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- pronouns - Something for anyone vs Something for everyone - English . . .
6 "Something for everyone" is an idiom or fixed phrase meaning something that appeals to all tastes Idioms can bypass strict definitions of words or grammar rules; the meaning comes from the entire expression and it can't be broken into logical parts
- phrasal verbs - Is it natural to use the phrase run something by . . .
Nah, I think your original idea is correct - to " run something by " someone is to get their opinion, reaction or permission I don't know where you've heard it as a bare transfer of information, but that seems wrong There's always the implication that you want a response from the person who you're running something by There are many options to express the transfer of information, many of
- Provide information on, of or about something?
That's indirect information, a hint, something that tells us she wasn't there then, but doesn't tell us anything directly It sheds some light but it doesn't relate to her directly Still, in a great many cases you can use the two interchangeably There's one more case when you use strictly on: Dirt Tools of blackmail
- infinitives - Help to do something or help do something? - English . . .
The construction was "to help to do", But to help is used so often with an infinitive that speakers began to consider it something like a modal verb such as can, may etc and began dropping "to"
- word choice - Do we say something for affect or effect? - English . . .
Do we say something for affect or effect? For instance, if I give the description of a round ball, it seems that the word round is redundant; however, I have chosen to combine those words "for affect effect "?
- idiomatic language - Am I missing something vs anything - English . . .
0 I'd say that something can be used in a more general way for when you are referring to any arbitrary number of things while anything would be better suited when the things are limited in numbers
- grammaticality - take time to do something doing something - English . . .
This is an example of the phrase take time to do something from Longman Dictionary My question is, can we also say While in New York he took time visiting some friends?
- What do you call a person who suggested something? A suggester?
A client suggests something (actually, an edit to an existing item or a proposal for a new item) and I need to have two variables to refer to the following: The client that suggested the thing The id of the client who suggested the thing I couldn't just use Client and ClientId because it would be ambiguous in this particular situation
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