2011年4月4日 · You can use "like" in formal writing as well. "Painters like Monet, who were concerned with capturing the evanescent impressions of light, were dubbed Impressionists." …

2015年1月9日 · The answer would involve adjectives like good, sick, happy, etc. When you ask "How's the weather?", again, you are technically not asking for a description, but its state or …

2014年12月7日 · There is also (my son patiently explained to me) another be like usage which marries both of these: X be like Y employs a mimesis of X’s just-occurred singular …

With, like any other English preposition, takes an object/complement in the objective case. This doesn't mean it can't be followed by who. In modern English, the pronoun who can be used as …

"I would like cake and/or pie" means "I would like one or both of the following: cake; pie." The main reason for using and/or is to remove the ambiguity of whether and means "only both" and …

2012年6月14日 · The pronunciation is usually an approximation of what we think the Old English pronunciation was, so something like the "short a" sound in the modern English word trap (IPA …

2018年6月9日 · like a moth to a flame (idioms.thefreedictionary.com): If a person is attracted to someone or something like a moth to a flame, they are strongly attracted to them. Note: This …

I am on it in your first example sounds like a shortened version of I’m on the case, a colloquial way of saying that the speaker is dealing with it. In the context of some kind of dispute, as in …

2014年8月23日 · I would regard the "nd" in "second" as a suffix on the number "3", like the "th" in "20th". For example, I would suggest that "VIP" [Very Important Person] is made plural by …

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