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I've looked them up in several dictionaries, but I find them very similar in meaning because both mean to turn something around something else, for example: She wound a scarf around her neck. She ...

While reading Gone with the Wind I've come across this sentence: Aunt Pity was heaving and sighing on her shoulder and, with small ceremony, Scarlett pushed her over into a corner of the carriage and ...

Can you please suggest me an alternative phrase to the highlighted one that would express "when you take in account the very insignificant popular knowledge it receives"? The Effective ...

If I am writing an email to inform someone of a particular item I noticed in the file, should I use past or present tense? I noticed there are/were two past due orders in the attached report. I ...

I would like to know if the sentence in bold, in the paragraph below means to take advantage of the successful test, keep its grade and to just have to repeat the unsuccessful test? If not, how can I ...

Do we use "at" or "from" in the following example? Do you have a contact at/from this company?

There is a novel titled "I Know This Much Is True", and I find the title puzzling. I know this much is true. At first, I parsed it as I know this much it's true. where this much shows ...

Probability in mathematics is just a number between zero and one. For example, we say, "The probability of this happening is fifty percent." However, in many statements, we use "chances&...

Legitimate How should I pronounce it? It's confusing me. There are so many vocabularies of adjectives ending with "ate" as in meet or as in "it" : like "tim -it" as in ...

The tree was planted by settlers who founded the city over 400 years ago. What was done first? planted the tree or founded the city . Would it be clearer if it was had founded because I suppose the ...

Could you tell me if there is a nuance of meaning between could and would when asking someone to do something politely? For example: Kate, could you pick up some milk on your way home? Kate, would ...

If I say "Who have this memory card?" is it correct? Or who owns this memory card? Perhaps both are correct I want to know.

Which form is correct? When you sit in at the controls of a plane for the first time, everything changes forever. Or should I say When you sit at the controls of a plane for the first time, ...

A friend said he was deployed in Europe. He tend to have someone to love "at those end". I'm not sure what he meant in the second sentence. But the part I got is that he would like to have ...

It's hard to analyze the structure of the phrases and get their sense of meaning. WH DRAFTS MORE CLEARANCE CANCELLATIONS DEMANDED BY PRES. TRUMP, COULD BE RELEASED AS DISTRACTIONS TO UNFAVORABLE NEWS. ...