then what will be the difference between ...
I have been there in New York City in the past, so I know how do New Yorkers celebrate Christmas and
I had been there in New York City in the past, so I know how do New Yorkers celebrate Christmas
@StoneyB But then, how to express that? ...I know how New Yorkers celebrate Christmas? Isn't do possible here, anywhere? It sounds incomplete without it! — Maulik V ♦Mar 1 '14 at 5:32
@DamkerngT. I still don't understand this exclamation mark obsession !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
@inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M Thanks for identifying the emoticon for a sufferer of affective mood disorder whose hypomania is cusping on incipient manic psychosis. The white nutcatcher vans have been duly dispatched and should be on the disaster scene presently.
But the formatting the author chooses to formulate his questions is amusing and confusing at the same time, what you couldn't achieve in a billion years.
a) The first part: Do you know that it was I WHO HAS DONE this piece of beautiful work? b) The second part: Do you know that it was I who has done THIS PIECE OF BEAUTIFUL WORK? c) Both parts: Do you know that it was I WHO HAS DONE THIS PIECE OF BEAUTIFUL WORK? d) Neither part: Do you know that it was I who has done this piece of beautiful work?
Anybody who doesn’t hate the living writes that as Q3— (a) Do you know it was I (b) who has done (c) this piece of beautiful work? (d) NO ERROR: ALL THREE OF a, b, and c are correct.
@inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M Lies, damned lies, and hypercorrective poppycock really get my dandruff up. Teachers must be held to a higher standard for they are models to follow, so if they’re teaching students to generate ungrammatical sentences, the authors need to be sacked and their textbooks consigned to the pyre of infamy.
@tchrist My previous teacher has an exercise book. Back then I randomly chose a page and read the first sentence, and the exercise was "answer the questions". Q1 was "Did her wife buy her some clothes?"
I am reminded of how J.R.R. Tolkien’s mother once famously corrected him at a very early age when he said ‘a green great dragon’. She told him that it had to be ‘a great green dragon’, but when he asked her why, she couldn’t answer, thereby starting him down the road of puzzling over matters lin...
I would like the Stack Exchange sites to provide a way for members to respectfully agree or disagree with the closing of a question, particularly if it is marked as "off topic" or "duplicate". Over the years I have obtained a great deal of very useful information from questions that are closed, a...
I want constraints on mobility and communications which will make it inconvenient for the client to communicate in any medium but the written word. The cheaply recordable, storable, recoverable, searchable written word. The medium which allows people to think about what they're saying before they say it, and may penalize them if they do not do so.
I am just practising some english grammar related questions.
Question: Identify the one bold word or phrase that must be changed in order for the sentence to be correct.
Newtonian physics accounts from the observation of the orbits of the planets and moons.
A) accounts
B) from
C) observation...
Yes. Writing examples and exercises and examinations is damnably difficult. You can't just write a sentence and insert the mistake you're interested in: you have to write a sentence with no mistakes or ambiguities except the one you're interested in.
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A lot of grammarians and exam-writers and so forth try to work around the problem by pulling their base sentences from corpora of actual real-life utterances. That may make the sentences more "natural"; but it overlooks the fact that real-life utterances are crawling with bad writing and speaking. Sturgeon's Law.
Even I, I, moi qui vous parle, completely overlooked the secondary error in the Q&A I just posted until FF pointed it out.
Could somebody explain the following sentence in a more comprehensible way?
"My wife and I are into male chastity play. It started out as masturbation control for me and then went to her controlling my orgasms."
I want to know the difference between "masturbation control " and "controlling my o...
I'm voting to close this question as off-topic because these appear to be 'terms of art' within a very small discourse community, not terms broadly current in English. — StoneyB31 secs ago
@DamkerngT. That's very interesting. The ELL question claimed that the preposition had been identified as the error, and asked for an explanation of that. This version suggests that the error is actually accounts, which should be replaced with derives. That would be acceptable in both versions.
"Thus far with rough and all-unable pen Our bending author hath pursued the story, In little room confining mighty men, Mangling by starts the full course of their glory."
In his lawless fit, Behind the arras hearing something stir, Whips out his rapier, cries, “A rat, a rat!” And in this brainish apprehension kills The unseen good old man.
Nima please take a look at how others edited your previous questions. To format examples, we use blockquotes, i.e. > . Also, you need to explain the link so we know what we're clicking at. "Source" is a bad link descriptor, but it's definitely better than "enter link description here". Thus, you don't see any reputable articles in the Net have link descriptors like that. Also, "thanks in advance" is a tagline, and taglines are discouraged in SE, just as much as politeness is encouraged. Please don't include them in your posts and please learn from editors. — inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M13 secs ago
then what will be the difference between ...
I have been there in New York City in the past, so I know how do New Yorkers celebrate Christmas and
I had been there in New York City in the past, so I know how do New Yorkers celebrate Christmas
1.His latest two books are excellent.
2.His two latest books are excellent.
Could you show me the difference between these in meaning?
Thanks
I am just practising some english grammar related questions.
Question: Identify the one bold word or phrase that must be changed in order for the sentence to be correct.
Newtonian physics accounts from the observation of the orbits of the planets and moons.
A) accounts
B) from
C) observation...
Could somebody explain the following sentence in a more comprehensible way?
"My wife and I are into male chastity play. It started out as masturbation control for me and then went to her controlling my orgasms."
I want to know the difference between "masturbation control " and "controlling my o...
