- Use of and lo in a sentence - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
What, if any, is the right way to use "and lo" in a sentence? My basic structure is " [discussion about thing], and lo, [example of thing]", kind of like: There's a cliche about circus clowns being creepy and dangerous, and lo, last night I saw a clown violating a teddy bear
- meaning - use of the interjection but lo . . . - English Language . . .
According to the OED, in Middle English there are two distinct words "lo" or "loo" which have fallen together; one of them is indeed derived from a form of "look", but the other "lá, an exclamation indicating surprise, grief, or joy"
- interjections - How to use the expression lo and behold - English . . .
Lo comes from Middle English, where it was a short form of lok, imperative of loken, "to look" (see Etymonline, Wiktionary) To behold means "to see, to look at" and comes from Old English bihaldan, "give regard to, hold in view" (compare to behalten in contemporary German) So the literal meaning of the phrase is "Look and see!", but nowadays it is used as a set phrase and an interjection to
- What is a more modern variant of the interjection Lo!
13 Historically, “lo!”, isn’t expressive of any particular emotion (alas) or addressed to any particular person (dude), and it's not an all-purpose interjection (Hey) It expressly calls upon hearers to look at, to take account of, to behold what follows In contemporary English we say “look!” in pretty much exactly the same way
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When writing an instruction about connecting to a computer using ssh, telnet, etc , I'm not sure what spacing to use in this familiar spoken phrase: "Log in to host com" "Log into host com" "Login to
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- grammar - lo + adjective adverb + que + clause in Spanish VS the . . .
But I found the structure unusual because "lo+adjective" itself serves as a noun, which is another grammar in Spanish, but the adjective adverb in the subordinate clause serve as a predicate adverbial
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