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How do you quote a passage that has used '[sic]' mistakenly?

punctuation quotations

jul 29 at 18:16 ashes 76

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What is the rule for adjective order?

adjectives word-order

apr 16 at 17:34 RegDwighт♦ 45.4k

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What are your favorite English language tools?

learning resources

1d ago Sam 1

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What the #$@&%*! is that called?

writing offensive-language symbols

oct 17 at 0:17 H Stephen Straight 634

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When to use “that” and when to use “which”?

pronouns conjunctions relative-clause which-that relative-pronouns

feb 24 at 3:16 tchrist 36.4k

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How many tenses are there in English?

nov 15 at 0:00 JSBձոգչ 32.2k

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How do the tenses in English correspond temporally to one another?

verbs tenses conditional progressive-aspect pp-vs-sp

apr 14 at 10:47 RegDwighт♦ 45.4k

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Why is it “geometric” but “theoretical”?

meaning etymology suffixes morphology ic-ical

oct 29 at 21:51 RegDwighт♦ 45.4k

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When is it necessary to use a hyphen in writing a compound word?

punctuation hyphen

jan 26 at 3:02 Eric Nelson 26

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Origin of “-ing”

etymology suffixes word-formation

may 10 at 13:30 Duane T. Bentz 1

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Is “the girls are want to gossip” correct?

word-choice grammar adjectives

dec 6 at 11:26 Yoichi Oishi 14.8k

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What is the opposite of procrastination in one word?

single-word-requests antonyms

mar 6 '12 at 19:19 MrGomez 410

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What's a word for avoiding a question with a generic (fake) answer?

single-word-requests questions

apr 10 at 3:08 davarinofuntucson 129

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What is a verb for “illusion”?

single-word-requests verbs nouns

dec 21 at 1:35 KMC 331

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What do you call a computer window when it is not maximized or minimized?

single-word-requests adjectives terminology computing

may 20 at 12:58 Steve 21

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“The ticket is printing” vs “…is being printed”

word-choice passive-voice progressive-aspect

jan 28 '12 at 12:50 JSBձոգչ 32.2k

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One word for “stealing something on its way to the recipient”

single-word-requests

jan 2 at 20:35 Mark MacKay 61

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Is “must” ever grammatical as a past tense verb?

dec 9 '11 at 10:25 hippietrail 3,064

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Is there a name for this method of writing that includes pictograms?

meaning single-word-requests expressions terminology

sep 15 at 1:21 Mechanical snail 814

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Why do we say “was supposed to” for “should have”?

nov 25 at 3:11 lex 363

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Why don’t we write poetry like Beowulf any longer?

poetry old-english rhymes stress meter

feb 5 at 16:42 Jonathon Brown 53

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What is the word for a path that is made naturally by the action of people walking?

single-word-requests

21h ago Ste 1,837

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Suffixes for verbification: -ify, -icise, -ificate

verbs suffixes

apr 2 at 10:06 RegDwighт♦ 45.4k

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Whose tense is it, anyway?

terminology tenses aspect mood

dec 17 at 3:49 MετάEd 13.5k

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Historical reasons of footnotes' sequence symbols

history typography footnotes

dec 22 at 16:13 RegDwighт♦ 45.4k

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Why do we use the object instead of the subject pronoun in constructions like “stupid me”?

grammar pronouns morphology old-english case

oct 28 at 16:44 tchrist 36.4k

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Latin plurals when talking about fallacies

latin

jan 2 at 9:31 Barrie England 78.9k

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Why don't we use the indefinite article with 'software'?

grammatical-number nouns indefinite-article

feb 17 '11 at 21:11 Brian Hooper 13.6k

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What is the noun to refer to the 64- or 32-bit -ness of an operating system

single-word-requests terminology computing

apr 16 '12 at 17:37 jwpat7 37.1k

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Is there a term for simultaneous snow and rain?

single-word-requests vocabulary phrase-requests

sep 22 at 12:26 tchrist 36.4k

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