Questions about example sentences with, and the definition and usage of "Serious"

insofar basically means, "to the extent that", or "since" he was very lucky, since he walked away with only minor cuts and bruises look it up in the Corpus of Contemporary American English (COCA) if you want to see a lot of example sentences

They are making a joke. I don't really understand the joke, but I think they're saying winter is very bad in New England.

It means that you do not have time to take the things so seriously

-Look, take all my words in now, I'm dead serious! -This is a matter of life or death, I'm dead serious man! -We win that loterry to New York! I'm dead serious!

You didn't do your homework?! Are you serious? 宿題をしなかったんだ?　マジで? You forgot your keys? Are you serious? 鍵を忘れたんだ?　マジで?

A) It is interesting that people laugh when they are embarrassed. A) It is interesting that there is an island full of bunnies in Japan. A) It is interesting that you ask that. B) It is serious that his aunt was sent to the hospital. B) It is serious that I ran out of money. B) It is serious that she forgot to pay her bills.

Both sentences are grammatically correct, but will sound strange if not used in the order that I suggested.

Are your parents cousins? Implies that you don't know anything about the parents. Your parents are cousins? Implies that you may know a little about them but need clarification

Solemn could be described as being depressed or sad, while serious means more direct or focused.

Yes it's correct! To sound a bit more fluent remove the second "serious"

Hmm. This is a curious statement. It seems like the guy is a PlayBoy and is not as committed to the relationship as she is. She thinks that he isn’t committed because it has something to do with her race (Asian). So I’m guessing that he is not Asian.

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Both Sell and Market would work there. However if it is likely China will buy the 'decontamination technology' then I would say Sell.

不要太在意那个用法，因为不自然。但意思应该是“光算美国，9百万人患这个病。”

Did she take the image away from the patent - ie. they were holding the image (photo etc) and she took the image off of them so she had it in her possession now? To take from - means confiscate, remove, take away, Otherwise use "of" to take (a photo) of (something) She explained (that) the image was taken of a patient at ECC who suffered from a serious eye disease. If it's a written document use "that" in spoken English (and English written to be read the same way as if it were spoken English) it can be dropped

Try this: Preventive methods for swine flu are very successful because swine flu has already been controlled this year; it is not as serious a disease as before. People know how to prevent swine flu and they also get swine flu vaccinations regularly. But, even though it is not a serious disease, I still recommend that local governments pay attention to it and that government and private agencies keep providing free vaccinations for citizens. If people stop getting the vaccination, they will have a chance to get swine flu. I think people also need to update information on websites about swine flu. I hope people can have good health habits and follow the prevention steps that I talked about before.

Both are natural but without context have different meanings. I, too, am serious about learning language. = multiple people are serious about learning language and you are one of them I am also serious about learning language. = you are serious about multiple things and learning language is one of them ...but if multiple people were talking about being serious about language study and you said this in a context where it was clear you were saying this to include yourself in that group, then the context would make it the same as the first sentence.

Yes it is better. Good job!

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