Questions tagged [word-in-context]
This tag is for questions about a word in a specific context, which a dictionary cannot answer. Please give as much context as possible.
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"All of the ...." or " All the ... "?
I am a bit confused about these two forms
For example :
John reads books all of the time/all the time
All the students/All of the students have participated in march against smoking in the campus
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"[I]t literally scared her to death" - Why is "I" in brackets?
Quoting a phrase from an article:
Grubb’s first overdose was on Aug. 15, 2015. Her mother found her blue on her bedroom floor, a tourniquet around her arm and a needle next to her. Paramedics ...
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What does the phrase 'waking thoughts' mean?
Passage:
Suddenly he was standing on short springy turf, on a summer evening when the
slanting rays of the sun gilded the ground. The landscape that he was looking at
recurred so often in his ...
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"Are you the one who called?" or "Are you the one that called?"
How does one decide whether to use who or that? In the title example:
The correct pronoun is who.
The correct pronoun is that.
Either is correct. They're interchangeable.
It depends on the context.
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Care/Care about
Psychiatrist: As a psychiatrist it can be depressing listening to clients' problems all day, but that's the job.
Person: So is it just a job to you or do you actually care?
Psychiatrist: I care.
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