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missdaredevil
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 Posted: Thu May 11, 2006 7:11 pm Post subject: 6 questions |
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1.The room is *ventilated* or *airy*.
Are they both okay?
2. I called a food delivery.
I made a call to require food delivery.
Are they correct?
3.I offered to shake her hand.=I reach out my hand for her to shake mine.
4. What do you call *lesson taught by a tutor*, tutoring or toturial?
5.to talk down=to prevent somebody from speaking by saying something loudly and ignoring attempts to interrupt
Could anyone use it in a sentence?
6. A girl in my class wants to improve her English, she wrote a note to herself that read "YOU PIG, TIME TO STUDY ENGLISH*.
Is that called a *self-threatening* note?
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pugachevV
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1. Both are OK.
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2. I called a food delivery.
I made a call to require food delivery.
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I called a food delivery service (or company.)
I made a call to require food delivery is correct grammatically, but a bit formal or even pompous.
3. Correct. Or You said, "Let's shake hands", etc..
4. A tutorial.
5. If you talk down to someone, you talk patronizingly or condecendingly to them.
Bill, as was his custom, talked down to the man, annoying him so much that he refused to help us.
If you talk someone down you silence them by greater loudness or persistence.
Bill talked Angela down by shouting and refusing to let her say anything.
It also means to bring a pilot or an aircraft to a landing by radio instruction from the ground (or from another aircraft.)
After the pilot of a small plane had a heart attack, Bill talked the man's wife down to a safe landing, although she had never flown a plane before.
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6. A girl in my class wants to improve her English, she wrote a note to herself that read "YOU PIG, TIME TO STUDY ENGLISH*.
Is that called a *self-threatening* note? |
It's called a humourous reminder.
Or perhaps self-abusive. (However, self-abusive has another connotation of a sexual nature, so perhaps not.)
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missdaredevil
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| Posted: Sat May 13, 2006 5:33 pm Post subject: |
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| Thanks again for the detailed explanation |
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pugachevV
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| Posted: Sun May 14, 2006 6:45 pm Post subject: |
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| You're welcome, Miss D. |
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