meaning - Can you still call a woman "handsome"? - English …
Right, I have heard it being used in the manner you've talked about before, but I wasn't sure if there was a hidden subtext of irony there or not. A kind of delicate way to say "that woman …
Never have I had seen such a beautiful lady ( is it correct? )
2016年12月29日 · Never had I seen such a beautiful lady. In the above example, had places the situation in the past. Or: Never have I seen such a beautiful lady. In the above example, have …
What's the difference between "beautiful", "pretty ... - PhraseMix
a beautiful woman. a pretty girl. a gorgeous girl. a handsome man. You can see a few differences immediately. First, the word "handsome" usually describes men instead of women. Next, …
Which is correct: 'as beautiful as her' or 'as beautiful as she'?
2014年9月8日 · the moon is as beautiful as she. She is a predicate nominative which is indeed in the subjective case. If you expand the sentence, it becomes clear: the moon is as beautiful as …
Is it correct to place comma between successive adjectives?
2014年8月15日 · A single comma between two adjectives, as in your bath example, tends to parse the sentence wrongly: in this case, "unwind with a nice" and "hot bath".
adjectives - "Beautiful" or "beautifully" - English Language
Beautiful is an adjective which describes a noun. In your example, you're describing the "you", a noun, so beautiful is the one to use. You're not describing the verb "looking" or the act of …
Word for something being both beautiful and terrible at the same …
2014年2月19日 · E.g. For the character King Kong in the movie, I would certainly use the word awesome because it describes the sense that king kong is both profound and impressive, it is …
word choice - English Language & Usage Stack Exchange
2013年9月7日 · From comment box, I'm writing an interesting essay whose leading character is a young woman who never takes off her burqa [...] the young woman, an Islamic living in the …
Why is "handsome" usually used for men, not women?
2016年10月29日 · The Oxford English Dictionary doesn’t mention sex either, defining a “handsome” physical appearance as beautiful, dignified, stately, fine. Fowler’s Modern English …
What are all the ways the British use the word "lovely"? Especially ...
2011年5月21日 · Lovely is as ambiguous as love.. As an interjection lovely can be used pretty much interchangeably with great, but emphasizes the positive emotion which it engenders in …