dennislv
@dennislv (134)
Shanghai, China
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Just an Ordinary Owl? It seems to be most often found as "Badabing badoom" (as used in the cartoon serial, "The Simpsons"). It is an onomatopoeic exclamation which describes the sounds made by, for example, entering something into a machine and receiving results.
There is no real...
16 Oct 13
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Just an Ordinary Owl? Sextile indicates that the bodies are separated by about 60 degrees. Conjunction, trine (120 degree separation) and sextile are usually considered broadly unifying or harmony-creating aspects whereas opposition and square (90 degrees separation) are taken to...
15 Oct 13
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dennislv
@dennislv (134)
• Shanghai, China
11 Oct 13
I know "in the morning" is not the same as "this morning".
"She could" here suggests an uncertain tense. However, I prefer it a subjunctive use.
If so,then "in the morning" can be "tomorrow morning"?
What is it talking about?
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Just an Ordinary Owl? @dennislv Actually, now I think about it, I was wrong: it's not really a 'syntactical unit that cannot be broken', even though the English mind tends to think of 'could sew on' as a verb unit.
"She could easily sew the veil on properly in the morning." would...
15 Oct 13
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dennislv
@dennislv (134)
• Shanghai, China
11 Oct 13
I know "in the morning" is not the same as "this morning".
"She could" here suggests an uncertain tense. However, I prefer it a subjunctive use.
If so,then "in the morning" can be "tomorrow morning"?
What is it talking about?
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Just an Ordinary Owl? @dennislv It modifies the action of 'sewing on the veil', not the 'being able to ... '. As you see, there are a number of correct positions an adverb can have. In the original sentence, it is placed after the complex verb structure (the object of the verb 'the...
14 Oct 13
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Just an Ordinary Owl? As @mythociate says, it is a comparative adverb. Its original sense must have been to indicate that something is 'equal to', 'the same as' or 'like' something else (as opposed to being 'more than' or 'less than' something).
It is now used rather in the sense...
13 Oct 13
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Just an Ordinary Owl? A courier is a person (or a business) which contracts to carry goods from one place to another for people. In a sense, the postal service is a courier service, though the word usually applies to services which are different from the normal mail - they are...
13 Oct 13
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dennislv
@dennislv (134)
• Shanghai, China
11 Oct 13
Which understanding is correct:
1. She does her work with a feeling of being orphaned or isolated.
2. She trys to deal with her lonely feeling.
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dennislv
@dennislv (134)
• Shanghai, China
11 Oct 13
Who did the "severance" and the "disestablishment"? A king or queen of England?
And what happened before and after the disestablishment of the Irish Church?
Is "Irish Church" also called "the Church of Ireland"? And has it...
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Just an Ordinary Owl? Ireland is predominantly a Catholic country and the Catholic Church is the established religion of Eire ( = Southern Ireland). The Church of Ireland, however, is a Protestant body in Northern Ireland which is separate from (though associated with) the Church...
11 Oct 13
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dennislv
@dennislv (134)
• Shanghai, China
10 Oct 13
Here are part of the lyrics:
Oh, say can you see by the dawn's early light,
What so proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleaming?
Whose broad stripes and bright stars thru the perilous fight,
O'er the ramparts we watched were...
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Just an Ordinary Owl? 1) "Oh, say can you see ...?" is another way of writing "Tell me, can you see ...?". "Oh, say ..." and "Tell me ..." are imperative interjections used to increase the force of the (rhetorical, in this case) question. The expected answer would be "Yes, I can...
10 Oct 13
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dennislv
@dennislv (134)
• Shanghai, China
9 Oct 13
“the bill was paid by charge card", Is the "charge card" a "credit card" like a Master Card or a Visa Card?
Is there any difference between them?
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Just an Ordinary Owl? @dennislv Yes, "hot pot" or "Mongolian hot pot" is the same thing that I described as being Szchechuan (both cultures, I believe, are from the north of China or from its northern neighbours).
Whereas the Mongolian/Szchechuan hot pot involves a broth (which is...
9 Oct 13
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