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Computer colleagues baffle me with talk of hardware, software and megabytes, just as photographer friends mystify me with talk of apertures, emulsions and push-processing.
But the medical...
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Let's not argue about the disappearance of shall from the English language. It will be with us for many years yet but its use in everyday English has declined enormously already. The same is true...
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Hi Tanit,
The shall/will thing is rarely used in the US. The weird thing about it is that for first person, they reverse.
I shall is simply future. I will expresses determination.
He shall...
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It needs to be corrected.
It doesn't need to be corrected.
It needed to be corrected.
It didn't need to be corrected.
Does it need to be corrected?
Doesn't it need to be corrected?
Did it...
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. "meeting trouble with level-headed detachment" .
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Being the subject of the sentence, this is absolutely required! It is not merely emphasis.
( nowhere is not the subject! But the use of this negative triggers inversion of subject and verb:...
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It amuses the Bewses to abuse the Muses.
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Hi, I'd say " carpe diem ," but that's not English, I'm afraid! Here are some websites I find useful for idioms: Cambridge International Dictionary of Idioms The Phrase Finder The Free...
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There are actually four such verbs: wake, awake, waken, awaken.
The principal parts are
wake, woke or waked, woken or waked or woke
awake, awoke or awaked, awoken or awaked or awoke...
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I recently found a dictionary of slang words and expressions (BrE). Some of them really made me laugh.
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