I am stuck to work out the difference between this two different words. I have contacted the dictionary but yet still the defference seem to be the same, but please check the following for me.
Hi,
Let’s get the grammar sorted out first - His eyes were (plural) transfixed/riveted
Both words suggest ‘extremely fascinated’. For me both verbs would often be used as: His attention was riveted/transfixed on the chessboard while he was playing the game.
I would not use it with ‘upon + gerund’. I would use it with ‘on + noun’.
Alan
Quick thanks to you Alan so should I always use them with nouns as you have indicated? and not something like UPON and GERUND?.
I wouldn’t use them with upon+gerund.
Hi Ebenezar.
A couple of points to bear in mind:
You don’t ‘contact’ a dictionary, you ‘consult’ it. I think you might have got the words mixed up.
Check the spelling of ‘difference.’
Great Beees, I always become happy when you draw my attention to my mistakes. God bless you for your corrections. But is it grammatical to say
:
I had consulted with my dictionary? Or
I have to consult with my dictionary?
Please reconfirm.
I cannot ‘reconfirm’ something which was not ‘confirmed’ in the first place, but you do not need ‘with’.
Both versions are correct within the right context. You seem to have difficulty understanding that different tenses of a verb can be correct within a sentence depending upon what you need to say.
I had consulted my diary - past tense, usually to indicate this was what you did before you did something else:
I had consulted my dictionary before I asked.
I have consulted my dictionary - past tense:
I have consulted my dictionary but now I am asking here.
I consulted my dictionary - simple past tense:
I consulted my dictionary to find the meaning.
I have to consult my dictionary - future tense.
Beees, thanks, you see I usually used my phone’s dictionary but it tells me that ‘confirm’ is the same as ‘reconfirm’ and I had trusted it but yours is undoubtedly accepted so now you have put me at caution with my phone’s dictionary. Thank you for your corrections. I think anyone using a brand of my phone should be wary with the dictionary.
Hi,
I think you need different labels here for the names of tenses here:
I had consulted = Past Perfect
I have consulted = Present Perfect
I have to consult means that this is what it is necessary for me to do.
You could suggest the Future idea as: I am going to consult
Perhaps you misunderstood what the dictionary was telling you.
confirm - verify
reconfirm - confirm/verify again (for a 2nd, 3rd time, etc.)
I consulted with my lawyer. (intransitive verb)
I consulted my lawyer. (transitive verb)
I consulted a dictionary. (transitive verb)
I consulted with a dictionary. (intransitive verb)
Are they not correct?
Hi,
You do not consult with things. ‘Consult’ is a transitive verb and so is ‘consult with’.
Alan,
I agree, “I consulted with a dictionary.” is wrong.
How about:
I consulted with my lawyer/doctor.
I consulted my lawyer/doctor. ?
Aren’t both correct?
Perhaps you misunderstood what the dictionary was telling you.
confirm - verify
reconfirm - confirm/verify aga
Beees, please have a look at the following: reconfirm is the same as confirm.
This is the only writings available in my phones dictionary the author wrote only this information thus trying to indicate that one has to see “confirm” because it has the same meaning as the “reconfirm”
They are two separate verbs - confirm and reconfirm. Putting ‘re’ in front of a verb as here can only indicate repeating the main action of the verb. They are not the same. There otherwise would be no point in adding the prefix ‘re’.
Alan
Alan/Beeesneees,
Please clear my doubt raised above.
Hi,
The use of ‘with’ when using the verb, ‘consult’ isn’t really necessary. It would be more common to add the preposition when using the noun, ‘consultation’ - I had a consultation yesterday with my tax adviser.
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Hi,
You do not consult with things. ‘Consult’ is a transitive verb and so is ‘consult with’
So Alan is the following what you mean:
No, you are taking the conversation round in circles. You consult with people, not things.