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CowperKettle

04:20

> Both the H- and the L-chain interact with anti-human IgG antibodies

Would this mean that each of the chains, taken in isolation, interacts with said antibodies?

In Russian, there is this short phrase, "po-otdelnosti" (taken by itself)

But I thing that in English it migth suffice just to write it as I did

Anonymous

@CowperKettle I would take it as meaning the H-chain interacts with anti-human IgG antibodies, and the L-chain also interacts with anti-human IgG antibodies.

CowperKettle

@snailplane Thank you, Snails! Good evening! (0:

I decided to skip a trip to the woods and to finish my translation..

Anonymous

Both generally forces a distributive rather than a joint interpretation.

Anonymous

Distributive: "Peanut butter and jelly are both good flavors." = "Peanut butter is a good flavor, and so is jelly."

Anonymous

Joint: "Peanut butter and jelly is my favorite flavor of sandwich."

Anonymous

04:25

You can't split the joint example up like that.

Anonymous

Some examples are ambiguous, but the presence of both in yours should make it unambiguously distributive.

CowperKettle

Yay!

colorless to light-brown liquid (Russian) -->> colorless to light-yellow liquid (English)

pharmacology is odd

Anonymous

Take a look at this revision history: ell.stackexchange.com/posts/87154/revisions

Anonymous

04:41

I mean, ignore the edit I just did. :-)

Anonymous

(Hmm, probably make is a better light verb than do for an edit.)

Anonymous

CowperKettle

I understand almost nothing there, I mean in revision histories. O_O

Anonymous

Community keeps bumping the question to the top of the page to get it more attention.

Anonymous

Community does that because it has no positively scored answers yet and isn't negatively scored itself.

Anonymous

04:48

By the way, I'm on a new tag making rampage.

Anonymous

I just made coordination-of-unlikes, animacy, and predicative-adjuncts.

Anonymous

I wonder if any of them will survive :-)

CowperKettle

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Anonymous

Our community has several editors who are against using technical terms in tags.

Anonymous

My tags sometimes get killed on sight.

Anonymous

04:50

I hope we give them a chance, though. Most of the tags on the site are bordering on useless, so I think it'd be nice to have some useful ones. :-)

CowperKettle

^_^

Anonymous

I think we should have more specific and precise tags, personally.

CowperKettle

I only created one specialized tag, "generic noun phrases" (0:

Anonymous

Oh, zero-article was not your doing?

CowperKettle

hmm, maybe mine

Anonymous

04:52

Ooh, it looks like someone added that back in July 2013.

CowperKettle

nods

Anonymous

That's right around when you started posting, but I think someone beat you to the punch :-)

CowperKettle

(0:

Anonymous

A shame. You could've gone down in tag making history!

Anonymous

Well, generic-noun-phrases is a good one.

CowperKettle

04:54

(0:

Anonymous

Ooh, a bounty! :-)

CowperKettle

(0:

Stack Exchange

05:12

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Q: "when" or "after" + "we had recently started dating"?

What is the difference between when and after in the following examples? I took my girlfriend to Niagara Falls when we had recently started dating. I took my girlfriend to Niagara Falls after we had recently started dating. Which one should I use?

Anonymous

Thanks, @StackExchange! :-)

CowperKettle

(0:

Anonymous

05:32

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Q: A proposed philosophy of question migration

We spend a fair amount of time talking about question migrations between sites. These conversations happen internally, publicly and semi-publicly in the network-wide moderator chat room. In the interest of reducing the time we collectively spend discussing it, let’s see if we can formulate a cle...

discussion featured migration

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Anonymous

"As a fix, make only Off Topic cause migration rejection. Leave the question on the target site for all the other close reasons, so that temporary holds can work as intended." ← I think this would be perfect for ELL. We often close questions with our 'Details, please!' close reason, hoping to reopen them once the asker adds the additional details or context we're asking for. We do something similar with 'Unclear what you're asking'. But that doesn't work when the question's been migrated – it gets rejected and can never be re-opened (without moderator intervention, at least). — snailplane 32 secs ago

Pandya

05:47

Is my Notwithstanding sentence which (i.e Notwithstanding) I've used first time in this post grammatically correct?

