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Is “it started to grow arms” understandable here?
I write kinda fairy-tale, and there are two people who turned into other beings. When they begin to change into human form, I wrote that one sentence:
"In their stony bodies it/there started to ...
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through-wall meaning
I was reading a standard (DS-1 Drill Stem Inspection) and I saw the following sentence:
The reference standard for flux leakage transverse flaw detection
units shall be a through-wall drilled hole ...
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Understanding “Cracker”
What does "cracker" mean in these passages from The Ferryman by Jez Butterworth:
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QUINN. Where’s Michael?
CAITLIN. Flat on his cracker in bed.
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MICHAEL. Morning, Tom Kettle. Where’s m’da?
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How to quickly understand mutliple continuous parenthetical phrases?
The problem comes when I try to understand (multiple) continuous parentheses, for example:
Summary of text leading up to this: someone purpose to eliminate 13 majors about humanities since they are ...
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What's the difference between the usage of different and other in these contexts?
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The journey is called off, replanned for some other time.
Source:A School Prospectus
The school has well equipped computer labs. The students use the facilities to develop ...
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Confused between conditional sentences
If I had had more time, I would have solved the puzzle. [Past unreal/Past+Past]
(I did not have more time so I did not solve the puzzle.)
If I had more time, I would have solved the puzzle. [Mixed ...
