Is it quit or quitted? - English Language Usage Stack Exchange What is the correct (grammatical) simple past and past participle form of the verb quit? Is it quit or quitted? She quitted her job (She has quitted her job ) She quit her job (She has quit her
synonyms - English Language Usage Stack Exchange The easiest thing to say is " I quit smoking " quit : 4 To abandon or put aside; forsake 5 To cease or discontinue also give up : To desist from; stop I quit smoking two years ago I gave up smoking when my daughter was born
What do you call a person who keeps on going despite setbacks? (in one . . . 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
Can An ass that wont quit connote stubbornness? An ass that just won't quit is callipygian, not equine 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
What is the basic difference between Quit and Give up? 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 giving up
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
Correct use of circa - English Language Usage Stack Exchange It has always been my understanding that circa is properly used only when exact dates are unknown or disputed (I will concede to my betters about the use of circa with measures Presumably, the same rule about intentional vagueness applies ) Using circa with an exact, verified set of dates is wrong Recently, I edited a client’s work to correct “the poet John Keats lived c 1795–1821”
Which is correct - most quiet or quietest? [duplicate] Since quiet is a two-syllable adjetive, the rule-of-thumb would make more quiet and most quiet the expected comparative forms; however, quietest and quieter are six-times more common (or, as many would say, "commoner " Both forms are correct, but the single-word construction is what the American ear expects to hear