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2007年10月1日 · Just a normal jigsaw puzzle with a picture on it. I read it in a book, it says ‘Wilma makes a puzzle.’, which is a jigsaw puzzle. So I had never seen ‘make a puzzle.’ I always think it is ‘do’ a puzzle. Is it a BE usage?
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2011年4月9日 · Hi. We'd say do a puzzle. I can't think of a time when it would sound natural to 'play' a puzzle.
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2021年1月6日 · The plural of {a puzzle} is puzzles. Puzzles = examples of puzzles. "For his birthday, I bought him puzzles." / "I am bored. Have you got a puzzle?" The puzzle = That puzzle that: (i) (a) the speaker and listener are aware of: John is playing with a puzzle. David says "Give me the puzzle." Both John and David can see the puzzle, so both of them ...
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2011年10月9日 · You do a crossword when you attempt to solve it.If you're setting one for somebody else to do you compile it. ...
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2009年10月29日 · Hola!! tengo una duda sobre cual de los dos verbos debo user si quiero decir: hacer un puzzle: Do a puzzle or Make a puzzle?¿?¿? Gracias por vuestras respuestas que siempre me ayudan tanto.
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2008年10月29日 · Are both sentences correct? 1. I like doing puzzles. 2. I like playing puzzles.
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2010年9月13日 · to do crossword puzzles. Thread starter rachel_519; Start date Sep 13, 2010; R. rachel_519 New Member.
What hotel are you staying at or What hotel are you staying?
2014年2月5日 · Are both variants gramatically true or there is something I misunderstand? The same thing puzzles me about other questions of such kind: What transport do you go by to get the center from here? What song are you listening to? Are we sometimes allowed to ommit the preposition or it depends? Thank you in advance for your reply.
countability of sweets [less sweets/much sweets] - WordReference …
2010年12月30日 · Oh yes, I do feel that "much" isn't exactly right when used with "sweets" and I've never heard anybody say that. Yet is "much" isn't correct, logic says that "less" shouldn't be correct either and that's what made me feel confused, since the phrase "less sweets" didn't feel wrong, it didn't hurt my ears. I guess that the thread linked to by ...
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2020年7月18日 · "Titfer" seems very dated to me, but then of course we hardly wear them these days. "China", like "Barnet" is a regular in crossword puzzles, and I have a friend who uses it, but I think the derivation from rhyming slang is obvious (certainly my friend knows its origin: china plate = …