> In linguistics, conjugation /kɒndʒuːɡeɪʃʌn/ is the creation of derived forms of a verb from its principal parts by inflection (alteration of form according to rules of grammar). Conjugation may be affected by person, number, gender, tense, aspect, mood, voice, or other grammatical categories. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grammatical_conjugation
> The word "conjugation" is derived from a Latin word that means "to link together". In organic chemistry, it is used to describe the situation that occurs when p systems are "linked together".
> ...Whenever I hear a mother say," if so-and-so told you to jump off the Brooklyn Bridge, would you do it?" I think of her. On my order, she would have jumped.
Ahh... actually it could make sense.
At first glance, I thought she referred to mother, but it doesn't.
Welcome to ELL! For crying out loud, this doesn't answer the question. Please take a tour or have a look at the help center to get a hang of how SE Q &A sites work. This might make a very good comment, but it doesn't answer the question. Once you have 50 rep, you can comment on any post. — MARamezani6 mins ago
I am curious about whether the word 'was' implies a situation which is no longer the case. I was under the impression (and still am ;)) that it did not carry a hard logical implication of that nature, but have always been aware that there is a soft implication to that effect. Here is an example:
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Sheesh. Thanks (Or Tanks, if you may prefer)! I purposed a tag-merging academy a while ago. It stood still like water of a pond in a bright, sunny morning. But this, this... I appreciate it and applaud accordingly. +1 — MARamezani1 min ago
Someone posted a question on ELL asking how they can improve their listening (because they can't understand native speakers, in real-life, in movies, etc.), and I remember I told the OP to listen to "non-English" songs. snailboat asked me why? I replied "It breaks the ice!"
(By the way, "green" and "blue" are the same color in Japanese. -- This is not correct correct, though, snailboat knows this better than me.)
@MARamezani I think the problem is the OP can tag their questions with whatever they think is right. And users with enough reps can edit tags of a question to anything they think right, as well.
We have a nickname for your type on the web: Webnazi. More worried about "form" than truth or facts. They edit everything and don't care about the consequences. — Roger Bagula6 mins ago
@snailboat Affectionately intended teasing. I would have hyphenated that/those modifiers or adjunctants (affectionately intended) until a year ago. I still want to.
@Damkerng, thank you for giving us the source -- when I googled, I didn't find it. Yeahia, in future, could you give us a url when possible? Thanks.
Yeahia, you were right to be confused, since the sentence is not well written.
Frankly, I was not very pleased with Liz's responses to you. Al...
I checked the source again and found that our OP was in the comments below the source page!
@DamkerngT. Good stuff! I'm going to go and finish a post, but I might come back with a grammar Q later. Btw, you or anyone else know what happened to Listenever? I saw they used to pop in here. Miss their questions!
I'm not sure, but I remember that she had a pause once earlier, then she came back, asked about listening, posted a few questions from J. K. Rowling's, and I think I've never seen her again since.
I hope she will come back again some time in the future.
Is the vowel in buldg Short U?
Here's a recording from a movie.
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/83182336/your%20undereye%20vein%20is%20bulging.wav
your under eye vein is bulging
Dictionaries say that the vowel is short U,but it sounds like more of Short OO than Short U to me.
What do y...
What do you guys think of using pop-culture references in sophisticated writing?
Something like this:
> In verbalising his thoughts-- no matter if you agree with his view-points on the plethora of topics he covers, or nah, Tim has entrapped the largest of followings.
Every minute, five thousand tons of water flow/flows over a cliff into the river below.
Should the verb 'flow' be conjugated in singular or plural in this sentence?
> Two minutes is all I need. (Notional agreement) Two minutes are all I need. (Grammatical agreement) Is three kilos enough? (Notional agreement) Are three kilos enough? (Grammatical agreement)
> In grammar, the correspondence of a verb with its subject in person and number, and of a pronoun with its antecedent in person, number, and gender. http://grammar.about.com/od/ab/g/agreementerm.htm
> notional agreement: Agreement (or concord) of verbs with their subjects and of pronouns with their antecedent nouns on the basis of meaning rather than grammatical form. http://grammar.about.com/od/mo/g/notionalagreementterm.htm
There is still another kind of agreement (or concord), proximal.
> In addition to grammatical concord and notional concord, the principle of proximity sometimes plays a part in subject-verb agreement. This principle is the tendency, especially in speech, for the verb to agree with the closest (pro)noun, even when that (pro)noun is not the head of the subject noun phrase. http://grammar.about.com/od/pq/g/proximityagreement.htm
I just hope someone might mention about different kinds of agreements and maybe a bit about whether tons or water is the head of "five thousand tons of water".
@Iplodman Human languages aren't math; ambiguity is one of their features. ;-)
For crying out loud, "remodel" should not be used as a noun.
@Damkerng, thank you for giving us the source -- when I googled, I didn't find it. Yeahia, in future, could you give us a url when possible? Thanks.
Yeahia, you were right to be confused, since the sentence is not well written.
Frankly, I was not very pleased with Liz's responses to you. Al...
Is the vowel in buldg Short U?
Here's a recording from a movie.
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/83182336/your%20undereye%20vein%20is%20bulging.wav
your under eye vein is bulging
Dictionaries say that the vowel is short U,but it sounds like more of Short OO than Short U to me.
What do y...
Every minute, five thousand tons of water flow/flows over a cliff into the river below.
Should the verb 'flow' be conjugated in singular or plural in this sentence?
