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Barmar
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The hot chocolate is calling me vs calling my name. Do they mean the same?
@MichaelHarvey That sounds right, although it's quite different from the positive aspect of "calling my name"
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The hot chocolate is calling me vs calling my name. Do they mean the same?
Or since it's older than Starbucks, maybe the label on a delivered package.
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The hot chocolate is calling me vs calling my name. Do they mean the same?
They're similar, although the source of the metaphor is a little different. "has my name on it" seems like it's derived from a barrista writing the name of the customer on the coffee cup.
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Combine the pair of sentences making one of them into a Relative Clause
move the text into the question.
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The use of subjunctives and conditionals in a sentence
It's confusing because it's hard to tell whether there are four independent alternatives, or two alternatives in each option.
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Should "and guess what" be in commas?
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can you make a key to open any door/follow-up question
typo
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Do we redevelop a building or do we only redevelop an area?
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can you make a key to open any door/follow-up question
Syntactically they are ambiguous because "can" can be used for both possibility and requesting.
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Is “then” the correct transition word in this sentence?
@PaulTanenbaum To be fair, this is kind of a garden path sentence that's likely to confuse many human readers, too. Notice Daniel Roseman's comment.
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"The right-center part of an area" or "The center-right part of an area"?
@AnIELTSLearner Yes. "in" implies that you're describing a section.
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how much vs. how much + uncountable noun
"how much" can be used with any uncountable or mass noun. "How much light is there?"
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Is “then” the correct transition word in this sentence?
@DanielRoseman It doesn't contradict it, it agrees with it, because it says it's incorrect.
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Is “then” the correct transition word in this sentence?
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Is “then” the correct transition word in this sentence?
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He is as honest a man as I've ever met
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Appositive -with closing statements
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Is 'intone' the right word for this?
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amongst friends you would (or used to?) talk about
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Does this sentence need "it" to make sense?
@MariosAthanasiou Yes, I'm a native English speaker. But I'm not a linguist or language expert, so I don't know many of the technical terms for language constructions. I'm not sure why your answer was downvoted, but so were other answers.
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