Anonymous

I can't understand that sentence, I'm afraid.

Anonymous

The rest of the paragraph seems good up until that sentence.

Pandya

@snailplane do you know Hindi? otherwise let me try to explain what meaning I want by that sentence....

@snailplane ok. I want to convey something like: [Inspite of ]: the doctrines/principles of these Aacharyas (teacher) are similar in some degree, [however] they (doctrines/principles) are much different.

Man_From_India

06:06

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Q: Past participle vs being+past participle

What is the difference in the meaning between following sentences: Being beaten by snow, he died. Beaten by snow,he died. Or, Being taken to the hospital,he survived. Taken to the hospital,he survived. Here are my openions about them: when we use Being+past pasticiple as a participle claus,it...

grammar

Pandya

@snailplane did you got it?

CowperKettle

07:45

Do we name the final section "List of References" even if the listed papers and books are not quoted inside the text?

ah, no, they are mentioned. "List of References" it is then

CowperKettle

07:58

1.5% left to translate! yay

Man_From_India

08:23

I doubt if these are really correct -

> Beaten by snow, he died.

Fiksdal

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Q: Is it plural or singular for "were to go" here?

Being connected through multiple connections at the same time would be a good protection against this, as you'd maintain an acceptable speed even if one of your connections was to go slow or disconnect altogether. Context. I'm unsure of whether it should be was to go or were to go slo...

verb singular-vs-plural

Man_From_India

> Taken to the hospital, he survived.

Damkerng T.

08:58

@Man_From_India I think so. They sound fine to me.

> ... as you'd maintain an acceptable speed even if one of your connections was to go slow or disconnect altogether.

You can use either, I think.

But it's not because of the subject being plural or singular. It's because of would.

Fiksdal

@DamkerngT. I see, thanks.

In that case, I guess I will use were. I like the sound better.

Damkerng T.

nods -- were would make it sound a bit more formal, I think.

Fiksdal

@DamkerngT. Alright. That seems fine.

Damkerng T.

@Pandya If you want to use notwithstanding like that, you could use the pattern [ Notwithstanding NOUN, CLAUSE ].

Maybe something like this: "[Inspite of ]: the doctrines/principles of these Aacharyas (teacher) are similar in some degree, [however] they (doctrines/principles) are much different." --> Notwithstanding the similarities to a certain degree among these Aacharyas, ~~they~~ their doctrines/principles are much different.

Pandya

09:19

@DamkerngT. OK. Thanks!

Damkerng T.

No problem!

Pandya

@DamkerngT. How about Notwithstanding the similarities to a certain degree among these Aacharyas' doctrines , they are much different. or Notwithstanding the similarities to a certain degree among doctrines of Aacharyas, they are much different. ?

Damkerng T.

@Pandya I think that's okay, too.

I misread your sentence a bit the first time, actually. I thought you were talking but Aacharyas, but it was actually about doctrines.

Pandya

@DamkerngT. yes

Damkerng T.

*about ~~but~~

But you understand what I mean. :-)

Pandya

09:33

By the way I think the syntax and use of Notwithstanding, Nonetheless and Nevertheless are similar . Am I right?

Damkerng T.

Yes, they are different.

Pandya

I've said similar

Damkerng T.

Haha! I misread your sentence again! :-)

Pandya

looks like Mis Overflow! in Language Overflow.

Damkerng T.

Notwithstanding can be used as an adverb or a preposition. The other twos can only be adverbs.

@Pandya Hehe!

Pandya

09:39

ok

Anonymous

10:09

@Man_From_India Seems grammatical, but it doesn't sound like something anyone would be very likely to say.

Damkerng T.

@snailplane Good morning!

Anonymous

@Pandya Hello! I don't speak Hindi. I just read your messages.

