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"We encourage our employees to keep flexible hours and don't require them to track their time." I think that the word 'require' is misplaced here. It can probably be replaced by 'ask'. Can I add any better word here?
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For example I've written: > "I have an interest in rock climbing and am a member of the mountaineers > Society." My friend thinks it has to be: > "I have an interest in rock climbing and **_I_** am a member of the > mountaineers Society." which I think sounds bad. Which is right?
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In his bus tour kick-off speech in New Hampshire, Mitt Romney said: > Everywhere I go, I meet people who represent the best of America. They are > hopeful, hard-working, determined and proud. But they are also worried and > anxious. They are tired of being tired. > > … > > When Americans rose up and demanded, “Stop bor...
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Is there any difference between _composite_ and _compound_? Are these words synonyms?
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I can not get meaning of **just day hikes**. Here is a dialog which I have seen: > "I didn't see the whole thing, and I spend three days there walking > different parts every day, so I really don't know the size of it except that > it's massive." > > "So you just went hiking and then you camped overnight, or did you ju...
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What is the correct usage between the following? * A wedding anniversary * A marriage anniversary? What differences are there, if any.
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What would be the antonym of the expression "landed with a thud"? I've seen it in the context of "a new product landed with a thud, attracting very few customers".
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I'm writing in present tense, first person. I want to say that someone is sitting back to back with the main character (narrator). I utilized the following phrase: > The voice comes from someone leaning against my back. With that sentence, would you be able to tell that they are sitting back to back? If not, then what ...
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I made an edit to a question and the portion mentioning the n-gram chart was reverted. I was reading the Wikipedia article about n-grams and added the hyphen based on that usage. This article says _Ngram_ is just Google’s branding for its Ngram Viewer tool. Which spelling is correct? In my mind _n-gram_ should refer to...
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I was looking through the original text of a popular nursery rhyme “Baa, Baa, Black Sheep” in _Tommy Thumb’s Pretty Song Book_ when noticed an expression whose meaning I can’t understand: “Yes, marry, have I”. What does that expression mean? And speaking in general, does this text from the book issued in 1744 look arch...
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This is related to the recent entry in the web comic xkcd: http://xkcd.com/945/ I never say, "I'm sorry," because people interpret that as if I feel at fault, when I don't. I've been simply saying, "that sucks," or, "that is very unfortunate". If someone dies you can say, "my condolences," and it's perfect; however, th...
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Is it correct to say “compiled an album”? I basically want to convey the idea that I originally had a set of photographs out of which I have selected a few of them and made an album. It would also be great if anyone can suggest some other phrase to convey the same idea.
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What is the story behind the word _mark_ as a synonym for _version_ in products, such as Canon 5D Mark III or Aston Martin DB Mark III?
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Since I like staying up until late at night, waking up late, and generally [I] am more of a nocturnal type of person… Is the I in the square brackets necessary, or can it be omitted? Personally, I feel like it sounds better when left out, but some people told me otherwise. Please clear up the confusion, thanks!
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Does such a word exist? I came across this question while writing some software that used frustums, making certain parts of it... eh... frustumy?
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What is the difference between " _underlay_ ", " _underlie_ " and their present continuous forms (and adjectives) " _underlying_ " and " _underlaying_ "? And what is the right word to say something like: > The actual behavior of something depends on the underlying platform.
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> The interior is in pure white color The 'in' is really required in this case? Is there any alternative?
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Having a bit of a debate about this with some foreign colleagues of mine. I've always used the phrase 'I'm walking in the road', they think that you should say 'I'm walking on the road'.. I'm not 100% sure why I use the word 'in', but there must be a reason for it! So... which is right?
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There was the following sentence in a New York Times (January 18) article titled, “Peeling away the plastic”: > “Those who have seen “Mitt” - which debuts on Netflix on Friday - are agog > that filmmaker Greg Whiteley has accomplished what Romney himself, --- > Willard Mitt Romney seems all too human. > > **He wells up...
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When is it in spelling that the personal pronoun 'you' should be written with capital Y?
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When someone is _not under the influence of alcohol_ , you call them _sober_. Is there a similar word for _not under the influence of mind-altering drugs_? An example usage would be: > I am one of the few who listens to Radiohead or Dave Matthews while > ________.
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With a saying such as _keep it to myself_ you can say the past tense as _kept it to myself_. How about _mind my own business_? Should it be _minded my own business_ , _mound my own business_ or something else?
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There are several questions here on quoting a question within a sentence, but most of them deal with the quote being at the end of the larger sentence. What if it's in the middle? > In many cultures, "How are you?" is often asked at the beginning of a > conversation. I can't really think of any other way to write this,...
