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4. Okt. 2024 · In news coverage in the US (I have not noticed this on BrE channels), news presenters (especially on channels like ABC) often skip using the full present continuous (be + verbING) and just use the present participle form instead: Following breaking news this morning, thousands of port workers from across the country going on strike hours ago.
31. Jan. 2019 · 13. You're right. The word "news" doesn't have a plural form. That fact is a good reason to avoid using the pronoun "one". There is a useful description for nouns that don't have plural forms. We call them strictly uncountable. As either an adjective or a pronoun, the word "one" involves counting.
It seems like "tidings" is "news," so it's either plural or singular (as a mass noun). It's really thought provoking and making me so curious what it actually means to say, "news". Here's what I've come up so far: News is telling something that has happened. Or no, a news is a piece of such information. News can be broken up into units of what ...
Basically, in the series title, it means "becoming bad": becoming a bad person or engaging in bad or violent behavior. But "break" in this sense has much richer connotations than "become"—which, of course, is why the show's creator chose to call it Breaking Bad and not Becoming Bad. Explaining connotations is hard, but here goes.
The sentence is correct grammatically whether you say "they are breaking up" or "they were breaking up". In fact, the sentence is indirect speech. If there's a past-tense verb (said, told, announced, etc.) in the reporting clause, we usually change the tense in the reported clause when we form indirect speech. However, if the statement is still ...
However, within that context, it's not as fixed as you make out - many customer service situations will use "sir" or "ma'am" in a variety of situations, especially to stress respect when breaking bad news to a difficult customer. –
11. Mai 2016 · Break-A-Leg as a good luck wish for actors came into use during Vaudeville days. It was not uncommon for acts to not show up or be unable to perform. The director of the theater would book extra acts as "stand-by's". These acts would not be paid unless they would appear on stage by breaking the sight-line of the side curtains, known as "Legs ...
27. Apr. 2016 · 4. The word since is used with two primary meanings: for the duration of a period from a stated time or event up to the present. because. When used in the "durational" sense with reference to a personal event, the event is generally referred to in the simple past tense, or as a point in time: I haven't been to the mall since I got a speeding ...
Disclaimer: I'm not a native English speaker; I'm a native French speaker and English to French translator. Therefore, I had to study the grammar of both languages a bit more than if I had a different occupat
4. Jan. 2015 · In the English news media, the terminology used varies. Secession , a movement by secessionists to secede , refers to the withdrawal of a unit from a larger one in a legal or political sense. For example, people may write of Kosovo seceding from Serbia and Crimea seceding from Ukraine , or the efforts of antebellum slave states to secede from the United States.
