Questions tagged [grammaticality]
This tag is for questions about whether something obeys the rules of grammar in English. The question must INCLUDE THE SPECIFIC GRAMMATICAL CONCERN. If your question is about grammar itself, please use the "grammar" tag.
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Is a noun singular or plural when listing two or more of them that are numbered?
I was asked by someone to review a selection of portrait photos and then respond by selecting which one(s) I wanted to have printed. Each photo is labelled "Pose," followed by a letter (i.e.,...
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‘London in’ or ‘in London’? ‘ed+learn’ or ‘learned’? [closed]
In English, ‘in London’ and 'learned’ are grammatically correct. Grammatical elements or forms are divided into two categories: grammatical or functional words like prepositions or auxiliary verbs in ...
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Moderator said that these sentences say different things! [closed]
I'm doing exercises in Murphy English Grammar In Use and there was a task
where one had to to fill in the gap:
It ___ while we were on holiday (rain).
There is no more additional context
Personally ...
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Policies for Growth
Ensure policies to allow for more higher paying jobs.
Wanting to say we want more of the higher paying jobs.
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Welcome to or Welcome in {Game title}? [closed]
I'm quite close to release my first game, and I can't decide which is grammatically correct on my first user facing screen. My game will surely have some grammatical mistakes but I would appreciate it ...
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Connotation of "for" / "for the"
I asked this question on ELL and got a satisfactory answer about whether "A new material for manufacture of bricks" is a correct title for a scientific article.
However, it seems that ELL is ...
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Which statement is more correct? [migrated]
The parameters is getting updated when you change the project rate.
The parameters is being updated when you change the project rate.
Is there a difference between these two statements? Which ...
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Not so good and Bangla [closed]
You must not have any question about the existence of GOD.
Is this sentence is correct?
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“the room whose door is broken” vs “the room which door is broken”? [migrated]
Which exactly is the difference in meaning and usage between choosing whose versus choosing which in this first sentence?
He chose to live in the room [ which / whose ] door was broken.
How do these ...
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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]
Does the following sentence sound grammatical to you?
There danced a man in the hall
With the meaning: A man danced in the hall.
And compare it with
There died a man in the hall
Which one sounds ...
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What will be the reduced adjective clause for future indefinite passive voice sentence?
What will be the reduced adjective clause for future indefinite passive voice sentence:
“You can’t heal a heart that will be broken multiple times”?
I found this interpretation somewhere: “You can’t ...
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Conditional structure – “hadn't have gone”? “hadn't have met”? [duplicate]
Recently I saw two interviews, one with Victoria Beckham, the other one with Elton John. They were talking about their past experiences and that's the phrasing they used:
But it wouldn't have ...
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Is the phrase "Those are all cars make Chevrolet." in the English language? [migrated]
How about these?
Those are all make Chevrolet cars.
and
Those are all Chevrolet make cars.
Are any of these syntactically correct English phrases?
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Is it correct to say "I'm in my 24"? [migrated]
I just want to know if it could be a correct form, for example, to use when it's someone's birthday.
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What's the difference between "either" and "at the same time"? [migrated]
I can't carry a heavy bag and a heavy heart, either.
Is this sentence grammatically correct?
Can I say this instead?
I can't carry a heavy bag and a heavy heart at the same time.
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What will be the passive voice sentences for these sentences? [closed]
How many men are there?
How much milk he buys?
There are books.
It is a toy.
Books are there.
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What is correct (English grammar): Combination of singular/plural but is it was OR were? [migrated]
Could someone please tell me what is correct:
Shareholder's ownership of ABC-Company was 1,000,000 shares which equals to 1.5% of an equity.
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Shareholder's ownership of ABC-Company were 1,000,000 ...
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Can the adverb "perfectly" modify the verb "to be"?
Such students may be perfectly at home with the language of an ode or a classical play, [...] [Source]
In a formal written language, isn't it grammatically incorrect to use, instead of an adjective, ...
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Parsing "…including a problem…, in a characteristically diffident aside, he noted his own 'fleeting vain attempts' to resolve it"
Prologue to a book which I was reading ends with this verbatim copy-pasted text:
A book should be dedicated to someone living, so that the dedication can give pleasure. I have dedicated this book to ...
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Correct usage of 'nostalgia' [migrated]
How do I use the word nostalgia correctly?
For example, say I saw an old doll of mine and it reminded me of when I was a kid; what would be the correct expression to describe that?
I got nostalgia ...
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"He promised" [...] "that he will" or "that he would"? [duplicate]
He promised that he will help me with my homework.
He promised [that] he would help me with my homework.
Which sentence is grammatically correct? I saw this debate and I genuinely don't know the ...
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Is it grammatical to say "... is both popular and has presented ...'
This particular example comes from a peer-reviewed publication with authors who seem to be native speakers:
This trend is both popular and has presented a variety of challenges
I wonder if this is ...
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Is there any situation in spoken English where it is acceptable to commence a sentence with "So"? [duplicate]
I've been listening to television news broadcasts for more years than I care to admit to, but over the past 12 months, have observed that it has become common-place for interviewees to answer a ...
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Usage of ' Please be submitted [migrated]
Is it grammatically correct to write
Please be submitted the monthly financial report.
Instead of writing the following?
I would like to make a monthly financial report.
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Is this awkward reuse of a verb between subjects correct?
From a Library of Congress article about Freud:
...patients tended to perform for the camera and doctors to record the most photogenic.
