English Language & Usage

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Should a stutter at the start of a sentence retain the capital letter?
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Did Russell make a grammatical mistake here? "...both that China had ... and had..."
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/i/ sound before "ng" and "nk"
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Difference between "now" and "right now"
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What do you call a response which does not address the question?
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"Glaringly obvious" vs. "blaringly obvious"
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How does the parenthetical "that is" function?
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What's the difference between maintenance, upkeep & sustenance
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Is there a phrase for not arguing about taste?
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What is the difference between "it's up to you" and "it's down to you"?
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Looking for a phrase to replace "it is noteworthy"
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"Parametrise" or "parameterise" a curve?
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"On website" or "at website"? [duplicate]
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Hyphenation when adding a prefix to a hyphenated phrase
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Is using the possessive apostrophe correct in "the car's antenna"?
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Why do we say "try and" [verb] instead of "try to" [verb]? (E.g., "Try and call me tomorrow.")
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Is there a standard symbol for denoting a chapter in a citation?
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"Be mother" - Etymology and usage
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as + adjective + as vs as + many + as Rules
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Which is right to use: "arrange things in drawer" or "organize my drawer"?
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which one is correct, "Master's student" or "Masters student" or "MSc student"?
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Possessive of a possessive
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Word for a person who talks without content
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What's the origin of the phrase "cruising for bruising"?
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More professional word for "day to day task"
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What is a word for someone who doesn't follow unspoken rules?
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Question about putting an adverb before a verb
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use '/\' to denote that one missed something while writing
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She was "in" or "on" the show?
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difference between consulting and consultancy [closed]
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Combining demonstrative and possessive pronoun
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"Would have had to have been" vs "would have had to be" for past event conditions
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Opposite of "successive": one-after-another in a forward order
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Legitimacy of "I hear that..." when talking about the past?
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The difference between “elect" and "select" [closed]
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What does "great good" mean in the tutorial title "Learn You a Haskell for Great Good!"?
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Is there a word to describe content as not having a duration, as opposed to something for playback? [closed]
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What's an alternative for "Where the rubber meets the road"
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When did 'venereal disease' become STI?
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Difference between 'Educational' and 'Education' system
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Difference between adverb and adverbial adjunct
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Shouldn't "the exact same" always be "exactly the same"?
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Should I always use a comma after "e.g." or "i.e."?
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Are "w/o", "w/", "b/c" common abbreviations in the US?
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Is there an epistemological word that means "one who solicits prostitutes"?
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English equivalent to Dutch "Mopping while the tap is running"?
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What is the sense of using word "argument", for inputs of a function?
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"Plausible" vs. "possible"
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Phrase for describing someone who ended up buying something much more expensive than what was originally needed
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Why do common swear words have four letters?
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How does a "research scientist" differ from a "scientist"?
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"The problem under consideration" vs "The considered problem" vs "The problem considered" [closed]
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Use of 'blancbec' in English
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Is "tnetennba" a real word? [closed]
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Correct spelling for the abbreviation "FPS" (frames per second)
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Is there a word for words formed of repeating sounds?
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What does the phrase "Full of spit and vinegar" mean?
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what to call the previous time interval , that is equally long
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Difference between "theorem" and "theory"
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How to use "who" vs. "that"
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