Hi teachers,
Would both of these definition be appropriate synonyms for ‘stay’?
a) spend/reside some time in a place
b) spend/reside temporally in a place
He will have to stay a few days in hospital.
Thanks in advance.
These are the grammatically correct forms of your definitions:
spend some time in a place
reside in a place for some time
temporarily spend time in a place
temporarily reside in a place.
‘Temporally’ is incorrect.
The correct definitions are all appropriate and (b) is no better than (a).
These are the grammatically correct forms of your definitions:
spend some time in a place
reside in a place for some time
temporarily spend time in a place
temporarily reside in a place.
‘Temporally’ is incorrect.
Hi bees, If you should go back to my post, you would see that, I said both could work.
But temporally was my choice! I made no exception.
But I think no bakawire
Do you mean I should look at the post that you seem to have deleted?
beev, I was suprised, to see it deleted, I am not the one who did that.
What is bakawire? Much of you say doesn’t make any sense.[YSaerTTEW443543]
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I was telling bev that I suppose, she has not betrayed me.
Which statement I have made so far that sound obtuse as you have implied?
As Torsten said ‘bakawire’ seems nonsensical to me. I certainly didn’t understand your intended meaning.
‘I made no exception’ I can decipher, but it is obtuse.
Your last message should read “Which statement have I made that sounds obtuse, as you have implied?”
This is not intended as criticism of your use of English, I really do appreciate that you are still learning, but as you ask:
In general, you have a good vocabulary, but don’t always understanding the meanings of the words you use, Sometimes you seem to use complex words for the sake of it - you don’t appreciate when the word is not in common use or readily understood, And in cases such as ‘bakawire’ you appear to make some words up entirely.
Unfortunately, when you do this when you try to instruct others, things can become very confusing.
Well that’s good advice madam, perhaps because of my learning jamaican language first, some words are purely from the jamaican language like(bakawire) meaning (to betray), but I will make conscious effort to avoid them, using it here.
Thanks.