I realize that "I continue optimistic" is awkward, but I have not found proof that it is incorrect. Please explain to me whether it is right or wrong and the reason for this. Thanks!
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You continue to remain optimistic, because you already were, and you are still are.\n\nIt also depends on the context of the statement.  What are you referring to and what is the next line.  Lets hear it!
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Technically, this is correct. \n\nHowever, we can gain confidence in future predictions based on past success. For example, if the sun rises in the east for 100,000,000 consecutive days, and nothing that would prevent this from occuring on the 100,000,001th day, we can be very confident that the sun will in fact rise in the east, not the west, on the 100,000,001th day. \n\nSure, we might be wrong, but, by repeated trials, observations, and attempts at falsification, we can decrease the probability of that being the case to such a small probability that witholding provisional acceptance would be perverse. That, in a nutshell, is science.
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Everyone's more or less right so far.\n\nBut there is another explanation as well.\n\nIf you were to call AT 6, I will be home--possibly because I never left, possibly because I will arrive before six, or possible I will arrive exactly at exactly at six.\n\nIf I will be home BY six, it means I  definately left, but if you want to call, then six is the earliest you can call to be guaranteed of reaching me at home.\n\nBy saying I will be home at 6, I am saying don't expect me to  arrive home before that time\nBy saying I will be home by six, don't expect me to arrive home later than that.time
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I think the expression is "up and at them". At least, that's what I've always heard. I can see where if you are just waking up it would sound a bit different.
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It does sound confusing. The two paragraphs contradict each other.
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It ain't so! :) lol******* You aren't alone!\n\nIt gives me a headache trying to figure out where one sentence ends and the next begins. UGH...Don't get me wrong...I misspell an occasional word here and there but we are talking about "minor mistakes".
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I can't believe all these people saying "Mark and I"  !!!  "Mark and me" is correct!\n\nSimply take "Mark" out of the sentence and see if it sounds right.\n\n"Could you please copy I on these communications?"  It doesn't work!\n\nAnd the first one is correct.  The second sentence uses the reflexive pronoun "myself," which doesn't make any sense.  Could you please copy myself on these communications?  You would not ask somebody to do it, if you were going to do it yourself.
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The various proposed answeres are wrong when they suggest that 1 and 3 are incorrect. they are not common, and most people don't now use them, but they have been used in speech and in writing.\n\nEnglish verb tenses, particularly the complex ones (with the helper verbs), are numerous and often only subtly different. In this case the distinction is between a fact of reality (it can't have been <whatever> which would presumably be discovered when actually confronting the facts  and a conditional conclusion disproved. \n\nHis igorance in 1 is the fact,  and the door's locked condition is the fact in 3. For 2 and 4 some investigation suggests that it ould have been impossible that <whatever> because of something which turned up later. It turned out that he knew in 2, while something shows that contrary to expectation, some new fact shows that the door being locked is impossible. \n\nSome languages, like Navajo, include in verb tneses information about  the nature of the agent which caused the <whatever> we are observing. One tnese for a fence knocked down by a windstorm, another for the same fence, knocked down to the same condition, by a living agent (cows, maybe). Englich complex tenses tend to convey information about probabilities and expectations as well as time values and conditionality (eg, subjunctive). for those who master them, the English tense system is a supple and graceful tool.
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1. This might be an example of a phenomenon called "pro-drop" in conversational English.  It's used in many of the world's languages, such as Spanish, Mandarin Chinese, Italian, conversational German, and many others.\n\nHowever, in your case, since you're apparently a non-native speaker, I suspect that you're just hearing something different from what they're actually saying.  (Native speakers would never ask many of these questions.)\n\n2. I believe that "No, thanks" is the version that most grammarians will say is correct.  I suppose they want there to be a comma because "no" is considered an adverb, and there are usually commas between adverbs and the sentences they modify, as in "However, I bought the jeans after all."\n\n3. These endings are productive and therefore probably change over time.  If you want to choose the "right" one, you'll have to check the dictionary, I guess.\n\n4. I usually say "ten after" or "ten ten".\n\n5. These are completely different.  To fill in means to put entries into a form with spaces, as in "Please fill in this application."  To fulfill means that you complete someone or meet needs.  For example, "I fulfilled my obligation to that company."\n\n6. Actually the word is "awaken", not "waken", and they mean basically the same thing.  However "wake up" is the form that most English speakers will use in informal situations.
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That is relative, I've done more things in my life than most people are willing to believe. By my standards, were I to tell someone to get a life, it would involve lofty goals. In my opinion, because of my background, I think that it is a phrase meant to offend rather than to be taken literally, in that case whoever told you that, you tell them I am telling them to get a life.
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i knowwww! it doesn't even sound right O_o \n\nmy mistake <== atleast it's correct, grammar-wise!
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I kinda like this:\n\nStupid is forever.\nIgnorance can be fixed.\n\nEnjoy your non-stupid day.  :)
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This is completely accurate:\n\nDid you feel something was wrong whilst you were writing your dedication?\n\nNOTE:  Whilst is the grammatically correct form in this context not while.
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One might say 'I’d rather remember the person as they were, when ['while' would be a better word !] they were alive', as a comment on embalming !\nIncidentally, this sentence can be interpreted in both affirmative and negative senses :\nOn one hand it can mean that embalming a person's body will keep it looking very much like when they were alive. And that the person who said this feels that it might prove an effective reminder.\nAnd on the other hand, it can also be interpreted as an admonition by the speaker, that he would rather keep the dead person's memories alive in his mind, and that he disapproves of any such embalming that only helps to keep the lifeless, soul-less body intact !\nPerhaps, that why someone found this sentence wrong - and wanted it to convey one meaning or the other, and certainly NOT BOTH !
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Anytime we make an if (or "as if" or "as though") statement about something that is contrary to truth or reality, it is in the subjunctive mood and should take the "were" as opposed to "was"...so if you are NOT king and you wish you WERE king, then you would say, "I wish I were king".  If the statement might actually be true, then keep the "was"...e.g., "If this WAS a good answer, I should get ten points"...because this may be a good answer.
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" I thought that you thought that I thought that you thought."  I think that is about it because after that you would be only referring to the same thought that you thought you have thought before.  Unless another person is added or another thought different than the first 2 thoughts, then it could be endless, hypothetically.
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It's gibberish. It's probably a (bad) joke from the person who sent it. Don't answer, that's my advice. ;)