- Know about vs. know of - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
Recently one of my friends told me that there is distinct difference between 'know of something' and 'know about something' expressions 'know of' is used when you have personal experience with wha
- Which is correct, neither is or neither are?
I don’t have time at the moment, but if someone else is in the mood for some corpus or n -gram searching (or can find someone who’s already done the research), it would be very interesting to know the history of this Is the current shift to neither … are a real phenomenon, or is this just recency illusion?
- differences - How to use know and realize correctly - English . . .
To know something is more long-term, perhaps after having realized it The first definition for know is: to perceive or understand as fact or truth; to apprehend clearly and with certainty They sound similar, but in usage to realize something is more of an "aha!" moment, while knowing something can last far longer than that
- How is the ending -le or -el determined? - English Language Usage . . .
Almost everywhere else the apostrophe is used to denote possession or to indicate removed letters - in this case it would let you know that there was an "i" removed, but that makes it look like the "it" possesses something, so to avoid confusion, it gets dropped, but the normal rule would be to include it
- adjectives - Word for seeing both sides of an argument - English . . .
As @StoneyB says, an example sentence will be useful From what I understand, you want an adjectival equivalent of "seeing both sides of the coin", or alternatively, an equivalent of the word dilemma which does not carry connotations of "problematic" There are other related words such as quandary and predicament which are similar There are also words like impasse, stalemate, and deadlock
- doesnt know vs dont know [duplicate] - English Language Usage . . .
It's not just you that doesn't know Now, according to owl purdue edu, we should use "doesn't" when the subject is singular (except when the subject is "you" or "I"), and "don't" otherwise But in the example above, I am having a hard time figuring out what exactly the subject is and whether it is singular
- Is Jack of all trades, master of none really just a part of a longer . . .
Knowing a bit about everything has its moments What people often don't know is the full version of the phrase: ' Jack of all trades, master of none, though ofttimes better than master of one ' In Dutch, I would be a manusje van alles, and that's more often than not a very positive phrase
- How do you handle that that? The double that problem
Have you ever had a case where you felt compelled to include strange things like a double that in a sentence? If so, then what did you do to resolve this? For me, I never knew whether it was accep
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