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- When do you use talked and spoke? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate: What is the difference between “speaking” and “talking”? I'm often befuddled when I am reading an article and the author uses talked with when referring to a conversation he she had I've always used spoke with in such a case and sounds odd to me when used otherwise When is it proper to use talked with or spoke with?
- What kind of grammar is: “was talked thought about how…”?
I'm trying to find the grammar rule or term that explains these types of sentences: The movie was about how we all need to love each other She talked about how there is a great fear of technology
- grammar - Whats the difference between speak and talk . . .
@JohnLawler that's a good point, but I'm clearer on the grammatical differences between those two and the others: they are both transitive verbs, with the object of "tell" being another person and the object of "say" being an utterance But neither "speak" nor "talk" is transitive (except in the case of "she speaks French"), which makes the difference more subtle
- meaning - She talked to him like a child - English Language Usage . . .
Given the sentence She talked to him like a child Could it be interpreted both ways: She talked like a child and She talked to him as if he were a child Or is it only the former?
- A word phrase for something that often comes up in conversations
As I recall, that was a —————— (= popular topic of our conversations = we always talked about it) I want a word phrase idiom that means ‘a common topic of conversation’ or ‘something that often comes up in conversations’
- tenses - I thought we talked. . . vs. I thought we had talked . . .
I thought we talked about this before Meaning: Why are you bringing this up again? We talked about ___________ before On the other hand, imagine the same two people conversing, and one of them, in looking back on an incident which occurred, say, a day ago, says I thought we had talked about this before
- The louder he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons
1) "The more he talked of his honor" 2 (the more suspicious he was and sounded like a thief) 3) then follows "the more we counted our spoons" (silverware) to make sure they were still there
- definite articles - talk over the phone or talk over phone . . .
We just talked over the phone Is what I've always used I believe by "phone" we mean the phone lines, or phone system, rather than any physical phone
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