Anonymous

@DamkerngT. Good morning! :-)

Anonymous

> Although there are certain similarities between them, the doctrines of Aacharyas are actually quite different from one another.

Anonymous

How's that sound?

Damkerng T.

10:12

@snailplane Very good!

Though it has no notwithstanding. :-)

Anonymous

It's true. I struggled to come up with a natural-sounding sentence for this meaning with notwithstanding in it.

Anonymous

Notwithstanding has its own unique grammar. It can be thought of as a preposition which exceptionally can precede or follow its complement.

Damkerng T.

Maybe it's because notwithstanding the preposition is used more often in writing than in speech.

Anonymous

Notwithstanding the weather and the weather notwithstanding seem to have the same grammatical status and meaning despite the difference in word order.

Damkerng T.

Ah, I usually think of one in the weather notwithstanding as an adverb.

Hmm... but what it is is less important than how it's used.

Anonymous

10:15

The problem with that analysis is that if the weather is not a complement in one, why can it be called a complement in the other?

Anonymous

If one's an adverb, they should both be adverbs.

Anonymous

But it's more appealing to call them both prepositions.

Damkerng T.

nods

Anonymous

Or if you like, preposition and postposition :-)

Anonymous

Adps!

Damkerng T.

10:18

Sounds like something in a biology book! :-)

Anonymous

@DamkerngT. Palpate the proximal and distal adps and the anterior lateral postpositions?

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Damkerng T.

Hehe!

Anonymous

The grammar is palpable in here.

Damkerng T.

BTW, the shirt hasn't arrived yet.

CowperKettle

10:49

Beskids

The Beskids or Beskid Mountains (Polish: Beskidy, Czech and Slovak: Beskydy, Rusyn: Бескиды (Beskidy), Ukrainian: Бескиди (Beskydy)) is a traditional name for a series of mountain ranges in the Carpathians, stretching from the Czech Republic in the west along the border of Poland with Slovakia up to Ukraine in the east. The highest mountain in the Beskids is Hoverla, at 2,061 m metres (6,762 ft), located in the Ukrainian Chornohora range. == Etymology == The origin of the name beskydy has not been conclusively established. A Thracian or Illyrian origin has been suggested, however, as yet, no theory...

@DamkerngT. same here

Anonymous

Oh! Maybe shipping is faster within the United States.

Damkerng T.

@CowperKettle You went there today, I guess. -- envious :-)

Anonymous

I wore my ELL shirt yesterday. :-)

Damkerng T.

@snailplane enviouser! :P

Anonymous

It's kind of nice. I wonder if the pattern will fade in the wash.

CowperKettle

10:58

@DamkerngT. No, I was just reading about it.. in parallel with my translation

@DamkerngT. It is 3000 km from me (0:

@snailplane Great! (0:

Back to proofreading..

I marked some words with yellow to pay special attention to them, but the authors thought that I requested an explanation. D'oh

Damkerng T.

11:15

@CowperKettle Ah, I see!

Pandya

Is the word "prior" appropriate at here or I should use better/suitable word like "antecedent" or something else...

Man_From_India

@snailplane nods

Damkerng T.

@Pandya I think it depends on the intended meaning.

Man_From_India

But strangly other sentences with similar structure work fine -

Pandya

@DamkerngT. I want to mean older or founded before comparatively.

Man_From_India

11:20

> Dressed in white, he appeared before the crowd.

Anonymous

@Man_From_India I think that I'm just somewhat confused by snow having beaten someone.

Anonymous

@Pandya How about saying older then? :-)

Damkerng T.

prior is about the order in time. antecedent connotes some sort of relationship, I think.

I wonder if you wanted to say influence, even, but I'm not sure.

Man_From_India

@snailplane Snow bite, I think it should not be taken literally.

Pandya

I hesitate because I think if prior is related to priority or importance which I don't want to mean

Man_From_India

11:21

> Taken to the hospital, he survived.

This too is odd.

Damkerng T.

The sense of priority didn't come to my mind, FWIW.

Anonymous

@Man_From_India Having been taken to the hospital works.

