Christina Noble
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Mar 20, 2018 · Massachusetts, U.S. English - U.S. Mar 20, 2018. #5. You cannot do a noble cause (or any other kind of cause). "Do" has many meanings, but this is not one of them. You can help a noble cause (as in this thread), work for one, raise money for one, and many more things - but you cannot "do" one. What meaning did you want to express with this phrase?
Jun 9, 2024 · “Joining the William Pye water sculpture and Philip Jebb’s noble neo-classical folly, both monuments to the fallen great trees that they succeeded, the Heatherwick Glasshouse and new Silk Route Garden imbue Woolbeding with even more delight, beauty and pleasure for all who come to what Disraeli called ‘the loveliest valley in the land’.”
Oct 21, 2016 · The Æ is one of those symbols that suited perfectly the pronunciation scheme of Anglo-Saxon (= Old English) right up to 1065. Then the Normans came in and tried to impose French spelling, abandoning Æ, ð, kw and several other Old English forms that were unknown to them. The result is the mess that is English spelling to this day.
Jan 6, 2012 · And "carrots", although apparently plural, is in this context behaving like an uncountable noun. You could also say "My favourite vegetable is carrot." The difference being that carrot (singular) is likely to be somewhat further from the original intact vegetable than "carrots". See also mashed/pureed carrots = carrots.
Apr 5, 2018 · "maiden, young girl; woman of noble birth, damsel, lady, lady in waiting," also "the Virgin Mary," c. 1200, perhaps a variant of birth (n.) "birth, lineage," confused with burd and bride (q.q.v.), but felt by later writers as a figurative use of bird (n.1), which originally meant "young bird" and sometimes in Middle English was extended to the young of other animals and humans. In later Middle English bird (n.2) largely was confined to alliterative poetry and to alliterative phrases.
Sep 26, 2013 · Modwoman in the attic. Wisconsin. English - United States. Sep 26, 2013. #2. Either "I graduated" or "I have graduated" is grammatically correct in AE, though we would be more likely to say "I majored in..." or "I got my degree in..." "Postgraduate" is not a verb and can not be used in the way you suggest.
