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Difference between 'voting' and 'casting a vote'
Jan 7, 2015 · "Voting" is a form of the simplex verb to vote. Beside the vast number of simplex verbs there is another vast number of compound verbs and still another vast number for which there is no standard name but a lot of names. Beside the simplex verb to vote ist the verbal expression to cast one's vote meaning to put one's voting slip/ballot into the ...
grammaticality - Can "casted" be the past tense of "cast"? - English ...
Dec 17, 2012 · Cast Operator: (programming) A type cast provides a method for explicit conversion of the type of an object in a specific situation. v. cast, casted; An orthopedic cast, body cast or surgical cast, is a shell, frequently made from plaster, encasing a limb v, adj. casted
Is someone "casted" or "cast" in a film role? [duplicate]
Feb 13, 2018 · That grammarist quote is part of the discussion of the linked question. The NOW corpus shows over 1000 hits for casted, most in the theatrical sense, but also casted a vote, esp. from outside UK and US. COCA has theatrical sense, but lots of spoken casted vote. –
How is the singular noun "vote" used compared to the plural …
Mar 25, 2022 · The Recall of any elected official is made available on petition of 10 percent of vote cast for mayor at the preceding election. (" The Nation-Wide Movement for Municipal Efficiency Under Direct Popular Control ", Equity, Volumes 17-18, edited by Charles Fremont Taylor, page 186)
Origin of "Every dollar you spend is a political act"?
Mar 26, 2015 · “Every dollar you spend . . . or don't spend . . . is a vote you cast for the world you want.” By L.N. Smith in his book Sunrise over Disney (2011) There also a similar quote by the writer Anne Lappe' which seems to predate the above one: “Every time you spend money, you're casting a vote for the kind of world you want.”
"At" vs. "in" followed by a city name - English Language & Usage …
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Election or Elections? - English Language & Usage Stack Exchange
He won the election: He obtained, by majority vote, the position he was seeking. He won the elections: He now has multiple jobs having run for, and obtained by majority vote, more than one position. I voted in the election: I did cast a ballot for (or against) a particular candidate seeking a particular position at a particular time.
Is "mother tongue" exactly the same as "native language"?
Feel free to cast your up-vote. (: – Gil. Commented Jan 22, 2014 at 1:19. Add a comment | 6
punctuation - What's the difference between using single and …
Sep 27, 2010 · I'm quite unsure regarding the usage of single quotation marks (') and double quotation marks (") in English. I had thought that double quotation marks were usually used to quote sentences from pa
word choice - "On the last week" or "In the last week"? - English ...
I'm planning a trip. My plane lands on the 29th of August. Should I say: I'll arrive on the last week of August. or I'll arrive in the last week of August. Web searches show that both