Dec 16, 2009 · Hi, Question: Should I use "hard work or hard working" in my sentence? Sentence: I got the Holo Academics prize last year. This is a recognition of my hard work / hard working. My opinion: According to my dictionary, "hard working" is …

Aug 31, 2015 · Where I live "hardworking" is spelled as one word. I have referred to my dictionary, which states that it is American English. We are learning British English, yet all our teachers are spelling the word the American way. I wonder if the British spell it …

Mar 3, 2022 · Although both are grammatically correct, "hardest-working" is sort of a set term, so we would always use that to mean that she works harder than anyone else. The late singer James Brown was known as "the hardest-working man in show business." However, "the most" can also be used to mean just "very," in which case the second one is better. Ex.

Jul 16, 2012 · Ya que no hay una frase hecha (creo yo) para "Are you working hard or hardly working?", ¿podría decir la siguiente y ser entendido? ( <-- Por favor, corrigen esta conjugación, lo de "ser entendido".) Are you working hard or hardly working? ¿Estás trabajando duro o apenas trabajando? ¿Estás dándole duro o apenas trabajando (en la chamba ...

May 25, 2011 · And by the way, hard-working for + noun doesn't sound grammatically correct to me in any situation. It makes much more sense to say works hard for + noun. I think this is because hard-working is an adjective, and being something for something else doesn't make sense in most contexts. It makes more sense to have a verb and an adverb.

Sep 12, 2016 · Jim is a hard student. 2. Jim is a hard-working student. Thanks! Florentia52 Modwoman in the attic. Wisconsin.

Jan 7, 2011 · In the second expression, 'a hard day's work', what the adjective 'hard' is qualifying is the noun 'day'. That is, the work was done on a hard day. These are different expressions since, taken as a whole, a day may not be that hard even if the work done on that day was. On the other hand, a day may be hard even if the work done on that day wasn't.

Sep 8, 2007 · I would say that fine-looking is different to hard-working. Hardworking has been accepted as a single word, and because of that, we would say "the most hardworking" (although "the hardest working" is also correct). I don't believe that fine-looking is accepted as a single word in the same way, so "The most fine-looking" is incorrect.

Jan 9, 2012 · It was really hard work. You can use 'a' with job: #1. It was a really hard job. #2. It was really a hard job. I don't see much difference between them. If there is a nuance of meaning, I would say that "a really hard job" emphasizes that the job was hard. I would say "really a hard job" if I thought that someone doubted that it was hard ...

Sep 26, 2020 · Hard-working is an adjective - we can say "He is a hard-working student", for example. Whereas in "You are working hard", are working is a verb: the present continuous of the verb work . Last edited: Sep 26, 2020