What do you call someone who has passed deadline or someone who should return book to the library, but has passed due date?
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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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Hi I'm looking for a word for someone who is constantly asking for something and keeps wanting updates about it. The closest words I can think of is pushy and, to a lesser extent, annoying. But clearly these words don't directly mean what I intend.
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if someone asks me or if there is a question in exams like "who is the author of Xxx book?" Should I answer in the past or present tense,like "Yyy is/was the author of Xxx book". I know the author is not alive.
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I imagine there must be a term/idiom/phrase for polishing something too early...  For example:   Painting the walls of a room before completing other work which may accidentally damage them. Adding detail to a section of a drawing that you may likely need to radically change later (and lose the detail work) Optimizing a software function which might be deemed unnecessary before it's even used   Though I can't seem to think of what this is called (no luck with searching either).  Originally I posted this in the 'workplace' stack exchange but was recommended to try here.
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Put the book back on the table.   I'm having trouble. I think it is a preposition.
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I want to build a flow to trigger an email when a date in one of the fields is nearing. I have a field named Payment due date. is it possible to trigger an email 2 days prior to the Payment due date. So that I don't miss the payment due date and payment is not delayed. Any kind of assistance is appreciated. Thank you very much in advance!
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I gave him the money by 6 PM.   I had given him the money by 6 PM.   I can't spot the difference between them and both seem right, but I was told the first one is wrong. Can anyone say, why?  Here is a another set of sentences with the same issue:     By 5 PM I gave him the book.   By 5 PM I had given him the book.   In both the sentences the book was given before 5 PM and no later than 5 PM. But I can't understand then what the difference between them is.   Is it right to use simple past with 'by' at all? If yes, then why and if not, then why is it incorrect to use simple past with 'by'?
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A customer asked for the posters to be laminated on the front side and he also asked for the posters to be ready by today. But,  I didn't to it as he'd asked us to do. I didn't to it in the way that he'd asked us to do. I didn't to it the way that he'd asked us to do.  PS. here, ask and request are interchangeable without changing any meaning? And which one would you prefer to use between he'd and he had
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I had an exam today (Egyptian GSEC english exam) and in a passage about library it said:     The book slipped from his hands and fell on the floor with loud noise, 20 eyes looked at him and his face turned red.....   It then asked: approximately,how many persons where at the library?  Ten or twenty or forty  But I would like to know if twenty eyes represent 10 persons or is it like a metaphor and represents 20 persons?  Is this expression even correct?  Edit : in the passage it was obvious that it is a normal library with normal people i just cut a part out of its context that serves the question
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I had a grammar quiz at the university today.    One of the questions was:     "Great Expectations" ____ by Charles Dickens.      a) is written   b) has been written   c) was written    Undoubtedly, the c option isn't correct since the time (the publication date) isn't stated or implied.  I crossed the a option out because it is neither a general truth nor a law. It is not a well-known fact to use present simple here.  Finally, I have chosen b. I still have doubts if a is the only right option.   It is unclear to me. Could you clarify it? Any help would be appreciated.
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So I'm working on this class that's supposed to request help documentation from a vendor through a web service. I try to name it DocumentRetriever, VendorDocRequester, DocGetter, but they just don't sound right. I ended up browsing through  for half an hour trying to come up with an adequate word.   Start programming with bad names is like having a very bad hair day in the morning, the rest of the day goes downhill from there. Feel me?
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I wanted to use this, but I don't know if it's actually valid in English:     The specified date is invalid.It points to a non-existing day.   I'm not a native speaker, and I just want to say that the input points to a date that does not exist, like 30th February.
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One of the rules of using the perfect infinitive says that it can refer to something that will be completed at a point in the future.   We hope to have finished the building works by the end of March.   I would like to know what would happen if I changed the sentence to:  We hope to finish the building works by the end of March.   Is there a different meaning? Is it grammatically OK?
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If I have a template (say a generic letter) that is filled in with various pieces of data (say, the name of the addressee), what is a general term for those pieces of data?  For example:  Dear {firstname}, This is just a friendly reminder that the book {booktitle} will be due on {duedate}. Thank you.   What would I refer to {firstname}, {booktitle} and {duedate} as?
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What would you call someone who isn't afraid to ask for money or any kind of favor or who misinterprets someone's generosity for a consistent resource for what they need?
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The other day, I was at the bookstore and I noticed there was a woman surrounded by a large crowd. It was hard to tell what was going on. So, at first, I figured it was an employee handing out free stuff. But when I got a little closer, it looked like she was signing autographs. Since it was a bookstore,   I (knew/noticed/found/found out/figured/figured out/realized) that it could be a famous writer signing books.  I don't want to ask a lot but, could you choose the right word?  And could you let me know which one is right/not right and why and why not?
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Comparing the following two statements:  They want it ready by Monday.  and  They want it to be ready by Monday.  is 'to be' in the latter redundant? Are both correct?