Tom

@Larry “Affect” as a noun means “observable emotional response”, similar to one sense of “manner”.

@Richard Ciotti It’s quite a leap from “I have never heard this before” to “No one has ever said this before”, isn’t it?

@Ant “Mangia” is also the imperative form “Eat!”. Still not quite “let’s eat”, but not as far off base as “he/she eats”.

@John It is not round in the sense that it is not a (perfect) circle. You are right that there is a sense of “round” that means something more like “approximating the shape of a circle”. But that’s not the only sense.

@Jim But if the yes/no question is some sort of proposal or request, then replying negatively to it is a rejection.

@Teresa They match in tense and in some contexts are virtually interchangeable, e.g., “I tapped out” is roughly paraphrasable as “I had no more money to bet.” The reason they aren’t parallel in all contexts, though, is because “tap out” denotes an action whereas “have no more money to bet” denotes the resulting state.

@Asher It’s quite a leap from “I have never heard this before” to “No one has ever said this before”, isn’t it?

Oops, sorry. Please ignore my reply above.