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05:13

Q: Morning : arrived / occurred / happened / came

Which is the best word to use from the ones given in title to use in the following sentence ? When the morning _____ , the murder was discovered. Please don't suggest any other word instead of those four given options as this was a MCQ pattern based question asked in my exam and I have to c...

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05:58

Q: Grammar section

What is the conjugation of know verb.someone just told me about this and i have never read that in any books,so I waana know Cz in my exam I got a sentence that says no error but I don't think so. The west indies team had not won any matches last year.

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Cardinal

06:56

Hi comrades.
Seems we have a new logo for the community.

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I want to know what is the hint behind an e enclosed by parentheses!

user685252

Where did you see this?

Cardinal

@user685252 When entering the chatroom

Could you find the chat icon on the ell main site?

user685252

Nope.

Cardinal

So, check your reputation alerts!

For Whom the Bell Tolls

For Whom the Bell Tolls is a novel by Ernest Hemingway published in 1940. It tells the story of Robert Jordan, a young American in the International Brigades attached to a republican guerrilla unit during the Spanish Civil War. As a dynamiter, he is assigned to blow up a bridge during an attack on the city of Segovia. The novel is regarded as one of Hemingway's best works, along with The Sun Also Rises, The Old Man and the Sea, and A Farewell to Arms. == Background == Ernest Hemingway wrote For Whom the Bell Tolls in Havana, Cuba; Key West, Florida; and Sun Valley, Idaho in 1939. In Cuba, he lived...

I bought it yesterday, I am excited to read.

user685252

Classic.

Cardinal

07:03

@user685252 I guess you use the phone-app. Don't you?

user685252

yup

Cardinal

So, that's why you haven't notice that.

If you open the ell on your browser you will notice the difference.

Cardinal

07:23

word of the day: hauteur

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CowperKettle

09:14

@Cardinal A very interesting book to read

I heard the full audio version

Bought a new backpack! 90 liters!

Cardinal

09:43

@CowperKettle I can't believe it, I think I took a wrong book when picking up from the shelf!

I just opened my bag and discovered I took a wrong book!

an another Hemmingway's book:

Death in the afternoon

I will buy "for whom the bell toll" in the future.

I am not sure if I like the book's story, but I am going to read it.

@CowperKettle Nice, what's the brand?

Jude Niroshan

10:15

Hi everyone!

I miss @Damkerng T.

What has happened to him? Offline for more than 80 days in a row

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userr2684291

11:25

Your guess is as good as mine.

CowperKettle

@Cardinal Nova Tour

Probably Russian-made

Yes, Russian-made.

I wanted a Deuter, but they cost an arm and a leg.

So I went to a local web-store, and read up on cheaper models, and ordered this one, and waited a couple of days, and Bob's your uncle!

userr2684291

Hehe.

CowperKettle

I like this one: Deuter ACT Lite 65 + 10

market.yandex.ru/product--deuter-act-lite-6510/12554257

Maybe I'll buy it later

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13:01

Q: Appeal of Edit Rejection?

Question in question: What is meaning of "why else would she?" The edit by Lambie drastically changed the meaning and context of the sentence that anhdung had originally posted, and was querying the meaning of. The rejection by Mark Hubbard seems to have ignored the history of the post prior to ...