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Apr 9, 2011. #1. Hi everybody! I have a big doubt. I know to form the comparative and superlativo form of short adjective (one or two syllables), we have to add -er/est, etc. And when we have long adjective (more than two syllables) we add more/the most. But in the case of the adjective 'famous'....it has two syllables, but we did not say ...
Senior Member. American English. Aug 21, 2014. #3. No, pre-birthday and post-birthday are not really used like this. Often people whose actual birthdays fall during the week have birthday parties on a Saturday, for example, when more people are able to attend (they also don't have to worry about getting. up early the next day to go to work).
IPA spelling would require that somebody (millions of people actually) would see a word spelled in a way that didn't match their experience. It wouldn't be, in principle, different from the current system. USA Family 1: "Go ahead, son. Read the IPA.
you were clapping in the nose bleeds". What does this mean? I understand it as this person being successful (on stage e.g. a rockstar) and the other person having followed a more ordinary life path being in the audience applauding him. And the nose bleeds possibly referring to family life (wife with kids etc.).
Jun 18, 2018. #1. An ancient bus stopped by a dry river bed and a party of famous actors and actresses got off. 'This is a wonderful place for a picnic,' said Gloria Gleam. ‘It couldn't be better, Gloria,' Brinksley Meers agreed. 'No newspaper men, no film fans!
Tamil - India. Jun 23, 2015. #23. tarkshya said: I have always wondered why does standard devanagri script provide following three letters - क्ष , त्र , ज्ञ. If my understanding is correct, क्ष can easily be written as क् ष, त्र as त् र and ज्ञ as ज् ञ . Generally speaking, Devanagri is ...
Portuguese - Brazil. Aug 19, 2020. #1. Would I say "I saw many famous actors ON or IN the movie/film? What's the right preposition?
American English (NYC region) Jan 14, 2016. #3. Tough to say without context. We sometimes use "cannot" or "can't" to express disbelief or petulance. John McEnroe, the great tennis player, was known for complaining vociferously about calls he didn't like. His famous line was,"You cannot be serious!" which meant "You must be joking (you idiot)!" L.
As I previously said: You either use "more" or "-er", but never both. The grammar rule states the following: Monosyllabic words always use "-er". Bisyllabic words almost always use "more", except those that end in -y. Since full is monosyllabic and complete is bisyllabic: More complete and fuller would be right.
Happy as Larry (nobody has any clue who Larry is but we understand that this means very happy) Drunk as a lord (lords aren’t especially famous for being drunk but we understand that this means very drunk) Smug as a picnic (absolutely no idea how or why a picnic could be smug, but we can deduce that the writer means very smug) R.