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- Know about vs. know of - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
Recently one of my friends told me that there is distinct difference between 'know of something' and 'know about something' expressions 'know of' is used when you have personal experience with wha
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Should I use "did you know" or "do you know" to introduce a fact? I've only seen "did you know" in action My logical deduction is that before the "question" (which is not much of a question because you're not asking for an answer), you wouldn't have been sure whether the listener'd known about what you're about to say or not
- grammar - When to use know and knows - English Language Usage Stack . . .
I'm confused in whether to write know or knows in the following statement:- "The ones who are included know better "? Also explain the difference between the two, thanks
- word choice - Could you please vs Could you kindly - English . . .
I am a non-native speaker of English When communicating with a professor, would it be better to use could you kindly send me the document or could you please send me the document? I know both are
- How do I know when to use: “completely”, “in full”, “totally” or . . .
Does anyone know any rule or pseudo-rule that works to find out when each of the following terms should be used? Using: completely vs in full vs totally vs entirely I assume they are not completely interchangeable Some kind of heuristic rules would allow foreign English speakers to know which one to use in many different sentences
- How do you handle that that? The double that problem
Have you ever had a case where you felt compelled to include strange things like a double that in a sentence? If so, then what did you do to resolve this? For me, I never knew whether it was accep
- Idiom phrase which means to pretend not to understand or know
Sometimes (well, often) people pretend not to understand what's going on (or pretend not to understand what the other person means, etc ) when in fact they do perfectly well For example, Person
- When is to a preposition and when the infinitive marker?
In simple words, "to" is a preposition when followed by a noun and an infinitive-marker when followed by an infinitive
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