2015年8月13日 · So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past. Could someone please explain it in easy words? Here's the full context: Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic future that year by year recedes before us. It eluded us then, but that’s no matter—tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther

2018年6月30日 · If something is so-so we are likely to describe it as "alright", "ok", or "fine". To emphasise "so-so-ness" we might use one of those words with a hesitant, querying, or even sarcastic tone. When a Brit describes something as "fine" it could mean anything from "awful" to "very good" depending on the tone used.

2020年10月8日 · We examine the wording in detail before deciding on the final text.. Synonyms: comprehensively, completely, fully,thoroughly. Ref.: ludwig.guru. more in detail. You can use it when you want to go into greater detail about a certain topic. For example, "I'll explain the process of building a computer more in detail."

not so adjective as - when we compare different things (different kinds) E.g.: This apple is not so nice as that orange. I'm not so tall as the horse. My grandmother is not so old as the wardrobe. My head is not so big as the melon. I'm not so intelligent as a dolphin. as adjective as - when we compare the same things (the same kinds) E.g.:

2016年3月1日 · But it's not so much that it's wrong, as that it implies things a bit differently and is therefore rarer. From that ngram graph we can also see that, while putting "if so" in the middle of a sentence is almost as common as putting it at the beginning, "if yes" is very nearly always at the beginning. This points, again, to the difference in usage.

2021年4月7日 · Now take the subordinate clause. The antecedent of the relative pronoun "that" is the word "anyone". "Anyone" is grammatically singular (as also reflected in your correct choice of "Does" to start the sentence). So the finite verb "goes" must agree with the 3rd person singular - "go" would be incorrect.

2021年11月2日 · But such use is so widespread that the correction is perhaps unreasonable in all but the most formal contexts. Could complicates things: it's just can, but in the conditional tense. But this conditional is commonly used to make a request less direct and more polite. "Can I/Could I borrow your dictionary?" Both are very common usage.

2020年3月8日 · In many cases, a native speaker would say There was only so much I could do if he'd already done it. But since it could be seen as a "generic" assertion concerning the speaker's limited powers of action, it would also be fine to use Present Tense regardless of whether there was any specific contextually-relevant need for action (which the speaker isn't sure he can / could adequately deal with).

2023年7月10日 · It was raining yesterday, so [we will not go] out. As "will" is in the present, it means you refuse to go out now, because it rained yesterday. That would be illogical. It was raining yesterday, so [we did not go] out. "did not" is a choice, you didn't want to get wet, so you did not go out. It was raining yesterday, so [we shall not go] out.

2017年3月15日 · So "are we having" and "do we have" wouldn't necessarily convey the same meaning in any sentence about a future event. In this example about classes, the meaning is the same. As to whether one sounds more formal, "sounds" is the operative word.