English Language & Usage

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What should be the correct form of 'be' verb in the following sentence?
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Structure with Wish statements about future events: past perfect or past?
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Is “considering stealing” grammatically correct?
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A very, very specific idiom for a type of sloppy victory
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What is wrong with this sentence: “This is an obstacle to start in Turkey”
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word or phrase describing preference for reversable actions
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With Secret Santa, is there a word for “the person you drew”?
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The correct form of “the same way”/“the same way as”
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What is the name of this squiggle symbol?
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Use quotation marks for phrases on items
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Does “trap” make sense in this context? [migrated]
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Hyphenation: is it a “no-obligation quote” or a “no obligation quote”?
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What do you call it when the meaning of a word changes within a sentence?
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What is the difference between younger and youngest?
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Let me guys know
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The English translation for the Chinese word “剩女”
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How could I use “respectively” to state three actions by subsets of four people?
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A word that includes plants and fungi, but not animals
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Would you classify 'being + past participle' as passive or gerund?
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Use or omission of articles [duplicate]
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What is ridin in “We're ridin' with Biden”? [closed]
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Is “to a good approximation” idiomatic?
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What is it called “are + past tense” [duplicate]
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Do you say needn't have in AmE?
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Acronym of abbreviation for “At the time of writing this document”?
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Word for something that takes in input but doesn't output anything [closed]
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Any singular word ending in 's'? [closed]
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Passive Voice with intransitive verbs?
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A good term describing the dichotomy between stochastic and deterministic?
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Meaning of the word ' itular' [closed]
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Five Thousand year old word, ght
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What do you call a 'usury' ('bad deal') agreement that doesn't involve a loan?
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Do I have to put ,Inc. every time I mention our company in a single article?
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How can this style of writing be improved? [migrated]
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What does “te-thrum” mean?
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How to describe a cloak touching the ground behind you as you walk?
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What does this sentence mean: “You said, levelling your voice”?
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Is there a word for when you don't understand something?
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Omis­si­bil­ity of the defi­n­ite ar­ti­cle “the” be­fore at­tribu­tive mod­i­fiers of per­sonal names in Amer­i­can English
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What does children mean in “Familiarity breeds contempt - and children.“?
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What is another word for kilt?
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What exactly is a “ring-a-ding girl”?
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“Where Bob and Bob alone is …” with or without commas?
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Can you use a dash to separate two complete sentences?
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Need help deciphering the meaning behind a phrase spoken in 1893
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Looking for Literary technique's name
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What is the best translation for the German word “Bündler”, meaning an intermediary merchant for agricultural goods and produce?
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Whatis the correct phrase and why? [closed]
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Identifying Main and Subordinate clauses
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You who think or thinks [duplicate]
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What is the grammatical topic of this shortening technique?
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How does one correctly use hyphens in the following contexts?
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What's a word for someone who puts others down for having different views on a topic?
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Term to describe how much something has changed from its original configuration
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Emily Dickinson poem [duplicate]
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How do I call a word for audible equivalent of visualize?
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“In the next years to come” or “In the years to come”
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Another phrase for ‘get to know someone’ [duplicate]
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Is this the correct usage of commas in Alice in Wonderland?
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