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- abbreviations - English Language Learners Stack Exchange
I found the following on Urban Dictionary h t hat tip; tip of the hat Apple is releasing their <insert new slick thingmabob here> H t to <insert blog here>, who alerted us of this story Senator Holierthanthou has been caught with his pants down in public H t to originalposter who broke the news So it sounds like the author is acknowledging the reader "Mr D", giving him credit for
- Why do underpants, knickers have to go with the ‘s’?
I wonder if this stems from an ancient and lost time before sewing when pants would have been more like a pair of chaps - something connected manually at the top rather than pre-sewn for modern convenience
- word choice - I havent noticed that vs. I didnt notice that - English . . .
Let's say I saw Jack yesterday, so I say "I didn't notice the color of his eyes " which apparently means that I still don't know the color So, am I correct to think that "I didn't notice" can also present a result in the present just the way the present perfect does?
- adverbial phrases - English Language Learners Stack Exchange
I have an old car with manually adjustable mirrors As I was driving home with a friend, I wanted him to adjust the mirror for me so that I could see more of the street I ended up not asking beca
- meaning in context - English Language Learners Stack Exchange
To do anything " by hand ", or " with my (bare) hands " means to do something yourself, manually, without the benefit of automation and perhaps with the bare minimum of tools
- idiomatic language - Meaning of manually in manually detect . . .
Manually can refer to something done by a person rather than through an automated process AngryJoe could be referring to having to search the internet for specific sentences of a copyrighted work to find out if it has been used elsewhere without permission
- word usage - Take a medicine or take a pill? - English Language . . .
Historically, a pill was a dosage form made manually, using the active substance, a sugar and a liquid binding agent : small, round, solid pharmaceutical oral dosage form of medication that was in use before the advent of tablets and capsules
- The information were successful updated. or The information were . . .
Neither The information was updated successfully or The information was successfully updated Are both correct though with minimal amounts of difference in meaning The only real difference is whether you are putting the stress on the update or the success
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