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- Gerund or Who + Verb
- Questioning feelings for my friend
- Is the grammar correct? [closed]
- Can someone suggest another term for “social fact”?
- We have gotten past the problem or passed the problem?
- How to identify the gerund and the replace it with the infinitive of the same verb [migrated]
- An operation that always takes a finite set of values from one entity, removes them, and places them into another instance [closed]
- Grammaticality of "a list is added an Item"?
- What is a technical sounding word to fill in “ Bob ______ a certain path ” ? It is something that means “followed”, or “took” or “travelled” [closed]
- The school premise or the school premises [closed]
- What is a cut-off plan? [closed]
- How to put the modal verb "may" into the correct tense? [closed]
- infinitive verbs [duplicate]
- What are the acceptable genetic/racial terms that have replaced the terms of Mongoloid, Negroid, and Caucasoid? [closed]
- What is the appropriate word for someone who passes an entrance exam?
- Why is it grammatically correct to say “It’s time she went”? [duplicate]
- Please help me check this essay [closed]
- How does "The proposal is worth considering" contain an adverbial objective? [duplicate]
- Does the word "chevronman" make sense?
- What is the word for cute/juvenile features?
- Do another pass through a list of things
- How to express surprise when you do not expect something and forced to do it
- Genitive without ('s) or (of) [duplicate]
- "of" vs"in" which preposition is more suitedher? [closed]
- Is "unironically" a valid word?
- appeal a sentence VS appeal the sentence VS appeal against [closed]
- "in the summer" or "in summer" [closed]
- Is there a word for people who are afraid of change? [closed]
- Using apostrophe when abbreviating "recommendations" as "reco's"
- Fun and enjoyable ways to practice pronunciation? [closed]
| Posted: 13 Jul 2021 09:53 AM PDT Is there any difference between saying :
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| Questioning feelings for my friend Posted: 13 Jul 2021 09:45 AM PDT What does it mean if I bring up my long-distance friend frequently in my conversations with a specific group of friends? Can a person do this to insert seeds of jealousy into their mutual friends? I wanted to make my friends jealous that I had other friends because I was insecure. After that, I just randomly blurted her name here and there. I might have done it extensivel. Anyways, Is there a term for bringing your long-distance friend in conversations frequently? I don't want to be in a relationship with her.  | ||||||
| Is the grammar correct? [closed] Posted: 13 Jul 2021 09:21 AM PDT Is this grammar correct? - "Expanding my oratory savvy, I gave a talk on internships and its importance"  | ||||||
| Can someone suggest another term for “social fact”? Posted: 13 Jul 2021 09:18 AM PDT
The problem I'm getting is that "fact" means a truth, I mean, at least to me, it was taught like that. It is a fact that sky (on a clear day) looks blue, it's a fact that human loves conditionally, it is a fact that murder is a crime in South Africa. But calling the set of rules of law ministry a "social fact" seems quite indigestible, according to the definition I gave above, cremation is not a process but a "social fact". Can someone suggest me another term for "social fact"? They are calling a church as a "social fact".  | ||||||
| We have gotten past the problem or passed the problem? Posted: 13 Jul 2021 09:16 AM PDT Sometimes I make status reports for my engineering department. We often say things like:
In these situations, is the word "past" or "passed"?  | ||||||
| How to identify the gerund and the replace it with the infinitive of the same verb [migrated] Posted: 13 Jul 2021 06:10 AM PDT
"First, identify the gerund in the sentence below. Then, replace the gerund with the infinitive of the same verb. Type the infinitive form of the verb in the space provided. 'Debbie loved watching the skaters glide around the rink.'"  | ||||||
| Posted: 13 Jul 2021 05:45 AM PDT I'm trying to find a verb that describes the following action that I am performing in a program. I have an instance of an entity, and has about 215 data points. In certain scenarios I need to do something like a "shallow copy" where I only copy the values in about 15 data points from one instance into a another instance that has no values as yet. After I copy the values, I remove the values from the original instance. Is there a word for this? Key points:
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| Grammaticality of "a list is added an Item"? Posted: 13 Jul 2021 05:45 AM PDT Using the word given as a past participle in the following sentence is, presumably, correct:
Can we use the past participle form of the word added in the same way in the following manner?
