English Language & Usage

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Why can we say "is your mother home?" but we can't say ''is the boss office?"
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Is "It's like watching Mitt and Mutt work" a reference to Mutt & Stuff?
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Is "stife" a name for smoking cooking oil?
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To make people get used to and accept the bad by showing them the worse
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"See also" vs. "Also see" as a heading
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'Go to sleep' vs 'Go and sleep'?
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What does “turn down an empty plate” mean?
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Is the term "Hot dog" a misnomer? If not, then what makes a term a misnomer?
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Is "There danced a man in the hall" a grammatical alternative to "A man danced in the hall"? What verbs are possible here? [duplicate]
Awarded Nov 30 at 13:36
Conditional structure – “hadn't have gone”? “hadn't have met”? [duplicate]
Awarded Nov 30 at 5:57
Origin of the idiom "a few trombones short of a marching band"
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What do you call the person or character being spoken to in a poem or song?
Awarded Nov 29 at 21:37
Are there any words with a hard "C" preceeding an 'I' in words starting with "ci"?
Awarded Nov 29 at 11:28
With accuracy of or with an accuracy of?
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Understanding the word 'generic'?
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The meaning of "The paradox of courage is that a man must be a little careless of his life even in order to keep it." — G. K. Chesterton
Awarded Nov 28 at 17:13
When do you use hyphens with compound adjectives?
Awarded Nov 28 at 15:48
What is the difference — honor, confer, decorate —?
Awarded Nov 28 at 13:26
'as he had lived'
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Why and when are linking verbs omitted? [duplicate]
Awarded Nov 28 at 0:20
Meaning of "teen" in Aeschylus's play "The Persians"
Awarded Nov 27 at 23:25
What is a term for the evolution of idioms through error?
Awarded Nov 27 at 19:28
What seems more accurate "You and your kid discover their true capability" or "You and your kid discover his/her true capability"? [duplicate]
Awarded Nov 27 at 17:48
Meaning of "swindle" in "…while four to five days in London would be suitable to swindle across the streets" [closed]
Awarded Nov 27 at 4:09
Word or concept for when the correction to a misconception becomes more popular than the misconception?
Awarded Nov 26 at 20:08
Meaning of "How many Euros can be exchanged for 5 USD?"
Awarded Nov 26 at 16:26
Is there a Yiddish loanword for unnecessary work?
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Is there a word or phrase for when you're at the whim of someone?
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Is there an order to prepositional phrases?
Awarded Nov 25 at 13:42
"Stuff like" followed by list... "is" or "are"?
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Adverbs in the Middle Position BUT WHERE?
Awarded Nov 24 at 17:31
Modifying a sentence object
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What will be the passive voice sentences for these sentences? [closed]
Awarded Nov 24 at 10:50
If you must split the word anonymous at the end of a line, where should the hyphen go? [duplicate]
Awarded Nov 24 at 1:40
How can the preterite in the second clause place its event BEFORE that of the past perfect’s event in the first clause?
Awarded Nov 24 at 0:47
How common is ellipting '(that/which has) to do'? [closed]
Awarded Nov 23 at 16:34
What did Walt Whitman mean by "a pennant universal"? [migrated]
Awarded Nov 23 at 14:47
"Best-crafted" or "most well-crafted"?
Awarded Nov 23 at 6:41
Is there a word for the behaviour of interpreting your own opinion into something else to make it seem to you like it shares your opinion?
Awarded Nov 23 at 4:48
What is a word for bringing together fragmented pieces of a whole? [closed]
Awarded Nov 22 at 15:18
Word order: Can an adjective be a subject in an English sentence?
Awarded Nov 21 at 20:31
Can the adverb "perfectly" modify the verb "to be"?
Awarded Nov 21 at 18:55
Would/will be, Would/will have to be [closed]
Awarded Nov 21 at 11:36
Who distinguishes roll from role?
Awarded Nov 21 at 4:11
Why does 'we' have one 'e' while 'see' has two?
Awarded Nov 20 at 23:18
A question regarding colon usage twice in a title
Awarded Nov 20 at 18:19
What is the meaning of "to have" in old cartoons?
Awarded Nov 20 at 4:40
Why "solutions" in "here are two solutions key points"? [migrated]
Awarded Nov 19 at 18:17
What is the meaning of "as per history's mandate" [closed]
Awarded Nov 19 at 17:09
Is 'bold' used correctly here? "This aspect of this issue seems bolder than the rest." [migrated]
Awarded Nov 18 at 18:03
How to describe how a cat looks when groomed?
Awarded Nov 18 at 3:45
Is there a word for someone who believes things will always work out in their favour?
Awarded Nov 17 at 21:34
The vaccine has shown VS The vaccine has been shown [migrated]
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At weekends they prefer to stay home and visit some friends [migrated]
Awarded Nov 17 at 16:16
Context-specific hyphenation
Awarded Nov 17 at 14:15
Wouldst thou like or likest?
Awarded Nov 17 at 13:25
Acceptability of Grammatically Incorrect Sentences [closed]
Awarded Nov 16 at 23:40
Can 'to wilt' be something positive? [closed]
Awarded Nov 16 at 20:46
Is it "men's" or "mens'"? And what's the rule? [duplicate]
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