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1 de dic. de 2012 · Senior Member. In this country, the name of the activity is simply 'skipping'. We do not mention the rope, though we mean that the rope is being used. In the US, I believe, the name of the activity is 'jumping rope' or perhaps 'skipping rope'. Jumping rope is a great calorie-burner. You'd have to run an eight-minute mile to work off more ...
13 de abr. de 2016 · Apr 13, 2016. #4. Two teams pull on/at a rope in opposite directions. The both pull on/at the rope. You can pull on/at something without moving it. During the contest, the rope often goes one way and then the other so one team pulls the rope (moving it in the direction that they are pulling) while the other team pulls on it (not moving it in ...
5 de sept. de 2010 · RM1 (SS) said: "Three times longer" tells how much longer than the original length. The new length is derived by adding the additional amount to the original. Three times longer than one is (three times one plus one). The operation 'times' does not and cannot include the operation 'plus'.
18 de mar. de 2015 · Mar 18, 2015. #2. If I couldn't use "during," I'd rewrite the sentence. Neither "in" nor "on" is correct. If you mean that the teachers are to use their break times to supervise the school grounds, you could say "Teachers should superintend school grounds on their break time," but I took your original sentence to mean that it was the students ...
6 de jun. de 2007 · Thanks. Yes, when the phrase is used as a whole to describe something (when it functions as an adjective phrase before the noun), you hypenate it and use the singular form of the measurement. Eg.: five-yard-long rope; six-foot-tall man; ten-year-old boy. If the description comes after the verb you don't use hyphens and you use the plural form ...
18 de may. de 2021 · On the other hand, a piece of rope is still short or long regardless of whether it's vertical (as in a hangman's rope) or horizontal (as in a dog tied to a stake) Click to expand... Then it's really hard to explain or to give some rules about when to use one or the other.
他穿上适合这个场合的衣服。. 三、用法不同. 1、appropriate指“恰如其分的”, 比suitable 有更强的正面意义，如: His quotation from Shakespeare is appropriate. 他引用莎士比亚的话是恰如其分的。. 2、proper指“正当的”、“正确的”，往往侧重于符合某个标准或习惯，如: Fill ...
9 de abr. de 2009 · Among the most famous dohas are those of Sarahpa, Kabir, Rahim, Tulsidas, Jamiluddin Aali and Surdas. It is not surprising that you did not understand it, since it is not modern Hindi. The meaning: karat karat abhyaas ke: abhyaas (practice) kar kar ke = on doing lots of practice. jadmati hot sujaan : mati refers to buddhi = intelligence.
12 de nov. de 2018 · Nov 13, 2018. #6. These are too many sentences to discuss in one thread. In fact, we like each thread to focus on a single example. In any case, the two words seem to be interchangeable, but we almost always use 'impassable' rather than 'unpassable', as this Google Ngram Graph shows: "Google Ngram Viewer".
24 de jul. de 2011 · Jul 25, 2011. #4. Alxmrphi said: I'm not sure if other natives would agree, but the way I see the difference is that "electric wire" means wire that has electricity running through it, and "electrical wire" means the same thing, but the -al adds more of a meaning that has to do with the purpose of the wire (i.e. for electrical purposes), which ...
