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Generate the answer for a given question. The question requires common knowledge of English. Make sure that the answer is in detail, long, consistent with the context, and requires general knowledge of English. To be less repetitive, please vary your language for each question. Give a proper explanation to answer, and if necessary, provide the definition of various terms. And conclude your answer if it's long. If you have used other resources (e.g., Merriam Webster's.) to answer the question, include citations in your answer. You don't need to paraphrase the context of your resources, but make sure that your answer is consistent and complete.
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The only word that comes to my mind is tiptoe. However, this word implies that you are walking stealthily or cautiously. Is there a word that just means to walk slowly? Example sentence: Without knowing what I was doing, I _ toward her.
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I would suggest amble: verb to go at a slow, easy pace; stroll; saunter: noun a slow, easy walk or gentle pace. dictionary.com Your sentence would then be: Without knowing what I was doing, I ambled toward her. As that definition suggests, strolled or sauntered may also work for you.


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Possible Duplicate: When is it correct to use 'yourself' and 'myself' (versus 'you' and 'me')? In a conversation, how is is correct to say: You can contact John, Jane or me for more information ... or You can contact John, Jane or myself for more information ...
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Me. Myself is reflexive: it denotes that the person (me) is doing something to that person (myself) and no other. It's not correct to use a reflexive pronoun unless the recipient of the action is the person doing that action. You can't mix you with myself. You can talk to me. I can talk to myself.


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Someone told me that I shouldn't use the phrase discuss about, but should say, instead, discuss (the topic). He said discuss means talk about and using discuss about is like saying talk about about, which is redundant. Is he correct? Could somebody elaborate on this?.
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Your friend is correct. You can discuss something, or you can talk about it, but discuss about is redundant for the reason you identified. discuss: to speak with another or others about But if you want to use the word about, you can have a conversation about, confer about, debate about, or even have a powwow about. Most of the other synonyms for discuss don't take about, nor is it needed to converse (or debate).


