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Incriminating others vs. Incriminating the others: Is this sentence correct?
From Oxford dictionary :
He was careful not to say anything that might incriminate the others.
Should it not be "He was careful not to say anything that might incriminate others"? If the ...
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“Even were he not to…”
I am currently reading "Do androids dream of electric sheep?" by P.K. Dick and I have come across a grammatical structure I don't quite understand. The excerpt is the following (no spoilers, don't ...
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“Using” vs “by using”
You can do whatever you are thinking of using a nested table for using
CSS and clean markup.
— From "Programming the Mobile Web" by Maximiliano Firtman.
I do understand the general sense of ...
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“Reflects that” versus “reflects the fact that” [duplicate]
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'The fact that' versus just 'That'
I want to write something similar to "This reflects the fact that his family is very supportive." There is this notion ...
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Style of this sentence [duplicate]
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Is there a name for inverting word order to accomplish a different meaning?
I came across this sentence recently and I was wondering what is this repetitive style ...
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Correct sentence structure and grammar?
I'm helping my stepdaughter write a cover letter and we are at odds as to whether this sentence is structurally and grammatically correct.
My experience in customer service qualifies me for this ...
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“Two films don't a revolution make”: is this sentence grammatically correct? [duplicate]
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Why is “xxxx doth not a yyyy make” considered valid English?
Proper usage/origin of the generic phrase “[action phrase] does not a [noun] make”
“Dazzling ...
