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word request - Opposite to online where offline wont work . . . To emphasize the contrast between the operations through online stores and ones with physical stores, buildings, or facilities, you can use the term brick-and-mortar (also written: brick and mortar, bricks and mortar, B M) brick-and-martar adjective a brick-and-mortar business is a traditional business that does not operate on the Internet According to Wikipedia, More specifically, in the
How to ‘guess’ if a noun is countable or uncountable? In school, I learned that abstract nouns are not countable - that is not true It seems to be a common lesson in some schools, but it is absolutely not the case For example, thought is definitely abstract, but you can have a thought, or two thoughts, or three thoughts, etc "Concrete" and "abstract" are just philosophical ideas; they don't have any grammatical effect
prepositions - Is it on chat or in chat or over chat - English . . . Perhaps we talk on chat because while on chat we are online, or because the text we type appears on the chat window When referring to the chat provider by name instead of the generic chat in general, perhaps we can use over similarly to how we can say over the phone; we're imagining the chat provider as sending our messages across, or over
word choice - Over the Internet or On the Internet? - English Language . . . This might just be a matter of personal preference, but it's hard to say for sure For me, it might come down to which verb I'm using I would probably say, "I found this on the internet," and maybe, "I got this over the internet, but I wouldn't correct someone that switched it around, or used the two terms more interchangeably
meaning in context - looking back from now: is it looking back from . . . To refer to the present looking back on the past, a possible rephrasing is: People looking back on the past 5 or 10 years may well wonder why so few companies took the online plunge To more explicitly refer to the future, you could say: People 5 or 10 years from now may well look back and wonder why so few companies took the online plunge
What is the difference between submit and deposit? I am trying to find out the difference between "submit" and "deposit" these words are very confusing when you visit to a bank and somebody ask you "what is the purpose of you to come here and you r
What is a very general term or phrase for a course that is not online? 4 I'm trying to find the most general term or phrase for the opposite of "online course" When a course is not online, but in a classroom, or anywhere else people interact in the same place, not through a computer, how would I call it? I'm translating some words used in messages and labels in a e-learning web application used by companies
punctuation - Use of asterisks in casual writing - English Language . . . In many online forums and such, including this one, surrounding text with asterisks is how you set something in italics, but it doesn't actually get rendered into italics on some other websites Often the actions are put into "third person", so you see *laughs* instead of *I laugh*
6-foot tall or 6-feet tall? - English Language Learners Stack Exchange I found both "8-foot-tall" and "nine-feet tall" in online sources The bronze, 8-foot-tall LBJ sculpture is slated to be installed at downtown's Little Tranquility Park, bound by Capitol, Walker, Bagby and Smith streets (source)
When to use I or I am - English Language Learners Stack Exchange Given I am X, what's valid for X is in almost all cases is the following: an adjective (I am hot, I am third, I am ready) a noun or pronoun (I am a cat, I am a worker, I am him, I am George) a verb's present participle form, these always end in -ing (I am walking , I am envying ) a verb's past participle form if it makes sense to express a state and can also work as an adjective (I am