Pandya

ok; then I think prior would work fine.. right? @DamkerngT.

BTW, which of 4 en.wiktionary.org/wiki/FWIW ?

Anonymous

Or Having been beaten by snow.

Anonymous

For what it's worth

Damkerng T.

11:24

@Man_From_India I agree with snailplane, though I wouldn't be surprised if I ran into Taken to the hospital, he survived in a novel.

Man_From_India

ASIEG says Past Participle clause can occur in two constructions - 1. In VP as complement and 2. as a NP modifier. ASIEG doesn't say that past participle clause can function like an adjunct.

Damkerng T.

@Pandya It's for what it's worth as snailplane said. :-)

Anonymous

FWIW commonly means 'for what it's worth'. The other three expansions Wiktionary lists I've never run into before.

Pandya

ok

Man_From_India

Though OMEG says a participle clause can function as an adjunct.

Damkerng T.

11:25

Sorry for the misspelling! @snailplane!

Pandya

misoverflow: are you facing keyboard un-comfortableness?

Damkerng T.

LOL

Man_From_India

Snail and DT please whenever you get time try to write a good answer to that participle clause question.

Damkerng T.

I don't know if I can write a good one. But where's the question again?

A-ha! It must be this one: ell.stackexchange.com/questions/106047/…

Man_From_India

Here you go

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Q: Past participle vs being+past participle

What is the difference in the meaning between following sentences: Being beaten by snow, he died. Beaten by snow,he died. Or, Being taken to the hospital,he survived. Taken to the hospital,he survived. Here are my opinions about them: when we use Being+past participle as ...

auxiliary-verbs past-participle

Damkerng T.

11:32

I just found it, but thanks, anyway!

Man_From_India

:-)

Damkerng T.

Hmm... I think we have more than one question recently asking more or less about the same thing. Not sure if all of them are by the same OP.

Man_From_India

Hmmm I noticed that. Almost similar questions he asked.

But this one is better.

Damkerng T.

Basically, I think they find in a book that when we use a participial clause, it roughly means "because".

I think Swan explains it along the same lines as well, but to be honest, I don't like the idea of "because" much.

Man_From_India

@DamkerngT. exactly

Pandya

11:36

Damkerng T.

@Pandya Nice! Thank you!

So sparkling, flashy, and bling!

Back to the "because" idea. It's like explaining that in "He was taken to the hospital. He survived.", we talk about cause and consequence. It's probably true, but I think it's more flexible than that.

Man_From_India

It's more like he was taken to the hospital and he survived

That because effect, might happen. Or might not.

> Today being a holiday, we went for a long drive.

Damkerng T.

nods

Man_From_India

This gives "reason" meaning.

today is a holiday and we went for a long drive

Damkerng T.

If only pineapples are smart devices ...

Stephen Has A Pen, Stephen Has A Pineapple. Pineapple Pen!

►

Flaw

11:55

Hi guys, a short question

"the restaurant's food and service {is, are} outstanding"

Damkerng T.

I think you can use either. I'd use is, personally.

Flaw

I have a strong feeling for is

but I'm getting a number of people telling me to use are

Damkerng T.

Now I can't get it out of my head (the PPAP song): youtube.com/watch?v=_ulMJgeTkcM

Flaw

STOP WHY

WHY WOULD YOU

Damkerng T.

@Flaw It depends on whether you think of them as one thing or two things.

Flaw

11:58

-frantically runs off to stuff ears with tissue-

Damkerng T.

LOL

Flaw

@DamkerngT. how can I see it as one thing? and makes it two things right?

Is it in the same way that fish and chips is one thing?

Damkerng T.

@Flaw Some of these noun phrases are commonly thought of as one thing. -- Yes!

Still PPAPing in the background... :-)

Flaw

I don't get it, it's so irritating but it's so catchy

which makes it even more irritating

Damkerng T.

Hehe!

Anonymous

12:09

PPAP? What does that mean?

Anonymous

Oh, I see.

Damkerng T.

Hehe!

