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27 sie 2021 · Aug 27, 2021. #8. JulianStuart said: Sugar comes in both sizes. In a coffee shop, you may find packets which contain a small amount, enough for cup of coffee. In a supermarket you can buy bags of sugar. Sugar and flour come in bags in the US (although you can also get sugar in one-pound boxes, roughly equivalent to half a kilo).
30 lis 2010 · It isn't exactly the same. Something that trips up Spanish speakers is that there isn't a one-to-one correspondence between words with respect to any/none/some and algún/ningún. Apparently, Spanish speakers learn that the translation of "ningún" is "none" or "no", but in the sentence "No hay ningún", the proper translation of "ningún" is ...
16 sty 2008 · Jan 6, 2010. #11. LaCosmopolitana: In spanish, the equivalent expression for " red-handed" or "...on the cookie jar" is "con las manos en la masa" (literally translated is something like "taken with the hands in the dough"). But if you are looking for "masa harina" is different, Masa harina is the traditional flour used to make tortillas ...
7 kwi 2012 · English (Midlands UK) Apr 7, 2012. #3. You live on the first floor; the lift (AE = elevator) stops at the first floor.
5 lut 2013 · English - U.S. Feb 5, 2013. #5. "Between" would be ok here because there are only two things. It is basically saying that the mix is somewhere between the two. A little bit of avant-garde and a little bit of mainstream attitude. If there were a "middle" of the two, AUSTERLITZ would fall around there. I suspect that it would be incorrect to say ...
20 wrz 2011 · Sep 21, 2011. #5. to me. Proceed = to continue (e.g. along a road, with a story) in the sense that the same action will continue to the end. Proceed further = continue to the next stage, when some new action or actions will take place. e.g. "I will proceed to tell you why I am a genius."
3 gru 2012 · flour - "This recipe calls for two cups of flour.' vs. "I used several different flours in this bread - quinoa, amaranth, and spelt." wine - "I just had a glass of wine; Pinot Noir is sooo delicious." and "Ice wine is one of the few wines prepared using grapes frozen on the vine." Hope this helps!
24 mar 2007 · U.S.A./English. Mar 24, 2007. #3. In the example you gave, they mean exactly the same thing. In the U.S., we would be more likely to use "missing" in this context. But some expressions seem to call for "lacking" -- especially when it's used as a regular verb. For example, I would say: "that actor lacks talent" rather than "that actor is missing ...
8 sty 2021 · or " Where is the crisps?". In this sense we must interpret "there's" and "where's" as informal and nonstandard but nevertheless idiomatic abbreviations for either "there is" and "where is" or for "there are" and "where are", depending on whether a singular or plural follows. I see Tegs makes that same point in #7.
5 lip 2009 · If "it" refers to a collective noun, then it can be singular or plural. 1. I have a bunch of paper. 2. I have a bunch of papers. The meanings are very close but the emphasis is a little different. In #1 you are emphasizing a large quantity of paper and quantity is singular. It #2 you are emphasizing many separate sheets of paper which is plural.
