the bottom has fallen from my world the world has fallen from my bottom  These are examples of ?
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What is the rhetorical device/argument called when one says:     All surgeons are doctors, but not all doctors are surgeons.
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Please consider the following and fill in the blank.  This has driven me crazy ever since I moved to florida.  How would somebody say the travel often by a boat without any sails.   I drove from New York to California.  &lt;-- By Car I flew from New York to California. &lt;-- By plane I sailed from New York to London. &lt;-- by Sailboat I blank from New York to Florida &lt;-- by motorboat
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Is physicist Robert Oppenheimer's phrase “Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.” grammatical in English? Why not "becoming" or "now I become"?
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And finally (since he had started looking at the inadequacies of his life, why not make a comprehensive survey?) there was his recent weight gain; a full stone and a half, so that he not only felt fat and unfit, but was putting unnecessary additional strain on the prosthetic lower leg he was now resting on the brass bar beneath the table.......   He returned to the bar to buy a third pint. Back at his table beneath the cupola, he drew out his mobile phone and called a friend in the Metropolitan Police whose friendship, though of only a few years’ duration, had been forged under exceptional conditions.   (The Cuckoo’s Calling, by Robert Galbraith)     The chart that a grammar text has drawn says that ‘beneath’ is under a position, making contact with underneath of something; and ‘under’ is lower than that. But it seems not like that way when I look up Merriam-Webster’s examples below and the above example from Galbraith's story book. I rather say that 'under' and 'beneath' are used with the same meaning.     We had a picnic beneath a large tree.   We sat under a tree and rested a while.      the ground beneath [=underneath] her feet   I'm wearing a sweater under my jacket.   Does the chart deliver wrong message or was it making sense in the past - the text was written in 1967 ?
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A new study has shown that millions of pieces of junk floating in  space could be a big hazard for satellites orbiting Earth.   Is there an implicit 'which are' in front of floating in space? Why is 'which are'  not written?
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So my Japanese friend asked me why we can say   Is he gone?  Is he finished?   But we can't say   Is he changed?  Is he arrived?  Is he fallen?  Is he shrunk?  Is he departed?  Is he died?  Is he melted?   I'm wondering what the grammar here is. changed, fallen, departed can be used as adjectives so shouldn't it be okay to use it in that kind of sentence? But I feel a entence like "Is he fallen?" sounds unnatural.   How do I go about explaining this in an easy-to-understand way to my Japanese friend?   I appreciate any help! Thank you.
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I read a very special book a few years back. We follow a boy who lives in a world where, if one moves far enough in a direction, that person gets distended and changed in size.   The boy works on laying tracks for the train, on which his city is. The city has to continually keep moving or it also will get squashed.   It's like a world like if one end is pinched and then dragged out like a piece of rubber string or bubble gum.   The book is not older than 10 years I think.  Hope I was clear enough...
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Context: You made the decision not to see a person any more. The relationship was good, you were both happy with one another but the one main stumbling block (for you) in the relationship was never dealt with. It remained, a permanent fixture, that forced you to make that sad, and final decision.   Is there a word, an idiom, or a famous line that expresses the sadness for something that might have been; e.g. a rich and fulfilling relationship. It's not nostalgia, because that expresses a wistfulness for the past.   Instead, you are wistful for the future.
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Source:      There have been seven weeks of protests outside the site from which   "hundreds" of pupils were kept away on Monday.   Why does the sentence say “have been” not  simply “were”?  I think that indicates that the protesters are still protesting untill the moment of writing. Am I correct here?
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For example, what is the difference between the following two sentences:     I had a bad day      I had had a bad day
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There didn't exist computers.      Will there happen similar events in the future?   Are these sentences grammatical or is my mind making stuff up? I haven't been able to find much on the net.
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I wish to state that my exposure to a certain area was a mere coincidence, and I am happy about the area.   Moreover, I want to convey the idea that the incident was like a fairytale, something no one would easily believe, but because of it I ended up where I am.  The same incident happening to someone else might go unnoticed but it rang the bells for me.  Stating this idea as above is too long and boring, and such language seems childish or out-of-place in a statement of purpose. I want to make it succinct.  Is there any word or phrase that conveys the same idea?
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Where did they go?   Where do they went?   Can you please advise which of above forms is correct?  I'm pretty sure that first one is fine but wondering about second one.   Can I use a second form as well or it's incorrect?
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The phrase "it was all downhill from there" seems to have two, contradictory meanings.  The first indicates that things have since gotten a lot worse. For example (from ):      After a promising first half against the Philadelphia Eagles in Week 1 in which they jumped out to a 17-0 lead, it has been all downhill from there. They lost that game 34-17 and lost their next three games by a combined score of 118-41.   While the second means the opposite thing--that the hard part is over and it's all smooth sailing now. For example (from ):     September 10. That's the official peak of hurricane season for the Atlantic Basin. It's all downhill from here to the end of the season, November 30.   I pretty much exclusively use the phrase for the latter meaning, since to me that's more intuitive. If everything is "downhill" now, you don't have to pedal any more or work as hard to get to the bottom.  Can anyone elaborate on the origin of the phrase, what "downhill" is specifically referring to, the accepted usage, or if there are subtle differences in the way one is supposed to phrase the two different meanings?
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For various such sentences in many cases I get confused, it seems different for different cases. I want to know if someone left doing something for permanantly then what should be used? Also give some examples for different cases. Suppose... "I left my bag" means "I forgot my bag". but If I want to say the same for permanentaly "I left bringing my bag". Where should we use "stop" and "quit" then?
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The narrator, in the quote, said that things turned out to be   horrible.   According to the question I previously posted, this parenthetical prepositional phrase "in the quote" is made possible by whiz deletion. But when I applied whiz deletion to it, it turned out to be a disaster.     The narrator, who was in the quote, said that...   Surely, what I was trying to say was that narrator said something in the quote, not that narrator was PHYSICALLY in the quote.  Here is another example.     They, (who were) after so much thinking, finally decided.   Now it is just not right.   So my another interpretation was that there was an absolute phrase with "being" deleted, but it brought about the same result. You can see what I mean if you substitute who was/were for being.   So, why is it possible to use parenthetical prepositional phrase in the middle of sentence? Is there anything deleted?
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I'm looking for a word referring to this description: "current state of a situation or the state before situation changed".