Try it for free as part of the Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary app. somebody/something trapped to move somebody/something that is caught or fixed on something synonym release free somebody/something/yourself She struggled to free herself. A good kick finally freed the door. free ...
Verbsare used to indicate the actions, processes, conditions, or states of beings of people or things. Verbs play an integral role to the structure of a sentence. They constitute the root ofthe predicate, which, along withthe subject(the “doer” of the verb’s action), forms a full cla...
Just try getting a plumber at the weekend! He tried and tried but he could not climb out. Please try again later. In spoken English try and can be used with another verb, instead of try to and the infinitive: I'll try and get you a new one tomorrow. • Try and finish quickly....
1. The early start of the meeting first verb us to rush. (会议开始得太早,害得我们一阵匆忙。) 2. The heavy traffic first verba longer journey time. (交通拥堵,行程时间不得不更长了。) 3. His illness first verb him to stay in bed for a week. (他生病,只好在床上躺了一个星期。) 4...
This article reviews some of the principal patterns of morphosyntactic variation within Daco-Romanian and across Daco-Romance in support of a distinction between low vs high V-movement grammars variously distributed in accordance with diatopic variation (Daco-Romance: west vs east, Aromanian: north ...
Parts of Speech: Noun, Pronoun, VerbAnswer Question A recent reader asked for descriptions of the different parts of speech. Below are three, with some examples of each. We'll look at others next week. Answer Nouns Nouns are words that name things, people, animals, places, qualities, ...
Another big mistake is using present perfect with set times such aslast week. That is not correct in English. And most English learners have problems withwillandbe going to. Again, don't worry. All of these tenses are clearly explained in this tutorial. ...
12.(2019年全国III卷)On the last day of our week-long stay,we ___(invite)to attend a private concert on a beautiful farm on the North Shore under the stars.(答案:were invited) 13.(2018年全国I卷)While running regularly can't make you live forever, the review says it ___(be) more...
This study takes an interactional linguistics and conversation analysis-based approach to analyze the modal verb huì ‘will’ in the recurrent formular of commissive actions, [wǒ huì X (de)] ‘I will X.’ Data analyses show that this format has two va
I have helped my neighbor too much this week. I will have helped my neighbor a hundred times by the end of the month. Continuous I was helping my neighbor when he brought me iced tea. I am helping my neighbor while he fixes up his house. I will be helping my neighbor next mo...