I'm wondering how commas should be placed around the word "say" and the following clause in a sentence like this: If you have, say, a bucket, that you would like to fill with water, then...

What are some grandiloquent, or simply better, ways of expressing "an idea/thought suddenly came to me", or "an idea/thought struck me", or "I was struck by an idea/thought"?

2012年6月21日 · When a waiter at a restaurant comes by with pepper or Parmesan cheese, he says, "say when" and starts putting it on your food. Many people will say "OK" or "that's enough," but it seems that the customary answer is "when". How did this become the customary answer? Did everyone decide to make the exact same joke, until it became commonplace.

2015年8月7日 · I am confused with use of word with or by in a sentence. For example, if I say: The letter was written with ball pen. this is correct. And if in another sentence I say: The letter was

2019年2月14日 · From other's conversation,I found out they mentioned I was and sometimes they also mentioned I were. Is there any rules for I was/were?

2020年6月15日 · I say this all the time in response to questions like in your example. It's perfectly natural. It would be interesting to know more about your native speaker: how old are they, what region did they grow up in, what's their level of education, what's their ethnicity, etc.

I dare say British spoken used for saying that something is probably true, although you do not know for certain dare I say (it) mainly British spoken formal used when you are saying something that you think other people may not like This famous novel is a little, dare I say it, dull. I dare say that is enough to understand the usages of the two.

2015年3月1日 · I'd say "in the park" if the park is big enough that the listener would first need to narrow down their search to only part of it. But this is an incredibly subtle distinction, and not one that I ever really thought about before.

2020年5月7日 · in this text: "I can't find my daughter. I was buying these clothes at the register, And she was right behing me, and now she’s gone." written "she's gone". how I understand which one is mean?...

2015年12月9日 · To say accuse someone for something is just grammatically wrong. If you accuse someone of doing something wrong or illegal, you tell them that you believe or suspect that they did it.