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Anonymous Posted 10 years ago
Grammar
blow hot cold air
When someone tells you to blow on it, how do you differentiate between whether the air coming out of your mouth is cold or hot?
Can you blow on it?
Do you say : Blow hot air/cold air?
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Is this sentence correct to say 'differentiate between whether'?
How do you differentiate between whether the air coming out of your mouth is cold or hot?
Thank you
Can you blow on it?
Do you say : Blow hot air/cold air?
Ps
Is this sentence correct to say 'differentiate between whether'?
How do you differentiate between whether the air coming out of your mouth is cold or hot?
Thank you
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Forgive me, but this whole thing seems a bit nonsensical to me. I can blow air, but I can't chose the temperature. Can you?
- Forgive me, but this whole thing seems a bit nonsensical to me.
- I can blow air, but I can't chose the temperature.
- Can you?
- Clive
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Forgive me, but this whole thing seems a bit nonsensical to me. I can blow air, but I can't chose the temperature. Can you?
Clive
Clive
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CliveForgive me, but this whole thing seems a bit nonsensical to me. I can blow air, but I can't chose the temperature. Can you?CliveI think you're supposed to drink hot coffee or put an ice cube in your mouth first and then blow, depending on the request.
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Anonymouscorrect to say 'differentiate between whether'A search on fraze.it gives this:
No result found using '"DIFFERENTIATE BETWEEN WHETHER"
I can't claim ever to have heard it or used it. "tell the difference between" is more idiomatic.
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Anonymous'differentiate between whether'"whether" is a conjunction, isn't it? So the 'differentiate between whether' means 'differentiate between a conjunction' which doesn't make sense. You may ask What's the difference between whether and weather?
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Anonymous"whether" is a conjunction, isn't it? ...With indirect questions we use the same question word as in direct questions, e.g., 'how':
differentiate between how a word sounds and how a word is spelled
It seems it should be possible to use 'whether' the same way for yes-no questions, but that's not done.
How can you t
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CliveForgive me, but this whole thing seems a bit nonsensical to me. I can blow air, but I can't chose the temperature. Can you?CliveI don't think that Anonym is wrong. When you blow the air though a tight mouth, it is cold, but when you blow the air with a wide open mouth, it is warm.
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HotmaleWhen you blow the air though a tight mouth, it is cold, but when you blow the air with a wide open mouth, it is warm."When you blow the air through a tight mouth, it is cold [cooler?], but when you blow the air with a wide open mouth, it is warm [warmer?]."
Does "it" refer to "air" or to "mouth"?
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Anonymous HotmaleWhen you blow the air though a tight mouth, it is cold, but when you blow the air with a wide open mouth, it is warm."When you blow the air through a tight mouth, it is cold [cooler?], but when you blow the air with a wide open mouth, it is warm [warmer?]."Does "it" refer to "air" or to "mouth"?I'm not a chemist so I cannot really explain it,
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When you blow air, its cooler than it is hot.
right?
When you breathe on something, it is hotter.
https://www.highlightskids.com/science-questions/why-does-my-breath-feel-hot-or-cold
So thats why I thought you can say blow hot or cold
right?
When you breathe on something, it is hotter.
https://www.highlightskids.com/science-questions/why-does-my-breath-feel-hot-or-cold
So thats why I thought you can say blow hot or cold
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