By Accents, Clauses

Oh my, I'm so surprised! I would never have thought you said it yourself! By the way, you said "If I'd have known", and not "If I'd known" (which can't mean "If I would have known", because you would be leaving out a syllable...).Anyway, I'll tell...

Ant_222 wrote:Come on, Doug, don't be formal. XOR - eXclusive OR. It's not a conjunction, it's the name of logical operator! So, you may freely use it as such. So, you can say: We can use XOR to do simple block-based encryption by XORing blocks of initial text with some fixed block of the same...

Hi Clive, I see, thanks for your kind support. Actually, I want to learn more about the standard original English. In my country, we always use English in our own way,we call it Chinglish.Mostly we are not so concrete and accurate in our expressions. For instance, when we are talking about...

I've heard that JK Rowling has got a clause in the contract that only allows British actors to be used in these films. I certainly can't remember any non-Brits appearing so far.

-------- as Function:pronoun 1 a : THAT, WHO, WHICH -- used to introduce an adjectival clause and having same or such as antecedent <their children should grow up in the same intellectual culture as they have enjoyed -- G.B.Jeffery> <tears such as angels weep burst forth...

Hi Nomad04, My pleasure to help. That’s is a very good question and the answer is “being” carries a condition of now, and “at this minute”. It adds a little more accent to spice up the sentence, so to speak. That’s all. But you can take “being” out of the sentence and still retains the...

Taka, This may prove to be another one of those long threads for which your posts are celebrated. Let me be the first to stick my foot in my mouth. 'That didn't have to mean that' would be a second-rate possibility, with the obvious problem of the same word referring to two different...

OED explains 'albeit' like this. albeit, conj. The sun, albeit from a lowly altitude, shone out in full brightness. paco

My understanding is the same as yours, MH. Coordinate clauses when fully expressed should be separated by a comma: 'She earned high marks, and she was a good student.' When the coordinate clauses are not fully expressed and share a subject, no comma is necessary: 'She earned high marks and was...

It was a curious business. It made things very awkward for foreign businessmen who, when faced with a few stumbling words of French or German from their British counterparts, were put in the difficult position of deciding how to guide the conversation gently back to a language that was...