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I'll play / I'm going to play / I'm playing - WordReference Forums
I think all three answers are possible but with different meanings."A" means"I have already planned" to play tennis with Antoine. B and C both mean"I can't meet you because I don't want to. I'd rather" play tennis with Antoine. Are my interpretations correct? Thanks.
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There is/are a pen and three pencils in the pencil case.
There is/are a pen and three pencils in the pencil case. In an example like this where the complement is a coordination of two NPs, one singular and the other plural, the concept of 'proximity' may apply, whereby the preferred verb-form is the one that agrees with the proximate preceding or following NP.
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Three-and-twenty years old! - WordReference Forums
In the book"Emma" by Jane Austen I have seen that they say the numbers exactly like in German. Instead of"twenty-three" they say"three-and-twenty" (like :confused: ). Why is that? Were the numbers read that way before??? Or is that a humorous way of talking? I had never seen that before.
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3-day or 3-days? - WordReference Forums
3-day session. Franglais1969's suggestion is better... It's good style to spell out numbers less than ten (though there are exceptions, and it depends who you are writing for.)
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Since three years ago - WordReference Forums
Is it okay to use"since" with ~ago. For example: She has been studying English since three years ago. Thank you.
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twice as likely as ... or twice as likely than... - WordReference Forums
I am very confused about how to make comparative using be likely to. I found the following the sentneces and wonder which one is corret. women are twice as likely to have depression than men. Women are twice as likely as men to have depression. Women are twice as likely to have depression...
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Once is [a] chance, twice is [a] coincidence, three times is [a ...
Hello, I wonder why the article a is used with the word pattern only. Why are not all the bold words used either with the article or none? Once is chance, twice is coincidence, three times is a pattern Even when I came across a different wording of the quote the article issue is still there...
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half/twice as much as, two/three times more than
So my liver metabolizes caffeine three times slower than a fast metabolizer. Often restaurants will do happy hour deals where the food is two or three times cheaper than it is during the regular hours. These are examples I found with"3 times slower/cheaper". However, I didn't find any with"3 times as slow/cheap" or"a third as fast/expensive ...
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Telling time: a quarter or quarter [to/past] - WordReference Forums
Probably the best-known instance of its omission is the song"One For My Baby," by Johnny Mercer and Harold Arlen (the most famous recording was by Frank Sinatra). It's a"story song," and the singer, whose girlfriend has just left him, is sitting in a bar at 2:45 a.m. In the opening lines, he addresses the bartender:"It's quarter to three ...
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All Slavic languages: one, two, three.. vs"once, two, three ...
In Bulgarian both are possible 1. raz, dva, tri 2. edno, dve, tri When counting in Bulgarian, we always use the neuter forms for one and two.
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