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What is the meaning of chastened at in this sentence? And so she doesn't reply in words but is, for a moment silent, and only replies to Geoff's question by shaking her head It is in the sense of "shocked to silence" that Sophie is "chastened"
Grammar with gerund or Infinitive - English Language Learners Stack . . . The truth is that all options are syntactically valid - it's just that as @Geoff points out below, it's not easy to come up with a context where having worked would work (in a way that makes sense with but he still wasn't satisfied)
sentence structure - One such+noun vs such a an + noun - English . . . There's two different meanings of "such" used here, as described in Merriam-Webster: such adjective 2 : of the character, quality, or extent previously indicated or implied in the past few years many such women have shifted to full-time jobs 3 : of so extreme a degree or quality never heard such a hubbub The structure [ "such" + noun phrase ] can have meaning 2 or 3, depending on the
conditional constructions - If I will be or If I am? - English . . . I would definitely (as a native American English speaker) say, "Okay, if I'm not too sleepy " Despite the name "present tense" we actually use it to talk about the future a lot, and in a conditional like this I think it's actually mandatory For example, I would also say "If my manager isn't in the office next week, I won't come to work " The "won't" in the main clause indicates the future on
What did you learn today? Vs what have you learned today? "What did you do ?" sounds more natural than "What have you done ?" But with "learned" there is more of a sense that it is still relevant, making perfect aspect more acceptable You could argue either way, and one reason for your decision might be how you consider earlier learning to relate to the current situation