Of course, it is easy to avoid this question and say, "An item was added to the list." But, technically, is the latter form grammatically correct? Will appreciate elaborate answers and references.  | ||||||
| Posted: 13 Jul 2021 04:23 AM PDT It is used mostly in science or maths problems to convey for example, that Bob took a certain path to go from point A to point B.  | ||||||
| The school premise or the school premises [closed] Posted: 13 Jul 2021 03:42 AM PDT I got into an argument with a fellow employee today over the use of premises/premise. He said the correct one is premise, and I was hell bent that in this context, the correct form is premises.  | ||||||
| What is a cut-off plan? [closed] Posted: 13 Jul 2021 03:00 AM PDT In the context of customer care or customer support, what would be the meaning of a cut-off plan?  | ||||||
| How to put the modal verb "may" into the correct tense? [closed] Posted: 13 Jul 2021 07:50 AM PDT I don't understand how transform the following sentences using the following tenses. So that it has the same meaning as the first one. How to put the modal verb "may" into the correct tense?
https://www.english-4u.de/en/grammar-exercises/modal-verbs2.htm
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| Posted: 13 Jul 2021 02:08 AM PDT Which verbs do not need to use an infinitive after them?  | ||||||
| Posted: 13 Jul 2021 01:30 AM PDT What are the acceptable genetic/racial terms that have replaced the terms of Mongoloid, Negroid, and Caucasian; other than black, asian, and white. I'm asking for proper lineage, ancestral descent, and genetic population terms. All I see now is that these racial/phenotype designators for prehistoric and historic human populations are no longer used, but how does one, now, describe someone with of primarily  | ||||||
| What is the appropriate word for someone who passes an entrance exam? Posted: 13 Jul 2021 01:48 AM PDT I am trying to prepare a list of students who have taken an exam to be admitted to a course. In this list, there are 20 highly-placed people and 20 candidates who got lower marks. These people will be called up for the course if any of the first list don't take up the opportunity. I'd like to know what to call the first group:
All of the candidates passed the exam, so they are all "successful" in that sense; but we only have twenty places available, which will be offered in order of the mark each candidate achieved in the exam.  | ||||||
| Why is it grammatically correct to say “It’s time she went”? [duplicate] Posted: 13 Jul 2021 07:16 AM PDT Consider these possibilities:
Why is (2) the correct way to express (1)? Why does the infinitive used in (1) shift to past tense, not to present tense? Are any of (3), (4), and (5) grammatical? If so, are they equivalent to (2)? Probably it has to do with the "missing" subjunctive in English, but why is the past tense used here instead of the present tense? What do you English native speakers have to say about this point?  | ||||||
| Please help me check this essay [closed] Posted: 12 Jul 2021 09:48 PM PDT Task 1: The chart give information about the percentage of the world's forests and timber in five different regions. My essay: The pie charts below provide the information about the proportions of forest and timber in the world in five different regions. Overall, it is clear that Africa is the region that has the highest percentage of jungle cover, the opposite was true for that in Asia. Besides, the largest amount of timber is taken in North America, while Africa was the smallest timber producer. It can be seen that Africa was by far the leading of forest cover, about 27% . North America is 2% less than Africa and in second place. Moreover, South America and Europe have a slightly small difference, account for 16% and 18% of global forest. It witnessed that Asia has the smallest number, just 14%. Regarding the timber production, the amount of timber in North America accounted for the largest, about 30%. By contrast, Africa accounted for the smallest number, just 9%. Finally is South America, Europe and Asia have the ratio of 20, 70 and 45 . respectively  | ||||||
| How does "The proposal is worth considering" contain an adverbial objective? [duplicate] Posted: 13 Jul 2021 03:56 AM PDT An adverbial objective a noun that functions as an adverb. Often, the noun, as an adverb, modifies a verb, for example, "He went home". I understand "Home", here, as being the adverbial objective, for it expresses a relation of place. In the titular sentence, however, I don't understand what the adverbial objective is. Is it supposed to be "considering" or "worth considering"?  | ||||||
| Does the word "chevronman" make sense? Posted: 13 Jul 2021 09:45 AM PDT I am looking for a good English equivalent of an obscure military term. It was in use by the Royal Hungarian Army between 1920 and 1945. No other army ever had a similar concept, and it's obsolete now. The original word is "karpaszományos" which translates as "person who wears a lace on the sleeve of his jacket". It used to mean a special class of enlisted soldiers who were distinguished by a "lace", a thin, embroidered line on their jacket sleeves. The meaning of the lace was that the soldier passed high school, which was a fairly high academic achievement at the time. However, being a "karpaszományos" didn't mean rank. It merely indicated that he was more educated than the other rank and file men. They enjoyed some privileges during their military service, they could go to NCO courses, and at the end of their conscripted service they could sign up for officer school to become professionals. But in itself, without choosing one of the above options, a "karpaszományos" was little more than any ordinary grunt. So the lace, in itself, it did not mean or indicate:
