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They won't smoke ever since they saw a film on lung cancer. What does "won't" mean here?

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I have some questions about the homework i was giving. Can you please tell me if i am doing these right. if i am not please tell me what i am doing wrong.A. Identifying the Parts of Speech in SentencesIdentify the part of speech of each bold italicized word below. On the line before each...

I can't find a source that explains what I thought I understood many years ago. The question deals with joining an adverb and an adjective with a hyphen before the noun, but not afterward: the freshly-cut lawn smells great ~ the lawn is freshly cut he is a highly-admired...

Conchita57 wrote:According to Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary, 'wade' is also American English for 'paddle':paddle (WALK) UK verb to walk through water with difficulty because of the pressure of the water against your legs:The river was full but we managed to wade across.We waded a...

According to Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary, 'wade' is also American English for 'paddle':paddle (WALK) UK verb to walk through water with difficulty because of the pressure of the water against your legs:The river was full but we managed to wade across.We waded a shallow river.

This should clear your doubts: adjunct noun FORMALIn grammar, an adjunct is an adverb or adverbial phrase that gives extra information in a sentence.(from Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary)

I go there twice a week.Here I thought `twice' was a adverb.Now, someone told, it is a `adjunct'.So I am being confused.Is the `adjunct' and `adverbs' are one and the same?

------------ NOUN: Abbr. NbE The direction or point on the mariner's compass halfway between due north and north-northeast, or 11°15 east of due north. ADVERB: & ADJECTIVE: Toward or from north by...

Looks like bad English to me. It's open to interpretation.If that were the case, the language would have almost no good words at all, Anon.Not slang, but informal, Rex. It dates, the dictionaries say, from about 1965 or so:Up-front. Informal. –adjective Also, upfront. 1.invested or paid in...