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Bookmark or Share- Use of subjunctive after "suggested"Australian children's book author Mem Fox has suggested she might never to return to the US after she was detained and insulted by border control agents at Los Angeles airport. So far as I know, after a suggestion the subjunctive or infinitive is used. But here, "she might never to return to the US" is neither one. Should it be
- Should one ever use the word "please" in an order or demand?A police officer who pulls over a driver might ask to see his “license and registration, please.” Similarly, a border official might ask for a “passport, please.” However, in these situations, the asked party doesn’t have the option to refuse. Does the word “please” imply that the addressee has the option not to obey the request?
- single word requests - What is the name of the area of skin between the ...@Doorknob - Elliot has named it correctly. The upper lip is skin-covered, skin-colored, and hairy. The pink parts are called the upper and lower vermilion, the border between the skin and the vermilion is called the vermilion border, the wet, shiny inner portion of what people call the "lips" is called the wet vermilion or the mucosa.
- etymology - English Language & Usage Stack Exchangehaving the same border or covering the same area. being the same in extent; coextensive in range or scope. Its definitions of "conterminous": having a common boundary; bordering; contiguous. meeting at the ends; without an intervening gap: In our calendar system, the close of one year is conterminous with the beginning of the next. coterminous.
- Origin of the idiom "go south" - English Language & Usage Stack Exchangego south (also head south, take a turn south) 1 v phr by 1940s To disappear; fail by or as if by vanishing [examples omitted] 2 v phr by 1925 To abscond with money loot, etc. [examples omitted] 3 v phr underworld by 1950 To cheat, esp to cheat at cards [examples omitted] 4 v phr by 1980s To lessen; diminish [examples omitted] Probably from the ...
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