Spook was actually used by black people to refer to white people, presumably on the notion of “white” ghosts. spook n. [SE spook, a ghost] (US black) a white person. 1939 [US] P.E. Miller Down Beat’s Yearbook of Swing n.p.: spook: a white musician. 1944 [US] D. Burley Orig. Hbk of Harlem Jive 19: Us young homes, and lanes and hipstuds, gray and fay, and spook and spade. (Green’s ...
When is "some" used as plural and when is it used as singular?
I am trying to find out if this question is correct. Did Wang Bo used to be awkward? Should I write "use to be" instead of "used to be," or is "used to be" correct in this sentence?
What is the negative form of "I used to be"? I often hear "I didn't used to be" but that sounds awfully wrong in my ears.
What's the negation of "I used to be"? Surely not "I didn't used to be"?
"I'm used to" does not mean you ARE DOING something now. I'm used to hot weather does not use a dynamic verb, and I could say this at any time of the year. He was used to sleeping four hours a night means that in the past he was accustomed (because of habit) to sleeping four hours but today he is no longer accustomed, maybe he still sleeps four hours but finds it more difficult than in the ...
These make up the vast majority of hits for 'can help doing something' in the Corpus of Contemporary American English. In the sentence given though, help is quite definitely a verb, and used in an affirmative context, so it would be best to have either a plain infinitival or to -infinitival following it.