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Is it “...rights to education and health,” or “...right to education and health”?

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Is "I'm fine to [verb]" grammatically correct?

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Is the question "Can I borrow (person) for a while?" correct usage of English?

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Can verbs of perception have an adjective in the objective complement position?

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(negative to affirmative) "we could not but pocket the insult"

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"Ask ourselves what is it that..." or "Ask ourselves what it is that..."

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Can I drop the word "like" in certain instances?

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How do multiple modal constructions work with ellipsis or inversion?

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Small clauses (or verbless clauses)

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Should I use "may" when speaking about what is legally allowed?

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"On the one/other hand" vs. "on the one/other side"

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Are they both correct? “He’s the tallest of the three” and “He’s the tallest among the three”

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Is using the possessive apostrophe correct in "the car's antenna"?

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Learning and development is/are equally important

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