Why do we put directions on English phrases?
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They are actually called "phrasal verbs" and yes, they cause foreigners like me a lot of trouble. Think about it, you'd ve had a fight with your best friend, you want to make up but you forget and say that you want to make out. Not bad if they are a pretty girl, but what if they are a guy? Akward....:-) \n\nTo answer your question, I don't know, English is weird enough without it...
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To make our language more interesting.  Other languages have them too.  In Spanish they are called "dichos" I believe.
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They generally say 'sorry' to let you know that you have annoyed them, eg, If you think they were in your way, and they have to move, they say 'Sorry'....  but what they mean is 'Look - I've done this for you'.\n\nEnglish people also have great difficulty talking to strangers - even if they too are English.  So the word 'sorry' has come to replace all the other things that one could have said in any given circumstance.
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Technically, a preposition is supposed to precede a subject. However, there are some cases where inserting the preposition into the sentence rather than at the end would sound horribly awkward. Such grammatical finickiness has been relaxed in the last 50 years as more speech is considered on the level of community consensus of the utterance.
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Only if you want to sound like other English speakers.  If you take English words and put them in the order of another language, it will not make sense.  In many languages, it doesn't matter where in the sentence words fall because all of the words change and shift depending on tense/number.  This is not true in English.  Much of the meaning of the sentence is where the words fall and what conjugation they've undergone.
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Very nice; you must have picked up on the hidden clue.\n\nFrankly, it all depends.  I personally am not very found of grammatical rules, as they seem to be inherently limiting.  As far as I am concerned, you can throw the majority of those rules out the window, as long as you can express yourself clearly and be easily understood.   Case in point: Linguists and English professors do NOT usually make great writers, do they?   In principle, of course, one can always make a strong formal English punctuation argument in favor of your choice "b".  But to me "a" looks much "prettier".   So the question is: Should we keep shoving food into our mouths, mindlessly chewing, and promptly swallowing till our stomachs are full, or should we try to eat less, but eat with our eyes and palates too?   I suppose, it all depends on the circumstances and your point of view.   For instance, if you end up in a hospital with a sever case of malnutrition and dehydration, they “ain’t” “gonna” care much about how you are gonna eat or drink, as long as they end up pumping enough liquids and nutrients into you to save your life.   ... The punctuation waters start getting even murkier as more and more people begin to impose their own rules and restrictions on-line.   Ironically-enough (notice I said Ironically-enough and NOT anomalously-enough LOL) take your own example in this here on-line Y!A milieu, for instance.    The Y!A software will automatically add a question mark (i.e. a "?") to the end of every statement posted, no matter what you do, and be it really a question or NOT!  (And still, they dare to complain that some of those questions aren’t exactly questions)!  LOL    Hence, in a Y!A environment at least, both your choices would be forced into a punctually incorrect stratosphere (for "a" would become "lovelorn"??, and "b" would be transformed into "lovelorn?"?) and the only correct choice would appear to be “the initially incorrect one”, namely just “lovelorn”.  … Now, go figure!   LOL     … Yes my friend, even the oracle should strive for anomalism, at times.  :-)
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I am stumped.\n\nAn adverb generally modifies a verb (a word denoting some form of action).  "Went" is a past participle of go (action word).  "Walk" is also a verb. "For" is a preposition, therefore, "for a walk" is a prepositional phrase. "Outside" is a noun telling "where" the "nameless character"  "went".  "On" can be used as a preposition, an adverb AND an adjective. So . . . using that theory, "On" is used as a function word that indicates a time in which something happens, "On a very cold day". So it is a prepositional phrase.  However, that phase comes before the verb "went" and again after the prepositional phrase "for a walk". \n\nConfused yet?\n\nSo am I.\n\nSo my guess would be the first prepositional phrase "On a very cold day" (being a function of time) preceding the verb "went".\n\nJust a guess.  Probably a bad guess, but a guess all the same.\n\nCheck with your English teacher.  They may have had grammar in college.
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Your question doesn't make a lot of sense. Do you want to know why consumers (is that the word you tried to spell?) need to know how to use directions (meaning instructions) and how to read diagrams? You already gave one example. Are you looking for more examples? Add some details and maybe someone can help you.
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we use "for" with "leaving" \nand "to" with "going" or "running" \n\nleaving on (a date, a train)\nleaving for (a destination)\nleaving to (a reason)\nleaving from (a departure point)\n\n\nwhy?  beats me.  It's idiomatic. English usage rules are democratic, not logical.  What 90% of the speakers say, is correct.\n\nThe use of "for" means "with the destination of"  so you can say "headed for trouble" but not "leaving for trouble". \n\n"on" means "in physical contact with" (held by gravity, etc), as in "sitting on a chair", "stuck on the wall"  or "walking on the street"\nalso it means "about" in "speaking on the subject of farming"\nIt could mean "energized" as in "the light was on" \nIt's used with dates, ("on Friday") \n\nI hope this helps.\n\nby the way, a "proposition" is a business offer, commonly understood as an offer of money for sex unless otherwise stated.\n\nThe word you want is "preposition" for a word that comes before a phrase (pre-position)
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C. North.\n\nCompass directions are not proper nouns and are not capitalized when used to described relative position (New York City is north of Washington, D.C.) or to give directional instructions (go north 10 miles). In this example however, "the North" is used as a place name and therefore becomes a proper noun.\n\nAnswers A and B are both incorrect.\nMcKinley is a place name and should be capitalized.\nGerman is a language name and should be capitalized.
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British punctuation has always been like that.  When did Americans start putting punctuation inside quotations when the punctuation doesn't belong to the quotation?  That's always seemed weird to me!
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Are these words phrased in the form of an answer.
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The 'be advised' phrase is a command.  Generally English uses the non-inflected verb as the command.  Other such imperatives use be + adj:  Be sure, be happy, be good, be aware, be careful.  Another use is subjuncitive, although rare and sounds old--If he be seen,...if that be taken... More normal formal English would be If he were to be seen, if that were to be taken, if that would be taken.  \nPast participles are formed as in the preceding example.
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That is because we are always right.  We also know how to use proper capitalization, and spell words like R (are) and Y (why).\n\nNow you know and knowing is half the battle.  G.I. Joe!
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LEARNT???\n\nTHERE????\n\nMaybe you should have paid more attention to your English lessons - I think you mean to say that you "LEARNED" it; & 'THERE' is always a place, I think you mean 'They're'; and you may have a better chance of finding it - now you will be using better references to look for it! GOOD LUCK
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Because they don't understand that word order, tenses, etc. may be different in different lands. The same would be true if an English-speaking person tried using perhaps Spanish or French for the first time: it would sound funny to a Spanish or French-speaking person.
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Because the gods of grammar conjugation say so.\n\nIt is an irregular verb.  You just have to memorize it.