
Art or art forms - English Language Learners Stack Exchange
2020年11月13日 · Art can be used not just for types of artistic expression, but for individual works of art as well, whereas art form specifically refers to some kind of practice or medium of creating art. For example: Painting, photography, sculpting, and dancing are art forms. A specific painting, photograph, sculpture, or dance routine is art.
word usage - Form of art/work of art/ artwork/art forms - English ...
2020年11月28日 · "Dancing, singing, music, literature, poetry are works of art art forms or forms of art, but not artworks. But Is Mona Lisa a form of art or an art form? I don't think so, but I may be wrong. It's a painting and that's a form of art or an art form but not the painting itself. The painting is a work of art or an artwork.
plural forms - Comics is or are - Comics is or are - English …
2020年11月14日 · Although "art form" is singular, the sentence does not pigeonhole all comics into one single art form. Comics themselves do not only feature one form of art - there is the classic comic strip style, Manga, the various ages of 'superhero' comics, and more recently digital art/colouring. Comics are an art form because they all feature a kind of art.
politeness - "Please Find Attached or "Please Find Enclosed" in a ...
2016年7月7日 · In email writing, when we are attaching any document, what is the correct, formal and more polite way to write: Please find attached "Monthly status report" PDF for your reference. Please find
word choice - 'play', 'practice' and/or 'do' martial art? - English ...
2016年7月28日 · This is the verb I would use to mean "training in the martial art". You do occasionally see people use "to do karate", as do is about the most generic verb one can use for activities. For example, from Black Belt Magazine: Morihei Uyeshiba practiced tenjin shinyo-ryu jujutsu... From the Martial Arts Stack Exchange: How can one practice well alone?
difference - "Begin to" or "Begin v.-ing" - English Language …
2021年5月10日 · But syntactically it would make no difference whatsoever if we reversed the two verb forms: Begin to read this procedure, unless you have already begun reading it. Or indeed both instances could be infinitives, or both could be …
indefinite article - Ellipsis: an apple or (a) banana - English ...
6 天之前 · @GJC I'm British and these seem natural to me (although I would note that "salt and pepper" actually functions as a single noun, and unlike the latter doesn't typically allow an article on the second element, unless you want to emphasise that the salt and the pepper are separate, rather than forming a set).
"I'm born and brought up in India" - I don't want to use the 'past ...
2014年5月21日 · The expression you want is. I was born and raised in India. Both verbs are completed actions, so they are expressed in the past tense.
countability - “paint”: mass noun vs count noun - English …
Jackson Pollock dropped paints on canvas seemingly at random. (I have always thought the noun "paint" is uncountable when referring to color/colored liquid/solid pigment.
"At risk", or "at-risk"? What's the difference?
OP already knows that two-word adjectival forms are usually hyphenated even when they're not hyphenated in other syntactic roles, so there's no actual question to answer. – FumbleFingers Commented Sep 15, 2014 at 18:48