Correct position of "only" - English Language & Usage Stack …
An Ngram chart of "can only do so much" (blue line) versus "can do only so much" (red line) for the period 1850–2005 shows a rather remarkable increase in the frequency of the first expression since about 1970, a period during which the frequency of …
meaning - "If" vs "Only if" vs "If and only if" - English Language ...
2017年4月13日 · It is only redundant because you misinterpret it. You say it's the same as "only if". But it is not. "Only if", as you say, means "no guarantee he will yell if you fall". The first if provides just that guarantee. In other words, 3 is a combination of 1 and 2, and you simply failed to combine your correct reasoning for 1 and 2 into the correct ...
grammaticality - About using "only" with present perfect - English ...
Only usually precedes its focus, but need not immediately precede it; for example, John only drinks beer can be intrepreted with beer as focus even though only is separated from it by drinks. Basically, the rule is that only must bind some focussed item (word, phrase, or …
phrases - "Only when..." vs "it was only when..." - English Language ...
You can use either "only when" and "It was only when", both are very similarly used. However there is a subtle difference in the pace/style of the story-telling in both cases. In "Only When", there is a sense of urgency, a slightly more 'involved' writing.
Inversion after 'only when', 'only after', 'only if', 'only in this way ...
When only after, only if, only in this way etc. are placed at the beginning of the sentence for rhetorical effect, the subject and auxiliary are inverted: Only after lunch can you play. (You can only play after lunch.) Only after finishing your homework can you play. (You can only play after you finish your homework.)
'Only few' or 'only a few' - English Language & Usage Stack …
2017年3月20日 · Only a few friends came to his party yesterday. Only few friends came to his party yesterday. Why I am asking this is because we had this sentence in a competition paper in my country and according to them, the second one is correct although it sounds wrong to me. Edit: The first one was said to be incorrect.
Why does 'coed' only mean female coeducational students?
Even though logically both males and females in a co-educational environment could be called 'co-eds', only females were. At the time of adoption of this word (the late 19th c), most colleges were predominately male, and for the college to become 'co-educational' the newer students who were also much fewer in number, were the females.
Is "ho"/"hoe" basically an equivalent of "whore" which differs only ...
2019年9月25日 · Additional to user067531's excellent answer: In English people will often use derogatory words (or variants of those words) in ways that would typically be viewed as hurtful, but given the context in which they're used they become almost an in-joke.
I'm looking for a descriptive word for someone who only sees …
2019年5月5日 · I'm looking for a word that refers to someone who only sees things the way they want to see them. "She just can't seem to take someone else's view into account. She's very ____." Something along those lines.
What is a word to describe something that belongs exclusively to …
2017年1月11日 · The question asked for ' a word (or idiom or phrase) that describes something which is perceived as belonging to one person or group of people only'. Which 'peculiar to' fits. if there is some other aspect to my answer that is incorrect in some way, it will be easier for me to correct if you let me know what it is.