Is 'Go Missing' Grammatically Correct? Are 'gone missing' and 'went missing' proper English? Style: MLA. More Definitions for go.
Kids Definition of go. The tire went flat. Please go on. Get Word of the Day daily email! Test Your Vocabulary. Can you spell these 10 commonly misspelled words? Love words? Need even more definitions? Homophones, Homographs, and Homonyms The same, but different. Ask the Editors 'Everyday' vs. What Is 'Semantic Bleaching'? How 'literally' can mean "figuratively".
Literally How to use a word that literally drives some pe Is Singular 'They' a Better Choice? I was taught a few meant 3 or more but not a lot. I heard my Granddaughter tell a story and she said a couple. She told it again and it was a 3 or 4. I asked how many 2 or more? She said idk a couple. I said a couple is 2, she said well more than two but I am not sure, I said if your sure it was more than 2 but not many use a few. One of the many things I do that makes me realize I have turned into my mother.
I just had a discussion about this and after looking up what those words really mean I was confused. My thought all these long years is that 2 is a couple, a few is 3 and several meant 7 or more it seemed to me the first 4 letters seve gave it away. Everything else was a specific number. A number a large number! It was very tongue-in-cheek, but I have been unable to locate it or any mention of it in recent years. It had entries like the ones in this thread, but also things like Many, Most, All represented as varying percentages , etc.
I wish I could resurrect it from wherever it went! My husband wanted to be a diver in USN. The dictionary defines Several as more than two but not many. Several, few, handful, bunch and some. These have no numerical significance. If you want to say an exact amount you would use the number.
A few in this context being a subjective estimate. That line was probably a lot more clever in the 70s, this upcoming generation is shockingly polyamorous. Governor Murphy of NJ just said yesterday that we are still several weeks away from opening up our economy. Sorry, no. Whileas in Korea in Korean English education throughout the country—or at least the southern half, this topic is formally covered. It sounds nuts, and English is nuts. Perhaps it would be 2 cubed 8 , or 3 squared 9?
I loved the comment from Boston, n MA. The difference between a few, and several is that several is indicative of a number, with numerous suggestions above being appropriate, but a few indicates a percentage.
A few bad apples in a barrel might indicate 10 or 20, but a few bad eggs in a dozen might be two or three. Interesting read. Had to concede this one to the wife. This is exactly right. If a couple were a synonym for two, it would be a pointless word, the whole point of it being to include more than just 2 unless you are talking about two things that are always joined together, like 2 people in a close relationship. Of course the right answer to these questions is always i it depends where you are, as local customs differ, and ii the context is also important.
So who came? Tina and Jane. Is that all? Oh, I thought you said a few. I've been on the go all day , and I'm really tired. UK in the process of being produced :. Busy and active. You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics: Creating and producing. Elise is always on the go. Translations of on the go in Chinese Traditional. See more. Need a translator? Translator tool. Browse on the fence idiom. Test your vocabulary with our fun image quizzes.
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