The term "karpaszományos" was also used when addressing them, similarly how an officer would shout "Private!" to a soldier whose name he didn't know. I've been struggling to translate this term to English. Recently a friend called my attention to the French term "soldat chevronné". It's a very different concept, it means a soldier decorated for military achievements. Along the same lines I came up with the term "chevronman". I understand that the meaning will still need explanation, probably in a footnote. But linguistically it doesn't seem wrong. What do you think of "chevronman"?  | ||||||
| What is the word for cute/juvenile features? Posted: 13 Jul 2021 01:39 AM PDT I'm struggling to find the word on google or reverse lookup that has to do with cute features, such as small arms, big eyes, basically the juvenile look nearly every animal has that elicits a care response in adults. It might sound something like neurism or eural, it's on the tip of my tongue.  | ||||||
| Do another pass through a list of things Posted: 12 Jul 2021 11:03 PM PDT Is it right to ask someone to "do another pass through the questions" when you want them to take another look/check/examination at a few questions? For example:
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| How to express surprise when you do not expect something and forced to do it Posted: 13 Jul 2021 07:02 AM PDT A friend and I booked a table at a restaurant in the expectation of being there for the whole evening but, once we had begun our meal, the waiter told us that we had to vacate the table by 9:30 as the table has been booked by someone else from that time. There was no mention of this in the booking conditions. How I can best describe or express my frustration in this situation to this server. If I say, "I understand this is a Friday night, and you must be really busy, but this has caught me off guard: we did not expect to have to leave so early." Does "catch me off guard" fit in this situation? Is there an alternative?  | ||||||
| Genitive without ('s) or (of) [duplicate] Posted: 13 Jul 2021 06:06 AM PDT Can I use "Teachers portal" instead of "teachers' portal"? Which of them is more accurate?  | ||||||
| "of" vs"in" which preposition is more suitedher? [closed] Posted: 13 Jul 2021 08:05 AM PDT Which is more suitable to use and why?
Example sentence:
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| Is "unironically" a valid word? Posted: 13 Jul 2021 09:30 AM PDT Every spell checker I have, both ones that automatically spell check and those run after finishing a document or draft, seems to consider the word unironically to be incorrect. I have heard the word used in conversation plenty, and have seen it written or typed on at least several occasions that I recall immediately. Also, it feels natural to use it in a sentence, and its meaning appears relatively obvious at least as far as I'm concerned. I looked it up online to find out that: at the very least, Dictionary.com and Merriam-Webster consider it to be a valid word. I've also discovered that my spell checkers are bothered by the word unironic, but not of course by the word ironic. I feel fairly confident that unironic must be a word... However, it's also completely possible I'm simply mistaken. So, what's the verdict English Language Stack Exchange Community? Is it a word that is just being incorrectly flagged, or is it commonly used but not technically valid?  | ||||||
| appeal a sentence VS appeal the sentence VS appeal against [closed] Posted: 13 Jul 2021 03:39 AM PDT A.
B.
C.
Which one is correct?  | ||||||
| "in the summer" or "in summer" [closed] Posted: 13 Jul 2021 01:37 AM PDT Both are correct forms when we talk about seasons of the year from what I learnt. But is there any difference between "in summer" and "in the summer"? The answer is no. They mean the same thing.  | ||||||
| Is there a word for people who are afraid of change? [closed] Posted: 13 Jul 2021 08:34 AM PDT We would like to know if there is a single word to describe fear of change.
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| Using apostrophe when abbreviating "recommendations" as "reco's" Posted: 13 Jul 2021 06:03 AM PDT When abbreviating the word "recommendations" as "reco's", is it proper to use the apostrophe to show that it's an abbreviation, or does it conflict with a possessive apostrophe?  | ||||||
| Fun and enjoyable ways to practice pronunciation? [closed] Posted: 13 Jul 2021 04:56 AM PDT English is not my native language and I'm really proud of being able to write it quite well. I have lots of problems with pronunciation though. In Finnish most words are pronounced the same as they are written and I've made a huge mistake by learning only how the words are written. I've now decided to become at least average speaker. I'd like hear to better/more enjoyable ways to practice pronunciation than violently forcing my friends to speak English with me.  |
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