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- word usage - more smooth or more smoother? Which is right . . .
You can say "more smooth", or "smoother" Both are fine and mean exactly the same thing But beware of trying to combine them, and saying "more smoother"! Many will say that a formulation like that is wrong
- difference - Smoothing or smoothening (smooth smoothen) - English . . .
You make things smooth - you smoothe or smoothen them (and while these were appearing in different proportions in the past, they have nearly evened out nowadays) The activity though is called smoothing (a surface) or smoothing out (faults, creases, folds, whatever disturbs the surface) smoothening is definitely not a term in common use
- How do you use smooth sailing idiomatically?
Smooth is an adjective Smoothly is the adverbial form This should tell you that sailing is a noun, not a verb Typically, we would not say, "I am smooth sailing " We might say, "I am smoothly sailing," as in "I'm smoothly sailing through this work " The idiomatic use of this phrase "smooth sailing" would look something like this: "How's the new job at Google?" "It's been smooth sailing, so
- grammar - For one and another confusion - English Language Learners . . .
The main things this passage might be testing is whether we know about how the phrase "for one" is used idiomatically, and our understanding of grammatical sentence structure These sentences are a bit complicated, so let me substitute something that's shorter but has the exact same structure: I like many ice cream flavors: cookies and ____ vanilla is another that I love A) cream, for one
- word usage - Questions about smoothly - English Language Learners . . .
Note that the collocation "smooth English" wouldn't really mean anything to most Anglophones Also note that speaking smoothly isn't a common collocation - but smooth talking is, and that's all about being a convincing con-artist trickster, nothing to do with verbal fluency as such
- grammar - Seemed to had is it correct? - English Language Learners . . .
The "not" could really go in any of those 3 places, but the first possibility sounds smoother and more idiomatic The last sentence sounds the least natural to me, even slightly awkward
- prepositions - BRING someone or BRING TO someone - English Language . . .
As a general rule, one should avoid using too many of the same pronouns in a single sentence Instead, one should specify the noun in question Also, "The happiness and the joy" should be conjoined into "the happiness and joy" A much smoother sentence would be "They are thankful for the happiness and joy that X brings them every day"
- The difference between reduce, lower, and decrease
The temperature dropped The temperature fell The temperature went down Another example: Grandma's cognitive skills decreased as she aged Again, technically fine, but it just sounds smoother to express it differently: Grandma's cognitive skills declined as she aged Grandma's cognitive skills diminished as she aged
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