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Can “of” be followed by “between”?
I've encountered following phrase:
a vocabulary of between 10,000 and 15,000 words
Is this phrase correct? Can of be followed by between in this case?
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Is the sentence “The world is getting smaller and international connections tighter.” grammatically correct?
Is following sentence grammatically correct?
The world is getting smaller and international connections tighter.
What kind of construct is this? Parallel structure?
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As much [as] or more than
On dailymail.co.uk there is a news article titled "Can love survive when a woman earns MORE than a man?" Obviously, I don't want to spend my time asking silly questions, but the journalist confuses ...
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“Of which” in the sentence, does the order matter? [closed]
Possible Duplicate:
Position of “of which” in the sentence
I have asked similar question but probably did not phrase it clearly. Also hopefully now it will be better.
A ...
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Don't let's fight . .
I was watching a movie the other day and one character to another said "Don't let's fight" instead of "Let's not fight." Is this the proper usage, and if so, what is the grammatical rule that applies ...
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Is “criterions” a valid plural for “criterion”?
Is criterions a valid plural for criterion?
Dictionary.com says it is, but Oxford does not confirm or reject it.
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'The X-ing of Y' vs just 'X-ing Y' : why are both 'the' and 'of' necessary together?
Take the example of
There is very little that a conforming POSIX.1 application can do by catching, ignoring or masking SIGSYS
(From the SIGSYS article)
This can be rewritten as
There is ...
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structure or phrasal verb?
I think I understand what he wants to say, but cannot figure out the sentence structure or I just don't know such a phrasal verb.
"I thought of the Lake Como what I had thought of Lugano."
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Indirect speech, past tense use
A member's post on another site has the structure:
This a post I put on [site] and [member] suggested I posted here too.
(emphasis mine)
It appears that being reported speech, post is required to ...
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Determining main verb of a sentence which match with subject + verb + to + verb pattern
If I have sentences
Member is allowed to change himself back
I want to go to school
He needs to stop
What are the predicate of these sentences? Are they allowed - want - need, or ...
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What does “just between you and me” function as?
We are trying to figure out the parts of speech in the following sentence and have been stumped by the first phrase:
Just between you and me, those boots aren't cool this year.
I say ...
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Suggestion phrased as a question
I recently received a mark-down for the following phrase:
With this regard, will you please accept the Takeover agreement on this quote so that we can proceed with the validation process?
The ...
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“Did what I say/said make sense to you?”
Which is correct?
Did what I say make sense to you?
Did what I said make sense to you?
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“To buy a bed with” vs “to play a ball with”
I got into a discussion with a friend and we're trying to figure out why we omit with when we say
I have no money to buy a bed [with]
when, grammatically, it's the same as
I have no ball to ...
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Meaning and usage of “be of”
I see such sentences all the time and I'd like to learn more about their grammatical structure (e.g. how they are described in grammatical terms), their meaning and how to use them in different ...
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Word-type in this sentence
I'm trying to decode what word-type each word is in the following sentence, please correct me if I'm wrong.
The things you own end up owning you.
I have it decoded as follows:
The (det) things ...
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“I had John return the video”: why do we use “return” instead of “returns” or “returned”?
I had John return the video for me.
In this sentence, why do we use return and not returns or returned?
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Verbing, or turning nouns into verbs [closed]
Possible Duplicate:
What is it called when a non-verb is used as a verb?
The phenomenon of turning a noun into a verb is very common. Some are more well known, like "shouldering the blame" ...
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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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Can I use an explicit verb in a comparison clause?
It seems that I often write something like this:
The sizes of these datasets seem to grow faster than the processing power of computers does.
Now, a longish text I'd written was proofread (by a ...
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I've got a few doubts on the correct grammatical usage [closed]
I recently got a feedback from my editor that my usage of grammar is incorrect. Quite frankly, I thought my grammar had no problems (but that's what everyone believes right?) Nevertheless, I posted ...
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You are in Jonathan's circles “too” or “as well” or “also”
I just read on Google+ that:
You are in Jonathan's circles too
But I always thought that you couldn't use too there. Am I wrong? (because Google can't be wrong, right?)
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“I would have a car, which would ALLOW me to take myself from point A to point B faster”
Is there such a sentence with "s" ("which allows me to ....")?
I'm talking about myself, it means I'm talking in first person (singular)
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Is “gets” the correct tense to describe a continuous process in “John gets mentored on a daily basis”?
John gets a mentor to guide him throughout his life. —
OR
— He gets mentored on a daily basis.
I believe this is just as acceptable as the simple past:
John got a mentor to guide him ...
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Is the following sentence written in a conditional sentence structure?
is this sentence correct? It starts a small paragraph. My question is, does it violate any English rules? If it does, which ones? If it doesn´t, which rules validate it? It sounds perfectly fine to ...
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Is the question “Am I needing to…?” grammatically correct?
In the course of answering this question, we have evoked some dispute over whether or not the phrase
"Am I needing to read this book?"
is grammatically correct. I think it is correct, ...
