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Push VS. Press; what's the difference?
I searched a bit, but they say press is a slight move, like in "press the button", whereas push is more aggresive, like in "push to open(for door)". But I don't think these are ...
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Would present perfect be better in this context?
It has been a long time since I bought a record from your label. The Last one I
bought was the teach me single.
I was wondering if in the first sentence have bought would be better as I am going to ...
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Confused about 'word of'
I came across a sentence today:
Our client said this would be our last deal, seeing as word of our plan got out.
What does the phrase 'word of' refer to? Is it equal to '..., seeing as the detail/...
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Questions about "partial negation"
Does a sentence like "According to a report, all the dogs don't like to be hugged" mean " None of the dogs likes to be hugged", or does it mean "some dogs like to be hugged&...
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What's the right article before word [specific-word-name]? [closed]
Which article is best in this sentence (it's an advice):
Use _ word love a lot during soft interviews.
what is the right article in place of the underscore _? Use word, Use a word, Use the word?
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"What for things should I pack?" Is this English?
"what for things should I pack?"
I'm asking someone for help on what items I should bring, and shouldn't bring, for a trip.
I've gotten curious if this question works.
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"What is it here?" — Does it mean "What is this place?" or "What is in here?" or "What are you doing here?"
"What is it here?" BBC-Tweenies (see:0:00-0:07)
This is what the subtitles say. If the subtitles are correct, this is the first time I have heard this structure.
However, just by looking at ...
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How do these sentences sound?
How do these sentences sound?
Do these sentences sound natural to native speakers?
If they reopen the border, he can transport the drugs out of the country on Monday.
If he loses his recipe, he can’...
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Which preposition is correct here: "The bar graph illustrates budget distribution __[among or to]__ different categories in five organizations"?
The bar graph illustrates budget distribution [among or to] different categories in five organizations
So in the OALD, it is shown that "distribution" often goes with "among somebody&...
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dedicate/devote money/time to sth
According to the OALD, both dedicate and devote can be used in the sense of "giving your time/money/effort to something". So are the following sentences correct?
The US government’s budget [...
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Where is it best to put postmodifier?
which is better written?
1.The plan is to remove books from the library that haven’t been borrowed in five years to make space for new books.
2.The plan is to remove from the library books that haven’...
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correct tense of meet [we meet now] or [we have met now]
I have made up the sentences below.
(1) I have not come across any interesting people until we meet now.
(2) I have not come across any interesting people until we have met now.
Which tense of "...
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Is "excruciatingly painful" a correct phrase to use in a sentence since "excruciating" already means very painful?
I have often come across the phrase "excruciatingly painful" in articles and even in short stories or novels, but is this a correct phrase? Since "excruciating" already means ...
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"How much are you offering "? "What is your offer"?
If I am selling a house, Could you pls tell me that who could say these qestions? Seller or buyer or both(as in anyone)
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correct placement of [today]
I have made up the sentences today.
(1a) I used the coupon that you gave me today.
(1b) I used the coupon today that you gave me.
What I mean is you gave me a coupon before. I used it today.
What is ...
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Does this sentence sound natural and correct?
There is a moon on a girl's T-shirt. So can I say the sentence below?
"A girl is wearing a T-shirt with a moon"?
Does this sentence convey the idea and sound natural?
Thank you so much <3
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what do you mean when you say 'I am in' in this song?
We're on course to follow You all our days
Knowing, of course, that God is good always, always
You know me, love me, I trust You with my life
Your word, it shows me, a little bit more each day and ...
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Present perfect and past simple by using since and ago
I know the use of tense and I need to say simply.But I want to more experience in mind free because I am not native speaker.To clear out in my mind and to understand more usage of present perfect ...
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Phrase that roughly means "I'm fine with it"
There's some phrase in English that roughly means "I'm fine with it". I thought that phrase is "is it" (or "it is"), as in:
— I want strawberry ice cream
— Strawberry ...
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Are commas needed in “a small white oblong helicopter”?
I'm having trouble deciding whether these are cumulative or coordinate adjectives.
There's nothing unusual to note about the context. The writer is describing a helicopter that looks a bit different ...
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are the phrases that begin with "unable" considered participle phrases?
are the phrases that begin with "unable" in these sentences considered something like participle phrases to add extra information to the subject of the main clause?
She fluffed the pillow ...
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pronoun "it" question in context
If your dog pesters you for petting when you need to be doing something else, break off visual
contact with him. You can use your torso to push him away with a body block (remember not to use
your ...
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Can I use "they" to refer to the singular "population"?
Can I use "they" to refer to the singular "population"?
An aging population can heavily strain public health systems, a drawback that far
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Two ways to use modal "can" to suggest doing something someone or oneself
I think there are two ways to use can to suggest doing something in a type 1 conditional
A. can+preferable result after the completion of conditions in if-clauses
Example 1: You can stop the war if ...
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Using "while this is the case for only" to compare and contrast two facts
1. While 26% of the immigrants said that they entered the UK for academic pursuits, this is the case for only 4% of emigrants.
2. While 27% of the world's forests are in Africa, this is the case for ...
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Is the semicolon in this sentence used correctly?
