English Language & Usage

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Is a noun singular or plural when listing two or more of them that are numbered?
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If a word can be both an adjective and a verb, can you still use the past principle as an adjective?
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Is there a word for an event that someone is most memorable for?
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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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How widespread is the usage of Senior, Junior, III in British English?
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How do I write out the month and year in which an event occurred within a web article (or any publication for that matter)? [duplicate]
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When using compound nouns, is the quantity of the first noun always ambiguous? [duplicate]
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Is "stife" a name for smoking cooking oil?
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Is "It's like watching Mitt and Mutt work" a reference to Mutt & Stuff?
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Truth speech vs speech [closed]
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Moderator said that these sentences say different things! [closed]
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To make people get used to and accept the bad by showing them the worse
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Which preposition is correct to use in "to conjugate __ 3rd Person Singular"?
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What’s the right fitting word? [closed]
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Is there a word for the situation where you are expecting something and then something totally different happens
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“(sesame)” meaning in subtitles of “Sing”
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"Dream of" vs. "dream about"
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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]
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Why did Jimmy ask, 'Do you think people are more offended by swearing in the States?'? [closed]
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Is there a word for something that was formerly a social norm but is no longer acceptable?
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Conditional structure – “hadn't have gone”? “hadn't have met”? [duplicate]
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Does the phrase "violations will be enforced" make any sense?
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Correct verb to be use with bow and arrow
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Understanding the word 'generic'?
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Are there any real-world examples of malamanteau?
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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
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When do you use hyphens with compound adjectives?
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Growing calls, calls have grown
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Which dialect of English do people pronounce advertisement as ad-VER-tis-ment
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Why does left come before right?
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"by validating" - missing direct object?
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/i/ sound before "ng" and "nk"
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Why and when are linking verbs omitted? [duplicate]
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What did Walt Whitman mean by "a pennant universal"? [migrated]
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Is there an order to prepositional phrases?
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Looking for a word that means coming from two diverse places
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Adverbs in the Middle Position BUT WHERE?
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Proper hyphenation of “technologies”
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Parsing a peculiar legal sentence [closed]
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Can "apocryphal" be used to mean "not true"?
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How common is ellipting '(that/which has) to do'? [closed]
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Can the adverb "perfectly" modify the verb "to be"?
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Nested quotations & internal commas: an edge case
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What is the object of this sentence?
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"Best-crafted" or "most well-crafted"?
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“pig book” – when, where & why has a booklet of college students with photos been called a “pig book”?
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Classical verbiage for "Middle Name"? "Given" -> "First", "Surname" -> "Last/Family"
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Origin of “ish kabibble” as an interjection i.e. 'What, me worry?'
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Is there a name for letting something get worse until it is so bad it has to be addressed properly?
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A linking verb or a part of the verb phrase?
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A linking verb or a part of the verb phrase?
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What is a term for someone who always rejects other people’s offers or favors?
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