Is 'self grooming' like 'self cleaning'?

to make (oneself or one's clothing) neat or tidy:
She groomed herself carefully before the meeting.


Small children cry a lot, plus they often don't know enough to wipe their own noses if they cry or have a cold. Their parents or caretakers have to do it for them. Small children that don't get this care often run around with mucus coming out of their noses. More prevalent in cultures where kids are left to play with each other for longer periods of time.

The ability to do this basic step of self grooming is one of the things that separates toddlers from "big kids" of 6 or 7.

Can you please explain 'tend' here? What is its difference with 'clean'?


Grooming
Animal Behavior, Zoology(of an animal) to tend (itself or another) by removing dirt or unwanted tiny organisms from the fur, skin, feathers, etc.:
Monkeys groom each other.
to clean, brush, and otherwise tend (a horse, dog, etc.).

Tom says:
I saw a dog I had never seen before running about in the street on its own.

Pete replies:
a. Maybe one of your neighbors bought a new dog that escaped.
b. One of your neighbors might have bought a new dog that escaped.
c. One of your neighbors might have bought a new dog and it escaped.
d. One of your neighbors might have bought a new dog and it might have escaped.

Which of the above sentences are grammatically correct and acceptable in this context?

Many thanks.

If you call your mother/child and shout/say for example 'mum/Sara/Jim' how do they answer? Do they say 'yes/yeah' or what?

Hi!

"Spelling" would work - meaning the general action or system of spelling words.

However, how the writer has written it means all the individual words - the spelling of 'centre', the spelling of 'colour', the spelling of 'honour', . . . etc.

All those spellings.

I am guessing our English is not Yiddish enough - maybe it is a thing in American English?
Maybe, being a happy concept, it is not an idea that is commonly expressed!

Which meaning of 'off' is used here?

Chowder: Three seconds on the clock. I'm playing basketball. It’s time for an in-your-face disgrace. [he throws the ball, only for it to bounce off the hoop and hit him in the face; he cries out and falls to the driveway as the ball bounce away ]

Monster House, animation

Hi Everyone!
As long as each of these sentences only has one action here, and it was completed in the past, why did the writers NOT use the past simple?
Admissions for nationals and residents of Qatar are now closed.
I think so much about my future and I think that it is already lost.
If you are interested in attending Stevens, you are more than welcome to submit a Spring 2020 application as the Spring 2018 semester is completed.

If you might be saying that the past participle in each sentence of the above ones is acting as an adjective past participle and not as part of a passive verb, then I would be saying why the past auxiliary of 'to be' is not used.