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Neither. Just say
Your information has been submitted.
Submitting implies success. If the information has been submitted then it has been successfully submitted. Otherwise, it has simply not been submitted.
Submit, transitive verb
to present or propose to another for review, consideration, or
decision; also : to deliver formally
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Both are grammatically correct. Which you should prefer depends on what you mean.
Lay on the bed would mean laying on top of it; on top of all the blankets, eiderdowns and spreads or whatever that the bed is covered by. If the person were tucked up underneath all these things they'd be generally said to be in the bed.
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I think you are misunderstanding the meaning of finite. Finite is not a category of verb but a category of verb forms and uses.
Finite forms are those which must take either past or non-past tense (must is anomalous in having the same form for both tenses) and may change to agree with the person and number of their subjects. Non-finite forms, infinitives ...
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You asked What is the rule.
It should be clear from the answers and comments so far that there isn't a single rule: it depends on the circumstances, the intended meaning, on the manner in which the answerer chooses to express it, and possibly on whether they are using British English, American English, or some other variety.
First issue: Collective or ...
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In the sentence They gave [object], the object is singular when the group collectively gives a single thing. In your example, They gave their word, the group collectively makes the same promise. In contrast, They gave their lives says that each member of the group devoted or sacrificed their individual lives – even if they shared a common cause.
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"During" indicates that something is happening at the same time as some other ongoing action. Notice that this includes the implication that something is actively happening. So you might say you were doing something during the baseball game. For example, "I was knitting a sweater during the baseball game." But you would not say that something DIDN'T happen ...
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Not without quotes and punctuation:
James, while John had had “had,” had had “had had;” “had had” had had a better effect on the teacher.
The context is two students writing a sentence on some graded work, such as:
Bill had the measles.
Bill had had the measles.
When wanting to know why James scored better, the sentence above explains the ...
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This usage of such as an intensifier is both an adjective and adverb:
adj. 2b. Of so extreme a degree or quality: never dreamed of such wealth.
adv. 1. To so extreme a degree, so: such beautiful flowers; such a funny character.
As such, it can modify either a noun (“such fun”) or an adjective (“such nice kids”).
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One of the uses of make when used in this construction is be suitable for. Check it out in
OALD.
I've never heard this expression used with the preposition for. The expression should be "I would have made a bad lawyer".
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I think originally people would have said:
"It was so much fun for all of us".
In time people substituted "much" with "such" (they sound similar) leaving out the intensifier, so. Grammatically speaking. the phrase "such fun" is wrong as is "so fun" but both forms are becoming increasingly common so we accept it unquestionably.
As for such being used to ...
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The main question you need to ask is whether or not the target of such is countable:
It was such fun for all of us to be together.
Here, fun is not countable so no a is used. However, if you change the sentence above to refer to something that is countable, you will need to add an a (not the most elegant of sentences but it wiill serve as an example):
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"What am I to do?" is roughly equivalent to "What should I do about this?" where "this" is some kind of problem you have, specifics to be understood from context. It is not commonly used anymore, but will be understood by native speakers.
Native speakers of Standard American English (and I think also Standard British English) never say "the next" without ...
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One use of the word that is as a complementizer, a part of speech that is a type of subordinating conjunction in traditional grammars. Complementizers introduce complement clauses, which are sentential clauses that may or may not stand alone and are the argument of the main verb:
I believe that she is a good person.
It seems that he can perform miracles.
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You could say I lay on the bed if it happened in the past and you did not get under the covers on it. You could say I lay in the bed if it happened in the past and you did get under the covers on it.
See these http://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/british/lie_1?q=lie and http://www.ldoceonline.com/dictionary/lie_1
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