What is the different between locution and adage ?
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Locution is a technical term mostly used by linguists.\n\nYou'll have problems if you try to use your bilingual dictionary all the time.  It's better to use words you know in English instead of just trying to translate a word from your native language to English using a dictionary, because the dictionaries don't always have the best information.  It leads to some very strange English!  I'm an ESL teacher, so I know.\n\nOne trick I use with my second language is I never use a word unless I have read it in a modern article or heard a native speaker use it.
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An aphorism is a "tersely phrased statement of truth or opinion; an adage." My favorite is from Ghandi: "Be the change you want to see in the world." If that doesn't have truth to it, I don't know what does.\n\nBut I'm more interested in a link you had on another question. The webpage you direct us to raises a good question in itself. It says we should not hurt the EGOS of others? I mean OTHERS, full stop, yes. But their egos? Why?
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I am stumped.\n\nAn adverb generally modifies a verb (a word denoting some form of action).  "Went" is a past participle of go (action word).  "Walk" is also a verb. "For" is a preposition, therefore, "for a walk" is a prepositional phrase. "Outside" is a noun telling "where" the "nameless character"  "went".  "On" can be used as a preposition, an adverb AND an adjective. So . . . using that theory, "On" is used as a function word that indicates a time in which something happens, "On a very cold day". So it is a prepositional phrase.  However, that phase comes before the verb "went" and again after the prepositional phrase "for a walk". \n\nConfused yet?\n\nSo am I.\n\nSo my guess would be the first prepositional phrase "On a very cold day" (being a function of time) preceding the verb "went".\n\nJust a guess.  Probably a bad guess, but a guess all the same.\n\nCheck with your English teacher.  They may have had grammar in college.
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Condescend and patronize curiously are used to explain each other: to be condescending is to speak in a patronizing manner and vice versa :O).\n\nThe difference, though, is that in condescending, one is "descending" to the level one perceives the other to occupy;  in patronizing, one is acting or speaking in a manner that a patron or sponsor would act, that is, like a superior in rank.\n\nSo if you speak in a way that says, "I am adjusting my speach to accomodate the inferior mental abilities of the person I am speaking to," you would be condescending.\n\nIf you speak in a way that says, "I am adjusting my speech in a way thatdemonstrates my sense of the difference in mental/educational rank between me and the other person," you would be patronizing.
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No difference ,they are all used for dynamic allocation.only syntax difference i guess.
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Towards/toward is a preposition, so it has nothing to do with subject/verb agreement.\n\nEither one is correct, although you'll find that one is more prevalent than the other in certain dialects.
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A phrase can be a noun, preposition, adverb, verb, or adjective.\n\nA clause can be a noun, adverb, or adjective.\n\nSee links below.
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Is there a difference?
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none except\nmajors are longer, minors are shorter\nall GOD'S WORD is very important-vs by vs-chapter by chapter, choosing subject and object.  know more. contact me.
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It's an adj./adv. phrase. (In this case, it's an adjective phrase.) "The action" is not a verb, so it can't be an infinitive.
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You now get into connotation vs. denotation\n\nSnuggle, cuddle and nestle are all the same, "the act of nesting" (denotation), but the mental image is what makes the difference (connotation)
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Sorry, what's the difference again?
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They are both correct. The first is just more emphatic (use of the auxiliary verb 'have'). They have slightly different meanings, that's all. If I was going to argue with someone then I might want to 'have' a talk with them, but if it was just a time-wasting conversation then I might just 'talk' with them.
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Introduction or prologue - they pretty much mean the same thing.  Preface is another possibiity.  Exposition  could also be correct, but it usually refers to the first part of a musical composition.
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Aaaaaah, let us see. Both are a way of conveying thoughts. Both are a form introspection. Both are a round about way of saying a very simple thing\n:)
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Both are same but the voice is different. Second one is in passive voice and sounds more formal.
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Could be either. Or both.  Contrary to some notions, there is no grand authority that decides what is or is not English, which rules of grammar may/must be used in a given situation, or whether it's po-TAY-to or po-TAH-to.  \n\nLanguage is an emergent social construct that is constantly changing according to the uses of its practitioners.  New words enter languages all the time, and old words take on new meanings or shed the old ones as well. \n\nThe OED is at best a snapshot of what English is at a given time, including slang and colloquial uses, not an arbiter of what it is becoming, so it has only as much "authority" as you ascribe to it. What is considered proper or authoritative depends entirely on who is doing the communicating, under what circumstances, and what rules they agree on.\n\nBut before I go, I just want to remind everyone to learn the difference between "loose" and "lose."  That one really bugs me...