温暖的近义词是什么
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What do you call an area of the sea that sinks many ships?
What do you call an area of the sea that sinks many ships? I am pretty sure there was a word for it. When there are treacherous rocks that sink wooden ships, there was a word pirates used to refer to ...
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When guide someone to think something which one is more appropriate, "find" or "find out"?
I answered a question just now, but I am not sure I expressed appropriately.
I am trying to guide the guy who posted this question to look into source code
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"leave many [N] to look for…" vs. "leave many [N] looking for…"
SAT Grammar Question
Others, like court interpreter Ludmila Baker, believe that technology will ultimately leave many translators and interpreters _______ for new careers.
a) to look
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usage of present perfect tense
My question is about the use of present perfect tense. To my knowledge this tense is used for the actions that have started in the past and continues up until now. I have questions about different ...
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to-infinitival clause expressing a manner
Experts say the drowsiness many of us feel during the day may not be because we had too little sleep at night, but because we need an early afternoon nap. Humans were made to sleep not once, but twice,...
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Coordinate or cumulative adjectives? Beautiful mysterious dreamy feelings
I want to express that something brings me some feelings, then I wrote the following sentences.
It brings me beautiful mysterious dreamy feelings.
It brings me beautiful and mysterious dreamy ...
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Can "in percentage terms" change the ranking of subjects in a list?
Thailand spent 15% GDP on education--60 billion dollars
India spent 13% GDP on education--100 billion dollars
Georgia spent 14% GDP on education--80 billion dollars.
(Made-up statistics)
Are the ...
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"had + Subject + past participle" in conditionals
I always thought that the elliptical conditional clause "Had + Subject + past participle" is used only in counterfactual conditionals, e.g. :
Had Joe seen Mary, he would have fallen in love ...
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Are "I would rather I stayed home than go out" the same as "I would rather stay home than go out"?
I came across this sentence in the Grade 10 Vietnamese English grammar.
"I would rather that it were not summer now."
My question is that that sentence does not have a main verb after "...
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SHOULD I USE steady or steadily?
We experienced problems meeting demand and sales fell sharply in November and remained STEADY / STEADILY at 39,000 in December.
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Is this sentence correct? Future in the past confusion
"It didn't happen the way I had thought it would have happened."
So, I used Past Perfect in the second part of the sentence to specify that the thought process had occurred before the actual ...
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About conditionals (future tense)
I have been teaching conditionals to another student. I taught her the zero, first, second, and third conditional. We are not tackling mixed conditionals, and we were identifying which part of the ...
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needs some work doing/done
The following is an example sentence from the Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English:
As you can see, the house needs some work doing on it.
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It seems that many native speakers prefer &...
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Do I use the past simple or the present perfect after "I've been meaning" as in "I've been meaning to do something, but I've always forgotten/forgot"?
Could you tell me if I have to use the past simple or the present perfect after I've been meaning in the context below?
I've been meaning to watch the movie, but I always forgot to till now.
I've ...
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"If I knew what you want/wanted to eat tonight"
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I am talking to my friends, trying to find out what she wants to eat tonight.
"What do you want to eat tonight?"
"You know what I want to eat."
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