I’m running out of space to put things, so I just pile them into my ---------- closet.  1) over-crowded little dark bedroom  2) little over-crowded dark bedroom  I think #1 is far better than #2. However, let me know whether #2 is a possibility or not.
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I remember being taught that the correct order of adjectives in English was something along the lines of "Opinion-Size-Age-Color-Material-Purpose."  However, it's been a long time and I'm pretty sure I've forgotten a few categories (I think there were eight or nine). Can anyone fill them in?
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There are so many ways to call these containers for waste. (correct me if some of them might sound weird/unnatural to use)     garbage can, trash can, rubbish can, pedal can, garbage bin, trash bin, rubbish bin, pedal bin   I'm totally confused. I know some of them might mean the same thing.   But please tell me which is which based on the following pictures by order? Please also let me know where you are from. (US, UK, Canada, Australia, etc...)  1:   2:   3:   4:   5:
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What’s the worst that can happen if i put a switch in the neutral instead of the phase?   I just found out that 3 light bulbs sockets in my home  are connected this way, it first came to my mind to fix it but then I recalled the flow of current from positive to negative is just a convention since the electrons are charged negatively and they actually flow from N to L so i cant really find an solid excuse to mess with the wiring for the next 2 hrs
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Question: Is the first one redundant and proper, or is it redundant and not necessarily correct?  (1) He is a friend of Doug's. (2) He is a friend of Doug.
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0 choices for the 1st person.  17 choices for the 2nd person (must exclude 1st and his/her two neighbours)   For 2 of these choices of 2nd person, there is one shared neighbour, so 15 remaining choices. (e.g. if they are numbered 1 to 20 in a circle, 1st person is #1, 2nd is #3, then people 20,1,2,3,4 are excluded).  For the other 15 choices of 2nd person, there are no shared neighbors, so 14 remaining choices.   So if order matters, total is $20 \cdot (2 \cdot 15 + 15 \cdot 14) $ but since order does not matter, divide by $3! = 6$ to account for the permutations in order of the 3 people.  So total = $20 \cdot \frac{2 \cdot 15 + 15 \cdot 14}{6}$  just redid it; does this make any sense?
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I just wonder if the two following sentences are truth-conditionally the same. Sentence 1 essentially means there existed a student who entered the room, and this situation includes two, three or more students entering the room. Hence, I believe these two sentences are truth-conditionally the same. Are they?        A student entered the room.   At least one student entered the room.      How about        One student entered the room      I gather this is different, as sentence 3 only means one student, not more and not fewer?  Any and all insights would be welcome.
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I'm still packing my clothes. I'll need 10 minutes more.   I'm still packing my clothes. I'll need 10 more minutes.      Are both grammatically correct?
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(1) Andrew looked at him in the mirror.    (2) Andrew looked at himself in the mirror.   Does (1) include (2)’s possibility? Or does him in (1) only refer to someone other than Andrew?
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So, because I'm a hardcore person, I risked all this afternoon by going out in the wind, the rain and the cold to construct a willow den.  Yes, it seems a menial task, but it was actually quite thought-provoking: some pieces of willow were harder to push into the ground than others, and to try and force them in I'd sometimes end up hanging off of them, but other times I'd just push with all my strength, placing my body above the hole and pushing down, my feet still firmly planted on the ground.  Now, I was wondering, which of these two methods is better for sticking the stick into the ground? Ignoring the fact that by hanging from it, it is likely to topple, which method help me be more efficient in my future den-building exploits?  In other words, can you ever exert more downwards force than your weight? If so, then I'm guessing pushing down would be the better method, and if not, then hanging from the stick, putting all your weight into it, would exert the most possible downwards force.  Here's what a willow den looks like:   (source: )
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I have 3 levels in my information architecture for my desktop dashboard. In the vertical navigation which measures H:500px W:200px I have;   Top level: 8 items Second level: 9 items in total (one of my top level item has 7 second levels) Third level: 12 items   Would you use an accordion style (which will make the menu long when expanded) or a sequential drill down menu? and why?  Cheers,  Chris
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My question is what is the difference among these three sentences.   He is big enough to do such  heavy works. He is not big enough to do such heavy works. He is small enough to do such  heavy works.   I am so much confused between 2 and 3.Also, I don't get what the 3rd one means.
