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Q: Narrative present

Soumya GhoshAre there no rules to when you can and can not change tenses, using narrative present? Like, could I say "I was on my way back home by bus. The guy who sat next to me looks at me weirdly and gets off the bus."? Or "I was on my way back home by bus. The guy who's sitting next to me looks at me we...

tense sequence-of-tenses
 
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Cardinal
Cardinal
03:53
Are de facto and potential sort of synonyms. Consider this:
> To overcome the potential problem of water shortage.
> To overcome the de facto problem of water shortage.
Are both idiomatic?
 
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V.V.
V.V.
07:09
I think "de facto" is "in fact" or really happening, whereas "potential "is not. @Cardinal
skullpatrol
skullpatrol
07:24
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_facto?wprov=sfti1
Cardinal
Cardinal
07:51
@V.V. Thanks I checked the dictionary myself, but I want to know how they mean to a native person
skullpatrol
skullpatrol
I've rarely, if ever, heard anyone say "de facto."
 
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Q: being vs having been

starun008Which one is correct here? 1 Having been disturbed, he left the house. OR Being disturbed, he left the house . 2 Being disturbed by the children, the old man left the park. OR Having been disturbed by the children, the old man left the park. Having been deprived of their homes in the recen...

grammar gerunds
Anonymous
I've heard de facto a fair bit.
skullpatrol
skullpatrol
Oh, really?
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Q: Misrelated Participle

starun008A part of the sentence is underlined. Below are given alternatives to the underlined part at (A), (B), (C) and (D) which may improve the sentence. Choose the correct alternative. Question 1: Riding across the battle field, the famous Bhishm saw a large number of dead warriors. (A) riding arou...

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userr2684291
userr2684291
11:49
What might be uncommoner is de iure, which I can't recall having heard.
ColleenV
ColleenV
12:26
@Cardinal It's a pretty specialized word, but it isn't all that rare. If a judge sentences a terminally ill person that only has a few months to live to a year in prison, that's a de facto life sentence even though it isn't technically a life sentence. "Potentially a life sentence" doesn't have the same sense exactly.
Here's another example Fare freeze a de-facto 'pay cut' for North Coast drivers: Taxi Council They aren't actually cutting the fares taxi drivers can collect, but by not allowing them to rise with rising costs, it's effectively the same thing as lowering their pay. (not potentially the same thing)
skullpatrol
skullpatrol
12:57
this may help
 
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Cardinal
Cardinal
14:49
Thanks @ColleenV. So, if I want to, for example exaggerate on something, can use de facto? I mean I gues that would mean there is already a problem and it will be severe in future. I think that can be used as the exaggerated version of potential.
ColleenV
ColleenV
15:43
@Cardinal No, "de facto" isn't about potential. It's about one thing being "written on paper" that isn't the same as the real world effects
It's a tough thing to explain
For example, a law is written that students with laptops all go to one school and students without laptops go to another school that will teach without needing a laptop. In this town the only students that can afford a laptop have green eyes. So, while the law doesn't say anything about eye color, it is de facto segregation based on eye color.
The "de jure" effect is to segregate students based on ownership of a laptop.
"de jure" is mostly used in legal settings, but "de facto" has more use outside of legal conversations because it describes a specific situation very succinctly that would otherwise take a lot of words to explain.
Cardinal
Cardinal
16:03
@ColleenV Oh, I see. Thanks for the clarification.
 
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skullpatrol
skullpatrol
20:30
13 hours ago, by skullpatrol
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_facto?wprov=sfti1

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