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Thank you David for your encouraging words.Read More...

Hi, Izzy—"Sub" is short for submarine sandwich , which sub shops sell.Read More...

Hello, Navi—I've never heard of someone falling down a chair, but presumably this would be similar to falling down a flight of stairs. In a cartoon world, I suppose, we could imagine a chair big enough for someone to fall down. In the normal case, however, one does not fall down a chair. Rather, one may fall down from a chair or fall off (of) a chair. The sentence "The old man fell down from his chair, dead" represents him as having been dead when he fell.Read More...

Yes, the text you quoted seems to be encouraging entrepeneurship.Read More...

Hi, Toaha, Thank you for including the source (Twitter). However, I deleted it because I found it offensive, especially towards the end. I know it was not your intention, but in future please abstain from publishing material (other than literature or news) expressing views which can hurt readers' feelings. Thank you. I will focus on your questions without making reference to the matter. - for things to be the same/normal means for the situation to get back to normal, to restore things as...Read More...

What I said is that "associate oneself with" can also be used to mean "adhere to" or "support" (and this is when the object is not a person but a thing, as you can see in the examples), so the sentences above, using "associate (oneself) with somebody ," mean the same thing.Read More...

Yes, you are quite right. I would like to add that this style is particularly common in business letters and it is like a polite order. In fact, the period attracted my attention when I was reading your enlightening response but l didn't realize your intended meaning then. Maybe that's because I have never used this style before or because I am an old-fashioned person.Read More...

Hi, Freeguy, Normally, I would use 'there is' to agree with 'an oven'. I think this is how it should be used in formal exams. For more detailed information, see: https://thegrammarexchange.inf...here-is-or-there-areRead More...

Definition of "industry" according to the Longman dictionary: business that produce s a particular type of thing or provide s a particular service Apparently nobody had thought of selling futons before, and by doing so the author found a niche in the furniture industry .Read More...

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Very interesting, Navi. I think that "So was I" can have either meaning in both sentences, and that it is context that will make the difference in interpretation. That said, I think that the meaning which you describe as "normal" will be the only interpretation, the unambiguous meaning, if the "when"-clause is fronted: 1a) When he heard the news, he was overjoyed. So was I. 2a) When he was shouted at, he was surprised. So was I.Read More...

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Hi, Joshua, This is called the present perfect tense. It links between the past and the present. It consists of verb 'to have' followed by the past participle (like 'have stayed' in your example). If this is a scientific fact, you can use the present simple tense. That's to say: 'Why do deaths stay steady while Covid-19 infections are spiking?'Read More...

Hi, Mao, That sentence is written in perfect English. According to Guide to Patterns and Usage in English by A. S. Hornby (note that the spelling he uses is British): (Where Hornby says "adjunct" above, I'd call it an object complement.) These are the examples the author provides: According to Hornby, this pattern is typical of rather formal style and is more usual in written than in spoken English, where that- clauses are preferred: - Most people considered (that) he was innocent. - All the...Read More...

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Hi, Muhammad—Please give your threads meaningful titles, titles that will inform potential readers about the grammatical subject matter of the thread. The only answer choice that works is "in that": "I exercise hard every day. It's useful in that I get fitter and fitter." Do you understand the sentence?Read More...