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Double zero, double zeros or double zeroes?
What's the correct way to refer to two consecutive digits 0?
double zero?
double zeros?
double zeroes?
Here's an example phrase:
The number ends with double zero[es].
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Phrases that express "afraid of wife" in English
Are there any English idioms that are used to describe a man being afraid of wife?
In Chinese there are lots of ways to express it, formal ways, condescending, or colorful. Please describe the situations to use them when giving your suggestions.
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English equivalent of "garam" (warming) food?
I want to know how we say in English when we want to say that almonds or other dry fruits are "hot" for our body. I am an Indian, and in India, we use the word garam which literally means hot in English. I want to know how native speakers of English…
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What should I say if someone from the opposite side of the earth says “good morning”?
This may sound like a silly question, but I'm having a bit of confusion.
I'm not sure what to say. I work remotely and I am a member of a team on the opposite side of the earth. On the chat, when they say “good morning” or “good night”, I get…
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"Hope this help" or "Hope this helps"?
I often see people write "hope this helps" at the end of a communication, especially when they are trying to answer other people's queries about computer problems.
Recently, my English teacher pointed out that both "hope this helps" and "hope this…
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Stuck writing a sentence because tea is a 'beverage' and water is not!
I am writing an article on tea. I want to say that...
Tea is the most consumed _____________ after water.
The problem is tea is a beverage but water is not. So, if I come up with this sentence, it's incorrect.
Tea is the most consumed beverage…
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Does "I have a daughter" mean "I have one daughter"?
Let's say I have two daughters and someone asks me:
Do you have a daughter?
Should I respond "yes" or "no"? In other words, does "I have a daughter" mean "I have one daughter"?
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"We missed the bus, which made us late for school" - erroneous use of "which"?
From a discussion at Lang-8:
Kim and I ran fast as we could, but we missed the bus, which made us late for school.
I believe the sentence's use of the relative clause to be okay: the relative pronoun which refers to the whole preceding clause "but…
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What is this type of road called in English?
I’m looking for a word or a phrase for describing this kind of road which usually is constructed in the mountain areas, but not only:
image a representative sample from Google images, query = transfagarasan
In my language we call this serpentine a…
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Can we use "former" and "latter" for plural nouns?
I usually see "former and latter" as replacements for nouns:
The person in the right is young, the person in the left is old. The former is tall, the latter is short.
But can we apply them to plural nouns?
Those who in the right side are young,…
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In-depth explanation of the difference between "will" and "going to"?
Background
My wife and I take English classes provided by our companies, so we have different teachers. So now it happened that we had the same topic: future.
Both teachers are native English speakers, but I don't place too much faith on that. I'm a…
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There's vs There are
For example:
There's two options here
or
There are two options here
I hear a lot of people say the first line (or something similar), but isn't that incorrect? Isn't it plural and therefore you should use "there are"?
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Is it proper to use "broke" in "Broke his feelings"?
My colleague broke his feelings. (English Syntax and Argumentation,
Bas Aarts)
Aarts says this sentence is abnormal, because of the selectional restrictions: ‘feelings’ is abstract and not proper for the object of ‘broke.’ I can understand what…
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Many a girl... have or has?
Many a girl in this class _____ got high scores in English.
Saw this on elsewhere. To me it seems the blank can be "have" but not "has".
All choices:
is
are
has
have
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Difference between "nice to see you" and "nice to meet you"
What is the difference between "nice to see you" and "nice to meet you"?
Are they the same or not?
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