Hi guys im a little bit confused about this sentence ;I went to school in my brother's car what does exactly mean : I was driving or i wasnt driving i was sitting at the back seat or it doesnt matter . actually in Persian we say this with "با" which means "with" so can we say this like : i went to school with my brothers car

Institute for "Children's healthcare" or "Child Healthcare"? Which is better?

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@Hadimsv The sort of wording with "in" implies you weren't driving. If you want to say you were driving the car, "I drove/took my brother's car to the school"

N.B.: English prepositions sometimes don't make 'sense' in English, let alone in comparison with another language's prepositions.

You know you’re old when you use doozy in a sentence unironically.

@CowperKettle I thought I would choose “Children’s”. I searched for child healthcare and a bunch of “Children’s healthcare” organizations came up. When I added “institute” most results switched to “child health”.

So, “Children’s healthcare institute” or “Child Health Institute”.

And I don’t think it’s much different if you write “Institute for”...

@ColleenV Thank you!

> Received research grants from the pharmaceutical companies Pierre Fabre, Genzyme Europe B. V.

Do I need the here?

@CowperKettle No, you don't need "the"

@ColleenV Does the same rule apply here as with "chairman Carter"?

I've forgotten why I should not use the there.. D'oh.

Or maybe because "companies" is plural?

@CowperKettle Hello. As I see it, ColleenV said you don't need "the". I am not sure if "should not" is right

It looks like you are naming the companies (are there two companies?), so the definite article wouldn't be wrong here

are Pierre F and Genzyme two different companies? Or is the latter the address?

@AIQ Right, you don't need it but I didn't think that hard about whether using it would be awkward

@CowperKettle I received grants from pharmaceutical companies X, Y and Z The only reason you would use the definite article there is to call out the pharma companies from a group of different types of companies.

Like, I applied for grants from 12 medical companies, but only received grants from the pharma companies.

@ColleenV Hellooo! So you are saying that putting in "the" is incorrect? I see why the "the" isn't needed there - the companies are being named.

"The Chairman" versus "Chairman Carter" might not be the same thing but I'm not sure - you would only say "the chairman Carter" if you were trying to distinguish that "Carter" from say "the deputy Carter", but that would be an unusual situation.

@AIQ No I don't think it is incorrect in the companies sentence. It could be emphasizing that they are pharma companies as opposed to some other type

The shorter the word in English, the more trouble it is to figure out a rule for using it.

I think the number of letters in a word is inversely proportional to how many meanings it can have....

@ColleenV woah

@ColleenV Ah

@AIQ compare "hard" to "hardanger"

There are other factors of course - slang, etymological origin, loan words etc. but in general 7 letters or more significantly reduces the number of meanings

Hmm maybe things that are only nouns are different.

Like "dog" has many meanings, but "door" only has a couple

Or maybe I'm just making stuff up that sounds good

but isn't actually founded on data

hahaha

@ColleenV To embark, on the meaning of life, serendipitously, or to take the, perhaps, I lost me I have no idea where I'm getting at. But it sounded good.

I think what you say follows naturally qualitatively, but it's a very complex pattern to generalize of course.

@M.A.R. Awesome.

It matters not how correct you are if you can't express your idea in a way that sounds good to the people you're trying to convince of its correctness...

And often sounding good and feeling good can be more important to people than correctness

@ColleenV Just add adverbs and adjuncts, where, so boldly, they do not, out of fear of losing meaning, in the general sense of the word, appear often

@M.A.R. lol. You're better at this than I

@ColleenV Perhaps, to put it so audaciously, it's a matter of how many, in your short time trudging along on Earth, you've encountered, or run into, as the more informal counterpart goes, snobs, or should I say, edgelords.

lol

"or ran into" ?

what is going on

This is why I asked M.A.R. to participate in that poetry competition in Meta

@AIQ there is an ellipsis for "have", so you get past participle

oh yeah I got lost counting your commas