Anonymous

Hi, @Flaw! Welcome to ELL chat! :-)

Anonymous

@DamkerngT. I have no idea why this video is so amusing.

Damkerng T.

@snailplane I don't know, but I guess it's something like Gangnam Style. :D

Many of its YouTube videos got over 20m views in less than two weeks.

Anonymous

12:12

It's surprisingly catchy.

Damkerng T.

Exactly!

Flaw

@snailplane Hi!

Man_From_India

12:56

Just as aside:

Biber et al on page 826 says that ed-participle clauses (what CGEL calls Past-Participle clauses) as adjunct are rare across the four registers.

(four registers - Conversation, Fiction, News and Academic)

If there is nothing to do telic/atelic verb, these Past Participle clauses as appeared in Yubraj's question is most likely grammatical.

SnailP already commented on it though :-)

Damkerng T.

:D

Man_From_India

My only problem is if dressed in white is fine in Dressed in white, he appeared before the crowd, why does it sounds bad Taken to the hospital in Taken to the hospital, he survived.

Is there anything to do with the verb of the Past-Participle clause?

Stack Exchange

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Q: Currently Unresolved Proposal List

As a step toward ensuring that proposals don't languish in a limbo state where it's not clear whether the community wants to move forward with them or not, I'm compiling a list of proposals that have a concrete action we could take and that haven't been acted on and haven't been explicitly resolv...

discussion

Man_From_India

I haven't found any answers so far in any books. Or even if it is there, I couldn't locate the place where they say about it.

Damkerng T.

13:16

@StackExchange That's a nice list! Very good to have.

@Man_From_India nods

> But the Meister Palace was equal to the challenge. Over all Zurich, "Meister," as the hotel was affectionately known to taxi drivers and habitués, presided physically and traditionally alone, a staid Edwardian aunt perched on her own hilltop, gazing down on the folly of hectic urban life.

> --The Night Manager

Real sentences are usually more complicated.

Man_From_India

Another question from Yubraj regarding non-finite clauses

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Q: Having taken the physics class

Here are two sentences which look similar: Having taken a physics class helped me in calculus. Having taken a physics class, It helped me in calculus. Do they mean same? Or second is wrong? What's the meaning they convey?

sentence-meaning participles adverbial-phrase

Damkerng T.

@Yuri I can't edit it, i'm not getting any option to edit it. — yubraj sharma 4 hours ago

Hmm...

Man_From_India

I can say that both are grammatical, but Past-Participle clause as a subject of Matrix clause is rare. And indeed the first sentence is very unlikely to occur in real life.

(oh the mistake in those sentences is a)

@DamkerngT. Anything to do with the reputation?

Damkerng T.

A registered OP should be able to edit their own questions.

I'm not sure why Yubraj Sharma can't do that.

CowperKettle

> He showed by his life that this is possible
He showed through his life that this is possible
He showed with his life that this is possible

Which is more naturally-sounding?

Man_From_India

13:25

Since we got the new theme, the privileges a user enjoys require more reputation than what it used to be before,.

Damkerng T.

@CowperKettle Did he die showing that?

Anonymous

The 'edit' link should appear in grey below your question, next to 'share'. — snailplane ♦ 45 secs ago

Anonymous

@Man_From_India Yes, that's right: ell.stackexchange.com/help/privileges

CowperKettle

@DamkerngT. No

Anonymous

But you don't need privileges to edit your own question.

Damkerng T.

13:27

@CowperKettle I'd use through, then. :D

Man_From_India

oh

Anonymous

@CowperKettle I need some context. What's it expressing?

Anonymous

By the way, natural sounding rather than naturally sounding.

CowperKettle

@snailplane I was trying to translate Ukraine President's statement about Boris Nemtsov

> "We Ukrainians will always remember Boris Nemtsov [:both:] as a patriot of Russia and a friend of Ukraine. He showed [through his life?] that this is possible - all you need is a desire." (Petro Poroshenko, President of Ukraine)

Damkerng T.

Maybe through his life's work?

