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You have to use the first option. As a general rule, adjectives which consist of one syllable (like "strange") or which end in "-y" (like "happy") use the "-er" and "-est" suffixes, while other adjectives use "more" and "most".LifeDeath wrote:"The strangest way to make food" or "The most strange way to make food"
Levente wrote:I believe the first option is okay, while the second is simply wrong.
But then I'm not a native speaker so I might be wrong.
LifeDeath wrote:Thank you.
What option is correct?
"make tea" or make a tea"
LifeDeath wrote:I heard another Queen song "MotherLove" and I heard lyrics "out in the city in the cold world outside". I cannot understand what is it "out in" may be correct way here is "out of" ?
LifeDeath wrote:"" In 1861 the War Between the States[*] began. It had been going oncontinued with a big great bitterness until 1865, when the Northerners gained their victory. But nowadays, many Southerners still haven’t forgotten their defeat and haven’t forgiven Northerners.
Several years ago, a group of American students was walking on the battlefields of the Civil War with a guide who was from one of the Southern states. Everywhere they went, he told the tourists[***] stirring the imagination stories which stirred the imagination about some soldiers of from the South[**] who had defeated powerful forces of the northernerNorth.
At last, one of the tourists, a woman of from the North, stopped athe guide and asked: “However,But the Northerners must have had at least one victory in the Civil War.”
“While I am the guide here, madam, nope”[****] answered the guide of from the South.""
LifeDeath wrote:1.In the second sentence we have two actions in past and the first of them happened before the second ((1)...until 1865, when...(2)) Is it incorrect to use past perfect here?
LifeDeath wrote:2."Stirring the imagination stories" Is also incorrect? Or "stories which stirred the imagination" is just better to say?
It is possible to use "most strange" instead of "strangest", but it has a different meaning. "Most" in "most strange" is closer to "very" or "extremely" than it is to a superlative.linguoboy wrote:Levente wrote:I believe the first option is okay, while the second is simply wrong.
But then I'm not a native speaker so I might be wrong.
As a native speaker, I disagree that only "strangest" is acceptable. But I'm part of the camp that believes that if it was good enough for Shakespeare ( "It seems to me most strange that men should fear[.]"--Julius Caesar), then it's good enough for me.
Google "most strange" and you'll find plenty of examples from living native speakers. Several represent the same somewhat archaic usage typified above, often utilising the "[noun] most [adjective]" construction made famous through the title of the 1964 Miss Marple film Murder Most Foul. But others do not (e.g. "What do you find about this plan most strange?" from The Da Vinci Code).
Dormouse559 wrote:It is possible to use "most strange" instead of "strangest", but it has a different meaning. "Most" in "most strange" is closer to "very" or "extremely" than it is to a superlative.linguoboy wrote:Levente wrote:I believe the first option is okay, while the second is simply wrong.
But then I'm not a native speaker so I might be wrong.
As a native speaker, I disagree that only "strangest" is acceptable. But I'm part of the camp that believes that if it was good enough for Shakespeare ( "It seems to me most strange that men should fear[.]"--Julius Caesar), then it's good enough for me.
Google "most strange" and you'll find plenty of examples from living native speakers. Several represent the same somewhat archaic usage typified above, often utilising the "[noun] most [adjective]" construction made famous through the title of the 1964 Miss Marple film Murder Most Foul. But others do not (e.g. "What do you find about this plan most strange?" from The Da Vinci Code).
LifeDeath wrote:1. Is it possible to use "let" in the passive voice? Something like "I am let to use this mobile phone by my friend", "I rememberd I had been let to ask only one question"
LifeDeath wrote:2. If I want to say something like "A man has been killed by lightning" must I use "by" or "with"?
I read a rule said that if we have a deal with unalive thing, we must use "with" and "by" with alive.
But for me "...killed with lightning" sounds strange.
LifeDeath wrote:3. Can I use "ain't" if I want to say "don't"? For example: "-What is her name? -oh, I'm sorry, I ain't know".
LifeDeath wrote:Thank you.
I asked a lot of questions about the situation I heard in the Queen's songs, because in their songs I really often meet uncomprehensible sentences. I have many questions from their songs to ask, but now I remember only one, but I will ask others after my finding out it.
In the song called "The Miracle" there's a sentence "Test tube babies being born". For me it sounds incorret, i think the correct way is "Test tube babies are being born". Why did not they use "be"?
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