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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Some language purists maintain that none can take a singular verb, never a plural one:none of them is coming tonight rather than none of them are coming tonight. There is little historical or grammatical justification for this view. None comes from Old English nan meaning ‘not one’ and has been used for around a thousand […]
Calm down
Calm down (intransitive) means ‘to become less angry, less excited, etc’: ‘Once everyone had calmed down, the meeting continued.’ The object of calm down (transitive) is always a person: ‘The doctor gave him a tranquillizer to calm him down.’ ‘In the end I agreed to go with her, just to calm her down.’
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