Anonymous

13:29

Through might be the best of the three options.

Anonymous

But I might choose to rephrase it instead.

CowperKettle

@DamkerngT. Nice!

@snailplane Exactly! That's why I just dropped this bit.

Man_From_India

exemplify?

Anonymous

@CowperKettle How about He showed us that this is possible – all you need is [a? the? ∅?] desire.

Damkerng T.

Oh! Let It Go is used in this season of The X Factor UK! (I've left my TV on in the background, but this song stands out!)

Anonymous

13:32

Desire to what?

Anonymous

I can't pick the right determiner there without more context.

Anonymous

But I'll assume a is right :-)

CowperKettle

@snailplane Yes. (0: I also thought of using us

Anonymous

I like using us there.

CowperKettle

@snailplane A desire to combine both roles (patriot of Russia, friend of Ukraine)

Man_From_India

13:34

how about: He showed that this is possible. Whatever he did throughout his life exemplified this?

CowperKettle

Nice! I just wanted to be close to the original statement (0:

Damkerng T.

> Brought up without books, my passion for them was, if not directly forbidden, discouraged. At that time I knew nothing of First Editions and their special lure but I associated books with magic.

> --Jeanette Winterson, Art Objects, 122

> Quickened by this spiritual refreshment, it had a boom.

> --Sinclair Lewis, Babbitt, 178

Man_From_India

hmmm these doesn't seem anything odd. Strange!

so every time it's hinting that it must be something to do with the verb of that dependent clause.

Damkerng T.

Maybe it's just that they're not as simplistic as Bought at 7-11, this pen is mine. -- ♫〜 I have a pen. I have an apple. 〜♫ :P

PPAP for another round!

Man_From_India

gotta go. see u later.

Damkerng T.

13:44

See you soon!

Anonymous

♬〜

CowperKettle

(0:

Damkerng T.

I think Pen Pineapple is intentionally pronounced as if it were Made by Apple. :-)

user62015

14:06

(A) My father / (B) enjoys / (C) a very good health. / (D) no error @DamkerngT. @Man_From_India

Damkerng T.

health is usually uncountable.

user62015

Okay @DamkerngT. Thanks.

Damkerng T.

:D

Anonymous

@DamkerngT. We could probably make that a little stronger: Health is almost always non-count.

Damkerng T.

nods

Anonymous

14:20

I'm sure there are count examples, though I'm not sure I've ever heard one myself!

Anonymous

Maybe you could say something like "We often talk about health, but there are really two healths – physical health and mental health." But I think most people would say two kinds of health instead.

Anonymous

So even that feels kind of forced.

Damkerng T.

15:17

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Q: "Literary feel" of writing

I read on the British Council website how to transform the following sentence into another structure. The original sentence was: Soaked to the skin, we eventually reached the station. This was transformed by a person who claimed to be from The LearnEnglish Team, the sentence transformed i...

sentence-structure word-order style predicative-adjuncts

A-ha! Finally, the source of all confusion (of the OP) is revealed! learnenglish.britishcouncil.org/en/quick-grammar/…

Stack Exchange

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Q: Should not "passive-voice" and "passive" be merged?

There are 46 questions using passive and more than 300 questions using passive-voice. Should not the tags be merged? I would make passive-voice the main tags, and passive its synonym.

discussion tags tag-cleaning

Cardinal

Hello

> My GPA is 19.2/20 which is equal to 4/4 in 4-point grading system.

Is that sentence OK?

I mean using "/" character in that form.

or I should say, either:

> My GPA is 19.2/20 which is equal to 4/4.

or

> My GPA is 19.2/20 which is equal to 4 in 4-point grading system.

or
> My GPA is 19.2/20 which becomes 4 after converting grades to 4-point grading system.

Just curiosity.

Personally, I think that 19.2/20 suffices.

Catija

15:32

I might recommend equivalent rather than equal.

Cardinal

I see, thank you.

Catija

you need an article before 4-point.

Cardinal

nod

Catija

the slash is fine.

