A sentence is a set of words that is complete in itself, typically containing a subject and predicate.
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Please, do also… or Please also
How should this sentence be phrased?
Please, do also visit this house.
Please also visit this house.
It seems like that the answer might be dependening on the actual context, however, in that case, ...
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Is “each of their stories” correct? [closed]
I know each is singular, but Each of their story, cannot possibly be correct. It has to be each of their stories...right?
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Negative into Affirmative [closed]
What is the affirmative sentence of this negative sentence?
He left no stone unturned.
I was thinking...
Every stone was turned by him.
It doesn't seem to be the possible answer.
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General rules for identifying conditional sentences?
I am trying to identify the subject and object in the following sentence:
Come to me, and I'll give you a fight you'll never forget
At first, it appeared as if whenever a conjunction appears ...
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How to ask “Where are you going?” when event already passed? [closed]
If my friend went to somewhere on weekend but i didn't know where did he go? And if i want to ask him like "Where are you going?" on Monday which sentences should i ask him?
Where did you go?
Where ...
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“Method A can reduce the running time by at least a half over Method B”? [closed]
Is this sentence correct?
Method A can reduce the running time by at least a half over Method B.
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Will be waiting - verb?
I have been trying to understand how to detect subject and predicate in a sentence. So, I stumbled on this page http://www.dailygrammar.com/Lesson-113-Review.htm
The ff. example was given:
Jim ...
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“1st Prize” or “1st Rank”? [closed]
I was just updating my CV when I noticed the following lines in the 'Interests and activities' section:
● 1st Prize for ‘Best Performance’ in State Drama Competition.
● 1st Rank in ...
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Is this a run-on sentence?
Is the first sentence a run-on? Should the second sentence use ":" instead of ";"?
Here's giving you the courtesy of informing you, beforehand, that
Rahul, a new housemate, will be moving in ...
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Is it grammatically correct to say “X person turned to Y person”?
Here are some examples:
Erica turned to him
Erica turned towards him
Erica turned to face him
Erica turned to look at him
I'm not sure if the first one is grammatically incorrect ...
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Quantify product-appropriateness score [closed]
I'm looking for a way to quantify and explain the scenario below to my managers. I'm really good at understanding issues, but unfortunately no so good at communicating them to others. I have written ...
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How to describe leaving an access of a server [closed]
How can I formally write a sentence meaning that I am not using the server now and I have exited it?
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“If lust was to be, let it be lust”? [closed]
I read an article (written by a teacher in Taiwan) on Ang Lee's "Lust, Caution." One paragraph confused me:
There, everyone reached a conclusion: lust was Mr. Yee's weakness. If lust was to be, ...
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How would I change the following sentence to active form?
I've been told that it's always better to turn sentences to active form (at least in fiction writing).
How can I turn the following sentence to active form?
Sophia was woken up by the rattling ...
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Is “either” being properly used in the following sentence?
I'm not a native English-speaker. For some reason, I'm not sure about the usage of either in the following sentence:
And it's not that I’m against traveling or studying abroad. It's just
that ...
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Is this a complete sentence?
There was an ad on telly I saw, saying
Relax, knowing your home is safe
Is this a complete sentence that is grammatically correct? Could this go in an essay? What is the technical word for ...
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Do these adjectives refer to ice?
In this sentence from Wuthering Heights
I declined joining their breakfast, and, at the first gleam of dawn,
took an opportunity of escaping into the free air, now clear, and
still, and cold ...
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The difference between using a comma or a full stop
What's the difference between "I see, I see" and "I see. I see"? Can one use a comma in between?
The first sentence could be used in formal writing, right?
What about this one: "My house, my rules" ...
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Can 'it' be used plurally?
Can 'it' as a pronoun refer to many different imperative verbs? For instance, in the sentence:
Abide by thy customs, thou excellent one: grind thy corn, drink thy water, praise thy cooking,-- if ...
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Please help explain this long sentence
It bore an engraved escutcheon, a herald's wording of which may serve for a motto
and brief description of our now concluded legend; so sombre is it,
and relieved only by one ever-glowing point ...
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How to correct a sentence that Word thinks is a fragment I need to revise?
I will be specific. I am trying to frame a sentence to include in a blog post. Instinctively it feels lame and wrong. Word keeps asking me to consider revising the fragment. As I am not a native ...
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Is “I don't work here” literal or does it mean “I am not an employee of this establishment”? [closed]
Part of my work involves visiting retail establishments during business hours. Often, when mistaken for an employee of the store, I am asked a question about where to find something in the store, to ...
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Can I start a sentence with “Whereas”?
The sentence is supposed to be contradicting a previous situation explained thoroughly in the precedent paragraph. The contradiction is on the same subject (in the past/now). Can the sentence be ...
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“Something suffices the condition that” vs. “it suffices that something”
In a book I am reading there is a sentence:
Our initial version of Cauchy's theorem begins with the observation that it suffices that f(z) [a function] have a primitive in a region Ω
In ...
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Oddness of sentence containing “since”
The considerable debt of gratitude I have incurred to Mr X since I have known him, has continued to grow during this last period.
Is the use of since in the above sentence grammatically correct? ...
