Timeline for "Life really is short"
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| Nov 3 at 11:01 | history | bumped | CommunityBot | This question has answers that may be good or bad; the system has marked it active so that they can be reviewed. | |
| Oct 4 at 8:06 | answer | added | AnnaJL | timeline score: 0 | |
| Aug 7 at 11:07 | history | bumped | CommunityBot | This question has answers that may be good or bad; the system has marked it active so that they can be reviewed. | |
| Jul 8 at 11:01 | answer | added | Nadeem Learning Center -Online | timeline score: 0 | |
| Jul 8 at 10:44 | comment | added | Paul Tanenbaum | See @WeatherVane’s comment. And consider that when the two versions are spoken, it is often with different stress. Life really is short vice Life is really short. The former means that the statement Life is short is indeed true. The latter means that life is not only somewhat short, but extremely brief. | |
| Jul 8 at 10:24 | comment | added | Nadeem Learning Center -Online | Positive @PaulTanenbaum. In Student's notebook. This is the only sentence which concerned me. would you share example of both situation? | |
| Jul 8 at 9:25 | comment | added | Paul Tanenbaum | What do you mean by “correct”? Both are valid English utterances in terms of their syntax. But whether they correctly convey any particular meaning depends on which meaning(s) one intends. That’s what @timchessish is saying. | |
| Jul 8 at 9:10 | comment | added | Nadeem Learning Center -Online | @timchessish, as explained, "both are correct". How to mark as correct? any suggestion would be deeply appreciated? | |
| Jul 8 at 8:00 | comment | added | timchessish | "marked that answer as correct" - what was the question? Both of these are correct, as has been said. To choose between them you would need context. A question simply asking which is right has no correct answer. | |
| Jul 8 at 4:41 | comment | added | Nadeem Learning Center -Online | I was sure when writing this question that I am in the right hands. Examples are really helpful. | |
| Jul 7 at 22:41 | comment | added | Lambie | [correction: The class teacher also marked etc. //and should be used, with a d] | |
| Jul 7 at 21:13 | comment | added | Weather Vane | They have different meanings. The first means "It is true that life is short", the second "Life is very short". | |
| Jul 7 at 21:11 | history | edited | Weather Vane | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jul 7 at 19:01 | comment | added | FumbleFingers | Really, life is short and Life is short, really are also perfectly valid. But arguably those both feature traditional "whole sentence adverbs* that emphasis the truth of the assertion as a whole, | |
| Jul 7 at 18:48 | comment | added | Michael Harvey | @StuartF - I agree that your interpretation that 'life really is short' could be meant to contrast with 'life isn't short', but I don't think that is the only possible meaning. | |
| Jul 7 at 18:37 | comment | added | Nadeem Learning Center -Online | Thanks a lot got it. | |
| Jul 7 at 18:30 | comment | added | Stuart F | "Is really short" is explaining how short/long, "life really is short" is contrasting with "life isn't short". So there's not really a difference in meaning but they'd be used in different circumstances. There are a lot of existing questions on adverb placement which will cover this in much more detail. | |
| Jul 7 at 18:22 | comment | added | Michael Harvey | Both are correct and mean the same. | |
| Jul 7 at 18:18 | history | asked | Nadeem Learning Center -Online | CC BY-SA 4.0 |