Are that boxes empty
Are that boxes empty
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5 Clapham, John Harold
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Her car was in its stall in the subterranean garage. (C. Weston) — Её машина стояла на своём месте в подземном гараже.
The boxes were empty, and only a few of the orchestra stalls were taken. — Ложи были пустовали, в первых рядах партера было занято всего несколько мест.
English influence on the theatre, as far as the stalls are concerned, does not exist. (G. B. Shaw) — Английского влияния на театр, если говорить о партере, не существует. (пер. Е. Корниловой)
He panicked when the car stalled. — Его охватила паника, когда машина заглохла.
His career stalled. — Его карьера заглохла.
Legal battles have stalled the project. — Из-за юридических баталий проект застопорился.
to stall for time — тянуть время, стараться выиграть время
They are still stalling on a deal. — Они всё еще тянут с заключением сделки.
I’ll try and stall them to give you time to get clear. — Я попытаюсь их задержать, чтобы дать тебе время уйти.
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2. Change into Plural : 1 Is that box empty?
2. Change into Plural : 1 Is that box empty?
2 This is an apple.
7. Use the verbs in brackets in the Passive Voice : 1.
The letter (to receive) two days ago.
2. The article just (to write) in the newspaper «The Sun».
3. The books by M.
Twain always (to read) with great interest.
4. This present (to give) to her next Sunday.
5. The guests (to meet) by 5 p.
1. Are these boxes empty?
No, they are not.
2. These are apples.
The letter was received two days ago.
The article was just written in the newspaper «The Sun».
Twain are always read with great interest.
This present will be given to her next Sunday.
The guests were met by 5 p.
Read the text and put the verbs in brackets into the Present Simple or the Present Continuous?
Read the text and put the verbs in brackets into the Present Simple or the Present Continuous.
Complete the text with the correct form of the verbs in brackets using the Passive Voice?
Complete the text with the correct form of the verbs in brackets using the Passive Voice.
Как перевести Complete the text?
Как перевести Complete the text.
Use the verbs in brackets into the Present Simple Tense.
Open the brackets put the verbs into the present simple?
Open the brackets put the verbs into the present simple.
Put the verbs in brackets into the present simple or the present continuous?
Put the verbs in brackets into the present simple or the present continuous.
Put the verbs in brackets into the correct passive form?
Put the verbs in brackets into the correct passive form.
1. Put the verbs in brackets into the correct passive form and translate into Russian?
1. Put the verbs in brackets into the correct passive form and translate into Russian.
The doctor (to send) for now.
The question (to ask) by me to John yesterday.
Special attention (to pay) to the grammar at the conference tomorrow.
This paper just (to receive).
He always (to listen) to with great interest.
2. Put the verbs in brackets into the correct passive form and translate into Russian.
1) The new apartment house (to construct) in our street now.
2) The armchair (to place) in the sitting room.
3) Football (to play) in winter in Great Britain this year.
5) This pupil (to speak) about recently.
Write the text from the Internet news about the earthquake and flooding with the use of passive voice?
Write the text from the Internet news about the earthquake and flooding with the use of passive voice.
Read the text and put the verbs in brackets into the present simple or the present continuous?
Read the text and put the verbs in brackets into the present simple or the present continuous.
Put the verbs in brackets into the present simple?
Put the verbs in brackets into the present simple.
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Ex 2 1. D 2. E 3. B 4. A 5. F 6. C Ex 3 2. Shorter 3. Bigger 4. Older / Elder 5. Younger 6. More comfortable.
1. Kazakhstan, Astana. 2. very big country 3. Many 4. Kazakh.
1) Great Britain / London 2) busy city 3)8 million 4) english.
1 1) If it (is not) too cold, I (not put) on my coat. 2) I (will write) the composition if you (do not disturb) me. 3) His vocabulary (will increase) greatly if he ( reads) fifty pages. 4) You (will go) to the Philarmonic much more often if you re..
1) used to go swimming 2) was dancing 3) were you laughing 4) used to drink 5) rode 6) was writing 7) was raining 8) used to play 9) Sang 10) was cleaning.
Are is are aren’t are isn’t is aren’t are isn’t is is.
1)I spend the time of my life right 2)The wall is very dense 3)The mouth of the river is its end 4)We make our way through the storm 5)We will win and get the main winning.
