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- recurring vs reoccurring - English Vocabulary - English - The Free . . .
Please, people, stop using "reoccurring" instead of "recurring" It displays such an ignorance of proper English It's even entered into dictionaries, for crying out loud -- even this one Hardly anyone says "reoccurrent" Rather, they say "recurrent" Thus, the acknowledged root of the word is "recur" -- not "reoccur"
- Why do we say ON a tv show but IN a movie? - The Free Dictionary
You bring up an interesting problem - the use of prepositions which in almost any language is not easy In any case it is no systematic area with fixed rules - there are so many overlapping prepositions e g 'across the street' and 'over the street' - so many competing patterns - and so many special niches such as 'in a car' and 'on a train' and so many single expressions e g 'the house is on
- Message in a bottle - English Grammar - English - The Free Dictionary . . .
It is very common for the title of a creative work to serve as an statement of a recurring theme or leitmotif within that work In this case, determiners are often intentionally omitted in order to draw attention to the concept itself, rather than any particular instance of the thing
- megrim - Word of the Day - English - The Free Dictionary
MEGRIM Noun 1 megrim - a severe recurring vascular headachemegrim - a severe recurring vascular headache; occurs more frequently in women than men - hemicrania, migraine, sick headache - cephalalgia, head ache, headache - pain in the head caused by dilation of cerebral arteries or muscle contractions or a reaction to drugs
- Are you seeing, do you keep seeing or do you see?
I am translating an article about "seeing recurring numbers" on the clocks, such as 1212, from Polish to Engish, and I am stuck on the article's title because I am not sure which option is correct Is it: 1) "Are you seeing 1212? Here is what it means " 2) "Do you keep seeing 1212? Here is what it means " 3) "Do you see 1212? Here is what it
- cook - English Grammar - English - The Free Dictionary Language Forums
This looks at the period of time since Jack left as several units of time, each one a day So "Jack not calling" is a recurring situation He said he'd call every day, but the days are passing by and Jack doesn't call me "Story-telling mode", the historical present: "The days pass by, but Jack doesn't call "
- 50th anniversary - English Grammar - The Free Dictionary
The annually recurring date of a past event, as of personal or historical importance: a wedding anniversary; the anniversary of the founding of Rome 2 A date that follows a certain event by a specified amount of time: his six-month anniversary of quitting smoking 3 An event at which an anniversary is celebrated I just knew 1) and 3)
- a consistent constant amount of - English Vocabulary - English - The . . .
How can I make sure I am getting a regularly recurring, unchanging amount of vitamin K in my diet? Like 50 μg per day or some other figure "Constant" has another meaning - never stopping It couldn't really mean that in the case of vitamins, or you would have to be on a drip-feed twenty-four hours per day
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