Is tomorrow a working day? - WordReference Forums Like Carolinian, I would say work day, or the closed forum workday Our dictionaries recognize this as a difference between British and American English From Collins Concise English Dictionary, a British English dictionary
I will shut up now vs Ill be shutting up now - WordReference Forums I think the use of I'll be [verb]-ing depends on the verb For instance, I'll be leaving now is used fairly often compared to I'll leave now I've never heard anyone say I'll be shutting up now to refer to not talking I can imagine a manager of a store saying it at the end of the workday, though
Opposite of passive - WordReference Forums Hello I'm trying to find the opposite of the word "passive" (someone who is passive tends to accept things that happen to them or things that people say to
Número Numero? - WordReference Forums El sustantivo "número" se escribe con acento, pero el verbo "numero" (presente, 1a persona, de "numerar"), sin acento
Comment insérer les caractères accentués (les accents sont obligatoires . . . Lorsque vous postez sur les forums de WordReference, vous verrez un bouton « Ω » dans le menu au-dessus de la zone de saisie Cliquez sur ce bouton pour faire apparaître une liste de lettres accentuées et cliquez sur le caractère souhaité pour l'insérer dans votre message
is the word moor derogatory? - WordReference Forums According to my Dictionary of Etymology the Greek called people from the African land Mauritania, Maurus, hence the word Moor During the Middle Ages the Moors were not only Europe's enemy, they also were black, just like the devils on the paintings and in the plays I think you can compare it with 'Reds' during the anti-communism craze in the US My impression is that with the illiteracy
print vs print off out - WordReference Forums Hi Could you please help me understand the difference between verb print and phrasal verb print off out? Here are the definitions I found in my Oxfords, and I sincerely would not be able to discriminate between one and the other Thanks in advance to print: to produce letters, pictures
we all vs all of us - WordReference Forums 1 For your sake as well as for your wife we [all wish] that you may get that job all modifies the verb wish 2 For your sake as well as for your wife [all of us] wish that you may get that job all modifies the subject We all is OK, but it is Subject + [all + lexical verb] All can also modify an object: I told them all