Manually is the adverb. Manual is (in this context) the adjective. Tuning can be either a verb or a noun; however, in your example, tuning the weights is a gerund phrase using the verb. Here you want to modify the verb within the phrase, so use the adverb: The procedure requires manually tuning the weights. If instead you wanted to modify the noun tuning, use the adjective. The procedure ...
Manually can refer to something done by a person rather than through an automated process. AngryJoe could be referring to having to search the internet for specific sentences of a copyrighted work to find out if it has been used elsewhere without permission.
My friend is writing some documentation and asked me an English question I don't know the answer to. In this case which would it be? CCleaner has been run. or CCleaner has been ran.
I have finished would usually be uttered immediately after finishing, but (emphatic) I have already finished wouldn't normally occur until some time after finishing - often, specifically as a contradictory response to something implying that I might not have yet finished. In rare circumstances, an over-eager exam-taker might leap up and say I have already finished, half-an-hour into an exam ...
I have an old car with manually adjustable mirrors. As I was driving home with a friend, I wanted him to adjust the mirror for me so that I could see more of the street. I ended up not asking beca...
I can’t understand and distinguish the necessity of using “will have to” instead of “have to”. I think both are giving the same meaning and both are giving an indefinite hint of future. For example...
Let's say I saw Jack yesterday, so I say. "I didn't notice the color of his eyes." which apparently means that I still don't know the color. So, am I correct to think that "I didn't notice" can also present a result in the present just the way the present perfect does?
I assume Paypal doesn't manually check each transaction, and I don't care if they do or not, but I'm curious about what the phrase literally means, regardless of Paypal's potential misuse. I guess "subject" here is being used in the same way a peasant is a 'subject' of a feudal lord, i.e. the transaction is under the lordship/authority of ...
What do you mean by It couldn't have been done by anybody but him? That could be interpreted two ways - "He is the only person who could have done it" (a deduction about the past) or "He was the only person able to do it" (a statement about a situation in the past). Otherwise, I agree with Stuart's answer.
