Des questions concernant des phrases d'exemple avec, et la définition et l'utilisation de "Verb"

A: "To spare" someone means to take pity on them or pardon them

For example: "The king spared the criminal" would be like saying "The king pardoned the criminal and let him live"

A: I don't use the word "annex" in my daily language.

Children and teenagers never use this word.
Adults use this word the most, but even then, not a lot of adults use it either.

Example sentences:
They will visit the transportation annex next week.

The technical annex has not been published yet.

We ask for this annex and for Baroness Harding to re-appear before the Committee.

The annex with open next Tuesday.

The photo in the newspaper annex grabbed my attention for that reason too.

Prepare to implement the Standards and Recommended Practices contained in ICAO Annex 14.

I was standing between the Pentagon and the Naval Annex.

The achievement includes the campus' three properties: Moda Center, Veterans Memorial Coliseum and the Annex offices.

On EU aircraft, halon fire extinguishers have an end date after which they shall not be used and they should be decommissioned. This requirement is contained in EC 1005/2009 as amended by EC 744/2010, see Annex VI.

A: Estar errado em algo

Ou

Erro/Errar


Exemplos:

Am I wrong
(Eu estou errado?)

Wrong things
(Coisas erradas)

Did you wrong that question?
(Você errou aquela pergunta?)


That = Essa/Esse/Aquele/Aquela

A: To take someone to court in an attempt to get money from them for a perceived wrong doing.

"You broke my window and won't pay to fix it. I'm going to sue you (in court for damages)."

A: In modern English, you hardly ever see that verb in its present tense form ‘rive.’

You mostly just see its past participle - ‘riven.’

Riven = split or torn apart violently

E.g. The British Conservative party has long been riven by disagreements over Europe.

A: Gasp: to inhale suddenly with the mouth open, sometimes from pain or surprise

I was surprised so I gasped.
He gasped sharply at the pain.
After the marathon, all the runners were gasping for breath.
"I gasp at your ignorance," she said. (gasp = be greatly surprised; still means inhaling; uncommon usage)

Watching a video shows 'gasping' pretty clearly.

A: Every night, the television network broadcasts the national news.
Jessica broadcasts herself playing Fortnite to thousands of fans.

Bill sold fake Mickey Mouse T-shirts on eBay, but they infringe on Disney's property, so he was sued.
The police are infringing on people's rights by searching their houses without approval from a judge.

SpaceX will launch a rocket with people on board into space in May.
When will Apple launch the next version of the iPad?

Scrape the food into the garbage can before you put the dish into the dishwasher.
Bill got fired from his job, so he has to scrape for the money to pay for rent and food.

The city unveiled its new plan to build 1,000 new houses next year.
Everyone gasped when the artist unveiled his new painting, but the frame was empty.

A: in that form, the second clause is often passive voice. For example:

Dave stopped paying rent 6 months ago, and has since been evicted.

With the arrival of the new administration, many trade deals have since been cancelled.

The government cut taxes, and many social programs have since been cancelled due to lack of funding.

A: The word “chat” can work as either a noun or a verb, as you mentioned. It means the same thing as “talk” but mostly in a casual way.

Examples:
1. Would you like to chat with me for a while?
2. The boys are chatting about race cars.
3. We had a chat yesterday about politics.

A: I will hang the picture on the wall.
He was hanging off of the edge of the cliff.
I hung the picture on the wall.

For execution by hanging, when you say that they WERE killed that way, you need to say "This person was HANGED", not "hung".

A: They have similar meanings ! But “planning to” gives a connotation that the person has more than one step that he or she is thinking of doing

A: “going to” implies a location like “i’m going to the store” or “i’m going to see a friend” but “will” means you’re planning to do something like “i will get this done” or “i will do my homework”

A: Regular verbs are verbs that follow the standard rules of conjugation (so putting -ed after the stem). For example: I walk, I walked, I have walked.
Irregular verbs are verbs that differ from these standard rules. For example: I write, I wrote, I have written.

A: Very little. There is an argument that "like verb-ing" is used to talk about enjoyment of an activity more, and "like to verb" is used to talk about choices and habits associated with activities, but I doubt many people think like that when they hear the two ways of phrasing the sentence.

So "I like reading" and "I like to read" mean essentially the same thing. "I like paying my bills on Tuesdays" would sound a bit weird, if not sarcastic, because it sounds like you're saying that you ENJOY paying your bills on a Tuesday , but "I like to pay my bills on Tuesdays" would be better because it sounds like you have the habit of paying your bills on a Tuesday.

A: You would use "going to be" to emphasize that the action is ongoing at a particular time.

I am going to cook dinner this evening.
I am going to be cooking when you get home.

I am going to cook tomorrow.
I am going to be cooking all day tomorrow.

A: yes, you can also say "Success lies in your hard work"
I'm not so sure about rest with.

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A: Isolate
Track
Evolve
Compress

A: reprisal means retaliation. But reprise doesn’t mean retaliate. That’s why I used “retaliate”.

A: "Following a series" works!

or you can say you're "keeping up with the series"

A: Inversion doesn't happen when you're using a question word (what, who, when, why, where, how) and the question word is the subject.

How many people speak English? A billion people speak English. ("how many people" is the subject)
Which schools teach Chinese? Many universities teach Chinese.
("which schools" is the subject)

What language do most people want to learn? Most people want to learn English. ("people" is the subject, not "what")
How do people learn English? People learn English by taking classes, reading books and using phone apps. ("people" is the subject, not "how")

A: 情報を覚えたり理解したりするのが「頭に入れること」だとすれば、難しいことやややこしいことだと同じ比喩を借りて表現すると「でかすぎて入りにくい」「形が独特で入りにくい」というような考え方です。

そういうときは、寝袋をケースに入れるときのように、スポンッといれるよりはケースを何とか頑張って本体に巻いていくパターンを想像してみれば分かりやすいのではないかな。

Also, yes, it’s commonly used for things that are new and hard to conceptualize.

A:
I think anything like yesterday, two days ago, hours ago… would be good for past perfect, as long as it’s in the past.

For present perfect, usually the time marker will be “now”, because present perfect means you were working on something and finished something just now.

A: No, it didn't become a verb.
The verb is "to relax".

A: Certainly, using "speak" is the normal way to say it. But, I have heard "say" used. My advice would be "stick to what is the majority use". It is the correct word, so why not use it?