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Are there terms or succinct phrases that describe the different ways of whistling listed below?The standard put-your-lips-together-and-blowTongue against bottom teethSticking two fingers (thumb and middle/index) of a single hand in...
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1 answerA man I knew, born in 1921, used to enter a room at festive gatherings and say "Turn out all the lights and call on the Lord." Do you know...
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1 answerI really want to use the phrase 'under the aegis' in a small paragraph but want to be grammatically correct. I am planning to write "thankful to xxxx for taking...
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0 answerIf person A says, “A hymn is a way to show devotion.” And person B added, “ to a deity.”So that the sentence is: A hymn is a way...
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0 answer'I'm starting to forget their voices. I'm not trying to, but they keep fading away.' What does "starting" mean? Does this mean the person already forgot, and every time she...
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2 answer(1) That's a big part of who I am. (2) When that day comes if you don't like who you are, you're done.At first blush, the who's in (1) and...
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8 answerI'm struggling with this sentence fragment: “...and produces usually one, sometimes multiple, binary outputs.” Is this grammatically correct? Is there a better way to structure this? Here is the entire...
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5 answerFellow wordsmiths - when would you use the one noun over the other? In the following sentence:Science seeks to classify nature; Emerson rather directs focus towards nature's emotional (resonance/resonation).Dictionary.com does...
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2 answerI'm currently writing an academic report and I began to write out the phrase 'nigh-on-impossible' without a second thought. It then occurred to me that this phrase may actually be...
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1 answerIf we started now we would be in time (but we cannot start now) This is an example sentence in my grammar book for past subjunctive used after If. The...
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