yeah, i do agree that "to feel" sounds less appropriate than "feeling" there - it's not the same level of "wrong" as the "at the sky" thing, but it does feel incorrect
"grammar is very clear cut"? uh no it's not
things in linguistics are basically never clear-cut
The rules of English are just the ones that let speakers of it understand each other. They vary from place to place, from friend group to friend group.
Language and grammar evolve with the people that speak it
I guess what I'm saying is that the discussion above (give pressure v.s. put pressure) doesn't really seem to be violating a rule of grammar I'm familiar with
(and "i'm doing good" is a perfectly fine construction in spoken english. it might not be acceptable in formal written english, but the written language is not the language)
like, "verbs are conjugated to match their subject, as well as the tense of the sentence" is a rule of grammar that exists in basically every english dialect. but you cannot write every single fact about grammar as a strict list of rules -- the difference in usage in "at/in/on", in particular, is notoriously difficult to define
in the three examples i gave, the sentence's meaning is understandable, but putting some words in those blanks is Wrong for structural reasons. you do not assemble those words in that order. that means it's grammatically wrong, not just a problem of usage
I can't explain any of the grammar I know since it was all learned through osmosis and reading far too many books. I just look at sentences and decide on the spot "that looks right" or "that looks wrong"
"in the park ground" means that you're currently on the phone calling your friend to bail you out, because you forgot to set up your actual mechanism for your "escaping the buried coffin" trick
Right, but I don't think the comparison is fair though. The answers below clearly didn't make sense: You don't hate to "feel an eye", and you don't give someone "nerves".
there is at the very least an argument to be made there. you may disagree, and it could be settled by further discussion. but it's not "so unsupported that it's immediately delete-worthy" bad
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(i) Every two rows are different.
(ii) Each row contains exactly 6 cells that...
So, I got curious if I could solve from the cube in a cube in a cube in a cube position to the solved state just using it's own algorithm. This is the one I was using:
B' 2R2 2L2 U2 2R2 2L2 B F2 R U' R U R2 U R2 F' U F' u l u' f2 d r' u f d2 r2
Where 2R2 and 2L2 mean to move the center slice 180...
Can you place 9 letters in a 3x3 grid such that each row and column forms a 3-letter word? Rows are read left to right, while columns are read top to bottom. I will accept words that are found in this Scrabble dictionary.
I'll give an early nudge for the cryptic clue, since the word has already been found: "Volkswagen" and "Touareg" are the only words to which a letter selection indicator applies.
Regarding the grammar discussion above, I feel I should point out that "I'm doing good" is perfectly good English, as formal as you like, but in that case it doesn't mean the same thing as "I'm doing well". ("I felt guilty about working for a tobacco company, so I quit and started dedicating my time and money to charity. Yesterday I donated $1000 to the Against Malaria Foundation. Today I'm volunteering at a soup kitchen. I'm doing good.")
Given enough time, you can solve a large 2D maze by simply following a wall. Is there any similar strategy for solving a 3D maze that can be used (no marking/memorizing places you've seen in the maze is required)?
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(as a summary: the CCCC is almost solved. the word answer has been found (ENGINE), but the parsing is slightly off (not quite E (_N + _G) IN E). not far above this message is a hint to the correct parsing.)
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I haven't posted for a long long time, so here is an interesting combinatorics problem!
There is a table with 𝑛 rows and 18 columns. Each of its cells contains a 0 or a 1. The table
satisfies the following properties:
(i) Every two rows are different.
(ii) Each row contains exactly 6 cells that...
Can you place 9 letters in a 3x3 grid such that each row and column forms a 3-letter word? Rows are read left to right, while columns are read top to bottom. I will accept words that are found in this Scrabble dictionary.
At first, I was a fictional alien detection base.
Three years later, I was founded as a memory manufacturing corporation.
What am I?
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Diamond Ring and Ring Leader give Diamond ring leader
The following 5 seperate images are the B&A rebuses. Please...
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Somebody corrupted my QR Code.
Can you tell me who did this and when it happened?