Cardinal

So, I should change the first sentence to:

> My GPA is 19.2/20 which is equivalent to 4/4 in the 4-point grading system.

I think the last part is redundant because of the "4/4"

I think It'd be better to substitute "in the 4-point grading system" with "by converting to the 4-point grading system" or something like that.

AliRıza Adıyahşi

15:40

hi

Cardinal

I mean 4/4 on its own conveys "in the 4-point ..."

@AliRızaAdıyahşi Hellow

Catija

if you haven't mentioned the grading system, it's not redundant.

Cardinal

@Catija nods No I didn't.

AliRıza Adıyahşi

is following sentences are correct:

Actually, I belive that, there are different languages to understand to different people. I liken the people to a palace that have 1000 doors. There is always an open door to enter to palace.

Anonymous

@Cardinal I think it does, but I think it's fine to write 4/4 anyway. Well, wouldn't it be a 3.8 rather than a 4.0?

Anonymous

15:42

I don't know how the conversion is done.

Cardinal

Hmm, the conversion technique is very simple.

Catija

@snailplane divide numerator and denominator by 5? That's all, I think...

But saying "that's a 3.8 on a 4-point scale" would be better. We don't say 4 out of 4. If my GPA were 3.8/4, I'd say "I have a three point eight".

Anonymous

Yeah, that point-eight seems important!

Cardinal

by way of example, you have 3 course grades 18 16.5 and 19.2 and each course has 3 credits. The conversion is done using this table:

17 -20 becomes 4
15-17 becomes 3
13-15 becomes 2
10-12 becomes 1
0-9 becomes 0

So, the GPA is converted as bellow:

Anonymous

@Catija Well, for various reasons, converting from one GPA system to another can be more complicated than that. Some schools, for example, want to see the individual grades and calculate the GPA themselves to get rid of any differences in weighting and so forth.

Cardinal

15:47

{ (4*3) + (3*3) + (4*3) }/3

@snailplane Exactly, that table has been suggested by a university.

Catija

Regardless, in the US, anyway, we tend to decimalize the score not fractionalize it... so if I have a 4 out of 4, I have a 4.0 ("four point oh" or "four point").

Cardinal

Since 19.2 requires all the grades laying the 17-20, therefore, the the new GPA is 4.

*nods*, I knew that, but following this opinion, there would be two similar phrases in a single sentence:
19.2 out of 20 and 4 out of 4. I thought It's not OK, Isn't it?

Catija

How do you normally phrase scores on the 20 point scale?

Anonymous

16:05

@Cardinal Why not?

Anonymous

Like things should be like, unlike things should be unlike. At least, that's what I think.

Anonymous

You can re-use words or grammatical structures when two things are similar, and deliberately use different ways of phrasing things when they're different.

Anonymous

Repetition is a tool, not a kind of error.

Anonymous

Like all tools, you should use it when it seems appropriate. :-)

Anonymous

And like Catija, I'm from the U.S., so I would probably say 4.0 (four-point-oh) or 3.8 (three-point-eight) myself.

Anonymous

16:08

People hardly ever say their GPA is "4" or "4 out of 4".

Anonymous

You might say it's a 4.0 on a four-point scale, because not everyone uses a four-point scale.

Man_From_India

Our Yubraj Sharma seems like the same person with a name of Unique.s in Wordreference forum.

forum.wordreference.com/threads/…

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Q: "Literary feel" of writing

I read on the British Council website how to transform the following sentence into another structure. The original sentence was: Soaked to the skin, we eventually reached the station. This was transformed by a person who claimed to be from The LearnEnglish Team, the sentence transformed i...

sentence-structure word-order style predicative-adjuncts

Both are same question.

Damkerng T.

@snailplane I'm more familiar with GPA in the format 9.99.

Rubisco

@Catija Your avatar gets inkily blue when it becomes larger

Damkerng T.

@Man_From_India I think he uses at least five or six English websites.

I wonder if it'll be a case of the more advice the more confusing.

