My friend had an exam but he didn't come because he was sick. Then he needs to pass the exam even he wasn't there. What is the verb or phrase which describes what he needs to do?  ("making-up" the missing works here?)  In addition, in Europe, in some of the universities if you didn't come then you have to pay to the university on the missing class and then you have to go with the receipt to the professor of the missed class and you have to represent the topic that you missed and show him that you studied by yourself, and he asks question about the topic in order to ensure that this student controls in the topic. Is it called "making up" classes or it is something else?
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I'm looking for one word which describes what a student who missed classes needs to do in order to complete his missing.   For example if he missed biology class he needs to seat with the teacher and study this missed class together with her and then he get the mark for this missed class. Someone -who isn't native English speaker- told me that it's called "rework". But I looked for it in some dictionaries (such as ) and I didn't find such definition.   : "SCHEDULE of reworks of missed classes"
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There are a lot of posts on this topic, but I can't find any answers to my question.  I came across the following two definitions of 'school':        [uncountable] (used without the or a) the process of learning in a   school; the time during your life when you go to a school (British   English)   [uncountable] (used without the or a) the time during the day when   children are working in a school      Source:   I know there are better ways to convey the message, but which sentence would a teacher utter if he was a school teacher teaching students, adults, etc.? What about a janitor, director, and secretary?     I teach at/in school OR I teach at/in a school   The above definitions concern students, and not working individuals like teachers or janitors.  I would appreciate if you also stated whether you're American, Canadian, British, etc.
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First of all, English is not my first language. I have a question, maybe a basic one, about this phrase:     The situation highlights the mismatch between some areas of training and available jobs to/for them.   Should it be "available jobs to them" or "available jobs for them"?  Sorry if the question is really basic.
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What's the name for a part of speech which is not quite rhetorical, but not expected to be answered directly, either? I know the word exists, it refers to greetings such as "How are you" and similar. There's a very specific term for those greetings and I cannot recall it.  It's not perfunctory or pro forma; it very specifically refers to a common query that isn't really a question but a conversation opener. Might be from a specialized field like linguistics.  Frustrating!
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Once again, a problem encountered while marking German pupils' exams. We teach them the following rules:     A present participle can be used to shorten an active relative clause:         The boy who was driving the car didn't stop = The boy driving the red car didn't stop         A past participle can be used to shorten a passive relative clause:         Strawberries which are grown in California are delicious = Strawberries grown in California are delicious.      While marking, I encountered several problems. For example, why does this not work:     The girl who has black hair is in the corner   NOT   The girl having black hair is in the corner   or     That's the man who is happy to be here   NOT   That's the man being happy to be here   Does this all have to do with:   the verbs have and be? (But "The girl, being happy, phoned her friend") the continuous and simple forms? (But "We help people who live in ghettos = we help people living in ghettos") the tenses?    Or what? I'm totally stumped by this problem and do not know how to explain the pupils' mistakes to them. The problem seems to occur mostly with the use of the present participle. Who can help with some explanations or even better, specific rules!
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Consider the case where a professor is erasing a board and one of the teaching assistant tries to help him by erasing part of the board.   Unfortunately, while trying to pick up the eraser, the teaching assistant bumps into the professor and they both drop their erasers.  An outside observer sees this and says the TA is ______, rather than helping.   The missing word or phrase would capture the good intentions but also express the fact that the intended help had the opposite of the intended effect.  In Mandarin Chinese, the phrase 帮倒忙 comes to mind, but the Google translation "disservice" does not quite capture it.
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I don’t know how to describe this properly. I just translated what description to English that I use in my native language (Bangla/বাংলা) The situation is like this: Some people always need others’ help to do things. They seek help for every little step. If you aggregate the help, you'll find that they didn't do anything by themselves. They got someone to help them to do every small task. For example, Robert asks Andrew how to post question on . Then he asks where to type the title even though the Title input label is seen very clearly. After that Robert will ask “Hey Andrew, Could you tell me some good title sentences that I can put here?” It goes on. Robert is not actually asking questions. He is asking for so many details that it makes Andrew do the whole task. My question is how to tell Andrew, “I can not feed you every time by my own hand”? Is there any single word? Any idiom?
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Many times I heard people say that "beat up someone". But on the internet, I can only found this definition which does not seem matching with the word beat up in the above sentence  "beat-up:(of a thing) worn out by overuse; in a state of disrepair."   So, what does the preposition "up" mean in "He got beaten up by other kids in school"?  Note: "beat" means "strike repeatedly" &amp; "beat up" also means "strike repeatedly". So, "up" should have a certain meaning and what is the difference between "beat" and "beat up"?
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I saw a spelling mistake on an SO question: submittion. That got me wondering, is there a name for the shift of ‑mit‑ to ‑miss‑ in submission, permission, admission and so on? Are there other patterns like this in English words? (Not simple stuff like dropping an e for confuse/confusion) and if so, are these patterns related to the language we took the word from?
