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Pheather Posted 12 years ago
Vocabulary

"Lady"

Hello everyone!
I need your help in a questionnaire i have- i am really looking forward to getting British native speakers' answers connected with a concept "lady". Could you help me? I guess it won't take long, there are just 3 questions:

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1. Many people associate the word “apple” with such words as “fruit”, “pear”, “Adam”, “Eve” etc., the word “bird” – with “sparrow”, “to fly”, “wing”, etc. What words do you associate the word “lady” with?

2. How would you define the word lady?

3. Imagine a situation and fill in the gaps with appropriate words. Somebody said about some woman “She’s a lady”. It happened, most probably, in__________ or______________century. The woman lives in_________________or_________________(country). She is from__________society and has got___________ education (good, bad etc).

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Hi That's interesting. In formal ways, I would still use the word lady in the same way that I would use gentleman - I mean the gentleman that we met at the meeting yesterday - We should ask the lady from head office But nowadays I would only do that formally, at work. The word is quite old-fashioned ...

  • Hi That's interesting.
  • In formal ways, I would still use the word lady in the same way that I would use gentleman - I mean the gentleman that we met at the meeting yesterday - We should ask the lady from head office But nowadays I would only do that formally, at work.
  • The word is quite old-fashioned ...
  • - She’s a lady.
  • It happened, most probably, in the 1920s or maybe the 1950s.
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Hi

That's interesting. In formal ways, I would still use the word lady in the same way that I would use gentleman

- I mean the gentleman that we met at the meeting yesterday
- We should ask the lady from head office

But nowadays I would only do that formally, at work. The word is quite old-fashioned ...

- She’s a lady. It happened, most probably, in the 1
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Hardly a grammar question, rather more contextual: but if one is comfortable with society and British formality, one might answer that…
1. One might name one’s female pet or thoroughbred horse, “Lady”.
2. “Lady” is formally a replacement for “Woman” when titling one of a group of well-bred females. The title “Lady” is bestowed on the wife of certain British dignitaries—such as the Lt-Gover
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Hi everyone.
In your reply, Dave, shouldn't it be, "The gentleman whom we met at the meeting yesterday". Could you tell me why you used 'that' in place of 'whom'?
Thanks.


dave_anon:
Hi

That's interesting. In formal ways, I would still use the word lady in the same way that I
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Hi

It is OK to use a 'that' phrase with a person:

- He's the man that I met in Paris

In another thread, I did comment on 'who' and 'whom' and said I found it tricky:

- He's the man who I met in Paris
- He's the man whom I met in Paris

The first is what many native speakers would say nowadays; the second, strictly speaking, uses the objective form 'w

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