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> With a crack like a whip, Dobby vanished. I'm studying English using the Harry Potter books. I can't seem to find this expression in any dictionary, however. Google returns no results at all (except for Harry Potter itself and one other, unknown, piece of writing). So, is this a commonly used and/or existing and/or c...
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The car followed the twists and turns of the mountain road.
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I am reading a BBC article on "Why pressing ‘upload’ means losing your rights". On page 2 of that article there is a paragraph that reads: _Meanwhile, legal thinking on digital rights is slowly catching up with the absurdity **of their being** almost no current recourse for loss, deletion or the whims of a service prov...
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I'm just wondering whether both sentences would be correct: > * I look into the eyes of anyone who looks at me. > > * I look into the eyes of everyone who looks at me. > > Would it be correct to assume that when I used _anyone_ in that way it would mean I am questioning whether anyone looks at me. However when using _e...
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I have no idea why my question was closed as it was pretty clear (at least for a person of average intelligence) so I am trying again: There is a sentence, e.g: > He could have seen that. Will the question be: > Could he have seen that? And with how, will it be like this? > How could he have seen that?
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One can _lead_ a team. But what verb is best used for not leading but just being part of the team? That is, what verb belongs in the blank in the following sentence: > One can **_** a team. I am considering _support_ or _join_.
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I'm looking for a word that describes the film left behind when a fluid touches a surface. For example: * A blood drop runs down a wall -> it leaves a ... * A puddle drying-out leaves a ... * Oil that leaks from a barrel and sinks in the ground leaves a ... The words I've came up with are: film, layer, residue (describ...
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This use of "if" has a completely different meaning than its normal conditional meaning. Can someone explain to me how this construction works, and provide other examples of this sort of thing?
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Further to my previous question about the meaning of the word, ‘crisis an hour mentality,’ there was the following line in the article of Washington Post under the title, “For Obama, and Democrats, it’s crunch time.” > “His mea culpa was all the more notable because it came only a few days > after he had attempted to p...
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The words myself, yourself, himself and the like usually function as reflexive pronouns. However, they are also used in context that do not fulfill the common definitions of reflexive. Neither the "agent = patient" paradigm, nor the "agent = grammatical object" definition. > The author read the book himself. What part ...
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I'm looking for the verbatim definition of the neologism "stigmergy" from the Oxford or other established dictionary including the phonetic transcription. There is a definition on wiktionary but I'm looking for a more formal source. If anyone has access to an extended dictionary that contains the word it would be appre...
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Please, I would like the explation of the saying: > Knowing trees, I understand the meaning of patience. Knowing grass, I can > appreciate persistence. I translated it to my native language, but still didn't get it. What I think is that trees are big, but they started out as grass. Is that it?
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> The doctor's association has threatened to go on indefinite strike **to > support/in support of/in support for** their teachers.
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Is there any lingual way to differentiate between the family that I’m a child of and the family that I am a parent of? (I.e., the first family consists of my parents, my siblings, and me; the second one consists of my spouse, my children and me.)
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In the following sentence: > "When I visited my old school after so many years, it looked completely > different in the classrooms and the backyard /from what/to what/than/ it had > been when I was a little boy."> Are the three options acceptable in spoken English ?
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I apologize if this question has been asked before; I couldn't find it in a site search. I have this sentence about teaching children safety rules: The rules are different when you are together with your adults or when you are on your own. My question is about the use of _or_. Is the sentence correct as it is, or does ...
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In my opinion, 'the' is a definite article. It emphasis saying "that one only". Why then 'the' before winter season. There is only one kind of winter season. There cannot be different kind of winter season. For example, the food means that specific food, food - means general. The winter seasons means specific, whereas ...
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What is the origin of the usage of the word "Man" as a word of exclamation? > _Man_ this curry is delicious! > > _Man_ my feet hurt!
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Is it a rule that 'for' should follow after word 'search'? Does any form of search should be followed by for? For example, searched for searching for
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I can't remember to hear "I hoped..." in any movie I've watched. I always hear "I was hoping..." when people talk. Nevertheless I know both forms are correct in terms of grammar. So when "I hoped" is more proper then "I was hoping" and vice versa?
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What would be an appropriate word for "A journey of self discovery and introspection" or possibly, "To discover that you are not how you conceptualized yourself"?
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I want to know if «'s» sounds more natural than «of the...». E.g.: 'My computer's keyboard' or 'The keyboard of my computer'. Thanks in advance.
