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Is this statement, โi see him last nightโ can be understood as โI saw him last nightโ?
Yes, I understand it. I hear a lot of this incorrect grammar from my wife. I would expect that the person that spoke this was possibly Chinese. In Chinese there are no tenses or plurals. No he or she pronouns. The context tells all. So it might have been a direct translation from Chinese.
Yes, I understand it. I hear a lot of this incorrect grammar from my wife. I would expect that the person that spoke this was possibly Chinese. In Chinese there are no tenses or plurals. No he or she pronouns. The context tells all. So it might have been a direct translation from Chinese.
See lessIs there an English equivalent to the French expression: โil faut dโabord apprendre ร marcher avant de courirโ?
While we do say this literally sometimes in English, we have a more common idiom that many people would probably think of first, if they werenโt translating. You have to crawl before you can walk. At least in American English, this idiom is very popular.
While we do say this literally sometimes in English, we have a more common idiom that many people would probably think of first, if they werenโt translating.
You have to crawl before you can walk.
At least in American English, this idiom is very popular.
See lessIs PHP still a relevant language in 2017?
It is just shifting away from being the only major server-side scripting language to one of many, that is all. It is true that it became out of favor for high volume sites and large-scale commercial infrastructures lately but it still remains really popular for small to mederate sized applications.Read more
It is just shifting away from being the only major server-side scripting language to one of many, that is all.
It is true that it became out of favor for high volume sites and large-scale commercial infrastructures lately but it still remains really popular for small to mederate sized applications.
If Facebook was about to be developed today, probably it would not be developed in PHP, but that does not make the language irrelevant at all.
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