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Yanan27 Posted 17 years ago
Vocabulary
About "hell"
I've seen the word "hell" many times ,but I don't konw clearly about how to use it yet. Sometimes it goes after "the",and sometimes they are separated. Can anybody explain it for me?Thanks a lot.
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It is a curse word, so I avoid using it. It is used in the Christian religion, where **** is that fire-filled place where bad people go and are eternally tortured after they die. It has been overused as an expletive and has lost a lot of its shock value as a curse word, but still it is not polite..
- It is a curse word, so I avoid using it.
- It is used in the Christian religion, where **** is that fire-filled place where bad people go and are eternally tortured after they die.
- It has been overused as an expletive and has lost a lot of its shock value as a curse word, but still it is not polite..
- EDIT: Ray is correct - you often hear "what (the ****) is that noise", "where (the ****) is Mary, she's always late", "who (the ****) are you to order me around", "why (the ****) do they do this crazy stuff".
- So the pattern is: interrogative word + "the ****" + rest of sentence.
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It is a curse word, so I avoid using it. It is used in the Christian religion, where **** is that fire-filled place where bad people go and are eternally tortured after they die.
It has been overused as an expletive and has lost a lot of its shock value as a curse word, but still it is not polite..
EDIT:
Ray is correct - you often hear "what (the ****) is that noise", "where (the **
It has been overused as an expletive and has lost a lot of its shock value as a curse word, but still it is not polite..
EDIT:
Ray is correct - you often hear "what (the ****) is that noise", "where (the **
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Yanan27I've seen the word "****" many times ,but I don't konw clearly about how to use it yet. Sometimes it goes after "the",and sometimes they are separated. Can anybody explain it for me?Thanks a lot."the ****" is used as a kind of intensifier as in "what the **** was that noise?" or "where the **** did I leave my keys?"
"****" is used alone wh
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