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"I am appeared to redly" - This sentence is making me very puzzled and confused
"I am appeared to [adverb]" is a very unusual phrase, only found in philosophy texts and certainly not in everyday English.
A search in Google Ngrams reveals that it appears to be a fairly ...
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"I am appeared to redly" - This sentence is making me very puzzled and confused
Academic writing like this is often obscure and hard to understand. In this case, it does make logical sense when explained.
The passive form of “appears to me” would be “I am appeared to,” except ...
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What are rollers that are sat one after one called?
A calender is a series of rollers used to process paper, rubber, or other materials that form thin sheets. The verb to calender refers to the process of passing through a calender.
(Not to be confused ...
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"I am appeared to redly" - This sentence is making me very puzzled and confused
While the other answers and comments do a stellar job of solving this one, I wanted to break it down step-by-step, so others might more easily have the "aha" moment I had.
I am appeared to ...
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Typing vs writing on a computer keyboard
Typing generally refers to the physical action of pressing keys (or by analogy, to typing on a virtual keypad on a touch screen). Hence "typing a document" means inputting it by typing on a ...
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How is the word "power" used in mathematics?
The term that you are looking for, the result when a base is "raised to a power" is power … and it is incorrect to say "a base raised to a power". We should say "a base raised ...
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Why are illegally imported vehicles into Mexico with U.S. license plates driven by residents south of the US-Mexico border called chocolate cars?
Answer from Reddit user milesbeatlesfan:
It comes from the Spanish word “chueco” which means crooked.
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Why are illegally imported vehicles into Mexico with U.S. license plates driven by residents south of the US-Mexico border called chocolate cars?
Stealing Cars: Technology and Society from the Model T to the Gran Torino
by John A. Heitmann and Rebecca H. Morales (Baltimore, 2014)
presents an alternative view, but as supposition only. The ...
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Typing vs writing on a computer keyboard
Typing describes the physical action of pressing keys to input text. More recently, it has also expanded to mean pressing virtual buttons to input text, such as on a touchscreen. Writing can mean ...
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What is the name of this phenomenon in grammar?
I don't think that there is any official name but non-passive verbs should be understood.
From Practical English Usage:
Some transitive verbs, too, are seldom used in the passive. Most of these are '...
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Probationary period vs trial period in employment contract
This article is specific to New Zeeland law, but the general principles should generally apply elsewhere:
Probationary periods do not prevent an employee from raising a personal grievance for ...
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Pro-predicate and Pro-predication
It's most likely a reference to what is also called 'pro-predicative'.
This typically occurs with the pro-form "so", as in
They were very happy at that time, or at least they seemed so.
...
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A proper name for that part of preparing to spit when I "suck" saliva/water/mouthwash from the gaps between my teeth
I call it swishing - there's a video here, if that's what you are describing:
https://www.pond5.com/stock-footage/item/134488297-woman-swishing-water-mouth-close
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Type/Name of comma
Your first example is a bracketing comma. "giving an insight into traditionally secret world of scientist" is simply additional, unnecessary information.
The sentence is also poorly written/...
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Should I write "add to the beginning" or I must use "prepend"?
In a description used in a technical context, "add it to the beginning" is clearer and as you are finding, easier for non-native speakers to understand. This is because "prepend" ...
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