By Regards, Negatives

Please correct this paragraph

Hi Would you please correct the following paragraph for me? Thanks for your assistance The social trap is a situation where it is not possible to find optimal outcomes or optimal ways forward because the parties concerned lack the social capital and the trust needed to make progress. The...

Re: Possible meaning of "oughtn't (to) have done" and "shouldn't have done"?

Here are my opinions. Two different should's are possible: the should of expectation should-exp the should of advice should-adv should-adv is much more common than should-exp.should-exp expresses an evaluation of the situation with regard to what is possible, probable, plausible, or...

wonderful memory

Love is the most fantastic thing in the world. It can put someone in heaven or misery instead. I would not regard my life since I had experienced a marvelous period with my girl friend. The time stopped and no one important than her in my eyes. We did not frustration, sad, pressure or any...

Re: dispose of and deal with

Hi Osee, As applied to problems, some would consider them the same, to the extent that problems should be made to go away. "Dispose of" represents the more negative approach, as though you wish the problem had never arisen, and there were nothing to be gained by solving it, other...

Re: Little

Hi LiJ, #3 represents the least amount of difference of the three. The difference between #1 and #2 is analogous to negative and positive. There is a little difference vs there is not very much difference. I'm not sure if you can compare the magnitudes of the differences in #1 and...

Re: more big

Hi JimI don't know whether LiJ actually intended to ask only whether "more big" is OK. What LiJ actually did ask about, however, was whether a sentence with the wording no+more+one-syllable adjective+than was OK. In other words, LiJ asked specifically about a negative structure...

Re: 'most vs. almost

That lesson cost me almost a hundred dollars They first settled here almost 75 years ago or Almost 1000

Re: Either, neither, too, so do I, neither do I etc.

Einmalige Narizsse wrote:Hi! Hi there...I've got question... --> I've got a question...I've heard (in the USA):A: I'm hungryB: I'm either <-- No. You really heard this? Hmm...Is it correct? No. Or I have to say "So am I". <-- This is ok. Also: "Me too" or "I'm angry too".What about...

Re: Either, neither, too, so do I, neither do I etc.

Einmalige Narizsse wrote:Hi!I've got question...I've heard (in the USA):A: I'm hungryB: I'm eitherIs it correct? Or I have to say "So am I".What about sentence below:A: I don't know why he did it. B: I don't know either/ Neither do IOr, hmm, A:I hate chemistryB: Neither do I / I hate either/ Me...

Re: Relation

Fizzi wrote: Would somebody please help me with the English?Regards,Fizzi 1- Information on x with no relation to benefit outcomes was not included. Welcome back Fizzi! Now that this has had a week to sink in, maybe the two negatives do make sense. Assuming this is the introduction to a...