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I am currently in the process of planning a room remodel to convert an existing bedroom into a home office and storage room.  One thing that makes this conversion a little bit tricky, is the existence of a breaker box at the rear corner of the room.  As you can see in the image below, we plan to have the back 5' of the room become a storage area (there would be 2' deep shelving units along the back wall, stopping short of the breaker box, we would use this area to store Christmas decorations, misc. stuff, etc..).  I know it is illegal to place a breaker box in a closet that will store clothes or other combustibles.  So my questions would be: 1) how would one define a storage room vs. a closet (i.e.- could this be classified as a walk in closet somehow?) and 2) with > 36" clearance in front, and 30" around, would this be legal?
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Problem (1.8): There are ten girls and four boys in Mr. Fat's combinatorics class. In how many ways can these students sit around a circular table such that no boys are next to each other.   My Attempt: Total number of ways in which both boys are girls can be arranged on a circular table is $13!$ and the number of ways in which any two boys can be together is $2!*12!$. Therefore the answer is $13!-2*12!=11*12!$. Is this answer correct? I am asking this because I am confused about the exact meaning of the line "no boys are together." Does this mean that no two/three/four boys are together?   Note: Meanwhile I have made another attempt on the problem. We can place the $10$ girls on the circular table in $9!$ ways. Then we are left with $10$ spots which need to be filled with $4$ boys. This can be done in $P^{10}_4$ ways. Thus, the number of ways is $9!P^{10}_4$.
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Whenever I go through the big pile of socks that just went through the laundry, and have to find the matching pairs, I usually do this like I am a simple automaton:  I randomly pick a sock, and see if it matches any of the single socks I picked out earlier and that haven't found a match yet. If there is a match, I will fold the two socks together and put them in the 'done' pile, otherwise I will add the single sock to the 'no match yet' pile of single socks, and pick out another random sock.  So, as I was doing this last night, I started thinking about this, and figured that the following would be true: The 'no match yet' pile can be expected to slowly grow, up to some point somewhere in the 'middle' of the process, after which the pile will gradually shrink, and eventually go down back to $0$. In fact, my intuition is that the expected number of loose socks as a function of the number of socks picked so far, is a symmetric function, with the maximum being when I have picked half of the socks.  So, my questions are:  With $n$ pairs of socks, what is the expected number of loose socks that are in my 'no match yet' pile after having picked $k$ socks?  Is it true that this function is a symmetric function, and that the maximum is for $k=n$? (if so, I figure there must be a conceptual way of looking at the problem that makes this immediately clear, without using any formulas ... what is that way? Is it just that I can think of reversing the process?)  Of course, this is all assuming there are $n$ pairs of socks total, and that there are no single socks in the original pile, and while this is something that never seems to apply to the pile of socks coming through my actual laundry, let's assume for the sake of mathematical simplicity that there really just are $n$ pairs of socks.
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I am confused as to some of the vocabulary that can be used to compare numbers and quantities, and would very much appreciate some clarification.   I suppose it is safe to say that 1 is smaller than 2.   Can I also say that 1 is less than 2, and if so, which form is preferable?   It seems that saying that 1 is lesser than 2 is uncommon - but is it incorrect?   Finally, -2 is clearly less than -1, but is it true that -2 is smaller than -1? (If I have 2$ of debt, then I would say that I have less money than if I had 1$ of debt, but I would also say that my debt was larger, not smaller).
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I'm wondering if I could merge two unallocated spaces as shown in the picture below:    I would like to combine the two unallocated spaces into a single space for further partitioning.
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I have a medium-sized list (about a few dozen items, the container is very likely to have internal vertical scrolling). There is no sorting, so items are displayed in the order of their addition to the list. They are added through a series of controls located above the list with a "submit" button at the end. A colleague and I disagree as to where the new items should appear &ndash; at the bottom of the list, or at the top.