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Use this tag for questions about meanings of whole sentences rather than phrases.
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Help to understand these two sentences.
A is making reference to an idiom in English, "give him enough rope to hang himself." Meaning, allow someone enough freedom, and eventually they will, of their own volition, do something to embarrass …
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Does "I've worked for Google" imply I still work for them?
By itself, "I've worked at Google," does not imply whether or not you still work there. It is up to the inference of the listener, because you are leaving out the part that would clarify. If you wan …
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What does "you a stranger" mean?
There is a missing but implied verb. You have the correct verb, but wrong tense.
"It was brave of you to help Arthur - and you [being] a stranger."
For full clarity, what the speaker is actually sayi …
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"Borne her in." What does this sentence mean?
Someone had carried her in.
Borne her in.
is an incomplete sentence. It has an object (her) but is missing the subject. It is also missing part of the verb. The simple past tense of "to bear" (me …
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