A newspaper of the ruling Communist Party ( said Saturday ) that no religion is above the law in China, urging officials to stay firm while dealing with a rare protest over the planned demolition of a massive mosque in the northwest. is it said on Saturday ?
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When I'm talking about habit or custom, can I say:     "The king comes on Sunday and goes Monday."   without using the preposition "on" before "Monday"?
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I'm just wondering where does the word "News" come from. Is it from the word "New" which means things that did not exist before?
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I'm a non-native speaker completely stuck trying to formulate a negative question. Full disclosure: I'd like to use it as a title for a university paper and I could not find any help around.  This is the question/title:     Why did the Industrial Revolution did not occur in China during the Ming/Qing period?   I highlighted the sources of my doubts.  In the title I'd like to ask why the Industrial Revolution (which happened in Britain) did not happen (during the same period) in China.  Should I rather say     Why did the Industrial Revolution not occur in China during the Ming/Qing period?   Thank you in advance  Edit: maybe this question should belong to "english language learners"
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I was amused by the expression "Paid a penny and only farted" (related by @FumbleFingers), which suggested a similar Japanese saying: 大山鳴動鼠一匹 - "Find only a small mouse coming out after hearing rumblings and experiencing shaking of the big mountain."  It’s humorous. I chuckled when I read it, and I wrote to the author that I love it.  With that said, the word "fart" reminds me of another Japanese proverb, 百日の説法屁一つ- "A fart ruins 100 days of sermons by the priest", which means that a small mistake (the sound of a fart in front of the congregation) brings all his efforts to naught.  It can’t happen in big Western churches. But it could well happen in a small wooden temple where a priest would preach to 30 – 50 provincial followers. Can you imagine how the proud priest being called 'the venerable' would be embarrased when his loud fart is heard by all his followers during his serious sermon and they start to giggle here and there in the hall?  We also have a similar saying" 九仞の功を一簣に欠く, which literally means "Collapse a 9- meter sand tower with the last pile of sand."  What is the English equivalent of the saying "A fart ruins 100 days of sermons by the priest (bishop): a small mistake depreciates the value of (vitiates) all labor and effort to naught," preferably in such a humorous way?
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Dear language professionals,  What are grounds for using shortish phrase "Life vest under your seat" on the warning sign on the planes.  Is it stylistically caused? If this style allows main verb omission? Or it is just an unmotivated verb omission?
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This morning I read this sentence (see ):     On July 24th and again on July 29th,   Egyptian police did shoot dead unarmed   African migrants attempting to cross   that border.   Why "did shoot" and not "shot"?
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It may be something that will happen to the person who is having the feeling but it may also be to several persons, as might occur with a highly destructive earthquake, for instance.   The word or phrase would be used in the following sentence:      “I’m no spiritualist but I have a feeling of ___. I hope it’s just a feeling."   EDIT - The phrase I'm looking for conveys a much stronger feeling than "I have a bad hunch". It is about something catastrophic which the person feels is "going to happen in a few minutes".
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To the Dutch, milk and cheese are staples, as essential a part of the weekly shop as rice is for a Chinese shopper or teabags are for an Englishman.   This is a sentence from an article on CNN. I don't understand why it is not "an essential part of the weekly shop".  Can you tell me about any rules or grammar in this phrase, please?
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I saw  while in 1:19 Sec I have heard so:     "I happen to be pro-life"   What does it mean? I have tried to find it on some dictionaries (Cambridge, Oxford and Merriam Webster) and I didn't find the meaning.
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Microsoft Word has underlined a question I typed starting with "why not." Something along the lines of:     Why not walk to the hall every morning before the sun has risen and while the streets are empty?   According to Word, this is a non-standard question.   Is it correct in a semi-formal article that's intended for the Internet audience? I thought it was standard enough.
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I came across an English learner writing     It snowed hard Monday.   After saying that it didn't snow on Friday and Saturday.  It didn't quite feel right to me.  I'd be okay with     It snowed hard.   or     It snowed Monday.   Is it okay for there to be two things ("hard" and "Monday") modifying the snowing without an "on" breaking things up a bit?
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Breitbart today:   What is the source for the term nothing-burger?
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Reopen note:  There is a quite finite and modest amount of evidence in the literature about this issue, which members can record here as they see fit. Less than there is for example about what a noun is or what a verb is, or how to tell what the Subject of a sentence is. It's a simple question, that people need to be able to get answered on a site such as this. It is of continuing interest as more recent questions such as  attest to. The fact that people disagree about the outcome of the evidence does not mean that there is too much evidence to be documented. Quite the reverse. They disagree because there is relatively little evidence altogether. However, it is seriously interesting evidence.   The question   What part of speech is to as in:   I need to know. To err is human, to forgive divine. What am I to do?   This question is not really about the difference in meaning between the examples. It is a question about what grammatical or syntactic reasons we have to classify this item as a particular part of speech. If arguing that it is 'its own part of speech', I'd like to know what grammatical - but not historical - reasons you have for your claim.   Just to clarify, I'm not asking about what assignment any particular authority or publication gives it. I'm interested to know the reasons why. Your own personal insights are also very welcome.  If you're a grammar anorak - like me - then you may want a list of the contenders out there from other grammarians. In no particular order:   preposition subordinator non-finite auxiliary verb modal verb inflectional element   Can you help?
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Taken from BBC   Interim President Oleksandr Turchynov described the referendum as a "great farce" which "will never be recognised either by Ukraine or by the civilised world".  My try is   Interim President Oleksandr Turchynov described the referendum as a "great farce" which "will never be recognised neither by Ukraine nor by the civilised world".
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I was watching Google map. Saw a line which is joinging north to south pole. It is going between middle of China and Mexico. But, the line is not straight. Tried to search in net but not able to get anything. Can anyone check and let me know  or
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Back in 2012 when China first blocked all Google services, thereby preventing non-VPN users from proving their non-roboticness, someone quickly opened this thread on Meta:    The consensus at the time was "we can't think of a better way of doing things".  Well, 3 years have passed and China is showing no signs of unbanning Google. Meanwhile, CAPTCHA technology has evolved. Can the SE admins please revisit this situation? People in China without a VPN are completely unable to prove they are not bots. I couldn't even search for the phrase "pgp" on Security.SE without hitting the human verification barrier. Blocking questions is one thing, but searches also? I think that's too strict.  (yes, I wrote this with my VPN)
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Someone seems to be playing with the Stackexchange Hot Question algorithm:    This question seems to be the coordinated work of about a dozen entirely new users (created today) to post a "question" that gets a high "hotness" score.  I don't know any Chinese and Google Translate is imperfect, but it seems to be entirely content-free (having only meta-content) and should only exist on their meta site (if there is a reason for it to exist at all).  The fact that all participating users seem to be entirely new and are up-voting is rather strange as well (and borders on cheating, in my book).