Jane's mother will come to pick her up soon.    Jane's mother will come pick her up soon.       The kid Jane is being looked after at her grandparents' home. In a hour, her mother will arrive at the house to pick her up. What's the most appropriate way to express this?
Reading the book on which I'm learning English, I've come across a weird (for me) omitting the "to" in sentence: "I'd better go meet with him then."  Say, if it were "I'd better go to meet with him then.", would there be any difference between the two sentences? When I should prefer using one instead the other?  P.S. Sorry for my bad English. If I made a mistake somewhere, please correct me.
How do I convert or upgrade roads? I'm trying to optimize my road system a bit, mostly converting regular small roads into one-way roads. But the only way I can see to do that is to remove the old road entirely and build a new one. I can't seem to just build over the old one.   I can understand that limitation in cases where the new road type is larger, but it should be possible to upgrade to roads with the same size without tearing down the old road manually.   Is there an easier way to convert or upgrade roads, or do I have to manually remove the existing road every time? What happens in electron-electron collisions? All matrices which commute with all $2\times 2$ matrices I would like to find all matrices which commute with all $2\times2$ matrices.  I started solving problem in this way:    1) I have this matrix $A$ with real numbers: $$A=\left[\begin{array}{cc}a &amp;b\\c &amp;d\end{array}\right]$$ 2) Matrix which commute with matrix $A$ is matrix $B$: $$B = \left[\begin{array}{cc}e&amp; f\\ g &amp;h\end{array}\right]$$ 3) When i solve the equation $AB=BA$, I get this: $$\left[\begin{array}{cc}ae+bg&amp;af+bh\\ce+dg&amp;cf+dh\end{array}\right]=\left[\begin{array}{cc}ea+cf&amp;eb+df\\ga+ch&amp;gb+dh\end{array}\right]$$  How I can get the general look of wanted matrix? How to get a list of appendices? How to get a list of appendices like the list of figures and list of tables? How to set it on a separate page, like the list of figures and list of tables? Just watched the 'How Big is the Universe?' TV program and it indicated that the universe is believed to be infinite in size. They used an approach involving measuring the internal angles of triangles. Or something like that anyway.  But hang on, the Universe has a known starting time and size followed by a finite time expanding at a finite speed. So surely, by definition, it cannot be infinite? I can accept it is honking big but by definition it cannot be infinite. Are they misleading me? When the site is in read-only mode, I get a message like this:     This site is currently in read-only mode.   Would it be possible to update that message to provide links to these resources on SE's status:   : Official SE tweets on SE's status. : Official blog posts on SE's status. Monitor cell value and copy it to another cell How to remove lines included in one file from another file? I have two lists, a complete list and a partial list. I want a bash script that will search the complete list for any lines that are in the partial, if there are, they will be removed from the complete list. Can anyone help? Recently I ran across the sentence:     "Just why the law prescribed thirty-nine lashes instead of forty or forty-one and so on, must needs remain unanswered."   How did a plural verb like "needs" wind up as an adverb?  Is it alone in this phenomenon, or are there other examples that appear to be an odd misplacement of a second verb, but are actually adverbs as well? Execute an installed Python package as a script? Holmby Hall is a landmark site in Los Angeles. The Wikipedia page doesn't use "the" before Holmby Hall, but has used the before The Fox Theatre. Some applications simulate a virtual USB or CD Rom drive as if a USB drive is attached to the computer.  Is there any configuration or application that provides a virtual USB drive, not for the the operating system itself, but for other equipments which accept USB drive, through a USB port.  So I'll have a virtual hard disk (e.g. a *.vdi file) in the computer, which is connected, through a USB socket, as a USB drive to some other equipment (e.g. a cell phone or a laptop). Second order partial of $f(x,y)=\frac{xy(x^2-y^2)}{x^2+y^2}$ Consider the function $f(x,y)=\dfrac{xy(x^2-y^2)}{x^2+y^2}$ for $(x,y) \neq (0,0)$, $f=0$ otherwise.  I have to compute $\dfrac{d^2f}{dydx}(0,0)$.  I know that I have to calculate $\frac{df}{dx}$ first. But that is ,  $\frac{df}{dx} = \frac{\partial f}{\partial y}\frac{dy}{dx}+\frac{\partial f}{\partial x}$. When I put it in wolframalpha, it gives me this calculation, and also just $\frac{\partial f}{\partial x}$ as an alternative form.   Why do I just ignore the y'? I don't know what y(x) is, as a function of x.  y and x are independent functions, no? I'm using JUnit 4.4 and Maven and I have a large number of long-running integration tests.  When it comes to parallelizing test suites there are a few solutions that allow me to run each test method in a single test-class in parallel. But all of these require that I change the tests in one way or another.  I really think it would be a much cleaner solution to run X different test classes in X threads in parallel. I have hundreds of tests so I don't really care about threading individual test-classes.  Is there any way to do this? A significant amount of zombies were detected in your city Can anyone please help and tell me if this sentence is correct?  &quot;A significant amount of zombies were detected in your city.&quot;  In my opinion it should be &quot;A significant amount of zombies was detected in your city.&quot; because &quot;amount&quot; should be in agreement with &quot;was&quot; even though amount usually refers to something plural. Are both (was and were) acceptable in this case? Edit1: Yes, &quot;number&quot; would be the correct one in this case. So allow me to ask one more thing.  &quot;A significant amount of purchases were detected...&quot;  Does the use of &quot;number&quot; apply in this case also? As purchase is not exactly a thing/person. And if no, is it correct to say &quot;A significant amount of purchases were detected...&quot;? Edit2: So, please tell me what is the correct phrasing?  &quot;A significant amount of purchases were detected...&quot; &quot;A significant amount of purchases was detected...&quot;  Or, since purchases are countable, is the use of &quot;number&quot; instead of &quot;amount&quot; correct here, as in:  &quot;A significant number of purchases were detected...&quot; &quot;A significant number of purchases was detected...&quot;  Or would amount be correct since a purchase involves money and it refers to the amount of money? Would greatly appreciate an answer, and if possible a detailed explanation. Conveying "under the radar" in a less colloquial way I am searching for a word to contrast with iconic  I want to characterize views of the city as both iconic and under the radar, maybe "non-iconic."  I was thinking about saying that a view of the city was undiscovered, but I think that maybe that overstates what I'm think-- I more mean under-appreciated. Are there any other words that come to mind? "Insufficient storage" when trying to install new app How to send parameter from jsp page to jasper file Do I have to re-enter the Schengen area to activate my second visa when traveling on back-to-back Schengen visas? I currently have a valid multiple entry Schengen visa that expires on Feb 10th (issued by the Spanish consulate). I need to visit the Czech Republic from Feb 9th to Feb 15th. For this, I am getting a visa starting Feb 11th from the Czech consulate as I was advised that I cannot have two simultaneous visas.   Is it possible for me to enter Czech republic on the current visa on Feb 9th, and stay past its expiry up to Feb 15th using the new visa without leaving the Czech Republic? Will there be any likely problem either while entering or exiting Schengen zone (I am entering Schengen in Frankfurt)? The dialog box in question here is the one you get with the context menu option "open with other applications". Wine seems to have inserted more than a dozen or so entries for each application I install, which makes it a pain to find the correct application:     What can I do to remove the duplicates?     Update: Neither of the two solutions really work. The bug is interesting, but the symptoms does not match my problem (I'm not having problem with uninstalling applications, but rather the things that are inserted after installing them), and with the other one, all references to the Wine application are removed, which actually makes the problem worse (although it may be an acceptable solution if nothing else can be found). So this is still an open question; any takers?