2020年11月11日 · Students mostly have a deficiency in math. That use of "mostly" is a bit informal. A more careful expression might be Most students have a deficiency in math. The sentence with "deficiencies" as a plural is good too. Whether you use the singular or plural depends on how you are thinking of "deficiency", and either way seems valid.

2015年7月15日 · To make good, to compensate for (something that is wanting); to supply (a deficiency). Freq. also to make up (lost) ground . b. trans. To supply the shortfall or deficiencies of; to complete (a given number, quantity, period, etc.); (formerly also in pass.) to be completed in form or growth, come to fruition, (occas.) to come to the end of one ...

2017年4月24日 · For example, "vitamins can be prescribed for correction of nutrient deficiency." In the OP sentence, the first meaning ( 1 ) is the sense intended. Here are some example sentences listed at dictionary.com and Merriam-Webster.

2021年11月8日 · Excellent answer! I'd add that it would probably be helpful to slightly slow everything down when speaking. The typical American parody of an Indian English accent usually involves -- in my perception -- speaking faster, exaggerating voice dynamics and emphasis (almost sing-song and overly-dramatic), shifting the sounds away from nasal and towards the …

2020年8月3日 · @jamesqf: My question is purely about English language, not about biological stuff. Problems for me is lack of general knowledge in addition to English language deficiency itself. The first option of my two kinds of interpretations might have been excluded if I had had good knowledge about the fat-to-muscle or muscle-to-fat conversion things.

2020年9月21日 · As I am not a native English speaker I think that I did not find out the correct word because of my deficiency of vocabulary. However, this blog is sighted by lots of native English speaker. If someone have some good word choice regarding my job profile please describe it so that I can add it in my CV and make my cv more powerful. Thank you for ...

2014年11月6日 · @jbarker2160: sorry, I've lost track of what game we're playing. Are we talking about saying "twelve thousands of apples" as a pure synonym for "12000 apples" (in which case we should not be telling English-language learners that it's common modern usage), or are we trying to think of rare situations (such as apples being sold in 1000-packs, which personally I …

If you are "behind on" something, you are trying to "catch up," or "get up to speed," or otherwise negate an implied deficiency. To be "out in front of" implies the opposite. The Michael Clayton quote is a bit of an anomaly in terms of common usage, as usually being "out in front of" is considered desirable.

2014年6月8日 · Complain of is much more formal than Complain about. For instance, when a doctor is taking notes on his patient, he may write something like:

Your quotation describes a formal use of the term correspondence which is now rapidly becoming obsolete.. Until fairly recently correspondence in the context of the exchange of letters and other communications was employed almost entirely as a singular mass noun, to designate an entire body of communications between two parties, or more.