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Is a bare infinitive acceptable as the object of a verb? [duplicate]
I came upon the phrase, "writing helps develop a child analytically thinking." Is this grammatically correct? Is it OK to use just develop instead of to develop?
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Do I believe the sky above or I do believe the sky above
I’m Brazilian and I have a doubt. Why in Enya’s song “Caribbean Blue” does she say:
So the world goes round and round
With all you ever knew
They say the sky high above
Is Caribbean blue
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“More that” vs. “more than” [closed]
Here is an example of something I occasionally encounter, and it always trips me up. The title of an applied mathematics book from Stanford University in 1959 is (bold mine)
Partial Differential ...
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Can you say “Why Tom let Katie win”
Some one pointed to me that in this Star magazine from cover, the editor used the sentence "Why Tom let Katie win" instead of "Why did Tom let Katie win". Is it a correct form or is the grammatical ...
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Mixing up “quiet” and “quite”: spelling or grammar error?
Look at this sentence:
It wasn't quiet what I wanted
And this one:
The music was too quite for me
Obviously quiet and quite are mixed up. Is this considered a spelling mistake? In both ...