I suspect that the semicolon in this sentence below seems wrong, because only two independent clauses can be stringed together by a semicolon. Adverbial phrases are not independent clauses.
You ...
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A very complicatedly structured sentence
I was reading Never Split the Difference: Negotiating As If Your Life Depended On It when I encountered a very complicatedly structured sentence in the "September 30, 1993" section of ...
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Past perfect tense usage,Experession "Had thought"
This is an answer to the post,
Sam walks down the street and sees a dog.The next day, Sam sees the same dog that he saw before. He had thought he would never see it again, but now he suspects he will ...
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"Pictures of the drivers licences of your drivers" or "pictures of the drivers licences for your drivers"?
Could you please tell me which sentence below sounds more natural and grammatical?
For us to be able to see what your insurance premium is going to look lile, we need pictures of the drivers licenses ...
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What would you say to cover anything for the missing part? | "You're not too fat, you're not too short, you're not too .......... you think you are."
Imagine someone is very critical of themselves, and he/she thinks, "I am too fat, I am too short, I am too this and too that etc.", whereas they are not. And you want to boost their ...
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What makes the differences?
What makes the differences?
You can walk home if you get your crutch. (Can should be replaced with “will be able to” otherwise it sounds like the other person will be permitted to walk him if he gets ...
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I'm asking this to native speakers.. Which sentence is correct in every way? [closed]
romanticizing life as if we didn't spend Saturday night in the uni library.
romanticizing life as if we hadn't spent Saturday night in the uni library.
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"How IT IS we forget languages." --- Is this an inverted version of "How IS IT we forget languages."?
This is from the title of an article on bilingual people forgetting a language.
How it is we forget languages.
Physchology Today-Language forgetting
The structure "How it is ......" has ...
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How to fill the blank in "Many of the world's great novels are reported ___ (make) into movies last year."?
I'm an English learner and came across an exercise question today:
Sentence: Many of the world's great novels are reported ___ (make) into movies last year.
Choices:
made
to be made
to have been made
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Phrase request: one which is used to transition from generality to details
Overall, 11% of Australians, or 1,837,000 people, were living in poverty in 1999. _______, aged people were the least likely to be poor, with poverty levels of 6% and 4% for single aged people and ...
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In/on/at a Facebook/Reddit/Stackexchange post/tweet
I'm pretty sure it should be "in a tweet" (perhaps because a tweet is short?). And perhaps also the same for a Facebook post?
But for a long Reddit/Stack Exchange post (perhaps with many ...
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Present, past simple and present perfect
This is an answer to this post.
If recent: Michael has been warned from the moment he entered the factory that Andy is a local version of a grim reaper. He was warned because everyone has worked with ...
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Present perfect tense "duration"
Ten years ago I bought a new jacket.
Now it is ten years long. I know that I can't say "I have bought this jacket for ten years". But I want to show duration now and to emphasize duration ...
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"He did lettuce of ham-glazing a-cheese-mints."
This sentence is from the question corner (also known as SBS) of Volume 10 of One Piece:
Transcript:
Q: When Patty the Cook says "I'm turniply saucy," what does it mean?
A: "I'm ...
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Neither was vs. Neither were [duplicate]
I saw this sentence in this article (https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2024/03/american-satellites-russia-ukraine-war/677775/):
"Neither company was willing to say whether it had ...
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Present perfect tense for life's experience
"I have been an officer before."
Here I want to say is my life's experience that I was an officer.
Is it correct?
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the percentages or percentage of three different groups
In a graph showing data on people using the Internet in Korea, Japan, and China, a writer wrote:
The line graph compares the percentage of people in three countries who used the Internet
between 1999 ...
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Can I remove "that among" in the following sentence?
In addition, poverty was more common among people with children compared to that among those who did not live with their kids.
That here refers to poverty and I feel like I should compare the poverty ...
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Present habits: would?
Writing a novel is like telling a big, exciting story with lots of
words. First, authors come up with cool ideas for characters and
adventures. They use their imagination to create a beginning, middle,...
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Is there a comma splice in this sentence: "My family went to Australia, then they emigrated to Canada"?
My family went to Australia, then they emigrated to Canada.
Is the comma in the above sentence considered a comma splice? Somebody who is more fluent than me said so, but doesn't the word "then&...
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state of affairs vs situation
According to multiple dictionaries, state of affairs means the same as situation, so can I use either of them in the following sentence?
Overall, the elderly were least vulnerable to poverty, while ...
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What are the 2 different used of Must +present perfect forms?
She must have helped her ailing parents.
Im the above sentence a guess is made about a past action that definitely or possibly happened.Can such structures be also used to express the wish of the ...
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Present perfect and past perfect
1.By the time I got dismissed from military it has been ten years of being an officer.
2.When I got dismissed from military it had been ten years of being an officer.
Is it correct usage of present ...
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your many books, Those some people - can we use determiners this way?
I have your many books.
I have many books of yours.
Those some people are about to come.
Some of those people are about to come.
I know that the 2nd version of each example is correct but I don't ...
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relative adverb '' where ''?
In the Oxford Practice Grammar book there is a statement like this:
We usually try to put relative clauses immediately after the noun phrases they describe. But we
can include a preposition phrase ...