2020年6月2日 · "That's part of the political calculation that has party benefactors and leaders exercised." The G.O.P. Tosses Steve King Overboard. My thought was that "exorcised" would be correct in this context because I remembered similar use of the term from many years back.

Many words are spelled with -ise in British English and -ize in American English: realise/realize sanitise/sanitize scrutinise/scrutinize But exercise can only be spelled with -ise, never with -i...

There were now only ten skrewts left; apparently their desire to kill one another had not been exercised out of them.(Harry Potter 4 [US Version]: p.41) [Bold font is mine] N.B.: Hagrid is a Care of Magical Creatures teacher. The skrewt is a dangerous magical creature. I can’t understand 'exercise' in the above citation.

2020年7月20日 · The manager exercised his power over his employees by firing one of them as an example. The body builder exerted his power to lift the two-hundred-pound weight. In those two examples there is a connotation that the manager used his power in an effortless manner, whereas the body builder had to make an effort to use his power; which is why ...

2014年1月23日 · Having seen Correct placing and usage of "yet", it sounds like it may be correct to say either "You have not created any items yet." or "You have not yet created any items." Is one more

"Due diligence" is a legal term to describe when one has exercised an appropriate level of caution or investigation prior to acting or making a decision. To "do due diligence" is an attempt to use the legal term in a grammatically inappropriate way.

2017年4月20日 · "Have you exercised?" is concerned strictly with whether you exercised in the past. "Have you been exercising?" asks about whether you've been engaging in an ongoing program of exercise, which may still be in effect. The only difference "lately" makes is to exclude answers like "I exercised every day two years ago."

2016年3月8日 · The idiom “more loyal than the king” was used by an author as a subtitle in a 2010 opinion piece criticizing a fellow Pakistani columnist for expressing misplaced concern on behalf of the United States over the possibility that leaks from within ISI (Pakistan’s powerful spy service) had revealed the name and identity of the then CIA station chief in Pakistan, in spite …

2014年1月13日 · It is not redundant because "many" and "more" do not mean the same thing. It is simply longer. "More" and "longer" or "better" for example is not grammatically correct because they both serve the same meaning, but many and more do not mean the same thing.

2014年9月1日 · I see a lot of examples of be intended to and intend to. Both of them mean plan to do. Some examples: Selling was my game and I intended to be a winner. The ban is intended to be permanent. I gue...