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A couple more meanings for the noun: "Talk" (uncountable) can mean verbal communication in general, sometimes extended to written communication: There's been a lot of talk about the economy recently . "Talk" (countable) can mean a speech or presentation: I gave...

. The focus on “feeling" in design text is a distinctive turn from the prior focus in design research on understanding design text, which has heretofore emphasized semantic meaning. Semantic meaning is the subject matter of design text. Broadly speaking, the subject matter of design text is...

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«I think I have the advantage of being a native speaker!» Indeed. If you say a phrase is wrong then it's wrong and vice versa. And thanks for sharing your knowledge! «Maybe you feel a difference on the basis of whether the completing phrase is a subject or an object of the...

Hi, could anybody tell me, please when to use "it" and when to use "this"? Is there any case when use of "it" instead of "this" is wrong? Here are a few simple and brief comments. 'This' is a demonstrative pronoun that refers to something that is in some way "close" to the...

Davidrock65 wrote: A. What's the difference between walk on the street and walk in the street ? Regional, probably, but to me a walk "on" the street ("On the Street Where You Live" from My Fair Lady ) is "along"..'in' being actually in the street. B. I don't know what's outside the window...

A. What's the difference between walk on the street and walk in the street ? B. I don't know what's outside the window and I don't particularly care, it is but a point on which to focus my eyes while I drink and I smoke. a. What's but mean in the sentence? b. a point on which to ...

There are different nouns in English for the people involved, but the verb is the same for both parts of the transaction. In legal documents, the person granting a lease is the lessor and the person receiving the lease is the lessee. If you rent an apartment from Mr. Jones, you might call Mr....

You know well the first one in both two pairs is a correct collocation. The 'it' is what grammarians call as "preparatory it"("prep it"). It is very difficult to explain this prep it grammatically in some cases where the 'it' represents a wh-clause. Isn't IT amazing how well he plays...