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What is the difference between "look at" and "look to"?
I've heard/read/seen both "look at" and "look to" (and "look up at" and "look up to").
Is there a difference between the two? When should I use one over the other?
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Personal circumstances?
A friend of mine asked me once what he could say if he was asked about a colleague or a friend not being able to attend a meeting or a party because of, for example, confidential health or family problems, or any private matters. What he wants to…
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"Do you know where's Linda?" vs "Do you know where Linda is?"
Which of the following is a correct sentence:
Does anyone know where's Linda?
Does anyone know where Linda is?
Does anyone know why and how to use above usage if #2 is correct.
Also please let me know this kind of specific structures.
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Why are "baked" and "naked" not pronounced the same?
The word "baked" is pronounced as:
/ˈbeɪkt/
While "naked" is pronounced as:
/ˈneɪkɪd/
Why are these two words not pronounced the same?
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Difference between Track and Trace
What is the difference in meaning of Track and Trace. Are both similar in meaning? Please give some examples related with that.
I have lots of confusion with this, like tracking mobile phone or tracing mobile phone, tracking location or tracing…
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What exactly is the word "there" in an existential construction? And related questions
Consider the example below:
"There was a cat under the table."
There have been numerous questions asked that have involved the topic of existential constructions and the word "there" that is used in them. I would like to see some grammatical…
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Using the pronoun 'we' when I'm not a part of it!
This has actually happened with me. I was confused and could not answer to my friend. The context was the traffic sense in India, which is worst! :)
In that context, I was describing to my friend that in India, there is only one rule that there is…
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Meaning of "to will a parking spot"
A guy is bragging about a great parking spot he has gotten in front of the building. And he says:
I am just willing these great parking spots.
What does it mean?
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Is there a word for immediate future just like "just" for immediate past?
Let's say, Someone asks me
Are you having dinner right now?
But right now I have an important call to make, so I say
Not right now but I will have it in 4-5 minutes.
Even though I say 4-5 minutes, I don't mean it literally. I want to say that I…
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Difference between "detonate" and "explode"
What is the difference between "detonate" and "explode"? Are they interchangeable?
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How do I use the word "documentation"?
I am not sure how I should be using the word "documentation".
A documentation (on/of) X will be created soon.
A documentation (on/of) X is coming soon.
In the near future, I will create a documentation of X.
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What do you call a statement that is given as an explanation why someone has won an award?
I've searched all the dictionaries I can think of; I've read countless news items about award winners; and I've googled various strings such as "the jury's * reads" etc, but I still haven't been able to find the English word for the statement…
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Do we say "a bar of staples"?
We say a bar of chocolate.
Do we call it "a bar of staples" as shown in the above picture?
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What is "ice orange" and what does it have to do with horses?
What is "ice orange"? I'm pretty sure it's a typo, but can't so far figure out what it really meant:
Going up the road toward home the road was smooth and slippery for a while and the ice orange from the horses until the wood-hauling track turned…
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"What it does is {VERB / to VERB / VERBing} ..."?
For these expressions
What a paper shredder does is tearing the paper/tear the paper in small pieces which can be easily disposed.
What he wants to do is to become/become a ballplayer.
Which of these two forms is correct here to become/become,…
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