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MrPedantic wrote:Hello Anon It's possible to make a case for either form. 1. ...admit to his being a St Valentine baby. Here, "being" is a gerund; the underlined portion is a noun phrase, and acts as the participial object of "to". 2. ...admit to him being a St Valentine baby. Here, "being"...

Hi, hanumman! I think the main difference is that "everyone" is a pronoun, refers to people meaning "every person", and it's a synonym of "everybody", whereas "every one" is composed of a determiner "every" and a pronoun "one", it can refer to both people and things meaning "all the members...

pulchritude • \PUHL-kruh-tood\ • noun : physical comeliness Example sentence:"You must not hold my pulchritude against me, for I surely did not ask for it, and even if I had, beauty is neither a crime nor sign of doltishness," declared Laura. Did you know?If John Keats was right when he wrote...

This is what I say to my students: Beneath: It's safer to keep it for abstract meanings. like in she married beneath him. bellow is used to indicate a space between the two surfaces. They live bellow us under is used to indicate contact ; He put the letter under his pillow; it's used in a...

They are approximate synonyms. However, you can't use "over" instead of "during" when the following noun denotes an event. For example, you can say "It happened during the war / the party / the reading of the will / ... ", but not "It happened over the war / party / the reading of the will /...

Instead of adding to "energetic" to produce monsters such as "energeticness" or "energeticity", why not remove a little to produce the ordinary noun "energy"? My teacher is very energetic; he is full of . "sappiness", used in the meaning the state of being full of sap or in the meaning of...

The American Heritage Dictionary gives these definitions for the noun "cinch": 1. A girth for a pack or saddle. 2. A firm grip. 3. Something easy to accomplish. See synonyms at breeze. 4. A sure thing; a certainty. The fourth one ("A sure thing; a certainty.") is the one in the song.

Hello R2005 My comment wasn't meant to imply that I would change 'has' to 'have' simply because a conspiracy requires more than one person (except in certain kinds of mental ill health, of course). I would guess that 'conspire' has been used quite loosely in this sentence, with only a faint echo...

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Hello Elena I think the word was originally used to mean 'that which is indivisible' in philosophical and religious contexts. The emphasis was on 'indivisibility', not 'singleness'. Later, by extension, it began to be used for 'that which is single', 'that which is an entity'. In the C19, it...