- word usage - What do you call a subcategory of a subcategory - English . . .
4 What do you call a subcategory of a subcategory? Is there any particular term that can be used or should I use any other words such as group, set, collection etc ? Edit: For Example if A is a category, B is a subcategory of A and C is a subcategory of B, what do you call C with respect to A?
- Class, Category, Type - English Language Learners Stack Exchange
The cat belongs to the class of all animals [In other words, "all animals" is a class, of which "the cat" is a subclass ] Cat belongs to the category animal [In other words, animal is a category, of which cat is a subcategory ] Purrcolator belongs to the class cat [In other words, Purrcolator is a cat ]
- Feel strongly vs strongly feel - English Language Learners Stack . . .
In the usage considered ("feel strongly") the adverb "strongly" is an adverb of the sort called a " booster ", which is a subcategory of a class of adverbs called " amplifiers ", itself a subsort of the category of adverbs called " intensifiers " (ACGEL § 8 105)
- word choice - fall into a category vs. fall under a category - English . . .
Falls under category is to be used when you already have referred to the names of the category For example We first divided voters into three categories, A, B, and C Voters aged less than 30 falls under the category, so --- The literature reviewed in this chapter falls into three categories, viz
- singular vs plural - When do I say food or foods? - English . . .
As I have read that the noun "food" is generally uncountable, I am not quite sure when I should use "food" as a countable noun For instance, Chicken and rice are food or Chicken and rice are
- grammar - What does from year to year mean? - English Language . . .
That the plant lives from year to year means that it does not die after one year — or, more accurately, one growing season In fact, the explanation for perennial from Wikipedia makes this more clear: A perennial plant or simply perennial (from Latin per, meaning "through", and annus, meaning "year") is a plant that lives for more than two years As you can see, the dictionary definition isn
- word usage - English Language Learners Stack Exchange
A screw definitely falls under the "fastener" umbrella From Wikipedia: Fastenal first sold mostly fasteners such as screws, threaded rods, and nuts, which are used in construction and manufacturing Note: Fastenal is a North American distributing company that happens to have the verb fasten as part of its company name
- some of its usages includes . . . vs some of its usages include . . .
The form "includes" can al;so be used when discussign a subcategory in relation to the larger category: The set of real numbers includes all the rational numbers
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