Subject: English language - discussions

It would mean an entrance that is nothing special, boring, something that does not stand out so you almost do not notice.

Ahh...I didn't think about it in that way, thanks a lot. :)

I was passing and I decided to stop by.

Hi guys! Is the sentence above lexically correct? I mean especially the word "pass". Does it fit in here? Is there any other or better word to put here. I mean the word which expresses that somebody went or drove near some spot. Such a word in German for example is "vorbeigehen" or "vorbeikommen".

Thanks in advance for help!

passing by, going past

So "pass by" instead of "pass". "Pass" isn't correct here, is it?

I think so :)

" I was passing and I decided to stop by."

the whole sentence is correct and so the use of "passing" here. I could rephrase the setence to give the same exact meaning this way:

"I was in the vicinity and I decided to stop by"

You can write it like this? Good to know :)

I always heard/read passing by/passing through (sth)

If I was writing that sentence I would add "by" right after passing to make it more clear.

"I was passing by and ..."

You are right borkos,, One must add by or through to make it grammatically perfect

Thank your for help :)

If we talk about football match and we want to say that one team is much better than the second one in a certain match i.e. they possess the ball more often, they shoot more often and so on, can we use the expression "have an advantage over sb" or is there a more adequate phrase ?

Dominating.

what does 'filling a pool' mean?

I mean, not with water...

for example:

John used ot fill the pools, he even won the pools twice.

"The pools" is a football betting thing. It used to be really popular in the 80s/90s but is one of these things that has disappeared. Filling in the pools would be filling in the pools coupon a little bit like a more complex betting slip.

It was a sort of predict matches, but instead of the usual guessing of scorelines you would predict score draws and the likes. With a score draw getting you 3 points and I think a 0-0 draw was 2.

I've more than likely not expanded fully on the rules but this is only from my memory of when my grandad used to do it and I wasn't that old about 20 years ago.
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ah...ok, makes sense

I was guessing that it might be a lottery or something like that

thanks