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She's pregnant with a baby
Can one be pregnant with something else?
What is the logic behind this?
I often watch YouTube videos in English, and I've noticed phrases like these very often. For example, if the video is about a dog eating, a comment might say: "Not the dog eating faster than Olympic runners 😭" Or "Not the owner giving the dog a whole family menu to eat" Why do they deny what’s happening? I think it’s a way of highlighting something funny or amusing, but I’m not sure about that. I’ve also seen them adding -ING to words that are NOT verbs. For example, if in the video someone tries to follow a hair tutorial and fails, someone might comment: "Her hair isn't hairing" "The brush wasn't brushing!"
Is inversing the phrase “I have not played the piano” into “Not have I played the piano” grammatically correct?
https://www.reddit.com/r/EnglishLearning/comments/1jhbcox/is_inversing_the_phrase_i_have_not_played_the/
Saw a debate on the pronunciation of one and won being the same. Are they the same?
I feel like at the end of "won", the mouth is a bit wider than "one"
Common names of over-the-counter drugs
So I talked to some people and whenever I mentioned “acetaminophen” and “paracetamol”, usually they’ll say something like “what are you talking about?”. I thought these were common drugs and a quick google search said yeah. Are these terms not used? If so, what are commonly used names of OTC drugs?
"Evidence" is pronounced as "eh-vidence" or "ih-vidence"?
I'm a 10th grade student from the Philippines, and this particular word bothers me. I pronounce the word evidence as its American pronunciation, but my English teacher pronounce it as "ih-vidence". I browsed the web, and it looks like the correct pronunciation is "eh-vidence". Why does my teacher and even my classmates say that it's the correct pronunciation?
Is “costed” correct?
I just heard someone use it in a sentence and realized I’ve heard a few people use it on social media platforms. As a past tense, is it correct?
Can you guys give me a slang/informal words that you think are essentials or you think that non speaker would never heard of this type of words?
Not like brainrot words like huzz, rizz, goon, kai cenat, skibidi etc. It should be something like red mist, aint, wanna, gonna, lowkey etc. Like informal words that you have to know (it can be complex or never heard before)
Is using the "s" for the first person ("I calls" and "I sees") some kind of dialect ?
https://i.redd.it/4blyig9hwade1.jpeg
“She conceives with Tom.” “She is pregnant with Tom.” Do these sound natural to mean Tom is the father of the baby?
https://www.reddit.com/r/EnglishLearning/comments/1hqjcf4/she_conceives_with_tom_she_is_pregnant_with_tom/