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Damkerng T.
May 14, 2014 20:57
See, it's really like sports.
Anonymous
May 13, 2014 16:56
@Fantasier Open interrogative clausal complement
Anonymous
May 13, 2014 12:42
Every reference grammar I'm familiar with invents its own grammatical terminology.
Damkerng T.
May 12, 2014 23:25
benjamins.com/#catalog/books/scl.44.09kor/details
skullpatrol
May 12, 2014 12:38
Einstein was a giant: his head was in the clouds, but his feet were on the ground. Those of us who are not so tall have to choose!
Fantasier
May 12, 2014 10:11
@DamkerngT. I got accepted by CU! Yay!
Ice Girl
May 9, 2014 18:03
I miss ELL room
Anonymous
May 9, 2014 14:40
See, this looks perfectly cromulent to me.
Damkerng T.
May 9, 2014 12:29
I can't remember since when, but I was told to read them as "that is" and "for example" long time ago, so I kept reading them that way.
Anonymous
May 9, 2014 12:19
You will find people who say eye-ee or ee-gee, but these people are weird.
Anonymous
May 9, 2014 08:01
You're interpreting impossible as a noun (like impossibleness) because it's in subject position, I think
Anonymous
May 8, 2014 14:17
> accept, add, allege, care, claim, consider, contend, decide, dispute, fear, feel, find, forget, gather, guess, hope, imagine, maintain, presume, realize, reason, reflect, rejoice, suppose, suspect, think, threaten, vote, wonder, worry
Anonymous
May 8, 2014 11:53
@DamkerngT. Yes, or if we take it one step at a time:
Anonymous
May 8, 2014 11:53
> She thinks [ Jenny is the ringleader. ]
Anonymous
May 8, 2014 11:53
> She thinks [ who is the ringleader ] ?
Anonymous
May 8, 2014 11:53
> *She does think [ who is the ringleader ] ?
Anonymous
May 8, 2014 11:53
> Who does she think [ ___ is the ringleader ] ?
Anonymous
May 2, 2014 21:21
"X and I" > "Me and X" > "X and me" > "I and X"
Anonymous
May 1, 2014 16:40
Also, don't use Word Web Online.
Anonymous
Apr 29, 2014 17:27
In companies, there are often a bunch of different VPs.
Damkerng T.
Apr 28, 2014 10:50
> Hail AwalGarg! My coined term is inbe!
skullpatrol
Apr 28, 2014 09:35
You can test it, they may work :-)
Damkerng T.
Apr 27, 2014 15:27
I'm a robomop... mopping the floor... mopping the floor... da dih dah!
Damkerng T.
Apr 27, 2014 15:25
Anyway, please don't eat me. I'm not delicious. Unless you eat metal for breakfast.
Anonymous
Apr 27, 2014 14:26
@DamkerngT. I recommend reading Deep Down Things
Anonymous
Apr 27, 2014 14:26
amazon.com/Deep-Down-Things-Breathtaking-Particle/dp/080187971X
Anonymous
Apr 27, 2014 14:06
Haemorrhage, haemochromatosis, haemoglobin, haemostasis
Anonymous
Apr 26, 2014 13:35
That used to be the title of the trope before some trope-destroying trope-destroyer trope-destroyed it
Anonymous
Apr 26, 2014 08:00
@DamkerngT. Knowing what to use and when to use it
Anonymous
Apr 26, 2014 05:58
Commas imply a coordinate structure, no commas imply a nested structure
Anonymous
Apr 25, 2014 08:36
Maybe Q&A sites are doomed to have a certain level of brain-hurting facepalm.
Anonymous
Apr 25, 2014 08:03
So there it's clear that him is the object of at
Anonymous
Apr 22, 2014 22:11
O tempora o mores!
Anonymous
Apr 21, 2014 14:18
CGEL lists filled (full of) as an example of a complex-transitive verb with an optional resultative
Anonymous
Apr 21, 2014 14:06
@GATA Stuff is a complex-transitive verb that can take a PP complement (with ...) or an AdjP complement (full of ...) with a resultative interpretation
Anonymous
Apr 21, 2014 09:28
> I apologize if I was rude. ← Here, my rudeness actually happened. It was real. It was realized. So realis is appropriate. Were is inappropriate
Damkerng T.
Apr 21, 2014 06:21
bloat evokes gas/inflation; swell evokes sting/inflammation; bulge evokes something about shapes, and a weird phrase I got from The Cabin in the Woods.
Anonymous
Apr 21, 2014 01:13
@GATA Just to be clear: I wouldn't say "too". Jolene's way is normal. He's "blowing a bubble." But "The boy has bubbled out the gum" doesn't sound right, to me at least.
Damkerng T.
Apr 20, 2014 19:39
I think both economic and economical work in this case.
Damkerng T.
Apr 20, 2014 06:45
I think the word gradient is tricky, when it is used with shade.
Anonymous
Apr 19, 2014 05:53
Someone once told me not to use something I've learned myself until I've heard native speakers use it in three different contexts
Anonymous
Apr 19, 2014 05:48
It's more of a starting point than a goal
Anonymous
Apr 16, 2014 17:21
In comments, though, strikethrough is not supported. You can use Unicode strikethrough instead, but it may not show up on all phones.
Anonymous
Apr 16, 2014 17:20
Strikethrough works in chat: use three dashes on either side. On the site itself, you can use <s> or <strike> or <del>
Anonymous
Apr 15, 2014 20:13
So, one day I got annoyed and decided to change it to snailboat, since I thought that sounded cuter
Tyler James Young
Apr 15, 2014 20:10
Grime has a new enemy.
Anonymous
Apr 15, 2014 06:25
You're like a snail!
Anonymous
Apr 14, 2014 16:20
> Jill alone has the authority to sign cheques.　　　←　No one else has the authority
> Jill by herself has the authority to sign cheques.　←　She can sign them without getting permission, I guess
> Jill on her own has the authority to sign cheques.　←　I have no idea
Anonymous
Apr 14, 2014 15:15
If you divide errors into grammatical, semantic, and pragmatic contexts, you get "ungrammatical", "nonsensical", and "infelicitous" respectively
Anonymous
Apr 14, 2014 15:14
Felicitous = appropriate in context
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