Description:
English grammar, word usages, and related topics.
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convertable
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Why is the word convertible and not convertable? Is there some rule?
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James: decked him out
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Hello: Is this from cards, "decked him out?" Its meaning? "Bristling total," the uncomfortable/aggressive totality of men? --- [Stether and Miss Gostrey have an on-and-off relationship] She had been wonderful to him at first, with the memory of her little entresol, the image to which, on most mornings at that time, his eyes... more »
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James: forehead/brow
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Hello: Any difference in style or usage between "forehead" and "brow" in such a context? --- [Sally Pocock visits Paris] What had told in any case at the window of the train was her high clear forehead, that forehead which her friends, for some reason, always thought of as a "brow"; the long reach of her eyes—it came out... more »
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James: this is about my shape
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Hello: "This is about my shape" could it be an idiom related to "This is what I like" or is he perhaps suggesting that this trip will make him lose weight (he _is_ fat)? --- [Jim Pollock visits with his family Paris to check on Stether's trying to remove Chad back to the U.S. He seems delighted with the city.]... more »
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James: type
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Hello: James is giving a lot of attention to the notion of "type." I wonder if these days we see more "character" used instead, in fiction at least.
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