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  1. grammar - English Language Learners Stack Exchange

    Oct 31, 2021 · is asking for causes; it sounds more practical and specific. Answers might be "it happened because the driver of the other car wasn't paying attention", or "it happened because the …

  2. The feeling you get when you suddenly go down a very steep surface

    Mar 30, 2017 · It sounds like you're actually asking about the feeling you get when you've been going down and you suddenly start to go up, right? It's also the feeling you get when you're in an airplane …

  3. Difference between "infected with" and "infected by"

    Apr 29, 2020 · I found both these two versions are being used Infected with coronavirus Infected by coronavirus Cambridge Dictionary gives different definitions for them: to pass a disease to a person, …

  4. Is it “I took a photo of myself” or “I took a photo of me”?

    Sep 14, 2019 · I’ve been thinking about this for a while: if there is a photo, drawing etc. of me that I made, how would I say I created it, using this phrase: I took a photo of {pronoun}. “Of” causes some …

  5. pass away "from" vs "of" - English Language Learners Stack Exchange

    Jun 17, 2017 · When I want to say someone passed away because of a certain reason (cancer, accidents etc), which one would sound more natural between "pass away from" and "pass away of"?

  6. grammar - English Language Learners Stack Exchange

    May 27, 2023 · So "If it's not too much trouble" works fine. But the idiom will interfere and influence speakers to insert the words "of a", especially in natural speech. treating "a trouble" as a countable …

  7. relative clauses - English Language Learners Stack Exchange

    Nov 7, 2015 · If you place an imaginary line through the centre of a symmetrical solid and imagine that a plane (flat)figure is rotating around this line,this figure causes to exist the solid."solid"is a geometric …

  8. idiomatic language - "to stress out for something" - English Language ...

    Aug 26, 2024 · You can give a specific cause of stress ("over the exam", "on account of the interview"), but you can also refer more generally to a stressful situation ("in college"), give background causes …

  9. "Affect" / "Impact" / "Influence" - English Language Learners Stack ...

    Nov 17, 2021 · The consequences of the economic downturn will certainly affect people's lives in every society. This version has the least nuance. It just means what it means: the consequences will have …

  10. expressions - English Language Learners Stack Exchange

    Mar 15, 2016 · Why when someone does something stupid they use "blonde moment"? Isn't it racist or sexist? I am not blond, but to me it is not polite to say such a thing.