A show or display; the act of presenting something to sight or view; hold/stage a demonstration (NOT make): ‘In London, students and lecturers staged a mass demonstration against the proposed education cuts.’ ‘Many demonstrations have been held in protest against the level of pollution.’
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Either
As an adverb: After a negative statement used as an intensive meaning something like ‘likewise’ or ‘also’: ‘if you don’t order dessert I won’t either.’ As conjunction: Used before two (or more) alternatives: ‘you either passed or failed your test.’ The position of either should be the same as the position of or (i.e. immediately […]
Imitate
Imitate = do something in exactly the same way that someone else does it: ‘Have you heard him trying to imitate an Englishman speaking French?’ ‘He walks as if he is trying to imitate Donald Duck.’ Copy = do the same thing as someone else: ‘As soon as I began cycling to work, people started […]
Verb – English editing.
In grammar this word is used in two separate but linked ways: ï‚§ It describes a particular word class in the same way that ‘noun’, ‘preposition’, and ‘adjective’ do. ï‚§ It describes a part of a clause in the same way that ‘subject’, ‘object’, and ‘complement’ do. In this sense it is sometimes called the […]
