- questions - What something is? vs what is something? - English . . .
I can write quot;what a cup is? quot; as question and I can write quot;what is a cup? quot; Are both forms grammatically correct? The former one looking a bit off when used without context, but
- verbs - What is the meaning of is of? - English Language Learners . . .
Bulk and usefulness are characteristics of something: it possesses those characteristic intrinsically, so you should say It is of no great bulk It is of no use whatsoever Similarly, something may give rise to interest, so you might say It is of no interest to me
- Whats the correct usage of something of something and somethings . . .
Car parts or engine parts are things that can be replaced BUT parts of a car can also be understood as: the engine, the hood, the roof, the chassis, and not something replaceable as in something you can buy at an auto parts' store The parts of a car are not necessarily car parts! This can only be learned through experience
- What does thing mean in this is the thing?
the thing (about with something) is (spoken) used to introduce an important fact, reason, or explanation: I know you want to expand the business The thing is, we haven't got the money to do that I'm really sorry I didn't call you The thing is, I've been really busy lately
- word usage - owing to something vs. owed to something - English . . .
The following is an excerpt from a book adopted by hundreds of universities As we do for deep learning more broadly, in this book we adopt the machine learning perspective, focusing on RNNs as practical tools that rose to popularity in the 2010s owing to breakthrough results on such diverse tasks as handwriting recognition (Graves et al , 2008), machine translation (Sutskever et al , 2014
- grammar - Something to. . . . . or something for. . . . . ? - English Language . . .
When talking about food, in many cases, you can use either, because if something is there "to eat" (you will be eating that thing), then it is also there "for eating" (for the purpose of being involved in the eating), but in some cases you can't Take, for example: There will be knives and forks for eating vs There will be knives and forks to
- usage of the but-a phrase - English Language Learners Stack Exchange
I'd expected something like this: I am anything but not a common man He is nothing but a common dog (Side question, what are the words 'anything' and 'nothing' in the sentence called?) In the absence of words like 'anything' and 'nothing', I'm unable to make sense of the sentences Does it imply that he is a common man or not?
- Which preposition should I use when saying Idea of or Idea on
"Of" and "on" can both be used, but they have slightly different meanings and usage: First, when asking people for ideas, it is common to say "Do you have an idea of (something)", but usually when using "on" it is more common to say "Do you have any ideas on (something)"
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