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- Manual vs manually - English Language Learners Stack Exchange
Manually is the adverb Manual is (in this context) the adjective Tuning can be either a verb or a noun; however, in your example, tuning the weights is a gerund phrase using the verb Here you want to modify the verb within the phrase, so use the adverb: The procedure requires manually tuning the weights If instead you wanted to modify the noun tuning, use the adjective The procedure
- Hyphenate “communicating”: communi-cating or communic-ating?
I'll note that "hyphenation" is not taught at school, and children would not normally learn hyphenate manually, and would not be expected to do so They would learn to read hyphenated texts, but this is not a skill that really needs practice
- idiomatic language - Meaning of manually in manually detect . . .
Manually can refer to something done by a person rather than through an automated process AngryJoe could be referring to having to search the internet for specific sentences of a copyrighted work to find out if it has been used elsewhere without permission
- When to use run vs when to use ran - English Language Learners . . .
My friend is writing some documentation and asked me an English question I don't know the answer to In this case which would it be? CCleaner has been run or CCleaner has been ran
- Dear Concern or Concerned - English Language Learners Stack Exchange
It is very common in my country for people to start their emails with the salutation quot;Dear Concern quot; Should not it be quot;Dear Concerned quot; ?
- He had to do it. VS He had to have done it.
What do you mean by It couldn't have been done by anybody but him? That could be interpreted two ways - "He is the only person who could have done it" (a deduction about the past) or "He was the only person able to do it" (a statement about a situation in the past) Otherwise, I agree with Stuart's answer
- word usage - I have finished vs I have already finished - English . . .
I have finished would usually be uttered immediately after finishing, but (emphatic) I have already finished wouldn't normally occur until some time after finishing - often, specifically as a contradictory response to something implying that I might not have yet finished In rare circumstances, an over-eager exam-taker might leap up and say I have already finished, half-an-hour into an exam
- adverbs - Manually installed, or, Installed manually - English Language . . .
Manually installed, or, Installed manually Ask Question Asked 8 years, 11 months ago Modified 8 years, 11 months ago
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