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What is the correct use of “even” as an adverb, with the verb “to be”?
http://www.onestopenglish.com/community/your-english/word-grammar/your-english-word-grammar-even/156431.article gives some examples of correct use of "even" as an adverb to indicate that something is ...
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Should I say “have only been . . . twice” or “have been . . . twice only”?
Will these next two sentences confuse you?
1.I have only been to London once before.
2.I have been to London twice only.
Now for a more complicated example, I want to express that I have ...
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You don't want to answer this word-placement question, now do you?
Prompted by this question I got to thinking about the placement of the word now.
If it's placed before the comma, it refers to an immediate condition:
You don't want to answer this word-placement ...
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Is the phrase “fresh six muffins” grammatically correct? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
What is the rule for adjective order?
A non-native speaker that I know always puts the count before another adjective, as in "fresh six muffins". "Six fresh muffins" ...
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When can the -ing form of a verb be placed before a noun?
My native-speaker's grammatical intuition tells me that:
There is a sleeping man under the tree.
is fine but
There is a fishing man by the river bank.
is wrong. Why?
I've thought about ...
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How to create a questions from past modal verb sentences
I have no idea why my question was closed as it was pretty clear (at least for a person of average intelligence) so I am trying again:
There is a sentence, e.g:
He could have seen that.
Will the ...
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3answers
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Loathe. The atypical use of the verb [closed]
I have a quick question about the atypical grammar of mine. I am a poet using iambic pentameter. The question is whether the following is grammatically correct:
I she loathes.
That I loathe.
...
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“Imperial Japanese Navy” or “Japanese Imperial Navy”?
Is it "Imperial Japanese Navy" or "Japanese Imperial Navy", and why?
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Word order in subject sentences (questions) [duplicate]
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Usage of “What” + verb without auxiliary one
I have probably not used the correct term but I am sure you will get it.
If a question has do-support, then in ...
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“Run over XXX” or “run XXX over”
I would need to clarify which one is correct.
My dictionary says “run somebody over” (meaning hit by car) and an example:
I ran over the dog.
On the internet I found:
I’m afraid we’ve just ...
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Moving the interrogative pro-adverb to the end of a question
I am not a native speaker of English. From what I learn, 'wh' questions in English should normally be like this:
Why should we believe you?
How did she participate in the massacre?
However, ...
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The time before place mantra [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
What is the rule for adjective order?
As a Dutch schoolboy, during English grammar lessons (long ago...) I got one rule hammered into my head like a mantra: time before ...
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What's it called when you make an adjective post-positive? [duplicate]
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Why do some adjectives follow the nouns they modify?
In English, adjectives usually precede the nouns they describe, as in "organic carrots".
However, in some cases ...
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Why do some adjectives follow the nouns they modify?
Right now I can only think of one instance in which this regularly occurs. The adjective proper is sometimes placed after the noun it modifies, e.g:
Reptilia: A class of cold-blooded oviparous or ...
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Adverb placement in “Let's simply share”
To me the expression
Let's simply share
seems wrong.
I've always thought the adverb should come after the verb. Is that correct?
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What does “From Twitter came” mean? [closed]
Is this sentence in italics correct grammatically? Is it written in inverted order? If we rewrite this sentence, is it Came from Twitter?
From Twitter came, "@dannyhakim Pictures of flooded ...
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Usage of “just”, “only” and word-order [intended meaning]
I've got these sentences, which meanings are correct (my interpretations are in brackets):
Use of only:
(1) Only in 1996, Ford sold a rebadged Mazda 626 GV over here as its rebranded Japanese ...
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1answer
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Word-order and meaning - which is correct for this notice? [closed]
I'm creating some signs for the office car park, and one of these signs is to control access. What I'm trying to get it to indicate is that cars aren't permitted between 10 am and 4pm except for ...
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1answer
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“Done soon” vs. “soon done”
There are a number of colloquial expressions common to my area (see here, for example). I'm relatively recent to the area, so there are a number of expressions that just sound unnatural to me. ...
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Can “I wonder” be put at the end of a sentence?
Usually sentences with "I wonder" are of the following form:
I wonder why _______.
But what about this?
Why is it that _______ I
wonder.
It seems relatively unnatural. Why is that? Is it ...
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Why is “xxxx doth not a yyyy make” considered valid English?
Reading doth not a writer make.
This sounds all wrong so why it is acceptable to use?
The word order looks to be all out sequence (Object-Subject-Verb).
It should be "reading does not make you a ...
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“The place where we promised to meet”
This is talking about a promise to meet at a certain place. However, is it grammatically correct? Is it badly phrased? It seems that it can be misinterpreted to mean that at a certain place a promise ...
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Why do we invert word order when asking a question?
What's the difference between an inverted question and a normal-order question?
Why invert? Is there a reason or a benefit?
I love you?
Do I love you?
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“I was wondering what/which are …” or “I was wondering what/which … are”
I can understand saying "I was wondering how is A doing?" is not grammatically correct. Instead we should say "I was wondering how A is doing?".
On the other hand, I was wondering which one or both ...
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“can't afford to (or don't want to)” or “can't afford (or don't want) to”
Is one of the following preferable to the other:
can't afford to (or don't want to)
can't afford (or don't want) to
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Are there any rules on the positioning adverbs should take in a sentence?
For example:
Ever wish you could share information broadly
Could it be rewrite to:
Ever wish you could broadly share information
Are there any rules for the position of the adverbs.
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3answers
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“currently not” or “not currently”
What's the correct order:
Lessons are not currently being offered.
or
Lessons are currently not being offered.
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2answers
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Prepositions at the end of sentence and whom
I believe it's okay to end a sentence with a preposition. That seems to be the consensus here as well.
Now I think that when who is the object of a preposition, it should technically be whom, e.g. ...
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Changing subject and verb positions in statements and questions
We always change subject and verb positions in whenever we want to ask a question such as "What is your name?". But when it comes to statements like the following, which form is correct?
I ...
