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- Where is she? or Where is she at? - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
The " at " is redundant It is not needed because the questions could be more concisely put as " Where is she he?" This redundancy, and the efforts of seventeenth and eighteenth century grammarians to align English with Latin, lead some people to say it is ungrammatical to end with " at "
- etymology - Can we say that he and she are cognates? - English . . .
Are he and she cognate? The text you copied from etymonline says that he derives from Old English he, which derives originally from a reconstructed Proto-Indo-European root * ki—, whereas she derives from the feminine form sio of Old English se meaning "the" or "that", which according to the OED derives from a reconstructed P I E root * so–
- 「葉公好龍」中的「葉」讀作 yè 还是 shè - 知乎
民国年间以至上世纪60年代，都依传统习惯读作shè，后来大陆多读作yè，台湾则仍其旧贯。那么到底“叶”字读音应该是什么？为什么会产生这样的差异呢？这是我们教授的一个小论文题目以下是我从姓氏地名角度参考资料整理出来的。 从叶公好龙这个成语的相关背景来看。 《左传》记载：鲁成公
- Why does the contraction shes mean she is or she has?
So as grammarians do you think the contracted form of she has should be she 's? More importantly, are there rules for contracting words? Say, if I wanted to express She was as a contraction could it also be she 's or she's: She's* tired *Although is and was are both be verbs, both have tenses relating to different time periods - the present and
- Agree on vs. agree with vs. agree to - English Language Usage . . .
The object is the difference When you agree with someone something, it means you accept the point of someone something I agree with you Matt does not agree with my answer You agree on some issue or point of debate We agreed on this issue You agree to demands queries, or you agree to do something He agreed to my demands He agreed to join me for the movie
- word usage - Reason for the current trend to use «she» as the gender . . .
Taken from the Free Online Dictionary: Usage Note: Using she as a generic or gender-neutral singular pronoun is more common than might be expected, given the continuing debate regarding the parallel use of he In a 1989 article from the Los Angeles Times, for instance, writer Dan Sullivan notes, "What's wrong with reinventing the wheel?
- When do we use “had had” and “have had”? [duplicate]
Referring to a past time of reference, She had never had sex by the time of her 18th birthday, three years ago She had had sex by the time of her 18th birthday, three years ago Another mode of use is its auxiliary use to encapsulate a perfected completed participation e g , have experience, Do you paint houses? Are you familiar with painting
- tenses - Using have ran or have run - English Language Usage . . .
She has run from her responsibilities Regarding the problem that arises when forming the past participle, some people mistakenly use the past tense ran instead of the correct past participle run, as in I have ran into resistance every time I’ve tried to resolve this problem or She has ran from her responsibilities
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