2015年5月14日 · If you tear off the corner of a sheet of paper, you have a piece of paper. We don't typically count physical paper without one of these words. However, the word paper has various other meanings. For example, if the word refers to a newspaper, we don't say sheet or piece: I saw an article about losing weight in the paper.

2023年3月20日 · Some paper means any number of sheets of paper, not specifically one sheet. So the phrase "get some white paper" is equally good whether you need one sheet, two sheets, five sheets, or fifty. If you want to be specific, then your final form is correct: we get one sheet of paper or we get two sheets of paper.

2017年10月23日 · Handout, as suggested, is also correct but handout is extremely generic. If I give you one sheet of paper in class, that is also a handout. Pamphlet is a good word for stapled together sheets but that word also implies that the papers provide information on a single subject.

2016年3月3日 · If you just have a single paper on a table and flip it over, it isn't revealing a new leaf (because it was never a leaf in the first place) Thank you for asking this question though! I'd actually never really thought about the phrase, and always generally assumed it was talking about a leaf like on a tree (why you would turn over a new one I ...

2021年5月4日 · This is not necessarily universal; please indicate where you've seen this used. Anecdotally, my mother was a teacher for many years, and while she did something similar using a notebook (sometimes labelled a "composition book") in which the students were also expected to write their homework assignments, many of her colleagues even in the same school and on …

2017年12月17日 · For "paper staples strips" there are only 5 results in google. Stapler needles is a name that less common in English speaking countries (for example, by googling I found 972 results , in which 46 results in the UK or 774 results in the US for "stapler needles").

2022年5月22日 · 'Support' can be used as a verb or a noun: We support you (verb) We give you support (noun) Your bullet-pointed list of features uses it as a noun, and as a native British English speaker with 25 years of experience in IT support I would say the most idiomatic way to state this would be:

2016年3月3日 · A 'pair' is two of something, but a pair can be singular or plural—it’s one of those odd English nouns (like couple) that can be singular or plural depending on how you’re thinking of the people or items in question.

2023年9月22日 · I missed out the full stop after DATA DIVISION in a COBOL program, which wasted an entire 2500-sheet box of listing paper on compiler cascade errors before an operator about to load another box of paper into the line printer realized that …

2024年9月16日 · ishtar answers this well. It is a troublesome fact that much of English metalanguage ('word', 'lexeme', 'phrase', 'clause', 'sentence', 'complement', 'extraposition', 'preposition' for starters) is ill-defined in that conflicting definitions are used (often usurping earlier definitions) by recognised authorities.