Questions tagged [phrase-choice]
Is it Either? Is it Or? Is it Neither? Use the Phrase-Choice tag to help you complete the perfect sentence, say what you really mean, and learn new words and phrases.
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what is the difference between "ship", "deliver" and "send", e.g. "we will ship/deliver/send the item to your house"?
According to my study, it seems "to ship" means to take an item to a carrier who will "deliver" it to your house.
If a shop said "we will ship the item to you/ your house&...
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Do you really distinguish the difference between "the shirt's rumpled" and "the shirt's wrinkled" and "the shirt's creased"?
I can not tell the difference between "the shirt's rumpled" and "the shirt's wrinkled" and "the shirt's creased" by just looking at the definitions in dictionaries.
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Is it correct to say "the baby can walk 4 steps today" or "the baby can take 4 steps today"?
A dictionary says "The baby took her first steps today."
They use "take steps" but not "walk steps".
Another dictionary says we can have a noun after the verb "walk&...
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Is it correct to say "don't eat walking around" or "don't walk around eating"?
I want my children to stay in one place and eat rather than walking around while eating.
So, if we want to emphasize a word, we put it before other words right?
I don't know which action I should ...
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Is "let loose" better than "let slip", when it comes to "dogs"?
Fromkin's Introduction to Linguistics says:
Language purists sometimes rail against back-formations and cite enthuse and
liaise [from enthusiasm and liaison) as examples of language corruption. ...
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Should I use "a test" or "the test"?
The test I am talking about is the IELTS test. On the one hand, I feel that I should use the test to refer to the IELTS test. On the other hand, there are IELTS tests you can choose to take on ...
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If so, I **will give/ going to give/ am giving** you 5 months
Context : in a meeting:
A: I will summarize the progress of our project..... I think that we
can't finish this project on time.
B: Really? If so, I will give/ going to give/ am giving you 5 months in
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Are these price stickers or price labels or both in American English?
Are these price stickers or price labels in American English?
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Do you say "You got the floor muddy" the same way we say "get something wet / dirty"?
I am not a native English speaker so I rely mostly on dictionaries.
Normally, dictionaries have examples using structures of "get something/ somebody wet" or "get something/ somebody ...
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Can I use "scroll my feed" to shorten "scroll through my feed"?
I spent the whole night scrolling my facebook feed.
Can we shorten scroll through my feed to scroll my feed?
If not, then is there any other way that I can shorten this phrase? (as I feel that saying ...
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Is it correct to say "arrange the cup side by side in a row"? [closed]
According to my study, to arrange cups in a row means the face of each facing forward like this
But this way of arrangement takes up too much space, so people arrange them like this
But to describe ...
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Are "lay the newspaper on the floor" and "spread the newspaper on the floor" interchangeable?
Normally "lay" means "to put somebody/something in a particular position" (meaning 1) but it also means "to spread something on something" (meaning 2).
So, "lay the ...
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Should the phrase 'beat that time' be replaced by 'surpassed the record'?
In an article on sporting achievements, the author has compared the performance of two sprinters, Jesse Owens and Usain Bolt [Ref : Burlington English (UK) lesson] :
In 1936, Owens set an astonishing ...
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A is in 1st grade and B is in 2nd grade. Is it offensive to say "A studies in lower grade/class"?
I asked Chatgpt this question and it says "A studies in lower grade/class" is offensive because "lower class or grade" shows derogatory.
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correct phrase [long from now] vs [a long time from now]
I have made up the sentences below.
(1) I just came back from my last trip. My next one will be long from now.
(2) I just came back from my last trip. My next one will be a long time from now.
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