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Grammar and Linguistics > Impact/ impact on
Impact/ impact on
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aura+
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Impact/ impact on
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Hi, everyone! Which of these sentences is correct? a. Our actions impact on the environment? b. Our actions impact the environment? Thanks! |
14 May 2019
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cunliffe
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Usually, actions have an impact on something and they impact something. So, go for b. Our actions impact the environment. |
14 May 2019
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almaz
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When you�re using the verb figuratively and intransitively (how one thing may have a pronounced effect or influence on something else), the preposition is commonly used. Nothing terribly wrong with using it transitively either. It�s really a matter of preference � and style. Incidentally, if anyone whinges on about �impact� being an egregious example of verbing (a regular complaint from the language peevers and sticklerati), tell �em it was a verb long before it was a noun. |
15 May 2019
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cunliffe
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I love verbing. My favourite, and I�m sure it�s very long-standing, is �to eye�. It conjures up wonderful images. Or terrifying. In the news this morning: �BoJo eyes No.10.� Or �to eyeball. �Larry eyeballs his rival Gladstone�. Hilarious! (Larry is the No.10 Downing Street cat and Gladstone is another cat. BoJo is Boris Johnson, a rather colourful politician/comedian)) |
17 May 2019
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almaz
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Aye, it�s pretty long-standing. It certainly popped up in the Tyndale Bible: "Whosoever eyeth a wyfe, lustynge affter her, hathe committed advoutrie with her alredy in his hert."
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17 May 2019
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spinney
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P G Wodehouse loved to do it, too. - "It was, indeed, practically with a merry tra-la-la on my lips that I latchkeyed my way in and made for the sitting room."
(P.G. Wodehouse, The Code of the Woosters, 1938) - "To trouser it was with me the work of an instant; to reach the window with a view to the quick getaway that of an instant more"
- (The Mating Season)
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17 May 2019
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Aisha77
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Isn�t English enough difficult to start verbing? Hehehhe  I was shocked when I knew English has more than 700.000 entries! Imagine, we would never learn even half of those! Spanish has only 88.000 and I assure you I don�t know a quarter of them! This is the "never-ending story!" The more I know, the more I realise I actually don�t know!  Dale: What could "to trouser" mean? I cannot figure it out... |
17 May 2019
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ldthemagicman
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Aisha: "To trouser" something, means to put it in your trouser pocket ... to "pocket it". I imagine that the speaker had stolen something which he wanted, and was now making his speedy get-away.
"When I give you the �10 note, trouser it immediately in your deepest pocket. There are lots of pick-pockets in this locality." Les Douglas
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17 May 2019
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Aisha77
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Thanks, Less, very kind of you. |
18 May 2019
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