Rubisco

16:18

@Man_From_India Everyone does that

Damkerng T.

@Rubisco Well, not me.

Man_From_India

@DamkerngT. That's fine. But what strikes me as odd is that in wordreference forum he says he is from Nepal. But his name here has a feel that he is from India.

Catija

@Rubisco There's something weird about it. It does a weird wrapping thing for me

Rubisco

@DamkerngT. Not me either

Catija

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Damkerng T.

16:19

(I guess "Not I" would be a bit too much.)

Rubisco

@Catija I would've reported a bug, but images are too weird

Damkerng T.

Starred!

Anonymous

@Man_From_India Perhaps he moved?

Man_From_India

@Rubisco In my initial days I did that. I was at first in wordreference. And then came here. Some of my questions were better answered here. And since, I don't feel like going to anywhere else :-)

Damkerng T.

Oh, the wrapping is strange!

Anonymous

16:20

@Catija Aww :-)

Catija

@DamkerngT. I'll give you something better to star...

Man_From_India

@snailplane Must be.

Catija

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Rubisco

@DamkerngT. It looks like an MRI printed on a paper

Damkerng T.

Ooh, so cute!

Man_From_India

16:20

@Catija Awww so so sweet :-)

Stack Exchange

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Q: Retag "phrase" as "phrases"

Since we are already using sentences, the questions using phrase should be retagged phrases. It doesn't make sense to use the plural in a case, and the singular in the other one.

support tags retagging

Rubisco

@Catija "Mommy, what the heck is this thing on your hand?"

Damkerng T.

LOL

Rubisco

I bet he was amazed at the shiny, round lens of the camera

Damkerng T.

@AliRızaAdıyahşi Hi, welcome to the room!

Catija

16:22

@Rubisco More like "mommy, you don't feed me enough so I've resorted to autocannibalism".

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AliRıza Adıyahşi

hi

Rubisco

Hullo

AliRıza Adıyahşi

thank you

Damkerng T.

@Catija Hehe!

Man_From_India

@Catija LOL

Damkerng T.

16:23

We usually talk about English, among other things. Sometimes we help improve sentences, though it's not our main activity. :-)

Rubisco

And we're always off-topic, unless it's about cute snails or babies

Damkerng T.

Anyway, there are some problems with your sentences, syntactically. Actually, I belive that, there are different languages to understand to different people. I liken the people to a palace that have 1000 doors. There is always an open door to enter to palace.

AliRıza Adıyahşi

it is ok, if senteces are understood.

Damkerng T.

Delete the comma after believe that. Delete the after liken. And replace to palace with the palace would improve your sentences a bit.

I'm not sure I understand the idea, logically, though.

@Rubisco Don't forget cats, too!

Rubisco

@AliRızaAdıyahşi But what if they don't understand it?

Flaw

16:27

@Rubisco I have a friend doing a phd on rubisco!

Rubisco

@DamkerngT. Well, I haven't seen Hagu for a long time.

I'm giving a hint here

Flaw

been staring at your name for some time wondering why it looked so familiar

Rubisco

@Flaw AWW YISS I'M FAMOUS

AliRıza Adıyahşi

If they dont, problem is big :)

Damkerng T.

I don't know why, but a baby photo is one of the most pleasurable things to look at. :-)

Rubisco

16:28

@DamkerngT. It's nostalgic and we don't know it

Damkerng T.

@Rubisco I haven't taken any new photo yet. :-)

Catija

@DamkerngT. Awww :D Babies are certainly cute.

Man_From_India

16:44

Mari, the sentences against which you wrote 'passive' is actually in active voice. In those sentences the matrix clause (or if you prefer the superordinate clause or main clause) is in active voice. The Past-Participle clause (or ed participle clause) which functions as an adjunct here gives out a passive sense; that means the implied subject of these subject-less past participle clause in not the agent within that non-finite clause. — Man_From_India 36 secs ago

Rubisco

@Man_From_India Not this again.

I wanna find something passive and throw it out of the window.

Man_From_India

:O

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