Questions tagged [sentence-meaning]
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I would like to submit an opinion letter arguing that my sentence should also be considered correct [migrated]
I am a high school student from a country where English is not the native language. In my recent English exam, the following two sentences were involved:
The official correct sentence:
"Hence, ...
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Meaning of joined in marriage [closed]
“I joined in marriage Ben and Nicole”… when the officiant write it in the marriage certificate can it have a double meanings?
The first meaning is- I united in marriage Ben and Nicole- meaning I ...
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A sentence such that the use of the contraction "y'all" would fix the ambiguity of the sentence's meaning
I'd be pleased to find out about more sentences with this property.
Here's a sentence I found which I have an inkling might be an example of such a sentence:
"I will give you all A's"
Is the ...
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S is not A but B = S is B but not A
Does the sentences "The point is not urgency but importance" and "The point is importance but not urgency" have same meaning?
Normally, we use the construction of the first ...
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"It is confirmed that" [closed]
Can I write as below?
It is confirmed that,
The A requires B.
The C requires D.
(1.2. Are just random sentences..)
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Usage of In and Within difference
This has been asked before but I didn't understand. I am no English student, but can someone explain how these two statements could mean different things?
Xylem and Phloem within a vascular bundle ...
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What is the meaning of the sentence "The apocalypse of X"?
I am not really a native English speaker. And so reading somewhere I found a sentence/phrase something like this of which I am not sure how to interpret the meaning correctly,
"The apocalypse of ...
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Interpreting sentences containing data [closed]
Is the construction correct?
The daily actual irradiation was lower than the day-to-day target 48% of the time in the entire month.
How do you interpret this sentence?
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Parsing a peculiar legal sentence [closed]
A certain Government Order goes (Section 2a) —
These rules shall not apply to the appointment of persons to ministerial posts in the Civil Courts subordinate to the High Court/Khas Adalat of ...
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Reality or unreality-if you had seen the notices next day in all the papers, you must have supposed my evening's entertainment an unqualified success [closed]
(From The Wrecker by Robert Louis Stevenson and Lloyd Osbourne, Chapter VI, published 1892)
Passage 96
Pinkerton was in the waiting-room, feverishly jotting in his pocket-book. As he saw me enter, he ...
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"Students leaving on campus often complain having roommate problems." [closed]
I came across the following sentence in a corpus called SkELL (Sketch Engine for Language Learning):
(1) Students leaving on campus often complain having roommate problems.
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Simple or compound sentences? [closed]
John ate and drank to his satisfaction.
John ate the yam and drank the juice.
My question: Are these sentences simple or compound sentences?
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What's the meaning of "hardly seem more implausible"?
In the following text, what does "the latter scenario could hardly seem more implausible" mean?
The result suggests one of two scenarios. One is that arctic foxes
gave rise to swift foxes, ...
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What is "and therefore profits"?
I have read an article called "Stocks have shrugged off the banking turmoil. Haven’t they?" in The Economist newspaper, but I find it hard to understand the meaning of a sentence.
The ...
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About the meaning(s) of "to have much to recommend something" [closed]
Not sure if the mentioned expression in the title is just, I tried to figure it out based on my language skills/instincts. It is a citation found in a programming book. Sometimes between the title and ...
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