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I am reading The Five Jars by Montague Rhodes James. Its first sentence says: It is a wood with a stream at the edge of it; the water is brown and clear. I cannot well imagine water that is brown …
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The word ‘canny’ means shrewd, and the prefix un- is negative. So, it seems that ‘uncanny’ should mean something like dumb. Yet, it doesn’t. According to Cambridge Dictionary, ‘uncanny’ actually means …
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After a discussion with a French native speaker, I am asking here: Can the sentence “My day was correct” be used synonymously with “My day was decent” when answering to “How …
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What does “lest you step in a thousand puddles with fresh socks on” mean in this quote from Yahoo Finance: give that man privacy lest you step in a thousand puddles with fresh socks on I …
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In Cambridge Dictionary, syrup is marked as an uncountable noun and there is no entry of it being countable. Quite contrary, in one of the examples of “syrup” in Cambridge Dictionary it has …
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The following sentences are written in two different ways: Anne was upset, and I had no idea why. I and Hillary tried to raise her spirits, but she didn’t want to talk to us both. Anne was upset, …
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I answered B but it says the correct answer is C. How can she “LOOK DEAD” at the same time approaching HAPPILY? Both are the conditions of her status. This is the relevant text from the test,…
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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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I have to write a formal email to my manager for arranging a short meeting. What is the more formal and correct expression in this context: When would be convenient for you to meet? When it …
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As I said in the title, I am wondering what is the meaning of the following expressions, and what are the differences between them ? “Sign up” “Sign in” “Log in”
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I met somebody for the first time two days ago and the next day he sent a message on Facebook in which he said, “Thank you” and I replied “You’re welcome! It was pleasure to meet you.” Although it is …
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The questions here are not about meaning. They are about the usage of the verbs get and catch in the context of getting a cold. My dictionary says that get can be used to mean ‘to become infected …
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Dua Lipa uses “sugarboo” in her Levitating song. What does it mean? It seems to be in no dictionaries.
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Can anybody help me by explaining the difference between the usage of “good at” and “good in”?
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Can you answer these questions?
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When we are talking about the pieces of software or messengers, what preposition should we use, on or in? For example: If you have any questions, feel free to drop me a line on / in Telegram. Should …
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The example sentence below is an excerpt from M. A. K. Halliday’s Linguistics as Metaphor: […] each discipline has tended to fragment into separate “branches”; linguistics, apart from its …
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Suppose that a student achieved poor academic grades and the officials of the university he attended told him if he fails any other course, they will expel him. At that time, he said these sentences …
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