2017年4月13日 · It is only redundant because you misinterpret it. You say it's the same as "only if". But it is not. "Only if", as you say, means "no guarantee he will yell if you fall". The first if provides just that guarantee. In other words, 3 is a combination of 1 and 2, and you simply failed to combine your correct reasoning for 1 and 2 into the correct ...

An Ngram chart of "can only do so much" (blue line) versus "can do only so much" (red line) for the period 1850–2005 shows a rather remarkable increase in the frequency of the first expression since about 1970, a period during which the frequency of …

This is not a special case of but, only or but only. The words but and only mean just the same here as elsewhere in an English sentence. 1 used to introduce a phrase or clause contrasting with what has already been mentioned: he stumbled but didn’t fall

2015年10月27日 · ii ) Only a fool would think himself wise enough, or consider himself a wise man, whereas a wise man thinks himself as a fool because he understands the concept that there is always more to know and more to learn. iii ) Fools had the license to make offensive comments on members of the court, and more importantly on the monarch.

When only three sides are shown, can a Rubik's Cube be impossible? How did the Trump Administration come up with the "tariffs charged to the US" percentages? (E.g.

The only opinion I registered is my inclination to agree that, through differences in prosody (which people are not generally accustomed to representing or interpreting textually), the identical (reduced) wording can be used to evince both meanings; the remainder is, as I demonstrated, demonstrable fact.

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2011年8月11日 · Typically you only see it for dates (for example, "she was born circa 1920"). The Wiktionary article on 'circa' implies (but doesn't explicitly state) in the usage notes that it's used for dates and measures, so your examples of “circa Pacific Coast Highway” or “circa $300,000” appear to be incorrect.

2018年11月16日 · The first sentence implies that by being a subscriber, you are having your access restricted. The only scenario I can think of where this would be used would be in the case of a content filtering service, where a subscriber is explicitly prohibited from viewing certain content. Even then, it's a confusing way to word the concept.

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