at new year / on new year's eve | WordReference Forums
2013年10月15日 · Hello, I have difficulty understanding some prepositions of time like at and on in these examples: AT New Year ON New Year's Eve. I think for "on New Year's Eve" the preposition is ON because it solely refers to the night when we celebrate the end of the year, the bells ring, we kiss and party...
Have you read / Did you read [that book]? - WordReference Forums
2012年5月12日 · In the UK at least 'have you read that book' would usually be expecting a negative answer, especially if it is something like: 'I don't know if you've read that book, but...' - that would be followed by a monologue on the book. or 'Have you read that book, no?' - which is obviously expecting a negative answer.
There is a book and a pen on the table. | WordReference Forums
2024年12月19日 · (1) There is a book and a pen on the table. (2) There are a book and a pen on the table. (3) There is a book [and there is] a pen on the table. However, another forum explains the following: When the first thing on a list is a singular noun phrase, it's better to use “There is”. If the first thing is a plural noun phrase, use “There are”.
"New Launch" or "Newly Launched" - WordReference Forums
2018年8月2日 · What's new Search. Search. Search titles and first posts only ... but some book says "new" will replace ...
There is a couple or there are a couple? - WordReference Forums
2006年10月28日 · There are a couple of new books I'd like to read. In the ladder case, you can't say There is a couple of books I'd like to read. The subject of that sentence is books, not couple! You could also replace "a couple of" by "some": There are some new books I'd like to read.
aren't any books / isn't any book | WordReference Forums
2015年3月6日 · A: Please bring me my book. It is on the table. B: There isn't any book on the table. How I see it: A's talking about a particular book which he wants to be brought to him. B, in his reply, is emphasizing that he's found on the table neither that …
there <is/are> a book, a pencil , two notebooks in his bag.
2011年2月3日 · In There are a book, a pencil and two notebooks in his bag. the listener may well be uneasy about are followed by a. Those who don't like to say this would rewrite the sentence as follows: In his bag are a book, a pencil and two notebooks. This sentence does not seem to create any problems for the listener.
"She buys" or "She buy" - WordReference Forums
2014年2月1日 · If you want a name for all of these sentences, they are mandative (this is a comparatively new term which is not common in grammar books). All of the sentences express the same sort of thing: a command, a demand, a suggestion, etc. They use three different grammatical structures: subjunctive, or modal, or indicative.
"Extract of" or "extract from"? - WordReference Forums
2018年3月4日 · What's new Search. Search ... "This is an extract of the book War and Peace," is what I would have always ...
To say of what is that it is not, or of what is not that it is, is ...
2008年10月13日 · This almost seems tautological, but there are other accounts of truth such as the "coherence theory," which takes being part of a coherent (i.e., consistent) complex of propositions to be the mark of truth. A spirited defense of the latter theory may be found in Keith Lehrer's book, Knowledge.