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This tag is for questions about how to use a particular phrase. If your question is a request for a phrase to use, you should use the "phrase-request" tag.
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What is the usage of "How serious"?
This particular usage of how is as follows:
how + adjective + be -> used to ask about the intensity of an adjective related to a noun.
How serious was the problem?
How serious was the accident?
Sour …
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What is the appropriate word for "give/contain information"
I would go with something similar to J.R.'s suggestion:
It contains all the information on what one is thinking about.
Prepositions on or about are commonly used (with information) to convey tha …
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Which out of "Climbing up the ladder" or "Going up the ladder" is idiomatic according to Bri...
Disclaimer: I'm not a native English speaker, but until some of them arrive here's what I've got:
This Google Ngram shows that all 4 options are fine, with similar frequencies of usage (BrE 2012):
w …
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