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Is “data” considered singular or plural?

feb 26 at 16:13 Tim D 111

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What is the difference between “everyday” and “every day”?

confusables

jul 6 '11 at 23:32 Daniel δ 32.1k

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Offensiveness of “black” in reference to race or skin colour

offensive-language

sep 2 '11 at 15:34 Community♦ 1

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Does apologizing entail recognizing being at fault?

semantics pragmatics

feb 2 '11 at 20:09 Borror0 1,205

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Can I use an “if” clause without “then”?

grammaticality conjunctions

jan 14 at 9:34 RegDwighт♦ 45.1k

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“Hooker”, “whore”, “prostitute”, when to use which?

word-choice nouns offensive-language

jul 11 '11 at 15:29 Daniel δ 32.1k

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Why do newspaper headlines use strange syntax rules?

syntax

may 11 '11 at 15:19 Lauren 192

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Is there a word for four times as much, analogous to once, twice, and thrice?

single-word-requests

nov 25 '11 at 21:12 Daniel δ 32.1k

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Does one use 'a' or 'an' before the word X-Ray?

indefinite-article

jan 23 at 3:42 TRiG 2,250

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Is it true that only the positions of the first and last letter in a word matter, the rest can be scrambled?

reading urban-legend

apr 12 '11 at 16:11 JSBձոգչ 32.1k

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Is it poor form to start too many sentences with I?

style personal-pronouns sentence-starts

oct 22 at 10:24 RegDwighт♦ 45.1k

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What is the term for pricing items just below a significant value (e.g. $19,995)

single-word-requests

dec 21 '10 at 22:32 Community♦ 1

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avoid the slash?

american-english british-english writing sentence-patterns slash

dec 15 '11 at 6:22 Mahnax 7,036

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Helping someone climb

single-word-requests

dec 12 '11 at 12:14 Theta30 1,441

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“Everyone” or “everybody”

word-choice one-body

nov 23 at 22:35 RegDwighт♦ 45.1k

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“Viewer discretion is advised”

american-english british-english sentence pop-culture

oct 6 at 4:55 Mary 234

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Why does “The Punisher” get an article in his name and “Spiderman” doesn't?

definite-article proper-nouns

jan 12 at 3:49 tchrist 36.4k

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Use like something in a sentence

sentence look-alikes

jan 17 '11 at 7:14 Jonathan Leffler 5,007

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Differentiating between “written” and “writing”

word-choice orthography tense

mar 24 '11 at 4:47 kiamlaluno 28.7k

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“How does it compares”

jan 25 '11 at 9:36 Eldroß 2,659

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Which is correct: “Grails” or “The Grails”?

definite-article

jul 8 '11 at 16:36 Community♦ 1

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Is the construct “Strength cannot beat MORE strength without …” correct?

american-english sentence

feb 21 '11 at 23:44 Jimi Oke 16.7k

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“Wonder if won't”

grammar grammaticality correction

apr 5 '11 at 8:58 tenfour 4,091

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When do you use “is being” in English?

passive-voice

sep 9 '11 at 11:36 StuartC 277

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“when I clicked on video file nothing has happened”

sentence past-tense hypercorrection past-perfect past-participle

jan 16 '11 at 21:07 CesarGon 2,253

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“it would take me 1–2 seconds”

grammar past-tense infinitive

jan 17 '11 at 11:46 RedGrittyBrick 6,258

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“Train approaching”

word-choice fragments signage

dec 15 '11 at 1:22 Community♦ 1

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Grails have or Grails has?

orthography sentence

jan 25 '11 at 20:13 Xaetherium 41

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“Feel like at home”

grammaticality adverbs

jan 12 at 13:25 Kris 13.7k

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“Maybe I have colored it too much”

saying

dec 15 '11 at 1:20 Community♦ 1

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