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Litotes: Always for Emphasis? Used for Non-committal Hedging? Any Authoritative Source?

may 18 at 2:28 rhetorician 1,435

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“Only for A, B, and C”: Includes cases where not all are present? [closed]

meaning-in-context conjunctions ambiguity logic

may 13 at 14:43 jwpat7 37k

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Not only X but also Y are (is?)

grammar verbs grammatical-number negation

apr 25 at 14:11 RegDwighт♦ 45.2k

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Can a double negative be used to express caution or uncertainty?

negation double-negation emphasis

apr 9 at 12:52 Luke 1

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Does “intellectual gymnastics” always have a negative connotation?

meaning connotation usage

apr 4 at 10:14 Community♦ 1

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“Appear” followed by a verb: Necessarily a copula (linking verb)?

verbs structure copula

mar 27 at 7:32 Barrie England 78.9k

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Can “refute” be used with “that” clauses, and if so, what is the meaning?

meaning logic

feb 19 at 2:22 Sven Yargs 2,531

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The battery, etc., is (are?) included.

grammatical-number numbers agreement

feb 14 at 23:24 FumbleFingers 58.4k

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Meaning of “either”: “not /A or B/” = “not /either A or B/”?

conjunctions negation logic

feb 12 at 11:11 ElendilTheTall 300

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Are semicolons mandatory in a non-bulleted list after a colon?

punctuation comma semicolon

feb 7 at 21:55 aedia λ 6,146

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Room Temperature: Article “A” or Not?

expressions articles indefinite-article

jan 29 at 8:14 Barrie England 78.9k

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Does “observed” entail existence? [closed]

meaning

jan 22 at 9:53 RegDwighт♦ 45.2k

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Pronunciation of Bank, Tank, etc.: Bay-nk, Ray-nk or Baen-k or Raen-k?

pronunciation american-english dialects vowels

dec 31 at 1:29 Urban Vagabond 156

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Does the plural include the singular?

grammatical-number logic

dec 11 at 23:26 jwpat7 37k

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Without, free from, lacking, etc.: Unambiguous total negation with “OR”?

conjunctions negation logic

dec 11 at 23:15 jwpat7 37k

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“Photo playback” — can photos be played?

grammaticality expressions terminology collocation

nov 17 at 13:47 Πάρτη Κοηλί 222

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“Is of the view that” vs. “is of a view that” [closed]

meaning word-choice grammaticality articles indefinite-article

nov 14 at 10:04 RegDwighт♦ 45.2k

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He considers that X is Y. vs He thinks that X is Y

verbs american-english british-english

nov 6 at 5:38 FumbleFingers 58.4k

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And/or in total negation: “Some people are not able to interpret and/or analyze”

conjunctions ambiguity redundancy logic

nov 1 at 11:24 Russell McMahon 2,138

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S-V agreement: It is not clear what is/are meant by A and B

verbs subject agreement

oct 22 at 0:44 Bill Franke 18.8k

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Reason for Subject-Verb Inversion: Only in cases where A is B, shall the Company do X [duplicate]

syntax archaic legal inversion negative-polarity-items

oct 19 at 13:57 Marthaª 16.6k

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Historical frequency of expression “and/or”: Corpus search

conjunctions logic

oct 11 at 6:19 Kris 13.7k

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