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Usage of “accrue” in “it accrued to me to gently ask” [closed]
A newage hippie Facebook friend just sent me this. I was just wondering if it was syntactically correct,
It accrued to me to gently ask if you could consider extending the same respect, you would ...
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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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Alleged misuse of the word 'respective'
I was told I misused the word respective in the sentence 'If bilingual, please list the respective languages.'
My understanding is that the word points to the prior mentioned subjects. Here's a ...
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Is “make due” now considered acceptable?
Whilst plodding through Patrick Rothfuss' "The Name of the Wind", I came across:
Our dinner was nowhere near as grand as last night's. We made due with the last of my now-stale flatbread, dried ...
