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idioms - Whats the meaning of a class act? - English Language . . . A class act can also be used to indicate irony or sarcasm Sort of like saying: Your drunken singing in the underground was a real class act So, in response to J R on the sex pistols, I wouldn't find it strange if a review stated that: "Their show was a real class act, eventually Johnny Rotten himself had to tell Sid to cool it" Obviously
Word to describe person who is rich in wealth, but is poor in class? (Australia) A person who is, or is perceived to be, unsophisticated or of a lower class background but achieving a high salary, who spends money on flashy or trashy items to fulfil their aspirations of higher social status The stereotype includes having speech and mannerisms that are considered to denote poor education and uncultured
Choosing the most logical order of sentences from among the given . . . (b) Belonging to a privileged class can help a woman to overcome many barriers that obstruct women from less thriving classes (c) It is an interactive presence of these two kinds of deprivation— being low class and being female— that massively impoverishes women from the less privileged classes
Term for disrespecting people with lower social condition You may be termed a social climber if you aspire to advance quickly to higher social levels, especially by association with members of that class Your actions may make you snobbish or a snob ; you rebuff, avoid or ignore things or people you perceive as inferior, especially to the point of offense or vulgarity
phrase usage - Act of omission and commission - English Language . . . 1 Acts (or sins) of omission and commission are, respectively, things you have failed to do, and things you have done The terms are often used in legalistic or canon law contexts One might find the phrase "whether by omission or commission" in a contract, say, or a religious tract that ranks human misdeeds according to how evil they are
Is it correct to say I kindly request you to. . . ? This is a different and fairly widely-used usage, as tchrist says in his answer Indeed, in 'would you kindly just give up your seat for my great-grandmother', kindly and just are two of the hedging devices (pragmatic markers subset politeness) (the third device is the would you construction) (and the fourth, the winning smile)
Whats the difference between pronunciation and enunciation? The slight difference between pronunciation and enunciation is that pronunciation is the act of making sounds or articulating words while enunciation is the way of articulating words clearly and distinctly according to the rules governing the language
grammaticality - When should I use a versus an in front of a word . . . Should be “It was a heroic act” or “It was an heroic act”? I remember reading somewhere that the h is sometimes silent, in which case it’s an, and when the h is pronounced, it’s a But then I also remember reading that it depends on which syllable is stressed
Do words that act as nouns and adjectives in the same form constitute a . . . Is there a class or category for this sort of words? P S I've used the Moby Part-Of-Speech database to filter a corpus of total 233,357 words to a list of just 5,423 words that are both nouns and adjectives (presumably, in the same form) so (@Ricky) it's not quite "a hell of a list," but still one to reckon with