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Is “else” in “someone else” necessary?
Since I'm already referring to a person in third-person by using "someone", isn't the "else" in "someone else" redundant? If it not, why is that? The only significance I see in the addition of ...
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About adjective possessive pronouns [duplicate]
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Is there a correct gender-neutral, singular pronoun (“his” versus “her” versus “their”)?
In the sentence ‘Everyone should make everyone’s part’, what adjective ...
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Do the adjectives always precedes the noun or pronoun? [duplicate]
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Why do some adjectives follow the nouns they modify?
Attributive and predicative position of an adjective
“A place nearby” but not “A place good”
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“I don't think that that can be done” [duplicate]
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How do you handle “that that”? The double “that” problem
Is there something wrong with this sentence?
"I don't think that that can be done."
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“My another account” vs. “my other account”
A little debate going on here so I just want to know which one it is; I'm saying it's my other account since my another would be my one other account.
The other person insists they both can be used; ...
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Referring to some attribute of an inanimate object — use “who's”?
This came up in describing an input to a function:
A handle to the daemon who's name is desired.
(Daemon is a type of process on a system.)
Somehow, "who's" just doesn't seem right because it's ...
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How do you handle “that that”? The double “that” problem
Have you ever had a case where you felt compelled to include strange things like a double that in a sentence? If so, then what did you do to resolve this?
For me, I never knew whether it was ...