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> **Possible Duplicate:** > Apostrophe "s" vs "Of" I want to know what's the different between the ownership usage: > "He's her mother's son" > > "He is the son of her mother" What's the difference between using "'s " and "of"? Also, because I don't know exactly how this should be called I call it ownership. But what's...
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I would like to know which one of these expressions is the most correct and why? > Google´s car > > The car of Google When I refer to the driverless car Google has invented.
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> **Possible Duplicate:** > Apostrophe "s" vs "Of" > possessive connecting word for inanimate object Once again I'm not sure if I should use possessive or atributive or neither of them. > 1. Please, send me an e-mail with the analysis's output. > 2. Please, send me an e-mail with the analysis output. > 3. Please, send ...
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It is a very simple word but I am quite confused when I write formal documents. I do not know exactly when to use the **of** rather than **'s**. For example: > The value of the mean or The mean's value. > > The domains of statistics or The statistics' domains. > > The example of data or data's example. I have searched ...
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> **Possible Duplicate:** > Is the word 'whose' referring to an inanimate object correct in this > sentence? Is there a more appropriate word? Basically I'm wondering if a sentence like this is grammatically correct: "Meaning is thwarted by its delivery, whose poetry is relative to taste." I cannot avoid it with, "Mean...
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> **Duplicate of:** > Is the word 'whose' referring to an inanimate object correct in this > sentence? > Usage of “whose” not referring to a person. > Referring to some attribute of an inanimate object — use “who's”? > What is the possessive form of “what”? > Other ways of saying “whichs” > Possessive “that's” > 'Which...
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> **Duplicate:** > Is the word 'whose' referring to an inanimate object correct in this > sentence? > Possessive connecting word for inanimate object > Usage of “whose” not referring to a person. > Referring to some attribute of an inanimate object — use “who's”? > What is the possessive form of “what”? > Other ways of...
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> **Possible Duplicate:** > possessive connecting word for inanimate object Can't figure out how to build this sentence. Say I have a form someone needs to fill out and one of the cells that he needs to fill (called TABLE) is the name of a table (in a database). When he gives me the form back I'll give him another form...
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I was baffled while using this sentence: > I went into some blog site **whose** sole purpose. . . . My question is about _whose_. Is it correct to use it there?
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> We lit a fire **whose** fuel was old timber wood. Is the word _whose_ referring to _fire_ , an inanimate object, correct in this sentence? Or is there a more appropriate word?
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When I was a student of English as a foreign language, more years ago than I care to count, I was taught that the relative pronoun “whose” could only be used for human beings, i.e., when someone possesses something. My teachers were native speakers from England, then. Since that time, I’ve seen “whose”, as a relative p...
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> **Possible Duplicate:** > possessive connecting word for inanimate object I would like to know whether this could be said by using "of which": > Search for a car whose color of the hood is red.
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I'm not a native english speaker (so forgive me for my poor language skills in general :) ) and I'm puzzled by this "whose / which / of which" issue. I have a sentence like this: "BLAA is a project _whose_ purpose is to build and...". To me it sounds that it should have which instead of whose. I was always tought that ...
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When I was learning English (non-native speaker here), I was taught that there is concept called "parallelism" in English grammar, which in my own understanding means that if I want to combine two or more ideas into a sentence, the ideas need to have similar forms and structures. Therefore, the following sentences conf...
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I am trying to fill in this sentence: > “My company is looking to ___ a consultant”. Is the correct term “hire” or is there a different word that is more fitting when talking about a consultant?
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Consider: > This book provides a solid psychological understanding of these experiments, > and adds a few expansions and conclusions of its own. It also provides … My question regards the comma. I have been told that having the comma there is an error. According to Wikipedia this seems to be the case according to “some...
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Is it incorrect to use the positive/negative construction when the intent is positive/positive? In other words can these two statements be viewed as equivalent: > Mangoes are sweet and so aren't papayas. > Mangoes are sweet and so are papayas. When I mean _so is_ , I say _so isn't_. When I mean _so are_ , I say _so are...
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I have found some statements using the format _years_ instead of _year_. When do we use _years_ like _1950s_ and _2010s_ , rather than _year_ like _1950_ and _2010_? > Fish stocks here began to decline in the **1950s** , and within 20 years, > there was no brown trout left.
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What is the difference between the following two? > * We didn't have a chance to meet, except for the campaign. > * We didn't have a chance to meet, except in the campaign [or "except for > in the campaign"]. > I would also appreciate if there is a better way of conveying the same message.
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I sometimes encounter sentences like this > Mussolini ordered the Italy invaded Albania. It seems incorrect to me but I want native speakers to prove. **UPDATE.** The sentence above is taken from Wikipedia. That's why it is unmodified. But what about this one: > The manager ordered the subordinate painted fence.
