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skullpatrol

04:42

I like "adolescence" @Man_From_India

Feeds

04:52

Q: Past perfect tense and Time expression

Can we use Time expression while forming past perfect tense in any context? e.g. (a) Yesterday we had gone to mall. (b) Last year court had directed police to arrest him. (c) We had gone to the movies last night. https://www.englishgrammar.org/correct-sentences/

past-perfect

Man_From_India

05:06

@skullpatrol Sorry, i lost track :-) which question reference is it?

Trey

05:48

what exactly does "a soft question" mean?

Anonymous

06:38

@Trey No idea. I don't think it has a meaning outside of specific contexts. It means something on sites like Math.SE, though: math.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/soft-question

CowperKettle

06:58

@ColleenV Yes, 'twas a nice time (0:

> This year, the exhibition will host a recruitment center, in a first for the event.

I don't like this sentence much.. I wonder what would one call a 'recruitment center' that exists during an exhibition.

A sort of stall or stand where a guy seeking a job in the paints-and-coatings industry might find a job.

Jim Reynolds

07:18

Attention, all reasonable people. ...

Q: What does {dysfunctional quiver} mean in this sentence?

Consider this sentence from a film review: What looks at first like an [sic] conventional Brit period drama about royals is actually a witty and elegant new perspective on the abdication crisis and on the dysfunctional quiver at the heart of the Windsors and of prewar Britain. -- https://w...

meaning-in-context phrase-meaning

I'm sure you agree that this question MUST be re-opened, and that M.A.R. should face trial for voting to close because he was simply bored. Thank you.

^ @M.A.R.

Q: Grammatical explanation of a sentence that begins with "there"

There was a loss of 36 billon. I don't know how to explain the grammatical concept of this sentence. Can you kindly explain me? Please tell me the sentence pattern of this also.

sentence-structure pronouns existentials

The OP asks about the grammar of a sentence with there as a dummy subject (if that's the right term for it). Completely on-topic from my perspective, yet it's closed because it should be answerable in a dictionary? What's wrong with people?

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new_user

08:42

Hello people, can anyone help me out with a verb that I don't get in a formal speech on a Youtube video (Australian speaker). It sounds to me like "jocket". The passage starts around 8:10 and the video link is https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S4kakKEHTzk#t=8min10s

Here goes my transcript of the passage :
"There was open warfare going on in Rome during the whole of Vatican II, as the two sides [verb here]"

CowperKettle

08:52

jockeyed

Word of the day: to jockey: To maneuver (something) by skill for one's advantage.

jockey

Noun: jockey (plural jockeys)

One who...

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new_user

@CowperKettle Thank you so much ! I know about the noun, but not the verb. So jockeys make harder efforts than other people ?? Hum ...

Anonymous

09:30

@new_user Well, they compete with each other. So jockeying is trying to gain an advantage over your opponents, or compete for something that others are trying to get.

Anonymous

I think Macmillan is a good dictionary: macmillandictionary.com/dictionary/american/jockey_2

CowperKettle

10:53

There was a loss of 10 billion

Isnt this an existential?

Jim Reynolds

11:25

There are statements about things that happen(ed), statements about things that exist(ed), and gray areas between the two.

A loss occurred.

There was a loss.

There was a man.

A man occurred?

Does existence exist? Does happening happen?

O.O

I was aware when making the comment that it might seem like a rebuke of your comment. I didn't mean it as one, in any way.

It's an appropriate comment, and a useful one.

I wanted to try to point out ... explicitly ... that it's not a duplicate of the other question.

That's all. :)

ColleenV

@CowperKettle Usually a stand at an event is a "booth" (in my flavor of AmE anyhow :)) - for example Recruitment booths are a free and convenient way to meet prospective employees. Events set up with lots of recruitment booths are "job fairs".

Anonymous

12:06

@JimReynolds Existential is a technical term in linguistics. It refers to a clause with the dummy subject there and the verb be.

Anonymous

@CowperKettle Yes, I think so, why?