This sentence seems to reuse the verb tended between the ...
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Which is correct? "I suggest mum (to) invite my auntie" [duplicate]
Which is correct?
I suggest mum invite my auntie for dinner.
or
I suggest mum to invite my auntie for dinner.
Is it the same rule on I (recommend)?
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Is it grammatical to say "a request met with refusal"?
I've been going over some English comprehension tests with my students and I've stumbled upon a sentence that's been bugging me.
(Jack / request / have) ______ a day off met with his employer’s ...
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Hyphenation of compound adjective or quantifier when referring back to antecedent
Example: She ate one or more apples, and each apple of the one-or-more apples was either red or green.
In the example, if "one or more apples" is the antecedent, should the reference back (i....
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Present perfect or past tense in the first part?
Are the following two sentences grammatically correct?
Mark has been injured while he was training.
While Mark was training, he has injured himself.
I am particularly interested in the correct tense ...
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Should it be "many other prizes" or "many more prizes" [closed]
When advertising prizes in a Christmas raffle, should we use "and many other prizes" or "and many more prizes" after listing the 3 top prizes in the draw?
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What is the grammatical role of the last line of Gray's 'Elegy'?
The last line of Thomas Gray's poem 'Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard' is 'The bosom of his Father and his God."
Here rests his head upon the lap of Earth
A youth to Fortune and to Fame ...
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the smoke _____ out from the chimney [closed]
Q. The smoke ____ out from the chimney.
a. left
b. rose
c. went
This question was asked recently in an exam. So which one of the options is the most appropriate option to be filled in the blank ?
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Relative clause with genitive and plural
I am a non-native speaker and for this very special example I can't find any explicit rules in the literature:
The paths, whose lengths are equal, have been created.
Is "whose" the right ...
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Is this grammatical--"Look on on"
"As we look on on the conflict"
I want to use the phrase "look on" but am not sure how to incorporate it into the sentence. Would be "as we look on at the conflict"?
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Is "[Countable noun] number" grammatically correct?
I know that "amount of [uncountable noun]" (e.g. amount of water) and "number of [countable noun]" (e.g. number of books) are what I should use. What I don't understand is that the ...
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Not sure if "combined 90 men’s years experience" is right usage as opposed to "combined 90 man years worth of experience"
I received a copy from a client with the following phrase: "Our current team boasts of a combined 90 man years worth of experience in the field of XYZ".
While on its own it sounds ...
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Can I say “I wanna have a nice walk here?” [closed]
Can I say “I wanna have a nice walk here?” Is it an incorrect sentence or not?
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Validity of "TV was not always the place to find contemporary comics any more."
From an article by The Guardian:
Platforms such as TikTok and Instagram, Kempner added, offered huge opportunities to do more niche impressions. “People are coming to that video wanting impressions ...
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Is "(here: a specific instance)" correct English?
Consider the following (mock) sentence:
We use a class of methods in which fruit (here: bananas) are combined
with vegetables (here: pumpkins).
An editor has proposed instead:
We use a class of ...
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Is "no good" or "it is no good" gramatically correct English? [duplicate]
I recently came across some discussion on the fact that "no bueno" is not gramatically correct Spanish, and generally not a phrase Spanish-speakers use, unless they find it funny. Of course, ...
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Is 'that' correct in the sentence "Where do you live that it's morning for you?" [duplicate]
I wonder how to best phrase this. The idea was to ask someone about their time zone.
"Where do you live that it's morning for you?"
The 'that' feels off / like a literal translation from ...
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Can I add some words into the idiom "last but not least"?
The phrase 'last but not least' is a well-established one, but I'm wondering whether I can split it and add a parenthetical bit into it:
And finally, the last but definitely not the least geocache I ...
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Is ‘ask them to both be there’ or ‘they both will be there’ ever grammatical?
I am trying to articulate how to position the determiner/predeterminer ‘both’ behind the nouns being modified. Every rule that I came across on a cursory search involves some unspecified exception, so ...
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Which is correct? "So why wasn't/weren't you good enough?" [closed]
Someone has just messaged me saying as a professional business owner I should know the difference and that my sentence is wrong! I am not sure! Especially as I am from Yorkshire and we all know we ...
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Is "I'm fine to [verb]" grammatically correct?
For example, I found myself saying "I'm fine to wait" but realized it seems wrong. "I'm fine with waiting" strikes me as the correct alternative. In general "fine with" ...
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Can verbs of perception have an adjective in the objective complement position?
I know as below.
[verbs of perception + object + bare infinitive / present participle / past participle]
But I found this sentence.
The note was heard loud.
Then can verbs of perception have an ...
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Is this use of "complete with" idiomatic? [closed]
"I’ve seen a Japanese brass band competition complete with the equipment in Youtube and the performance was simply great".
Is the use of "complete with" correct there? Based on ...
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Is using possessive apostrophe -s instead of "of form" correct? [duplicate]
I learned that the possessive apostrophe -s is used for living beings and the "of" form for non living things:
The dog's name is Sherlock
The color of the flower is yellow
However, I have ...
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How do multiple modal constructions work with ellipsis or inversion?
I have been researching on multiple modal constructions, which is a dialect mainly used in
The Southern United States. Unlike Standard English, this dialect allows more than one modal auxiliary per ...
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Should I use "may" when speaking about what is legally allowed?
Some examples where we don't speak about abilities, but what is legally allowed:
May I drive a car if I hold an international driver license?
You may drive a car if you hold a driver license.
I ...
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