Top new questions this week:
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What does “rounding a corner” mean in the following paragraph? Does it simply mean the action of turning? If so, I still don’t get it. Thank you! “The idiom, ‘cutting corners’ was first …
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In the book shown below, the pages are bound at five different locations: What’s the name of this binding type where the pages of a book are bound at different locations?
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I have watched the 2 films “Plane” and “Shotgun Wedding”. In these films, there is a group of people who holds hostage for ransom. And people in the films call them “pirates&…
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What does “shading” mean in the following paragraph? Does it mean to obscure or darken? Thank you! “Colin Farrell Got The Last Laugh On “Saturday Night Live” By Shading Their “Offensive”…
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Feedback loops between poverty and illness put a strain on public healthcare systems. The feedback loops between poverty and illness put a strain on public healthcare systems. I would like to know …
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In this following context, how should I know the phrase ‘play of blind chance’? What does the word ‘play of’ mean? Does it mean ‘creating of’? Context: P.S. shows that the sum of mental and physical …
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I have found several times the expression “a price drift” or “price drifts” refering to stock price movements (drift(s) being used as a noun and not a verb). I have looked up …
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Greatest hits from previous weeks:
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If you want to ask someone if he wake up or not. Which one is correct? Are you wake up? Did you wake up?
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I saw the sentence like ‘I will go on a vacation at Christmas’. Could I substitute this sentence with ‘I will go on a vacation on Christmas’ If so, What is the difference between ‘at Christmas’ and ‘…
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Is there anything else other than ‘thank you’ to show gratitude in a polite, formal way to my professor at college?
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Are any of the statements below grammatically correct? If any of them is wrong, what is the correct way to state them? There has been some rapid progress … There has been some rapid …
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There is a lot of animals. There are lot of animals. Which one between the above sentences is correct? Or can both be used?
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I want to know what the constraints are on using the phrase one of the. Is it used correctly in this example? He is one of the soldiers who fight for their country.
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In my first language (Thai), a typical formal letter usually has quite a similar format to English letters, with one exception… Between the last paragraph of the body of the letter and that “Yours …
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Sometimes we can use countable nouns in a general context with a definite rather than indefinite article to create a sense of the thing as a category. For example, ‘The computer has transformed modern …
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A native speaker told me to use “shapes”. X: History has little to tell us. Y: I disagree because it is what has happened in the past that shapes the world we live in today. But my …
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The Merrima Webster defines expand on as to speak or write about (something) in a more complete or detailed way : elaborate on, but the meaning in the context appears to me quite different. I think it …
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