«This box of matches is empty»
There are several Japanese books teaching Japanese students how to write in English. I found this example in 『英作文参考書の誤りを正す』 (Correcting Errors in English Composition Manuals) by Michio Kawakami and J.D. Monkman.
The authors of this book claim that this sentence is incorrect:
This box of matches is empty.
They note that a “box of matches” is a box containing matches (and not a box made out of matches), hence the sentence should instead be:
This matchbox is empty.
Likewise, an “empty bottle of beer” should instead be an “empty beer bottle.”
Is this actually an error that I should avoid in writing English? If so, is it a grammatical error or something else?
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As a native speaker, I would not regard empty box of matches, empty bottle of beer, empty glass of water, or empty tin of sardines to be «wrong». Anyone arguing that I should say instead empty matchbox, empty beer bottle, empty water glass, and empty sardine tin probably wouldn’t get in too many more discussions with me, as I’d likely regard them as a pompous bag of wind.
To echo what @Bradd Szonye mentioned in the comments, there’s a difference between «grammatically wrong» and «preferred in formal writing.» An empty beer bottle may be a better way of saying it, but «grammatically wrong» is overstated.
There are times when we should be very careful in our wording, when it behooves us to be very fussy about such details (for example, when we are writing a resume to compete against 50 or 60 other people for a coveted job, or writing an academic paper that will be read with scrutiny by our peers). Other situations don’t require such careful attention to linguistic quirks. I would say that empty box of matches falls squarely under the umbrella of good enough for everyday conversation.
When you say a box of matches you mean a matchbox which contains matches.
Let’s say I’ll bring a bottle of milk for you. What do you expect? An empty bottle?
By and large, a box of matches means what I have said.
But the box of matches lays more stress on the box itself. It may be empty or not.
Most native English speakers would find nothing strange about an “empty box of matches” or an “empty bottle of beer.” They would readily interpret these phrases as a “box [for] matches” or perhaps a “bottle [previously full] of beer.”
If you pointed out that “empty matchbox” or “empty beer bottle” is preferable, a fluent English speaker might agree, or might just shrug and wonder what the big deal is about. Diction choices like this are a matter of style, and poor choices are style errors. Most rules of style are subjective, so what looks like a style error to one writer (like the authors of your reference book) might be perfectly acceptable to another. One of the functions of a style guide is to recommend specific choices for diction, spelling, punctuation, formatting, etc. to maintain a consistent style in publications.
Note that this construction is not a grammatical error, at least not as the term is used by linguists. Jeremy Butterfield aptly notes that “Grammar is often a generic way of referring to any aspect of English that people object to.” While linguists and other serious language enthusiasts use grammar to mean a variety of things, it generally relates to the structure of language rather than its meaning. Thus, phrases like “this serious kerfuffle of parsnips” are grammatical even though they might not make sense at all, because there’s nothing wrong with the structure of the phrase. The same is true for “empty box of matches.”
All that said, many native speakers would object if you changed the example slightly:
This bottle of beer is full of milk.
We call this kind of style error a garden path sentence because readers are lured down one path (thinking that the bottle is full of beer) and then suddenly surprised by what they find at the end of the sentence (that it’s actually full of milk). A garden path sentence forces the reader to suddenly re-interpret the sentence to make sense of it, often requiring a completely different parse of the grammar. For example:
Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana.
Note: This is a copy of the answer I posted at English Language & Usage.
How to make an empty box
I am making a sheet where people can fill in answers of various types. For this I would like to make some boxes of certain width and height. How can this best be done? I use \fbox when I want to box a box around some text, but now I need to make a box with given dimensions.
I did noticed the question What are the different kinds of boxes in (La)TeX? but don’t quite see the answer there.
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Surprised no one has mentioned this. Latex has feature specifically for questions and answers:
To add, if you need space for students to work on this printed out, you can use vspace.
To make empty boxes that align nicely with the text, you can combine \fbox with \phantom in this way:
For the record, and probably not the «best» solution, here is another technique. I used it before discovering the above accepted answer. It can be useful if your document already uses the «listings» package. If not, you probably should rely on above solution.
It produces an empty framed box whose height is exactly the number of empty lines you put inside.
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