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- You can contact John, Jane or me (myself) for more information
Me Myself is reflexive: it denotes that the person (me) is doing something to that person (myself) and no other It's not correct to use a reflexive pronoun unless the recipient of the action is the person doing that action You can't mix you with myself You can talk to me I can talk to myself
- How to ask about ones availability? free available not busy?
Saying free or available rather than busy may be considered a more "positive" enquiry It may also simply mean that you expect the person to be busy rather than free, rather than the other way round Saying available rather than free is considered slightly more formal, though I wouldn't worry much about usage cases
- In the sentence We do have free will. , what part of speech is free . . .
"Free" is an adjective, applied to the noun "will" In keeping with normal rules, a hyphen is added if "free-will" is used as an adjective phrase vs a noun phrase
- etymology - Origin of the phrase free, white, and twenty-one . . .
The fact that it was well-established long before OP's 1930s movies is attested by this sentence in the Transactions of the Annual Meeting from the South Carolina Bar Association, 1886 And to-day, “free white and twenty-one,” that slang phrase, is no longer broad enough to include the voters in this country
- meaning - Release, free, or delete allocated memory? - English . . .
release the allocated memory free the allocated memory delete the allocated memory What are the differences between them?
- word choice - When is -less used, and when is -free used? - English . . .
By contrast, its father (who might have been thought responsible by some) could be adjudged blame-free when another explanation is found On the other hand, the mobile telephone that can be used in a hands-free manner would not sell very well if advertised as being hands-less
- What is the opposite of free, as in gluten-free free of gluten?
3 There is no universal one-word replacement for -free In the context of foods the appropriate portmanteau is gluten-containing -containing can be used universally, although there are other alternatives depending on specific food components (eg, sugared for sugar-free)
- expressions - An alternative more formal way to say: Ill free up time . . .
The most obvious more formal way to say 'I'll free up time…' is simply 'I'll make time…' but neither is in any way appropriate here You need 'I'll do it by on Tuesday' or 'I'll do it right away' and in either case, you need to stick to it
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