Forum: English Questions
Oct 17th, 2019, 11:08 am
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Forum: English Questions
Oct 14th, 2019, 09:49 am
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Forum: English Questions
Oct 11th, 2019, 08:50 am
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Views: 1,203 Re: some pal you are!
Not necessarily. As I said above, "some" just conveys the idea of something being extreme in some way. For example, imagine you'd been in a meeting where people had got really heated, and were...
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Forum: English Questions
Oct 7th, 2019, 07:59 am
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Views: 1,203 Re: some pal you are!
Yes you can use friend. "Pal" is a colloquial equivalent, used predominantly in American rather than British English. (Checking on Lextutor (https://lextutor.ca/conc/eng/) I found 1 instance in...
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Forum: English Questions
Oct 2nd, 2019, 05:29 am
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Views: 1,203 Re: some pal you are!
There are two things that need to be understood here:
a) the meaning of "some"
b) the meaning of the word order
"Some" here is understood as meaning "excellent/incredible", or in some way "extreme"....
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