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- Yes, "for good" means the same as "forever." Incidentally, in English, both sentences would actually be questions, since the "May I" construct is used specifically to ask for permission. Basically it means "Am I permitted to call you 'My Darling' for good?" To make it not a question, with the same words you can just swap the order to: "I may call you 'My Darling' for good." In that context, "may" means that this is something that perhaps you might do. It may not be what you mean by that, of course.0 votedAugust 30, 20216
- It depends on where you're at, honestly. In my part of America (Colorado), the words "grifter" and "con artist/man/woman" are very common, but not "chiseler." But it could be different if you're in, say, England or Australia. As for "deadbeat", the most common use here is for people who are lazy and irresponsible, sort of like you mentioned with the father not paying child support, but it can be used of anyone who doesn't pay what they are supposed to or who doesn't do what they are supposed to. Again, it also depends on the country as to how common the various usages are. If a friend owed me money, I'd be more likely to say, "You still haven't paid me back, you worthless bum" but I know in England "bum" means something else entirely and that expression wouldn't work.0 votedAugust 30, 20211
- Every one of those sentences could be said by someone and would be correctly understood. When there is a mixture of singular and plural nouns, it's usually best to provide the article before the noun. Also, clothing is a bit strange because while there are plural words, like jeans, it still refers to a singular object. Also, boots (while plural and technically referencing two things) is commonly viewed as a single thing--a pair of boots. All that to say, clothing isn't your best example to try to figure out the correct rule here. In general, when you have a bunch of items, you can either reference the number before each item, or you can group them by items. Suppose, for example, that you had one bookmark, one ruler, one computer, two pencils, two pens, and five sheets of paper. You could say: "I have a bookmark, ruler, computer, two pencils and pens, and five sheets of paper." The "a" before the word "bookmark" will carry through for each item until you specify the change in the number.0 votedAugust 19, 20200
- In English (regardless of which country you're a native in), every vowel *can* be reduced to a schwa (ə) when speaking fast, especially short vowels. Schwas are pronounced as a quick "uh" sound. These only exist by the way they are spoken, of course, and they are more commonly found by vowel-reducing unstressed syllables. With that in mind, when you look at the UK version of "aluminium", the syllables are a-lu-mi-ni-um. But when you speak quickly, the syllables are merged together to come out more like alu-mini-um. Because "alu" would have a long "u" on the unstressed portion, the "u" is replaced by "ə", so the sound comes out more like alə-mini-um, and "ə" (sounding like a quick "uh") is closer to an "i" sound than a "u" sound, so you hear it as "aliminium."Tom Scott has done a YouTube video on this. Search YouTube for his video called: "Ə: The Most Common Vowel in English"0 votedAugust 7, 20200
- This is a bit of a tricky grammatical one. When you break up the main sentence, we can find the subject/predicate split by finding the verb, "was disrupted." So the subject is everything before that, and the predicate is everything after (and including) the verb. That means in the main sentence, the subject is "The online conference...to the reinvestment of the profit" and the predicate is "was disrupted by the system crash."The key to note here is that the subject is a dependent noun clause. Clauses contain both a noun and a verb, so that means the missing word has to be a verb. It cannot be a noun. "Related" is a verb, but "relating" is specifically a gerund. Gerunds are words that take a verb root, add "ing" to the end, and function as a noun, not a verb. Thus, "relating" is treated as a noun, so it cannot be the verb in the dependent noun clause. As a result, "related" is the only word that can work in that clause.So the dependent noun clause that makes up our subject is: "The online conference related to the reinvestment of the profit." You can tell this is a dependent clause because it needs a main clause to be a complete sentence, and it has both a noun ("The online conference") and a predicate starting with a verb ("related to the reinvestment of the profit").Another example of dependent noun clause would be "The doll left on the train was returned to the child." If you try to write a few of your own, it may help you get used to the way that sentence structure works. Again, the key is that any verb root with an "ing" at the end will function as a noun, so cannot be used as a verb within a noun clause. You need to use normal verbs instead.0 votedJuly 30, 20200
- While the sentence is a bit long, as another person already noted, it's actually correct grammatically other than the word "provided". The first part of the sentence is in present tense ("Camp attendees ARE engaged...") so "provided" needs to be "provides" to be in present tense as well. Alternatively, you could change the beginning of the sentence to "Camp attendees WERE engaged in volunteer work" and leave the word "provided" in place. However, if I were writing it, I would probably edit it to say: "Camp attendees are engaged in volunteer work in local communities and at elementary schools in remote areas, providing opportunities for them to closely interact with local residents and achieve mutual benefits." But this is just personal taste. If you correct the tense error, the rest of your sentence is fine.0 votedJuly 30, 20200
- "Ask for" is a combination of a verb and a preposition. The verb "ask" means a request. The preposition "for" refers to the specific thing that was asked about. To give an example, if I asked you, "Can you give me a glass of water?" and someone later asked you, "What did he ask for?" the correct response you would make is: "He asked for a glass of water."0 votedJuly 25, 20200

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