Aug 11, 2013 · Use the hyphen with the prefix re only when the re means again AND omitting the hyphen would cause confusion with another word. Examples: Will she recover from her illness? Re does not mean again. I have re-covered the sofa twice. Re does mean again AND omitting the hyphen would have caused confusion with another word. The stamps have been ...

Oct 18, 2008 · I assumed it was just another word for "street." In the United States, at least, a street can be called a court, a lane, a boulevard, an avenue...and many other names (we've mentioned most of them) - and I just assumed "close" was yet another synonym. That said, one lives on a street - which I specified after my suggestion. If Eva were not ...

Sep 17, 2011 · The existence of another word depends on what those things are. After a decathlon competition, an athlete might say "There were three events in which I did well, but I had average or poor results in the other seven." A surgeon, after a long day in the operating room, might say "There were three procedures I did well."

Jan 27, 2008 · Los verbos llamados de «afección psíquica» —los que designan procesos que afectan al ánimo o producen acciones o reacciones emotivas, como afectar, asustar, asombrar, convencer, divertir, impresionar, molestar, ofender, perjudicar, preocupar, etc.—, dependiendo de distintos factores, admiten el uso de los pronombres de acusativo —lo(s), la(s)— y de los …

Jul 26, 2008 · Some examples linked on UrbanDictioanry seem to be different flavors, with slightly different meanings: Does a one-legged duck swim in circles - more of an evasion, according to the website, rather than an affirmation. Certainly, another one linked there, "do chickens have lips," would be a negation.

Jun 26, 2020 · Of course, in traditional English verse, contractions are very frequent, given the constraints of metre; but the departure from standard usage may be much less frequent than it appears, since writers of verse (or their editors) have often felt it necessary to signal a contraction which is a standard pronunciation option anyway : for example ...

Apr 16, 2018 · The problem with this convention is that e in the IPA does not stand for the vowel in bed; it stands for a different vowel that is heard, for example, in the German word Seele. The “proper” symbol for the bed -vowel is ɛ (do not confuse with ɜ: ).

Aug 30, 2017 · A Big Mac meal is a "combination" of a hamburger, fries, and a drink. It is a "combo", which is a short word meaning "combination". "Set" and "set menu" are different things. Any "group" of things can be called a "set" of things. But in AE it is not normal to call a hamburger combo a "set". I've never heard "set" used in restaurant menus in the US.

Jan 27, 2011 · The trouble is that Ediskvaka's examples contain the word many. Now we have to take it into consideration. And, of course, many goes together with countable nouns. If we keep the word many then we can create these sentences: I do not eat many pastas. = I do not eat many pasta dishes.

May 9, 2016 · I took a look at the dictionary and extensive seems to be very similar to substantial. But I have seen that substantial has also another meaning: essential. So maybe they mean substantial as basic, enough, and in this sense it might be considered the lowest level; but in this case it would seem to me very similar to moderate.