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Advantage and disadvantage

Hi! Could you, please check if the answer I chose is correct for the following exercise ? - Check the item which does not contain a synonym for the expression "advantages and disadvantages".: a) pros and cons b) benefits and drawbacks c) good points and week points d) for and...

ESL General English Grammar Questions by Anonymous 1 yr 126 days ago Regards Expressions Synonyms
Re: Difference between till & until

There's some differentiation between the two here, they seem to be considered synonyms only for the meaning 2: --------- till Function:preposition 1 chiefly Scotland a : to a place of arrival : through to : as far as <till an end> b : to or toward a limit or goal ...

ESL General English Grammar Questions by Marius Hancu 1 yr 279 days ago Difference between Prepositions Nouns Negatives Expressions Synonyms Direct objects Indirect objects
Re: Is there are another word of "Nowaday" ?

LittleBitFunny wrote: Q1: Someone tell me that, Nowaday is very old word, and very few people still use it -- is it true ? And could you please help me find the synonym of this word ?Old or not, I still hear, and use, it. Synonym: currently, these days Q2: If i want to said ... "The...

ESL General English Grammar Questions by Philip 1 yr 292 days ago Expressions Synonyms
Re: Answer these please

Even assuming that this is a piece of careful business writing, there is no reasonable argument for excluding and so forth, and so on, and the like as available synonyms for etc. They are virtually register-free and widely used. Your argument is forced and certainly overly prescriptive; can you...

ESL Linguistics Discussion Forum by Mister Micawber 1 yr 362 days ago Expressions Synonyms
Which is correct?

“The Tobacco Company talks well. Representatives of the industry itself came forward to us and asked if we would go to the table...” –PBS article on the Tobacco industry. “'Tis but a peevish boy, yet he talks well…”-Shakespeare. “On good days, he does everything well: reads well, talks well,...

ESL General English Grammar Questions by Anonymous 2 yr 15 days ago Articles Expressions Universities Idioms Synonyms Football Antonyms

Re: Should it be in the subjunctive?

Opportunity vs. chance You may want to buy this dictionary: Merriam Webster's Dictionary of Synonyms: A Dictionary of Discriminated Synonyms With Antonyms and Analogous and Contrasted Words very good for such comparisons, which says: ----------- Chance...

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Marius Hancu 2 yr 18 days ago

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Re: What does this word mean?

Kanonathena wrote:Hi, Marius Hancu, what's the difference between ineffectual and ineffective? When to use ineffectual? Not an easy one. As you can see from the following, for persons ineffectual has connotations of lack of decisivenes and forcefulness, weakness, while ineffective is...

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Marius Hancu 2 yr 31 days ago

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Re: working girl

what are other prevailing expressions You should be able to find several pages of synonyms in The Sot-Weed Factor by John Barth, both in English and French. CJ

ESL General English Grammar Questions by CalifJim 2 yr 33 days ago Expressions Synonyms
Re: "Ought to" vs. "Should."

The difference between "ought to" and "should", when they mean "giving a suggestion", is better understood when you examine expressions and examples. For example if I like a cake very much and I want to suggest someone to try it I would say: "You ought to try this cake." In this case if we use...

ESL Linguistics Discussion Forum by Aperisic 2 yr 67 days ago Verbs Difference between Negatives Expressions Synonyms
Re: Poetic expressions

Thank you so mush. I've found such synonyms for "daydreaming" as "to be lost in reveries" and "to have one's mind wandering". Generally I use Google to make sure if a certain expression exists in English, for the word-for-word translation of Russian idioms, colloquialisms and metaphors of my own...

ESL Vocabulary and Idioms by Damiana 2 yr 140 days ago Idioms Expressions Metaphors Synonyms Colloquialisms Translation

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