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Reading a journal article, I encountered these terms: * customer **sphere** of privacy * customer **sphere** of security * privacy **sphere** of implementation * security **sphere** of implementation I know the rough meaning is: privacy connected with the customer, and so on. But what's the exact meaning of **sphere** ...
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> Many an opportunity is lost because a man is out looking for four-leaf > clovers. I have no idea what the quotation means. Is there any special meaning about four-leaf clovers that I may be unaware of?
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So, I develop for a company that does workplace-surveys. And one of our report-formats has just been translated into English. And with it a description on how to read the reports. This description contains the following sentence > When historical reporting is included, the column for this year's survey > will be thinne...
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> I've learned one very interesting thing about money...it doesn't buy class. I have no idea what the word "class" means in this quotation.
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_The query might return a list of selected items in a shopping cart, or posts in **active forums threads** , or whatever your web application needs to retrieve from your database._ _**active forums_** is functioning as an adjective here. It is obvious, of course. But what I can't get is why does it end in s making it p...
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When someone loses a match, I want to tell him that this loss can make him strong, that in the end this will help him to be a winner. Is there any expression in English for **defeat is the prerequisite for victory**?
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People say "thank you" because they're _thankful_. One would responed "you're welcome" because they are _what_? Is there a single word to describe a state of happily doing something for someone else for which they've received thanks?
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I am helping my father write a report. > The report summarizes the work undertaken during the consultant’s technical > assistance missions to Statistical Agency of Kosovo and remote work during > the period SomeTimePeriod. The meaning is that my father went to a mission to Kosovo and then continued work from his home c...
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The related question is asked here, and I cannot figure out it.
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Can I use `"We make no prescriptions about ..."`? This dictionary doesn't give any definition of the word `"prescription"` apart from Medical or Legal jargon.
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Which is correct? > I am king of the world. > > I am the king of the world. Additionally, which would be the better choice, if I wanted to use the expression "king" to signify dominance in a metaphorical way or in slang. > I am king of the backstreet. > > I am the king of the backstreet. And is there a difference, if w...
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I have a character saying this in a novel set in the 1920s. I suspect it was in use at that time, but I've been fooled before by this kind of thing. (I had to delete a sentence in which a 1920s character says, "It's out of left field" because that phrase is traceable only back to 1940 or so.)
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It is easy to understand when someone says: > The box is too heavy to carry. But the usage of " _too … to_" structure in "You cannot be too careful to go across the road" is weird for me, though I know what it means. Can anyone explain to me how to understand the real logic behind the usage of " _too … to_" pattern in ...
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What is the meaning of `down to the`? E.g. in this statement: > In order to use this feature, the statements must be exactly the same \- > down to the number of spaces, tabs, capital/small letters. My understanding of the above statement is that the statement must be exactly the same, including the number of spaces, ta...
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I've completely forgotten the word you say when someone had your job or something before you, and then you took over. I'm trying to write a History Essay and my sentence is > The legacy of German's defeat in World War One hung in the air for years > after Hitler's **______** 's signed the Treaty Of Versailles I keep th...
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I would like to praise a lady who is always cheerful. Should I use "She's cheerful at all time." or "She's cheerful at all times."?
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This quote is Francis Underwood's, from House of Cards, Season 2, Episode 11. Would someone please explain it? Some context can be found here. I'd venture that it refers to love? It induces the blood to flow back onto the heart? Then no blood circulates to the brain and thus chokes it?
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What is the word/phrase to mean something that just happens once? For example, > I have often been told/expected to do this and not to do that. I become > aimless and gradually lose the idea of who I am. I ask myself "What is the > point?" If life is just **once thing** , why can't I live my life in my own > way, the w...
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Let me give you some context first: * Germans. We may have similar words with different meanings and use words just because they have a similar spelling. * software company, writing software for hardware devices which are connected to the PC. Not the usual office equipment, but industrial devices. In our internal but a...
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I've seen both words being used (peanut butter and jelly; peanut butter and jam), but I was wondering whether they were both words for the same thing, or if there's actually a distinct difference between the two.
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While discussing What does "I was had" mean? I've found there are some not so common usages of _had_ in English like: > I have/had been had (meaning "to get fooled") but further Google search exposed even constructions like > I am been had or even > I am had and of course > I was had from the question above. Are all of...
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> **Possible Duplicate:** > When is it appropriate to end a question without a question mark? I have heard so many times people use two way of asking question? Is there any way to ask question where you will not find the question but a sentence to ask question?