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In the following sentence of today’s Time magazine’s article titled "Obama's Afghanistan problem: Neither Karzai nor the Taliban like the 'Reconciliation' Script," the word absent appears to be used as a preposition having the sense of ‘without.’   “Karzai's independent power base is minimal, as is his ability to influence the outcome of his country's civil war absent direct U.S. involvement. And that gives neither Karzai nor the Taliban much incentive to cut a deal with the other.”  As I don’t think I’ve seen case ‘absent’ being used in this way, I consulted OALD. It defines ‘absent’ only as a noun and verb. The Cambridge online dictionary also defines it as an adjective meaning ‘not in the place where you are expected to be, especially at school or work.’  Is it natural to use ‘absent’ as a preposition as used above? For example, would you casually say ‘It won’t go well absent your help’ in your daily conversation? Is it the same with the usage pattern of ‘short of’?
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I'm fairly certain this has happened to all of us at some point: You go into a room to get something, but once you're there, you can't remember what you intended to get. It seems like a specific, common phenomenon like this must have a name, but I can't think of it. Does anyone know a name (either formal or slang) for this?  I don't want a general term like forgetfulness or absent-mindedness, which could apply to all sorts of forgetting, or a term for not being able to remember a certain word. I'm looking for a word or phrase that describes this one specific situation of forgetting what you need to get as soon as you go to get it.
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I was wondering if any American writers could give me some advice as to whether the following expressions/vocab are used and understood in the US:  (words in bold are the ones I'm asking about. Some words are also in inverted commas)   The living room of a house -- is this expression ok? Do you ever say "front room" or "sitting room"? If it's a massive house with a huge entertainment area, can you say "living area"? I was tickled -- is this expression ok? It means happy. "My college mate wants to hang out at my digs" - meaning my place, or college dorm. Would digs be used? Is college mate an ok expression for someone you go to college with? In the real world, do people stop on the shoulder or the hard shoulder of a highway or is either fine? Is median strip used for the partition between 2 lanes of a highway going in different directions? "He takes the piss out of every banker he meets" -- meaning he mocks them. Is this used? Can you say "I'm pissed off at him" (angry) or does it have to be: "I'm pissed at him." "I called my parents' landline (fixed home phone)." Is landline ok? "I tried on the jeans in the changing room." Is this ok or does it have to be fitting room or something else? Is the word "thingamajig" used in American English? "I can't walk on my ropey leg" -- meaning damaged or injured or tired. Can ropey be used? Security guards are surveilling the place. This verb is showing up as misspelt but I see it sometimes. Is there another spelling or verb?   13.In the real world, do people in the US use MPH or KPH as the unit of speed when driving?   Is the expression "Calm my jitters" acceptable? (calm my nerves) If you pull up to a mansion surrounded by a fence with very thick metal bars all around it, is the word "fence" appropriate or is there a better word. I think that gate would only be for a door in a fence or something? Is the expression "It cost a pretty penny" ever used in the US? Is the expression "It took every ounce of strength" used in the US? Can the word "skiff" be used in the US for a sort of flat-bottomed row boat?   Thank you so much to anyone willing to give advice about these points. Though I appreciate any input, I think it would be most useful to hear from actual American writers to avoid possible confusion.   Many thanks!  Follow up questions:  Thanks to all those who gave their very useful opinions. I have a couple more questions for anyone willing to give advice:   What do you call the area (let's say on the 10th floor) in front of an elevator door? Is there a specific word like "the landing"? When you enter a house (without a mud room), there is a space just past the front door which is not really a room, but it's like the entrance way/hallway between the front door and other rooms like the living room, study. Is this called a "hallway"? It's not a lobby, obviously as that would be for a hotel or something. Can it be the "entrance hall"? If you are using WASP-y as an adjective, do you have to write it like "WASP-y" or "WASPy". I'm guessing "waspy" hasn't become a thing yet?   Thank you!
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What is the correct word to describe the people who have not finished their work after the deadline?   For the antonym, there is finisher, but I can't find *unfinisher in the dictionary.
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Manager to player       Kindly practice every day     Please practice every day    Teacher to student       Kindly wipe the blackboard     Please wipe the blackboard    Student to teacher       Kindly give me a blank paper     Please give me a blank paper    Sister to brother      Kindly pass the butter     Please pass the butter    Which is correct usage in the above contexts?
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Let's suppose a teacher wants to punish a student and wants to decrease his / her achieved points on a test paper; he would say something to the student; I would like to know which one of the following self-made examples may work here:        I have to take two marks of you.   I have to take two grades of you.   I have to take two scores of you.   I have to take two points of you.      For me all the first three mean the same and though the last one is not the same, but works here either. I need to get your feedback.
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I remember there was a thread here on English.SE this month where someone explained this, but I can't remember how it was called. An example:     Where have you stolen this product?   This question implies that you've stolen this product, although I don't know for a fact you really did.
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I was trying to write “I was using the lecture's flow of logic”, as to say that I was following the logic that was in the lecture. But I am corrected by a spell-checker.   I tried to google it, but this leads me to another much more silly question. How do you call that “..'s” that designates ownership / association? I really did try to google it, but since “'s” is such a bad search term, and any formation for "What do you call that 's you add to designate ownership" I could think of, yielded anything but the answer I was looking for.   So my question is twofold.    What is the name of that 's thing? I guess it is not the "ownership 's" :) Is it perhaps called officially the ‘possessive s’? Is saying "lecture's" (pertaining to the lecture) valid English grammar? Or is it valid grammar but people just don't say it this way?