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Is there a name for misusing a word (e.g., saying “Provincially, yes”)? [closed]
I read a mail in which someone replied to the question "Will he be attending the party?" by saying "Provincially, yes".
Provincial means "of or concerning the regions outside the capital city of a ...
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Can you use two “and”s in a sentence?
For example,
I like chocolate, vanilla, and lemon and orange ice cream.
Indicating "lemon and orange" is a combined flavor, as an item in the list needing an initial and.
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How should I understand “the idea” in this sentence?
The following is an excerpt from a GRE Verbal exercise:
The hypothesis of an expanding Earth has never attracted notable support, and if it were not for the historical example of continental ...
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Using “either” to say both the elements are needed [closed]
I want to say using spatial or temporal properties of data individually (separately) cannot help and they should be applied together.
Does the following say this?
While the reliable detection of ...
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Ask question without using “?” in it [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
When is it appropriate to end a question without a question mark?
I have heard so many times people use two way of asking question? Is there any way to ask question ...
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Does standard English include non-trivial sentences which admit no verb?
One of the interesting aspects of the Maori language, as I understand it, is that it includes a class of sentences which not only have no verb, it is positively wrong to form them with a verb.
Does ...
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What is the meaning of this sentence - “Were it not for the bodies there on the ground, it would have appeared to be a normal day at the oasis.”? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Conditional sentences not starting with “if”
What is the meaning of this sentence - "Were it not for the bodies there on the ground, it would have appeared to be a ...
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Is every sentence in a tense?
I know that "tense" indicates time. If that is true, then not every sentence can be indicated of its tense.
Please review these sentences:
"If I could go to the market , I must have taken breakfast ...
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'advance study' or 'advance studies'. Which one is suitable in this context of usage?
In this context of usage which one is suitable?
sentence: "make the transition into advance studies/study a smooth one"
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Does the subject of this sentence make sense, even when split by the clarification?
I'm trying to be as terse as possible in expressing a few points, so I've ended up with the following sentence:
During the summer, my sister and brother, younger by five years and older by two, ...
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Question about sentence structure and semicolons
Suppose the following sentence:
When the sun comes in the morning; the sky is blue.
Are "When the sun comes in the morning" and "the sky is blue" two clauses of the sentence? So, is it correct to ...
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A long sentence from “The Apple Tree” [closed]
If she had long lost the blue-eyed, flower-like charm, the cool slim purity of face and form, the apple-blossom colouring, which had so swiftly and so oddly affected Ashurst twenty-six years ago, ...
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Longer than a word — smaller than a sentence
What would you call a linguistic construct that is just big enough to convey a meaning within a context, longer than a word but not having the length and proper form of a complete sentence? Like, for ...
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“Odin’s tears will drown the world of men on the day” — what does this sentence mean? [closed]
Here is the passage:
The skies will burst open and Odin’s tears will drown the world of men on the day when JaVale McGee’s body syncs up naturally with his team on the basketball court.
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“I was working on this project, but stopped, as some other task coming up” [closed]
Is the below a correct sentence?
I was working on this project, but stopped for three four days, as some very important tasks coming up.
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“To” vs. “for” in “gold for your business” [closed]
As a marketing slogan could the following sentence be considered grammatical?
Because happy customers are gold for your business.
Would it be better to say to instead of for? Or a rephrasing ...
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Asking for a duel from someone avid in the other direction [closed]
Anyway, I'm not gonna get too detailed here since I can easily go on
forever about Anime. However, bashing (or liking) the wrong Anime is
like asking for a duel from someone avid in the other ...
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Is it grammatical to finish a sentence with “also”?
In the following text, I wonder if it's grammatical to finish the sentence with also. it does sound weird to me. The sentence sound incomplete somehow and makes the audience wait for more.
Here ...
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Grammatical? “One in 12 babies is/are immunized.” [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Which is correct: “one or more is” or “one or more are”?
“1 in 10 are” or “1 in 10 is”?
Which is grammatical and why?
About one in 12 Australian babies is not ...
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What is proper sentence structure? [closed]
I've got a problem with this structure:
"Under this term are meant all things that belong to (...)"
I wish to know if it's correct and what kind of structure actually it is.
I believe it's probably ...
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Usage of “in contrast”
I want to explain something in the first sentence and then say some opposite thing in the second sentence. I thought, I could use the phrase in contrast to make the flow of a paragraph.
For example:
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As or due to give same meaning? [closed]
Does as or due to give same meaning? I have written some example case
As the reference data is available with a leading company and
difficulty of making own reference data, the overall ...
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Is ‘Today, Japan’s old age social security system is running at a deficit, is the whole country” in Forbes magazine a right sentence? [closed]
I’m puzzled about the meaning of “is the whole country” in the following sentence of the article titled “Japan’s choice: Sink the welfare state or collapse – Whither Japan,” in October 21 Forbes ...
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Is this a run-on sentence? Is there a better way to rewrite it?
Since Osan was Jihei's wife and Koharu was his adulteress, they represented his obligation and passion respectively.
I see three potential problems:
Run-on sentence: There are two ...
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“stopping to refill his cup when she did”
Consider the following sentence:
She got up to get some of the coffee he had made, stopping to refill his cup when she did.
What does the subordinate clause in this sentence mean? Does it mean ...
