Off topic. How much did you have to drink last night?
Not a drop. Now back to business:
Is ass specific in (1) and (2)? That's a legitimate question exploring the linguistic concept of specific…
The degree of freedom we can win is only limited by our braveness and the extent of our imagination.
Freedom is a higher-order abstract noun and is n o n i m a g i n i s t i c (rare word).
Any degre…
I don't have a son / I have no son.
She hasn't a job / She has no job.
I don't need your help / I need no help.
Start from here: In each of these pairs, what do the nouns in ques…
You be conservative...
A: The Paychecks are going on vacation next week.
B: Where to? (where? alone without to is rather unlikely. )
A: North Southbank, or so I hear.
B: Where? (where to? is less li…
Dzień dobry,
mam takie zdanie:
"There are no roads where we are going, so you must walk the whole distance."
Dlaczego nie ma przyimka "to" po "going"?
Czy było by nie…
a jeśli chcę zastosować czasownik write?
The conventional implicature does not apply if you don't know whether the author is alive or not.
Let's hope that your audience does not know it ei…
PP nie powinienem używać w stosunku do osób nieżyjących, gdyż nie mają one związku z teraźniejszością. W takiej sytuacji stosuje się PtS.
Jeśli chcę napisać, że Charlie Chaplin był świetnym aktorem, t…
tak jak mg to uwypukla, 'as' sprowadza sie do czasownika 'be', a wyrazanie czyjegos 'capacity' jest jego pochodna, ktore nie moze byc wg twego 'end of story'
N…
Czy konstrukcji not the least/not in the least/not the least bit można używać w stopniu wyższym?
I'm not in the least bit happier now.
In the least (bit just wastes some oxygen that you have to…
Mam problem z określeniem do której grupy należą pewne określniki czasu.
Mógłby mi ktoś pomóc?
Get your teacher by the balls, squize them, and have him explain these ( so called adverbial temporals …
Jaka jest różnica między tymi zdaniami: I wrote the letter. I have written the letter. I czy można tych czasów używać zamiennie w pewnych przypadkach?
There is a difference between the two tenses. …
Jesli nie wiesz czy zyje czy nie to najlepiej wlasnie powiedziec is the author of.
Po co sie na sile upierasz przy write? Nikt Ci tu nic wiecej nie doradzi, bo sie nie da.
Are you kidding? YOUR BRAI…
one is factive and the other one is semel.
Enough of this horse manure.
As a Z… carries its coded meaning of in the capacity of Z.... It takes effort to coerce any other meanings. End of story.
A…
Dzień dobry,
I tutaj jest moje pytanie. Otóż, skoro mówimy 'I hope you are having a great time", dlaczego nikt nie mówi (a nawet dla wielu osób brzmi to niepoprawnie) 'I hope for you t…
Apart from being sexist, these examples are ambiguous at best. You're good at obfuscation, Janski, I'll grant you that, but you need something more to prove your point here.
Every statem…
She studied psychology at Harvard as a student.
and
She has studied psychology at Harvard (as a student)
However I still can imagine that I can use the present perfect in this kind of situation:
In…
Besides, here the difference is immaterial
Wrong again.
As a student = when you were a student
As (a) student does not mean when you were a student.
Other than that, context belongs on your list …
Minor detail
Definitely not a minor detail as engee took the original context into account when giving his two cents on the topic.
Have the courage to admit you were wrong?
You tell me the differen…
Anything is possible outside of the original context
"As a student, she studied/has studied psychology. "
This was the original context
Minor detail that doesn't change the main idea…
did jak już nie studiuje , has done jeśli nadal studiuje , tak to odbieram
to sie zgadza rowniez z moim tokiem myslenia
WRONG CONCLUSIONS, both of you.
Let's say that I know that you studied ps…
dla mnie jak drut past simple. a pytam dlatego, że z moich starych notatek wynika, że to niby present perfect, ale możliwe, że to tylko błąd. Dlatego pytam o Wasze zdanie w tym temacie.
Talking overa…
Czyli po prostu trzeba zmienić na many?
"it brings much weird feelings"
Weird alone is weird enough and doesn't need reinforcements.
Many weird feelings will call for some kind of i…
Maybe the point is that the English don't perceive toast like a kind of sandwich but
only like a kind of bread, which is certainly uncountable
That's the secret.
Toast today is short for …