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Please asking about "walking my bike" phrase
The most idiomatic way to say this in American English is: I walked my bike home.
We use the phrase walk my bike to describe the action of walking while pushing or guiding a bicycle, typically by ...
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proper noun as adjective
Looking for examples of eponyms, I found this in the Wikipedia article:
English can use either genitive case or attributive position to indicate the adjectival nature of the eponymous part of the ...
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Capitalization of "Random Forest"
I doubt that anyone can give you a specific answer for your situation, because it's unlikely that anyone else has heard of "random forest" before. The answer, therefore, will really depend ...
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a Good Teacher not only Teaches: is it Correct?
Your rephrasing acceptable but the orginal is also correct and slightly more formal.
This is a form of the "not only ... (but) also" construction.
Peter not only plays the piano, he also ...
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If "some paper" means "a sheet of paper", then what would be the plural form of "some paper"?
Some paper means any number of sheets of paper, not specifically one sheet.
So the phrase "get some white paper" is equally good whether you need one sheet, two sheets, five sheets, or fifty....
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Should 'PFA' be followed by 'is'?
If you are indeed using "PFA" to mean "please find attachment," (and not "attached"), we can answer this by substituting it into the sentences you provide:
Please find ...
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proper noun as adjective
I would say that there is really no alternative to learning and remembering the different, and inconsistent usages. There may be regional differences. One I am thinking about is using the name of a ...
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proper noun as adjective
It seems to me that proper nouns (without using the Saxon genitive or actively changing them into an adjective, as in the change from 'Shakespeare' to 'Shakespearean') can be used as an adjective, ...
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what does "As easy as it is to spend money today" mean?
This introductory phrase in the sentence could be roughly paraphrased as
It is easy to spend money, but ...
or
Even though it is easy to spend money ...
It is derived from the As-as construction ...
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Do I have to repeat the noun here?
Both approaches are correct
The first is more economical with words and therefore preferable, but the second is not wrong.
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Can We Say Near To Mean Similar?
While it would probably be understood in context, it isn't the right word to use. "Similar" is the right word, "like" is also possible.
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Difference between "If i see it,i will tell you." and "If i saw it, i would tell you."
Very briefly:
"If I see it, I'll tell you" suggests that there is a realistic possibility in reality of me seeing whatever 'it' is. On the other hand, "If I saw it, I would tell you&...
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"and", "or" conjunction usage in complex sentence
Problem 1
The second meaning is the correct one. What would the ability of better-off parents refer to if it wasn't to push children...?
Problem 2
Your first interpretation is the correct one. All ...
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Is "couldn't help doing something" used when you did have some control over doing it?
I disagree somewhat with earlier posts. Yes, "could not" has two rather distinct meanings. It can refer to physical inability, and it can refer to self-control.
"I could not get here ...
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Is "couldn't help doing something" used when you did have some control over doing it?
There are at least two related meanings to "can't/couldn't help".
Talking about stuff you do because you lack mental or physical means to stop yourself from doing it:
"I can't help ...
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Is "couldn't help doing something" used when you did have some control over doing it?
The test-setter is wrong. We don't use couldn't help for things that you have to do for a good reason.
It is used, as you say, for things you can't stop yourself from doing (laughing at something ...
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Ask for or ask about?
#2 is basically correct, but you need to add "is"
The reason I'm phoning you is to ask for her address.
The word "is" is required because you started with "The reason".
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Difference between using "otherwise" and not
No. All things considered is a set phrase. Otherwise here means 'apart from one thing that made it a bad day'. The paragraph goes on to say why it was a good day, then the next paragraph explains why ...
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"My pyjamas are all wet." Does the word "all" refer to the word "wet" or to the word "pyjamas"?
"All" is frequently used as an exaggerating or emphasizing figure of speech in many contexts, not only for being wet.
If I dribble a little water, my shirt gets wet; but if I spill the ...
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Is "I am given" wrong in this sentence?
The form "I am given" was once not uncommon, if a bit formal. It is now at least very old-fashioned, if not obsolete. One now sees it mostly in quotations from the King James Version of the ...
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Is it correct to write `in order` + `verb-ing`?
As explained in a (now deleted) comment by user BillJ:
No: the compound preposition "in order" takes either a to-infinitival clause, as in your first example, or a finite clause, as in &...
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given money to pay for food, housing, etc
It means both because they are both the same:
... an advanced student at a university who is given money which he can use to pay for food, housing, etc.
... an advanced student at a university who ...
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Is "Decorators are a proposal" grammatically correct?
"Decorators are a proposal" is grammatically correct, "because English is strongly Subject-Verb-Object, with "be", the element before the verb is usually treated as the ...
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Why are there two verbs in one clause
Come the end of the year is a way of saying 'when the end of the year comes', so come isn't a main verb in the sentence.
Compare the folk song 'I'm seventeen come Sunday'.
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"The shop has been.open the whole day/for the whole day"
The meaning is the same whether or not "for" is used. Either way the sentence would be used around the end of the day, and means the shop has been open continuously since the start of the ...
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Should we use statement form in statements, even when talking about questions?
Both forms are possible here. In normal prose you would use the the embedded interogative statement "why we would..."
But it also possible to treat this as a direct quote
One can ask, &...
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