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@小奥利奥 I got a gist of it. In Chinese, we say 吃肉，喝汤, which expresses while you are in the better position you should also leave a room for others. But I don't really get what you meant in your original comment? Can you elaborate it a bit? I'm just interested to know it. Thanks. Is it a common English phrase? Now, I guess you were joking that you could answer it.

@小奥利奥 A side: what's "save us the soup"?

@MichaelRamage Then you could say: 我这种饭的做法是把番茄，西兰花，胡萝卜，辣椒和煮好的米饭放在锅里一块煮。

@MichaelRamage Do you have a name for the one you describe?

@MichaelRamage It's a parsing issue. 时会 is not a set. compare: 煮饭时，我会放盐。 to 我煮饭时会放盐。 Both are the same. And 我生日时会吃蛋糕。

you think it's wrong. but that's what we usually use. anyway. I'm gonna quite this chat. it goes meaningless.

a:他篮球打的真好！b:他篮球打的是好。

my friend often say something like. A: 这女孩真漂亮。 B:这女孩是漂亮

it indeed need to emphasize 是 otherwise it sounds wrong. I already addressed this in my answer

May I know which area you are from?

If those still don't count, I have to stop here. believe what you believe.

zdic.net/hans是

加重语气，有“的确”、“实在”的意思：天气～冷。in zdic.net/hans是

⑧茶花是美啊。

她长得是美。

I also found 他见解是高明.

it can be a complete sentence. 他是厉害。 这本书是好。

Do you buy in those examples?

or 这本书是好， 写得很全面。

do you think the usage 他是厉害 is problematic?

do you accept 天气是冷了 ？

I heard it often

I lived in China for decades.

@user21820 Btw, what appears in 新华字典 is considered as a standard Mandarin, not a dialect.

@user21820 I don't know which areas you are in. I've been in lots of areas in China. Now in Shanghai. let me try to find the proper written examples if I have time later.

@user21820 Yes, I'm a native speaker. If you don't know it as a native speaker, then you should also learn it because 天气是冷 appears even in official dictionary 新华字典. If you don't believe in 新华字典，then you should not believe in any articles at all. Haha, have fun!

@user21820 I can't find the exact sentence 他是无辜, but dictionaries have a clear definition with the similar example : 天气是冷. I don't know why people take issue with the usage. It's quite a common usage for me. It's quite natural to me indeed.

@user21820 Your examples demonstrates another usage of 是, which is the linking verb. E. g. 这书是我的。Well, my examples demonstrates the usage of 'emphasis'. E. g. 天气是冷。If you remove 的 in your examples, they would become emphasitic. Eg. 他是无辜。他是独一无二。

@user21820 Another point is 无辜 is adj, but 无辜的 is not. 无辜的 is more like a pronoun replacing 无辜的人 in your example. So, your examples didn't demonstrate the usage of 是 + adj. 我是无辜 is the example that demonstrates 是 + Adj.

@River This is another dictionary definition from my cellphone. 用于形容词或动词性的谓语前，“是”重读，表示坚决肯定，含有“的确”“实在”的意思 这间房子是太小 / 他见解是高明 / 我是有事，不是偷懒。 You can find any decent dictionary that would tell you the usage.

@River Looks like you are not familiar with the usage. Not sure if a dictionary definition can convince you. Anyways, please refer to sense 7 in this dictionary. 7. 加重语气，有“的确”、“实在”的意思：天气～冷。 zdic.net/hans/%E6%98%AF

@River It depends on how/where you use it or what you want to express. Context is key. It could be used to repeat/emphasize what others has just said. E. g. A: 你不是说她漂亮吗？B: 她是漂亮啊。Not necessarily always followed by a 'but'. Of course, your examples are valid too. However, we should not limit the scope.

@TangHo In day-to-day conversations, 贤惠 is often used as a sort of compliment. When we see a woman cooking/cleaning/etc, we may say "好贤惠啊" as if saying you are demonstrating the real 贤妻良母's behavior. In this case, we don't literally judge whether she is a real 贤妻良母 or not. Maybe, it's more like a metaphor. Of course, if we generally say someone 贤惠 (without given context)，we'd consider all the criteria listed in your answer.

Proof-reading is off topic indeed, but as OP said this site hasn't enforced the rule very well.

@Tᴚoɯɐuo Now I seem to undersand you. Are you saying that we take "what the planets say is going to(or will) happen" as a noun phrase when it's used as the object of WITH. And it could also be a complete sentence or a full clause when it stand alone. Is that correct?

@Tᴚoɯɐuo Sorry, I typed it wrong in my previous comment. I meant "what the planets say is going to happen". Is it also a complete sentence if I put a dot at the end of it?

@Lambie You added another confusion here because T said adding "if" is incorrect. "I want to know if what you are saying will happen." is a correct sentence? If so, why "I want to know if what the film director says is going to happen..." is wrong?

I think the key confusing point still is that if you take "he was talking about interfering with what the planets say is going to happen" as a noun phase, why can it also be a complete sentence?

but why did you say: "@dan: Yes it can, but not as the object of the preposition with." then?

so are you saying"he was talking about interfering with what the planets say is going to happen" is correct, but "he was talking about interfering with what the planets say will happen" is wrong? is that correct?

Can "what the planets say will happen" be an independent sentence?

i don't see that makes any difference. Any problem with the sentence "I want to know if that will happen."? Or "I want to know if that, which you say, will happen." Any problems with them?

As you said it "what [i.e. that which] the planets say is going to happen", can we just remove "which the planets say" and then the sentence becomes "that is going to happen." So do you think if it's ok to say "I want to know IF that's going to happen?" -> "I want to know IF that which you say is going to happen." -> "I want to know IF what you say is going to happen." Does this logic make a bit sense to you?

Well, the subject is "what the film director says" and the verb is "happen". Does it make any sense?

It looks to me that "what ... is going to happen" is a complete sentence, instead of noun phrase, like your example: "what the film director says is going to happen if the studio cuts his budget." That's why I was thinking why a complete sentence can be taken as the object of a prep, WITH in this case.