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2008-07-02 perfect vs perfectly: Dear Alex Guess what? You're right. 'OK' is the same as 'all right'. You are describing something as being all right - as it is a 'thing' (noun), you must be using an adjective. 'Perfectly' is an...
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2008-07-01 about "nowadays": Dear Larry, I don't know where you saw that article, but it would be entirely wrong - the word is perfectly common, though 'these day' is also used NOWADAYS as an alternative. It's generally used where...
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2008-07-01 vocabulary: Dear Pavel, You're right that it's a metaphor - from the single identifiable event, these 'ripples' spread out in all directions, so that people and places not DIRECTLY affected by the event, can still...
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2008-06-28 make a meal: Dear Yuri, Careful here, because 'to make of meal of smg' is actually an idiom, and not to do with food. In both your examples, 'from' would be correct, because you take the starting materials/ingredients...
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2008-06-27 slap: Dear Alex, if you slap someone ON his/her back (or pat them if you are being gentle), it means that you are congratulating them for something. I think possibly the word you are looking for is 'spank'...
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