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- single word requests - Is there a name for when you sense that . . .
I felt something and want to know the name of it: This feeling that something is missing, but it was never there, and never will be For example, suppose that a couple had a house built to have and raise children in But before they could move in, they both died suddenly in an automobile accident But they had no inheritors who could be found
- modal verbs - Is will never have been valid English? - English . . .
As user FumbleFingers pointed out, "will never have been" is standard English: you can find it in many books over the centuries Roughly, it indicates talking about the past at some future time More precisely, "there will never have been X" means that at some future time, it will be true that "there has never been X" For instance,
- meaning - I never was vs. I was never - English Language Usage . . .
Lisa has reluctantly agreed She made an honest try but made a key mistake and the turkey was a failure "Well, you know, I never was a good cook " I was never a good cook Possible context: Margaret, in her eighties and living in a nursing home, is being interviewed by a gerontology student She confides to the student, "I was never a good cook "
- How to understand never can there come fog too thick . . . in Bleak . . .
He then goes on to invite the reader to imagine even more extreme conditions than ever experienced (“never can there come …”) He concludes by saying that no imagined extreme condition of fog and mud can be so bad as to be likened to (classified with, in the Merriam Webster sense] the (unimaginably bad) operations of the High Court of Chancery
- Never vs. never ever - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
I never, ever use this cup There can then be no doubt in the reader's or listener's mind that you are loath to use that cup! (I'd feel the same way if the cup was used, for example, to scoop up poopy kitty litter! Yuck!)
- Where did There, there (in consoling) come from?
The consolation of that "there's always next year" is the key to "There, there" as a comforting verbal gesture Its role is to say "Look there, there's something good amid the bad " In fact the comforter often goes on to name the supposedly consoling thing, as in "There, there, she wasn't your type anyway" or "There, there, it's only money "
- Is it appropriate to say Ive never been when referring to a place . . .
I've never been " (Because "been" and "be" are the same verb ) My answer is twofold because: precisely because of the song line I quoted and other people omitting "there" in "never been there" — in such cases where I myself would not omit "there" — I defer to them Also, omitting "there" in the song line makes for a rhyme :)
- Difference between nevertheless and nonetheless
I have probably used nevertheless and nonetheless interchangeably because I've never been told that there could be a difference in usage, and I've never come across usage where one is preferred over the other It may be the case that current usage makes no distinction but a distinction can be made, just as Nicole and Jim tried
- relative pronouns: “where Id never been before” or “to which Id never . . .
I did an exercise, and there was a sentence that make me confused Can you help me with it Yesterday we visited the City Museum, (_____) I'd never been before There are 4 answers to chose: which, where, to that, to which I chose "where" but the correct answer is "to which" I can't understand it
- Nor in combination with never: Usage and meaning
As a coordinating conjunction, it can join a complete independent clause When used in this way, it continues the negative state in the preceding clause (usually shown by not, no, never, etc ) Here we see its role in continuing a negative state He left and I never saw him again, nor did I regret it Random House, p 1321
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