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Man_From_India

01:00

@Catija just came to know about it. Congratulation :)

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Nog Shine

03:38

Hello, guys and girls. I have a doubt about formation of a sentence.

I have a sentence. "He is biased. He is unfit for show hosting" or "He is biased. He is unfit for show host". I know an alternate sentence is "He is biased. He is unfit for hosting the show". But I want which one is accurate between the first two.

Captain Bohemian

04:25

too hungry to read

aitía

Hello

Anonymous

@NogShine It has to be show hosting. For can take the noun phrase show hosting as a complement, or it can take the subordinate clause hosting the show as a complement, but show host is neither a valid noun phrase nor a valid clause.

Anonymous

Show hosting is a compound noun, derived from the noun show plus the deverbal noun hosting, which which is in turn derived from the -ing form of the verb host.

Anonymous

In hosting the show, the word hosting is a verb in its -ing form, which we can see because it takes an object (the show).

Anonymous

Clauses of this shape are functionally very similar to noun phrases, so it's no surprise for can take it as a complement too.

Anonymous

04:35

@aitía Hello! Welcome to ELL chat!

JBis

hello

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CowperKettle

06:04

Word of the day: seatwork

@snailboat I fain would agree.

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Nog Shine

08:36

@snailboat Thanks for the response. It helped.

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Lawrence

12:02

@CowperKettle Thanks for the honour. :)

@userr2684291 Hmm: we would have had -> we'd've'd? :)

@JBis Hi.

@aitía Hi.

Anonymous

12:21

No, the last had there is lexical, so we'd've had.

userr2684291

13:45

@ColleenV Could you somehow message this user and point them to some meta posts or editing guides?

I absolute abhor the very notion of searching through the meta posts for this because I think there are like 10 posts about this and they all suck. And half of them are MAR's "under-construction" initiatives, I think.

ColleenV

@userr2684291 There's a reason that folks can only make suggested edits until they've earned a bit of reputation. If their reviews are rejected enough they get blocked from suggested edits for a week or so.

If they don't understand, they will probably ask on meta and we can explain how to edit more appropriately

userr2684291

Yeah, so please just message them so they know what they're doing wrong.

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Lawrence

18:01

@snailboat Ha! So it is.

CowperKettle

18:38

Word of the midnight: Scientific wild-ass guess (SWAG)

Scientific wild-ass guess

Scientific wild-ass guess (SWAG) is an American English slang term meaning a rough estimate made by an expert in the field, based on experience and intuition. It is similar to the slang word guesstimate, a portmanteau of guess and estimate. == History == The slang term "SWAG" is generally thought to have originated in the US military, either the Army or the Air Force. Journalist Melvin J. Lasky wrote that it was first used casually by US Army General William Westmoreland during the Vietnam War. Westmoreland would sometimes reply "SWAG" to reporters' questions about American failure to neutralize...

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userr2684291

19:40

So an educated but still kinda rough guess (EBSKRG).