Preguntas sobre ejemplos de oraciones con, y la definición y uso de "Prisoner"

A: To take no prisoners means to go all in; to try your hardest to do something, no matter the consequences.

A: a person legally held in prison as a punishment for crimes they have committed or while awaiting trial.

A: It’s their rooms or area where they live

A: it means to feel like your trapped or controlled by hate.

A: In war, if you take no prisoners, it means you kill your enemy. All of them. Even if they surrender. You don't care if this means the other side will now try to do the same to you. You don't care if the soldiers are just following orders. You don't care that death cannot be undone. It means you will be ruthless. You will have no pity nor compassion. You will do everything in your power to win.

Now, take that idea and apply it to things other than war.

Said about a lawyer...
He has a take no prisoners approach to negotiations.

Said about a tennis opponent...
Be careful. She is taking no prisoners.

Said about getting 100% on all your exams...
I will take no prisoners!

A: We have made it to the land we want to conquer. Take no prisoners. Kill them all!

A: they mean exactly the same thing. just two different ways of expressing it.

A: in those sentences there isn’t any difference because you have said that the prisoner escaped. If it just said “the prisoner climbed the prison wall” it seems unfinished because you would ask “and then what? Did he climb the wall and fall back off? Did he climb the wall and sit on it?” So if the context of him escaping from prison wasn’t there, it would be climbed over the wall to express he went over the top of the wall and down the other side

A: It makes the sentence “Continuous”.

The prisoners who were being released were all women

Or

The prisoners who were released (were/are) all women.

In the Continuous form, with “being”, you are describing something “as it happens”, so you have to say “were”. It makes the verb “released” the centre of the sentence.

When it’s not Continuous, released could be an adjective. It makes the noun “the prisoners” the centre of the sentence. If those people are still around you can say “are women”: if it’s from long ago you would say “were women”.

A: A prisoner is someone who is literally within a prison.
Convicts are just someone who has been found guilty of a crime by the court.

All prisoners are convicts, but not all convicts are (yet) prisoners.

A: “Take no prisoners” is an idiomatic expression in English that means to be very determined and not care about other people’s feelings when trying to achieve something. The phrase is used to describe someone who is carrying out a plan or an action in a very forceful and determined way, without caring if they harm or upset other people. The word order of the phrase is fixed and cannot be changed to “no take prisoners”.

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A: The winner takes (not makes) prisoners after a battle.

A: × We tend to view prisoners with suspicion that they might commit crime again even after they came out of prision.
✓ We tend to view convicts with suspicion, as (or since) they might commit crime again even after they are (or get) out of prison.

× We used to view people having a lot of tattoos with a stereotye that they might be spoiled.
✓ We used to stereotype people having a lot of tattoos as being spoiled.

× We used to view people who were divorced with pity but not anymore.
✓ We used to view people who were divorced with pity, but not anymore.

A: They are both correct. They both mean somebody was captured by the enemy. The term "prisoner of war" makes it clear that the capture happened during a war. A captive doesn't necessarily have to be captured during a war.

A: 2. Although I would say "The prisoners escaped" instead. It doesn't need the "from prison" on the end.

A: Sounds natural, but you should put a space between "10" and "years"