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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
- word request - English Language Learners Stack Exchange
That's when you manually go over your code line by line Another term I've recently come across while reading a book on C programming that probably would fit your description ever better is a hand simulation (A Book on C—Programming in C, 4th Edition by Al Kelley and Ira Pohl (1998), page 24) The same thing as hand tracing, just different name
- grammar - Allow a margin of difference of - English Language Learners . . .
I've two different scenarios: To describe the measurement given may not be accurate because it is measured manually To describe there may be differences in the actual measurement of the product because they are handmade The sentences I have in mind are: Please allow a margin of difference of 1-2cm as they are manually measured
- Tick vs. check the box - English Language Learners Stack Exchange
I came across the following example: Tick the box if you would like more details In the sentence, "tick the box" means mark the specific checkbox If we have the following checkboxes ticking the
- Is it correct to say I dragged the picture off the file so I can read . . .
It's unclear whether you want to look at the image of your son, but get rid of it because it's too large Drag the picture off means you're not seeing it, you're dragging the image away so you can read the text Or if you want to insert a photo of your son within the doc, which you can by manually resizing it If it's the latter, Lambie's answer is fine Can you clarify the meaning, please?
- 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
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