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Bluealbatross Posted 20 years ago
Vocabulary
what a difficult words!!!! Can you help me?
Thank you ever so much for taking the time to read my questions! I read all these words and expressions from an airplane pilot from Boston. It was an interview about his career.
As far as I know the word "People" is plural. e.g. People are, People have to, People run in the rain, People are running in the streets...etc.
But I read yesterday something like this: People has nothing to do, It should be: People have nothing to do. shouldn't it be?. Can someone explain, please.
another doubts:
-How ofeten is used the verb gall. e.g. "That point of view particularly galls me". is it a posh word?
-The word blue-collar as its similar white-collar are somewhat pejorative?, or are they perfectly normal to use them in formal writings. Are they related to redneck?
-I don't understand the word segue: (I have looked it up in a dictionary but is doesnot make sense to me)
for example: "....that's pretty obvious segue into the security situation that exists in 2006."
-what about: "aquates to it being" umm certanly a difficult expression. it seems to me a very polite, high society expression. what do you think?
-the words Ludicrous and Ridiculous are more or less synonymous? (explanation requested)
-What about the word piddle e.g. "piddling issues". A posh word?
-What about "acquiesce" (accept unwillingly) really formal word? can you give me an example. (gosh! it is hard to pronounce)
-quote-unquote: "..." it is an expression used before a word or another expressions said by someone else and we don't agree with? (example requested)
thank you ever so much.
Jesús G. Lozano
sociology student
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As far as I know the word "People" is plural. e.g. People are, People have to, People run in the rain, People are running in the streets...etc.
But I read yesterday something like this: People has nothing to do, It should be: People have nothing to do. shouldn't it be?. Can someone explain, please.
another doubts:
-How ofeten is used the verb gall. e.g. "That point of view particularly galls me". is it a posh word?
-The word blue-collar as its similar white-collar are somewhat pejorative?, or are they perfectly normal to use them in formal writings. Are they related to redneck?
-I don't understand the word segue: (I have looked it up in a dictionary but is doesnot make sense to me)
for example: "....that's pretty obvious segue into the security situation that exists in 2006."
-what about: "aquates to it being" umm certanly a difficult expression. it seems to me a very polite, high society expression. what do you think?
-the words Ludicrous and Ridiculous are more or less synonymous? (explanation requested)
-What about the word piddle e.g. "piddling issues". A posh word?
-What about "acquiesce" (accept unwillingly) really formal word? can you give me an example. (gosh! it is hard to pronounce)
-quote-unquote: "..." it is an expression used before a word or another expressions said by someone else and we don't agree with? (example requested)
thank you ever so much.
Jesús G. Lozano
sociology student
Email Removed href="mailto:Email Removed" target=_blank>
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But I read yesterday something like this: People has nothing to do, It should be: People have nothing to do. shouldn't it be?. Can someone explain, please.
- But I read yesterday something like this: People has nothing to do, It should be: People have nothing to do.
- shouldn't it be?.
- Can someone explain, please.
- Possibly a mistake, the plural needs "have", but it could refer to the magazine called People, which would be referred to in the singular.
- -How ofeten is used the verb gall.
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But I read yesterday something like this: People has nothing to do, It should be: People have nothing to do. shouldn't it be?. Can someone explain, please.
Possibly a mistake, the plural needs "have", but it could refer to the magazine called People, which would be referred to in the singular.
Possibly a mistake, the plural needs "have", but it could refer to the magazine called People, which would be referred to in the singular.
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segue
Function: intransitive verb
: to make a transition from one activity, topic, scene, or part to another as or as if part of a natural progression <time to segue ... into the second part of this essay -- S.J.Gould>
- segue noun
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segue
Function: intransitive verb
: to make a transition from one activity, topic, scene, or part to another as or as if part of a natural progression <time to segue ... into the second part of this essay -- S.J.Gould>
- segue noun
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People can be singular when it is used as a collective noun. The following excerpt is from wikipedia
A people is a group of individuals who belong to and function within a particular society. In common usage, the term people may be synonymous with human, or otherwise may carry an exclusive meaning. In general, the word peopl
A people is a group of individuals who belong to and function within a particular society. In common usage, the term people may be synonymous with human, or otherwise may carry an exclusive meaning. In general, the word peopl
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