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If you'll pick up some snacks, I'll get the beer.
In this sentence there is used the volitive "will" as I was thought by StoneyB in his exhaustive reply to my latest question here ("Would" in a backshifted reported context). This sentence can be paraphrased in this way: "If you are willing to t...
When you compare first and second children with first and second child, you see that in published books, the general principle people most commonly follow in this would seem to be that:
The plural is used when there are both several first children and several second children.
The singular is us...
Did you think you .... me somewhere before?
options:
a)have seen b)had seen c)were seeing
My Approach:
I am confused between "were seeing" VS "have seen".
I think have seen should be there because it is used with the words "ever","never","before".
Unfortunately, you're trying to decide between both wrong answers.
Did you think you had seen me somewhere before?
I don't know who taught you these rules that "have" is only used with "ever," "never," and "before," but that's incorrect. "Have" is used with a plural subject, "had" with a si...
Considering this sentence:
Many different applications are [...] for this new device.
What is a good verb to use here? I want to say people are thinking of these applications after the device is built.
I was thinking of "defined", but it seems there should be a better choice. (Of course th...
Yevgeny Roizman (Russian: Евге́ний Вади́мович Ро́йзман; born 14 September 1962) is a Russian politician, the Mayor of Yekaterinburg after winning the mayoral election in September 2013. He is known as a campaigner against corrupt police, illegal drug sellers and for drug rehab centers.
== Early life ==
The son of a Jewish factory worker, Roizman left home at the age of 14 and started to work at odd jobs, later to be prosecuted for theft.
== Criminal record ==
He was sentenced to a two-year prison term in 1981 on charges of theft and fraud In 1999, Roizman cofounded the project City Without Drugs...
Eugenics (/juːˈdʒɛnɪks/; from Greek εὐγενής eugenes "well-born" from εὖ eu, "good, well" and γένος genos, "race, stock, kin") is a set of beliefs and practices which aims at improving the genetic quality of the human population. It is a social philosophy advocating the improvement of human genetic traits through the promotion of higher rates of sexual reproduction for people with desired traits (positive eugenics), or reduced rates of sexual reproduction and sterilization of people with less-desired or undesired traits (negative eugenics), or both. Alternatively, gene selection rather than "people...
During a review of the records made by an ex-employee of the company where I'm working now, I found many records starting with "Spike on", such as:
Spike on how to detect new blobs in an Azure Storage account
Spike on how to trigger a job after a new blob is uploaded using Azure
Spike on repla...
I saw in some papers about the two equivalent way of representation? However i couldn't figure out how? One has Li of 1.2 moles one has 0.5 mole ? Is that correct way of interpretation? similar for the other elements
‘The world corrupts me, I think. Or perhaps it's just the weather. It
pulls me down and makes me think like you, that one should shrink
inside, down and down to a little point of light, preserving one's
solitary soul like a flame under a glass.
— Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel
All I ...
What does "swooping out of the clear blue sky" mean ?
Since "swoop" means (here) "sweep through the air, as a bird or a bat" (from dictionary.reference.com), we conclude that the motion of the blue jay is to gracefully, gradually, following a smooth curve, fly [down].
The words "out of the ...41
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