for questions that ask whether certain usages are idiomatic native-speaker expressions
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Lying down vs Lying [closed]
John is lying down in a white floor. His eyelids are closed, but his eyes are moving.
It should be lying down or lying? Lying down is like a idiom?
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Why in a phone call we use “this is” instead of “I am”?
Why is the right form
Hello, this is yzT from english.stackechange.com.
instead of
Hello, I’m yzT from english.stackexchange.com.
I guess non-natives tend to use the latter due to ...
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Is it typical native speaker usage to inconsistently use the pronoun “one” in a paragraph?
[NB: This is a re-post of a closed question that was rightly judged "off topic". It does present an interesting problem, though, so I've rewritten it and asked an on-topic usage question.]
Is it ...
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Is this contraction of 'there is' acceptable to native speakers of English?
In the Slate article, The Curse of “You May Also Like”, the following sentence has a contraction of there is that doesn't sit well with my ear for American or British English. I wonder whether any of ...
