What about you? requests a statement about you in general, while How about you? requests a response about your manner, means, or condition. This leaves room for lots of personal preferences, presumptuous proscriptions, and zombie rules, to …

This is often credited to Wayne Gretzky (see for example Forbes), but I have some serious doubts that this is the original. So, 2 questions here: Was Wayne Gretzky really the first to say this? ...

2010年9月25日 · Have you ever had a case where you felt compelled to include strange things like a double that in a sentence? If so, then what did you do to resolve this? For me, I never knew whether it was acceptable grammar. However, what I did learn was that it was a logic distractor, could lead to confusion, and therefore should be reworded to avoid this.

In your specific case, neither 'was' nor 'were' is best; you should say "if it is running". "If it were running" is subjunctive case, used to describe hypothetical situations: "If it were running, I would stop it first, but it's already stopped." "If it was running" is a common corruption of subjunctive case, or, as described in the other questions, a way to express an option that occurred in ...

I think to some degree "to get started" is a weasel phrase. Either you start something, and then it runs, or you don't. "Get started" implies, start it, but don't expect any results yet, because you're still starting and not actually doing yet. Of course, the language is full of weasel phrases that add color and fuzziness, attempting to reflect the nuances of reality. Feel free to use them ...

2020年2月10日 · I have come across a few sentences that contain "have had". I would like to know in what kind of situations we should use this combination.

Aren't I? is standard English as the negative interrogative of I am. So it is correct. Ain't I? is also common though regarded as a lower register. Am I not? sounds far too picky. I am, init? is also used, though I hate it. Amn't I might be logical, but only seems to …

2013年4月25日 · @Matt You've never listened to AAVE then, I suppose, or Southern US English. "I been" is common there and I use it in my writing as a demonstration of the dialect.

Breaking this down: and/or is as official as English gets in the sense that you can use it in extremely formal contexts. There is typically a better way to say whatever is being said but it does convey a specific meaning. You should use and/or when both options are applicable in its place.

2012年4月3日 · Possible Duplicate: When should I use “shall” versus “will”? I have learnt in school we should use shall with I, you and we. But I often see people saying I will, you will or we will. Is this correct?