The Chinese live on, and they go on inventing. The Chinese have invented paper, printing, gunpowder, and the Great Firewall of China. What will they invent next?
If the present perfect is sometimes a finished event in an unfinished contextual time period, then an object's ability to receive future action can also admit felicitous use of the present perfect: Einstein has visited Princeton, JFK has visited Princeton. I've begun an investigation to determine if Barack Obama has.
I was sooooo addicted to the original Civilization, @snailboat. In my mind, I always lazily pronounced them tie-REEMS. I doubt that will change for long.
+1 But I think the situation is the OP knows the bus number, so maybe the OP wants something more like "Where is the nearest bus stop that bus 20 passes?" or "Where can I wait for bus 20?". I'm not sure if these are the most natural phrasings (I'm a non-native speaker), but I think they are to the point and understandable. — Damkerng T.44 secs ago
See, I usually look over the OP's title. The real problem could be in either the title and the body of the question.
Unless "Where can I get number 20 bus?" is idiomatic in English. (which I think it's not very idiomatic, but I might be wrong. It's pretty much like that simple sentence, "I like the color red" vs. "I like the red color", imo.)
Interesting... I tried "where can i get number * bus" on Google and found exactly 8 results!
What is the phrase that can be used to describe the situation when someone tries to justify himself, even when he knows that he's wrong.
The situation is when the person didn't complete his duty, and tries to explain that he did nothing wrong, by using lame excuses. So, my question is about doin...
It's just that the answer focuses only on the verb.
So I commented:
I looked around the web, and now think the OP's example will be more idiomatic with the, i.e. Where can I get the number 20 bus? — Damkerng T.21 mins ago
Indeed. There is a Thai saying, รู้ที่ต่ำที่สูง, which has only simple words but I find it difficult to translate. Literally, it means [know-low-places-high-places]. Basically, it means something like "Know your place", i.e. know who you are, your social status, how you should behave toward others, what you should do and should not do, and such.
But in English it's common to talk about how bad puns are, even if (especially if?) you actually like them :-) I wasn't part of the conversation, but I thought about it and realized I couldn't really describe how people talk about puns in English effectively
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And I realized if I were part of the conversation, it probably would have ended about the same way...
> Along the similar classifications as [1-2], we mainly cover the consensus filtering approaches in four groups, that is, consensus on estimate, consensus on measurement, consensus on information and H consensus. http://ell.stackexchange.com/questions/54627/can-that-is-be-used-to-explain-multiple-things
It's rare that I would think i.e. is better than that is, but I think it is in the OP's sentence.
@snailboat Was it entirely in English, and between native speakers?
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10:49 AM
Yes and no respectively, the one who made the pun was a non-native speaker
@snailboat Oh, yes! I think I like a colon even better!
This is how I would understand it (which is probably not very different from your understanding): a) Dear Mom, you would have heard by now that I’m O.K. (= Mom didn't hear/know that), b) Dear Mom, you should have heard by now that I’m O.K. (= I expect, based on my knowledge and experience, that it's very likely that Mom's heard that. How likely is it? It's about somewhere between might have heard and must have heard.) — Damkerng T.9 secs ago
Snailboat dropped in, and then rocketed off like a snail?
I think the problem she described was again cultural, probably not a language problem.
There's a cultural phenomenon whereby "bad" puns are mutually denigrated by all parties. The enjoyment (by all) typically comes not DESPITE the groans of "terrible and stupid" attempts at humor, but precisely BECAUSE of it!
So we have Google search results (keywords bad puns) like "25 Puns So Terrible They Should Be Made Illegal - BuzzFeed"
Really Bad Puns...
Bad Puns - Get your muds wordled! www.badpuns.com/
46 Puns From 2014 So Dumb You'll Feel Bad For ... www.smosh.com/smosh.../46-puns-2014-so-dumb-youll-feel-bad-laughi... Jan 2, 2015 - It's been said that puns are the lowest form of comedy, but sometimes they are so stupid you can't help but laugh.
"The Chinese invented the printer."
Raymond Murphy says that we can't use the present perfect here. I question why?
According to Murphy
"We can't use the present perfect if there's no connection with present."
