@Cerberus There are different meanings for lead. It's not uncommon to have someone called the "tech lead" or "lead developer" in a dev group. That's just the way it is.
Hello! I'm very confused by this sentence... could you please help me? I thought I (knew/ had known) what you were asking for. I feel we should use "knew" but could you please tell me if it's correct and why? Thanks a lot :)
She gave him everything he (/had) wanted, but still he (/had) never really loved her. Here also, I think "had" should be used but I'm not sure which event happened before which. Please help me understand this. Thank you sooo much :)
@tchrist no, not about eternity. I'm just (very) confused about some grammar rules.
@Robusto that assumption is entirely correct, for who else's word could I possibly take. He knows himself very well. Us — well, as I was saying, some of us don't even know that he's a thing that exists.
Question for the main site: should it be "who else's", "whose else", or "whose else's". Fight.
@MattE.Эллен I would say that nine times out of ten you want knew there.
The rule for using Past Perfect is the same as for using a semicolon. If you're not sure whether you should use it, then you should not.
@MattE.Эллен hi. I think the sentence is I think I had known [at a point in time earlier than the time of conversation] what you were asking. Please tell me if my interpretation is correct. I read the answer. Thanks.
@MattE.Эллен I want it to sound something like- she gave him everything he wanted throughout the period of their relationship... I mean not like he had asked for sth before, and she did it for him at a point later in time... I want to talk generally.
If the relationship is over, I'd go with "She had given him everything he had wanted, but he had never really loved her." because you're talking about a thing that finished in the past
okay :) He said, "I didn't realise it was midnight." In reported speech can we say He said he hadn't realised it had been midnight. or should we use it was midnight ?
@MattE.Эллен Many have told that both "was" and "had been" are correct but the perfect is way more formal. But I've seen "was" written in a similar example in Cambridge dictionary. Why didn't they use the formal version? Don't they generally use the more formal version? Here's the link. The very first example.
@MattE.Эллен hello. Thanks for telling. Your version seems very natural to me and I'm pretty sure I'll use it in speech.
But will my teacher accept it in a test? I think in the test I'll have to use the past perfect version (as the rules say) in both the cases. What's your opinion sir?
I'm confused about the editing process on SE sites. In this current edit of a question, @tchrist has apparently replaced words with themselves. [See above]
I mean, in some cases he's replaced spaces with CRs, but mostly words have simply been replaced with the same words. I don't get it.
Just like I never expected that if I went to a site for sheet music and clicked on the Community tab, all I'd ever find there would be politics, religion, and hangman games, and the only thing I'd never find there would be music.
And it's not even proper politics, like. It's US politics.
@RegDwigнt In that case, you should expect nothing more than what you see on MuseScore. You should be surprised, in fact, that they can put any words or musical notes together at all, much less coherently, cogently, or in anything like an edifying manner.
I am not one bit surprised by the quality of the output given the producers.
What I'm saying is that it caught me off-guard to find out that these were the producers.
There are quite capable people on MuseScore, but they keep to themselves. Impossible to find on purpose, very hard to stumble upon even by accident.
They don't participate in discussions, they don't post on the help forums, they don't comment on others' scores, even on scores by others just like them. They don't follow anyone, and don't give two shits who follows them.
They don't add their stuff to groups or categories.
They just post it to their profile and go back into hiding. No-nonsense people just getting shit done.
Those are the ones I seek out.
The rest are just stupid children.
Who are stupid not because they are stupid but because they are children. People at a point in their lives where they haven't yet said or done anything of value or consequence. Let alone something profound or unique.
Some might or might not have potential. Some might or might not capitalize on that potential one day. But none have so much as shown it just yet.
I've had to proof some work recently and have come across several different styles for punctuating words between speech – some from writers, some from editors – which has made me doubt what I think is correct.
Which of the following is the correct punctuation?
Where the spoken sentence is meant...
@tchrist I kinda thought it would be something like that. Nice.
One question, though: What's the purpose of printing a newline character after each iteration? It doesn't seem strictly necessary since a "line" is really only a quantity (80?) of characters and most web containers word-wrap to a changeable width anyway.
@Færd I'm unaware of how badly yours has done so, or at least of any particulars. But it sure seems like some sort of post-peregrination diaspora from Qom has set the entire region aflame with fever.
When your officials said that it might be in every city in your country already, I knew that it was much, much worse than any official numbers suggested.
It's possible that your country may be able, at great cost, to treat the worst stricken and dampen the spread, but I cannot imagine what's going to happen to Afghanistan and Pakistan or Iraq. They won't be able to do that.
@Færd When the authorities over them continually lie to their own people, those people eventually replace those authorities.
I think the casualty counts may be higher in those countries, but the blow will be felt more strongly in countries that boasted a reliable health care system that will be now paralyzed.
You have a very large class of young, educated people in the professional classes, or at least in the middle classes. This makes you unlike those countries.
Lying to the peasants is not the same as lying to the doctors and lawyers. They take not kindly to it, and they see through it.
> In the United States, Election Day is the annual day set by law for the general elections of federal public officials. It is statutorily set as "the Tuesday next after the first Monday in the month of November" or "the first Tuesday after November 1".
First, there's a law. Second, the people in power would never accept it, and so would never change the law.
They ran a survey about changing the rules to allow him to stay in office for a third or fourth etc term. Something like 25 or 40% of the Republicans were ok with it.
The Republican Senate is no longer a functioning democracy.
Nor are many of the state legislatures where they hold power.
Remember Putin's goal is to fragment and shatter the western alliance. He's already scored two of the most incredibly major wins. He's not stopping now.
It's to make us stop believing in ourselves, and to fight amongst ourselves.
Internecine squabbles in the west allow him greater freedom to expand his own power.
Well if he's exploiting existing fissures in Western societies like the US, then those societies might want to start sewing up those fissures instead of papering them over.
Like, closing the gap between the government and the people, for example.
A visualization of what we mean in English by the various tenses:
I've had to proof some work recently and have come across several different styles for punctuating words between speech – some from writers, some from editors – which has made me doubt what I think is correct.
Which of the following is the correct punctuation?
Where the spoken sentence is meant...
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