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please explain "animals and insects"
Edit: This seems to be getting a significant number of downvotes so I just want to emphasize that I'm genuinely asking, not mocking or making out like I know more than the English speakers I'm referencing. I'm genuinely curious and trying to understand the origins. ---------- Hello everyone, This question has been bugging me — pun intended — for quite a while now. I keep hearing native English speakers say things like "Was it an insect or an animal?" in conversations and nobody bats an eye at it. **Do (certain?) English speakers believe bugs to not be animals?** Or is it a linguistic quirk without much associated meaning? I've never heard someone from a non-English speaking country imply the same thing. Two things to note: I'm not looking for a debate about whether there are six biological kindoms of life as North America teaches or if there are five like the rest of the world says. I'm also unfortunately not sure if all the people I've heard saying this were from the same place. Maybe you'll be able to guess at that? Thank you in advance!
quite or so
“so” seems suitable in meaning , “quite” seems suitable grammatically. or is it “such”? please help , i’m really confused
What’s a word you thought you were using right for years… but later realized you totally misunderstood?
Mine was “literally.” I used to say things like “I literally died laughing” or “I literally can't even”—until a teacher politely explained I wasn’t dying… or doing anything literal at all. Made me realize how easy it is to copy phrases without knowing their exact meaning. What’s yours? Could be a word, idiom, phrase, or even pronunciation mistake. Let’s confess and learn from each other!
All of them seem wrong
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Is Number 8 incorrect?
According to the teacher, it has to be "Andrew didn't eat pizza yesterday".
Hello native speakers, will you call this exam a hard test as a ninth grade student?
The title is “tenses”.
Pupil. How often do you actually use the word? I've never heard anyone referring to a student as "pupil".
Cause there's been so many encounters of the word in English textbooks in my country that it feels like it's used in those only
Is this correctly written?
What I wanted to say was something like “i’ll text u around 3:30 pm”
What does "A man of straw" actually mean?
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That's why you should learn the language
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