2011年3月15日 · You could also say it this way: "how do you do" back has been replaced with an equally meaningless reply. It is just an exterior change of convention; etiquette demands that you give only one answer when asked about your well-being in somewhat formal situations: you are doing well, thank you.

2011年2月3日 · There are many incidences of that’d meaning “that would” in the Corpus of Contemporary American English: SPOKEN 208 (2.39/million words) FICTION 384 (4.7/million words) MAGAZINE 58 (0.67/million words) NEWSPAPER 48 (0.57/million words) ACADEMIC 3 (0.04/million words) TOTAL 701 (701/million words)

I got a Ph.D. in A.I. at U.C.L.A in the U.S. I got a PhD in AI at UCLA in the US. My personal preference goes for omitting periods, given that this is an abbreviation, following the Guardian style guide: Do not use full points in abbreviations, or spaces between initials, including those in …

2014年1月13日 · You'd has two meanings, which are you had and you would. 1 We use you had with better and you would with rather. You had is usually used for suggestion. Example: You'd better (you had better) avoid the stalls on the street. So you'd means you had in your first sentence. Your second sentence is grammatically wrong.

2013年2月6日 · Modal verbs do not use a "to". That is, you say. I can do this. The verb "need" is a funny case; it is only modal in the negative. In the positive, we already have an equivalent modal verb; namely, "I must". However, there are two possible meanings for the opposite of "I must do this": "I am forbidden to do this" and "I am not required to do this".

My sense is that American English prefers "don't" and "do you not" is a speech act with a peculiar meaning: "I am now interrogating and instructing you" in a Socratic fashion. On the other hand, "do you not" is fairly common Canadian usage with raising intonation on the 'not.' –

2021年1月12日 · Also, we do not use the Past Perfect in the main clause of a conditional sentence, it is only used in the conditional clause, therefore the following is ungrammatical. He'd lived in Scotland if he had the choice. The grammatical version would be: He would have lived [He'd have lived] in Scotland if he had had [he'd had] the choice.

2012年10月1日 · A: Do you like ice cream? B: No, I don't. Usually in a grammar book when you answer someone's question with negation, you'll use a shortened answer like "I don't". I know you can answer with a fuller response like "No, I don't like ice cream" but why should it be, "No, I don't" rather than, "No, I do not"? This has been puzzling me for years.

2016年10月18日 · Starting with "Do you know" might be used in a similar way, but I think starting with "Do you know" sounds, to an English speaker, like you're asking them for information you assume they have. Starting with "Do you know" may even make them feel like they are being quizzed on the information in question, even if you are not quizzing but offering ...

2015年8月22日 · I am trying to understand the grammar behind using "do not" vs "does not". Consider the following sentences. 1a. The way items are added to the cart does not guarantee an order. vs. 1b. The way items are added to the cart do not guarantee an order. 2a. We will skip the entries that do not match vs. 2b. We will skip the entries that does not match