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make question for periodic event
I like to make question about the happening of some events whether it is happened every day or every week or every month...etc
how can i make question?
this is my try:
Does this event happen every ...
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Antecedents of indefinite pronouns
Consider the sentence, "Most of the apples are fresh." Is it incorrect to say that apples is the antecedent of the indefinite pronoun most?
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What do you call the person who performs an action?
What do you call the person who does the verb? For instance, in the sentence
John killed Frank
what is the grammatical term for John?
I don't know if "agent" is the right word?
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What is the term for words that have a hyphen between them? [closed]
For example: "indisputably-accurate"; "the quickly-ran event"; "the truck-driving man"; "the under-slept woman"; "the power-possessing orb".
What is the term for the words that surround the hyphen?
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What term describes the relationship between 'collectivism' and 'collectivisation'?
What is collectivism, in terms of grammar, of collectivisation?
Put another way:
Collectivism is the [which word?] of collectivisation?
Another example word pair might be centralism and ...
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How much not better than average is enough?
This is adapted from a silly conversation I had about a baseball player. It set me wondering how to describe this sort of wordplay linguistically.
HIM: Do we leave Jay in center?
HER: He's ...
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What is this ‘-ing’ structure?
Consider the following sentence:
The Bactrian camel is well adapted to the extreme climate of its
native Mongolia, having thick fur and underwool that keep it warm in
winter and also insulate ...
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What exactly is an “adverb”?
From comments to “Weekdays” used as an adverb", I learn that The Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary says "open weekdays from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m.", shows the word weekdays is an adverb.
It seems to me ...
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Term for types of first person plural
I've noticed that there are two types of first person plural – one where the addressee is included, and one where she or he isn't. For example:
With addressee included:
Let us go.
What's our plan?
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i would like to know how this clause as written would be interpreted [closed]
a. To be eligible for a vacation in any calendar year, an Employee must:
1) have one year or more of Continuous Service; and
(2) have worked for at least 520 hours during the preceding calendar
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addressee-new vs discourse-new
Regarding terminology used by CEGL as referenced in this question, can anyone explain the difference between addressee-new and discourse-new?
My understanding of addressee-new is that this refers to ...
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What's the grammatical term for this phenomenon? [closed]
There is obviously a big essential difference between "no towel" and "there isn't a towel".
I mean, the former cannot probably serve as a complete sentence, while the latter can.
The former can ...
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“Bring 6 eggs. If there are potatoes, bring 9.”
This is with reference to this comic, called A Programmer's Life (translated from Portuguese):
Programmer: My wife asked me to go to the market and said: “Bring six eggs. If there are potatoes, ...
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What do we call an adjective made of a verb?
What do we call adjectives formed from verbs? For example:
Lost is an adjective made from lose,
Forgotten is an adjective made from forget,
Broken is an adjective made from break.
What is the ...
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What's the rule for writing sentences with parallel clauses?
I've sometimes seen very nicely written sentences that have 2 clauses: the first is a full sentence, while the second, which is supposed to have a similar structure, was shorten into a special ...
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Is there a term for the part of a sentence that is in the form “Customers who …” or “Products that …”?
For the purpose of building a dynamic user interface within an software application I wish to separate parts of a set of phrases which would be in the form of the examples below.
Examples:
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What do you call a verb which accepts 2 nouns?
In English, there are intransitive verbs which can't used with a noun, or aren't being used with a noun (eg. listen, die, ...), and transitive verbs which can be (eg. almost all of them).
However, ...
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Please define the grammar errors (by their generally accepted terms) in this sentence
My goal in asking this question is to learn to name my errors. I write many sentences and think, "that's not right," and then I change it to make it sound better. It usually works well (and my boss ...
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Is there a different grammatical term for “If I was” than for “If I were”?
Many people would say the correct form is "If I were rich ...".
In modern colloquial English though most younger people would say "If I was rich ...".
Prescriptivists might say the latter is "the ...
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Is the conditional a mood or a tense?
Is the conditional a mood or a tense? I've heard it described in both ways.
It seems more like a mood as it is often lumped with hypothetical constructions and the subjunctive mood. I could see it ...
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What do first, second, and third person perspective mean? Why are they so called?
I am aware of the terms first person, second person and third person from grammar, but I have also seen them used in other contexts, in particular first person perspective with regard to video games.
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“I'm having” - an illness?
What is I'm having in grammar terms? Is it something near the present, the near future? As in I'm having a party tomorrow?
Example (not about the near future),
I'm having trouble coming up with a ...
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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 ...
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What is the name of words like 'bottle' or 'clove' that provide a singular for a counted item?
Title pretty much askes the question. What is the term for words like 'bottle', 'cup' or 'clove' (as in clove of garlic). Are they counters, countables, determiners...? I swear it's on the tip of ...
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How does the phrase “used to” work, grammatically?
It is common to hear people say "used to" to indicate that they did something in the past but no longer do; for example, "I used to play basketball." How would "used to," used in that context, fit ...
