lyrics - Whats the meaning of gavotte in Carly Simons song Youre . . . The "gavotte" is a French dance You walked into the party Like you were walking on a yacht Your hat strategically dipped below one eye Your scarf, it was apricot You had one eye on the mirror And watched yourself gavotte He was so vain, he watched himself in the mirror while he was dancing The singer probably doesn't mean that he actually performed an 18th-century French dance
Practical use of the structure I have trouble. . . You can use whatever tense best describes it E g "I have been having trouble Xing for the past week", "I expect to have trouble sleeping when the election is over "
If+S+can’t vs if+S+won’t be able to - English Language Learners . . . Since this seems like the earliest instance of your confusion about "can" vs "be able to," I'll add an answer here The choice between those two has no significant effect on the meaning A much bigger difference in this case is the change in tense That is, if you changed all your instances of "won't be able to" to "aren't able to": If you can’t aren’t able to achieve it, don’t give
Provide information on, of or about something? Which is grammatical: "it provides information on something", or, "it provides information of something", or, "it provides information about something"? Or if all are grammatical, which one is used
prepositions - Is offer a the same as offer to a? - English . . . The short answer is that they are both correct but could carry slightly different meanings The former " What do you have to offer a woman? " is probably the preferred in the context To explain why is a little more complicated The preposition "to" is often needed to indicate the direction of the relationship, and in other contexts "to offer [x]" can mean that the object [x] is the being
Throughout and through. How to use them? "Through" means from one side to the other So a tunnel goes through a mountain because it goes in one side and out the other "Throughout" means in every part or space possible So we would say things were scattered throughout a forest to mean they were in all directions and in many places the bullet went through his body the cancer had spread throughout his body You're quite right that a