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Does a student own, hold, possess, or something else a transcript? [closed]
Does a student hold, own, possess, or something else a transcript?
My wife just asked me a question for which I do not have an answer. She asked me, "holder or owner of a transcript?" I wasn't sure ...
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On the structure of “search for weapons and bands of pro-Hussein fighters still holding out”
I came across the following expression:
The primary task of many American troops in Baghdad has been to search for weapons and bands of pro-Hussein fighters still holding out.
This is from a ...
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“A lot of people, especially this one psychoanalyst […], keeps asking”
In the last chapter of The Catcher in The Rye:
A lot of people, especially this one psychoanalyst guy they have here,
keeps asking me if I'm going apply myself when I go back to school
next ...
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What is the proper (practical/efficient) way to analyze a sentence?
One is given the sample sentence:
The fat blind man ran from the dog.
What are the procedural steps to deduce the subject and predicate from the sentence? What are the general steps to ...
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What is the grammatical difference behind “is interesting” and “is interested”?
I am a native English speaker, yet I cannot explain to a non-native speaker why I say:
I am interested in history.
as well as
History is interesting to me.
Why is it "is interesting" when ...
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How do I determine subject and subject complement in “A side-effect is the spread of commercialese to other domains.”?
Consider this example:
Commercialese is an instrument of art,
designed to enrich and invigorate our
language—surely you will all agree
with this—, and we should encourage newcomers to learn ...
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3answers
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“Me” versus “I”
He was almost as bad at English as me.
He was almost as bad at English as I.
The first one sounds better as-is, but not when you change the second one to He was almost as bad at English as I was.
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What's the best way to find the subject in a sentence?
What's the best way to find the subject in a sentence?
How do you define a subject?
I am especially curious about such cases, in which the subject seems to be represented by more than one word:
The ...
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2answers
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“You” or “your” when using two subjects with a possession?
I came across your and Mr X's publication
or
I came across you and Mr X's publication
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Which is correct: “If it were I” or “If it were me”?
I'm fairly sure it's the former, but it sounds even more stilted than the usual cases in which "I" is less common, but more correct.