But I guess there is a connection/result in the above example because we ...
@JimReynolds Oh, it's nothing much. But finally I've arrived at this conclusion: to understand the usage of the, it's best to understand that it's the definite article.
By the way, there is a subtext in my the best way to understand the perfect aspect is to understand what "perfect" is. It's to understand what "perfect" is, not to understand know how the "perfect" aspect is used.
GRAMMAR (of a tense) denoting a completed action or a state or habitual action which began in the past. The perfect tense is formed in English with have or has and the past participle, as in they have eaten and they have been eating ( present perfect ), they had eaten ( past perfect ), and they will have eaten ( future perfect ).
when you pronounce the phrase: "Give it to me" as a native speaker, does the word "to" sound reduced, more like a "t" or "t+schwa" sound? I think the stress goes on "give" and "me". Am I right?
my "2 cents" is (I'm going singular on that one), not so much to emphasize the chronological aspect, but rather who/what is the subject (or object) of the sentence/statement, so that in "the Chinese invented gunpowder", the focus is on the gunpowder (the object of the sentence), as if a question ...
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> If the sentence subject (The Chinese) is the context (Q: tell me about the Chinese. A: the Chinese HAVE invented gunpowder, and spaghetti), then use "have". But, if the sentence object is the context (Q: tell me about gunpowder. A: The Chinese invented gunpowder), then don't use "have".
Well, "Who invented gunpowder?" "The Chinese (invented gunpowder)!" -- Does that emphasize "gunpowder"?
Nowthere in the United States but in New Jersey ______ so many people per square mile.
a) there b) there are c) there is d) are there
The correct one is c.
When I use are there? Why not there are? is it not about existance?
Anyone here can explain me?
Thanks.
(On the other hand, I think it's not a very good question in a test.)
> The law of diminishing returns gives a reasonable explanation both of why there are so many people per square mile in the lush plain of Bengal, compared to ... -- Lectures on Economic Growth - Page 3 - Google Books Result books.google.com/books?isbn=0674016017 Robert E. Lucas - 2002 - Business & Economics
> "There are so many people per square mile in Hong Kong, it's like New York City on steroids. I know I'm going to have to adjust to different ... -- Mission trip will take Lowery to Hong Kong | Albany Herald albanyherald.com/news/2013/jul/20/… Jul 20, 2013
Apparently Robert E. Lucas and Sara Lowery (who was in an Albany Herald article by Carlton Fletcher) would fail the test!
> As a class, discuss questions such as: “What are some reasons one country has so many people per square mile, while others have so few people?” -- Asia - Page 55 - Google Books Result books.google.com/books?isbn=1608234460 Evan-Moor Educational Publishers
> No other state has so many people per square mile. -- New Jersey - Google Books Result books.google.com/books?isbn=0761415297 David C. King - 2004 - History -- (This is probably the source or an indirect source of the OP's test.)
> But NY has always been my favorite place to do street art because there's so many people per square mile, and because people walk, so they ... Shepard Fairey On Jail, Anonymity and David Bowie papermag.com/2014/05/shepard_fairey_david_bowie_jail.php May 19, 2014
Sorry, I wrote the incorrect alternative. But the correct is d. — user172454 mins ago
Oh, so the answer wasn't c) (there is) but d) (are there)!
Let's say there's a video game that never gets boring no matter how much you play it, because there's always something new to do in it. What would be a term to describe the game?
The opposite would be a "repetitive" game that gets boring quickly, because there's only one thing to do in it.
"The Chinese invented the printer."
Raymond Murphy says that we can't use the present perfect here. I question why?
According to Murphy
"We can't use the present perfect if there's no connection with present."
But I guess there is a connection/result in the above example because we ...
don't listen to these people it's a bunch of lies.....all lies
Nowthere in the United States but in New Jersey ______ so many people per square mile.
a) there b) there are c) there is d) are there
The correct one is c.
When I use are there? Why not there are? is it not about existance?
Anyone here can explain me?
Thanks.
Let's say there's a video game that never gets boring no matter how much you play it, because there's always something new to do in it. What would be a term to describe the game?
The opposite would be a "repetitive" game that gets boring quickly, because there's only one thing to do in it.
