Is it "quit" or "quitted"? - English Language & Usage Stack Exchange
edited Mar 10, 2012 at 13:12. answered Mar 8, 2012 at 12:29. Matt E. Эллен. 29.2k 15 106 169. 5. I think this chart for "had quitted/had quit" shows clearly that quitted was the standard past tense until the mid-1900s. It seems to be one of those relatively rare cases where a regular verb changes to become "irregular".
What is the basic difference between 'Quit' and 'Give up'?
2017年4月12日 · Quite frankly it is an age issue. Language evolves and when we mean one message or idea we can have multiple ways to express this. To give up is a more modern way to express wish to stop. Quit is more decisive way of stating action ,where as give up is more a reference to desires. So the teacher was saying that you would quit not think of ...
grammar - English Language & Usage Stack Exchange
2017年5月5日 · The principal parts of quit are quit, quit, quit. Thus "He quit smoking" is Past tense; you can only tell the difference in 3Sg. "I quit smoking" and "They quit smoking" could be either present or past, because they're not inflected for person or number, and the tense inflection is Zero in the case of quit, hit, shit, bid, and some other D/T ...
What is the proper usage of "quite a few"?
2010年10月15日 · 23. Quite a few expresses that the speaker was impressed or astonished by the number, as they would have expected less. Or the speaker wants to emphasize on the fact that it was "more than you would think". Yet I do not think that there is an order involved that quite a few would be less than many.
'Are you really want to quit ?' vs 'Do you really want to quit
2016年1月10日 · I am a game developer . So when a player presses exit button a message pops up and asks whether they want to quit the game or not . So which is the better way to ask , 'Are you really want to quit this game ?' -- OR -- 'Do you really want to quit this game ?' . Hope you will help me to figure it out . Regards , NB :)
The origin of “go cold turkey” - English Language & Usage Stack ...
2018年12月7日 · Go is the most common, but you can also quit cold turkey, or kick something cold turkey. There may be others. As to the phrase's origin, Etymonline favors the "quick preparation" theory and indicates there was a period of time where it was not associated with kicking a bad habit. It also curiously Cf.'s cold shoulder:
What do you call a person who keeps on going despite setbacks?
2013年12月3日 · The song from the musical really sums it all up: someone who refuses to quit despite all hardship, someone who like the Eveready Energizer rabbit just keeps going and going and going and going. The Impossible Dream (The Quest) To dream the impossible dream, To fight the unbeatable foe, To bear with unbearable sorrow, To run where the brave dare ...
Why use 'step down' instead of 'resign'? Is there any difference?
To resign is to "quit." To step down is to "climb down" from a high position. It is possible to "step down all the way," as Ray Ozzie did at Microsoft. In this regard, the two are synonymous. On the other hand, Bill Gates initially "stepped down" from CEO to Chief Software Officer, thereby taking a lesser post, without actually quitting or ...
Can 'An ass that won't quit' connote stubbornness?
2021年7月6日 · I have Juba to Jive: A Dictionary of African-American slang open to won't quit: outstanding; great; truly beautiful. It's hard to disprove a negative, but I simply cannot idiomatically read "ass" in your text as relating to stubbornness. (A commenter discovered empirically that every ass that won't quit was a bottom.)
phrases - Idioms similar to "dig your own grave" - English …
2018年8月31日 · 1. I offer two idioms for your consideration: quit while [one is] behind and cut [one's] losses. But first, let's look at the more traditional phrase "quit while [one is] ahead." Christine Ammer, The American Heritage Dictionary of Idioms, second edition (2013) has this entry for that phrase: quit while one's ahead Don't try to improve on ...