Aug 30, 2024 · In addition to the interrogative particle 'ara' in Greek or 'ne' in Latin, a speaker/writer could signal that the expected answer was 'yes', by using instead the particle arou (Greek) or nonne …

Sep 2, 2020 · 2 I tried to research the difference beween particle and preposition in phrasal verb, but the information on this website is not very clear.

Apr 24, 2017 · Fortunately, The Chicago Manual of Style (16th edition) deals with this question on page 388: 8.5 Names with particles. Many names include particles such as de, d', de la, von, van, and ten. …

Nov 22, 2023 · The sentence * Why do not you just do it? sounds ungrammatical to me, but Why don't you just do it? seems fine. (I am not a native speaker.) I have three questions: Is "don't" a particle of …

May 12, 2018 · Incidentally, 'particle' is not a word category (part of speech). Most so-called particles are prepositions occurring between verb and object as in "Kim took the suitcase down" ~ "Kim took down …

Apr 19, 2020 · The third example is confusing. Is it a) Metaheuristics, like particle swarm optimization, evolutionary algorithms, and memetic algorithms, are used in the literature to solve the optimization …

May 4, 2023 · Edit/ Addendum (I would like to hear what people think about this) Based on the comments and answers so far, it seems that: Yes, some adverbs do take complements but …

If you have a phrasal verb, that erstwhile preposition is now part of the verb, and we can call it a particle. What makes this whole thing a thing is the fact that the meaning of the verb plus particle is different …

Feb 11, 2025 · But I would like to know where it comes from, especially the particle "wacho" that I had never heard before. Is it slang? Why are they capitalized? This is the paragraph in context: Because …

May 30, 2023 · I am looking for a verb with the meaning of ceasing to like something/someone. To dislike is not fitting here, as it means the opposite of like, not going back from liking something to …