strong
- adjective
- /strɔŋ/
- Specialized
- It's not really your strong suit, is it?
- weak and strong verbs
That's not part of the so-called principal parts or vowel gradations of the strong verb series.
- That's not part of the so-called principal parts or vowel gradations of the strong verb series.
Examples
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Look, yoga's not my strong suit.
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Numbers were never my strong suit.
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Math was never my strong suit either, so...
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I'm not getting a strong enough signal yet.
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Grammar has never really been my strong point.
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I will admit that the law is not Amber's strong point.
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Balance and coordination aren't exactly my strong suit.
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She didn't have a strong background in property law.
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Our study offers strong evidence that HAdV-7 is significantly associated with severe infection in a community outbreak setting.
Academic text (2012) -
The argument presented by the attorneys was very strong, clearly highlighting the evidence in favor of their case.
Compounds
An argument with good evidence and clear reasons that is likely to convince people
A fast, powerful flow of water in a river or the sea that pulls people and things away
- Specialized
A force that holds protons and neutrons together inside an atom's nucleus
- Specialized
A theorem that says the average of many independent random results almost certainly equals the true average
- Literature
A powerful character who opposes the hero and creates major conflict
- Specialized
A healthy plant that acts as a strong base and resists disease for grafting another plant
- Specialized
The average of many separate random results becomes almost always close to the true average
- Specialized
An old short vowel that later becomes a full vowel in modern Slavic languages
Surface Forms
Etymology
Strong in grammar was used for verbs that make their past by changing the vowel inside instead of adding '-ed', and old teachers called these verbs 'strong' because their change feels more like an inner power. A helpful way to remember is that strong verbs have a strong inner change when they move from present to past.