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I have found similar questions but couldn't find an answer to fit mine, so I am sorry if I have asked a question which has already been asked. This is an example of the sentence: "Sit down please ...

"I'll be back in a week" means "I'll be back after a week has passed" or "I'll be back after the next seven day's period is over". I've done a great deal of research to find out whether "I'll be back ...

I've encountered a sentence like the following. " Our destiny is to be doomed" What does this mean exactly? And could you give the grammar name for " is to be verb+3" because I couldn't find it on ...

From the site of the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals the title "Dip ACVB" is used. As the information I was reading was about certification or qualification, I assumed the "...

If someone wishes like 'May you always succeed in this noble professon' Is there anythig sarcastic/ inherent meaning?

In Portuguese, I can ask literally "Por onde vais?" meaning something like "What is the path you are taking?" I would like to know how to ask this in English, using "where", possibly a preposition (by,...

I've been a part of the discussion on whether it's acceptable to ask someone "You ate?" when meaning to ask "Did you eat?" or "Have you eaten?" and we can't find a definitive answer. We've found some ...

Your Honor, Mister Walker has access to resources both monetary and logistical. The speaker(a prosecutor) thinks Mister Walker is very rich and famous and his crime is serious. So, the juddge set ...

I kept a door for somebody to pass and he said: "thank you". What should I say in response? I said: "no problem!". But I am not sure my response was the best one.

I am writing to the following sentence written by a native speaker: ... and build a corpus with of effective tests, reports, analyses and evaluation results. What's really confusing me is the ...

Just because he’s charming? Look, we’ve seen this before, alright? We have the "D.N.A." - - Liv and I were in the "boxing room". The speaker and Liv believes that 'he's a suspect. They already ...

(a) We filter out information that the brain deprioritizes without our knowing it. (b)We filter out information that the brain deprioritizes without us knowing it. I came across the sentence (a) ...

This is a question I always wonder. "Do grammatical parts really matter in English speaking?" If one's native language does not distinguish between tenses, singular and plural nouns, and gender ...

Does "a sports idiot" mean he is an enthusiastic sports fan who enjoy watching or playing various sports, or someone who doesn't know much about sports?

some time ago I read this word that meant, approximately, when something is a moral example and was worshipped because of that reason. To put it into context, the phrase was like this: "The Old ...

Imagine that you're going to sell a package containing eight scrubber brushes. For advertising the product the number of items should be displayed on the first line and item type on the second line. ...

What does it mean when someone says to another they are going to have a verbal tennis before a recorded talk?

Can you help me spot the difference between Do you want to buy SOME pencils? vs. Do you want to buy ANY pencils?' Does 'SOME' imply 'quantity' and does 'ANY' imply 'any kind of'? To me '...

Consider the following sentence made by a person after watching Joker in the cinema: “You can’t recognize Joaquin when he plays the Joker—he turns into an entirely different character.” Which of ...

Would it be possible for a compound sentence to have a noun that is a retained objective complement, and this noun would then be contained in an elliptical clause functioning as a retained objective ...

By "double", I mean the same letter twice. There are many double consonant 4 letter words. There are also many double vowel 4 letters words. However, are there any which include all three of these ...

I'm learning English and trying to extend my adjectives vocabulary. Is there a website which can give me the most frequently used adjectives to any noun I choose? Or the right adverbs to a verb word? ...

While watching the movie the Martian, a question arose regarding the name Ares: Greek Gods were metaphrased into Latin when Romans took over. Ares (from the Greek Άρης) was now named Mars, and so on....

Is there a name for this mark? It sits below a letter as a means of showing an abbreviation. (In this case, Established abbreviated to Estd.) I've seen it used in the form below in place of an ...

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/opus attests that some people in the classical music world use "opi" as a plural for "opus." I think this is just a joke, giving a pseudo-learned false-Latin form for ...

Without looking back, the old man had hurried down the hillside and across a meadow, leaving George Willard perplexed and frightened upon the grassy slope. With a shiver of dread the boy arose and ...

Is there a word for a pair of words that would appear to be antonyms from their construction, but actually have the same or similar meanings? For example, brief / debrief. From The Guardian: A ...

Is there a word or term to describe sounds (phonemes) that are spelled using multiple characters (graphemes)? Examples would include the English ch, sh, or German dsch, tsch, etc.

I have doubts about the "do" auxiliary in questions, and its use, and what makes it mandatory. Is it true that "How many XXX have you got?" is wrong? And why do you have to put the auxiliary here, I'...

I am trying to determine when 'post' became a popular replacement of the word 'after'. I have found 'post' being prefixed to words used in the medical and other professional disciplines, and in ...

charitable, charity, helping hand aren't an option

It's usually considered necessary in the modern day, but I find the further back you go, the less frowned on its absence seems to be. I seem to remember a few vocative sentences in The Hobbit without ...

It has happened to me a lot that I stop random people in the street for asking a question about direction. I said "Excuse me". In answer to my "excuse me" People usually say "Hey". I am wondering if I ...

What is (or which are) the proper adjective to denote "two things that can be made equal (in a mathematical sense)". Both the words "equalable" and "equalizable" have been used, but it is unclear to ...

So as many/most of us, I have doubts regarding the use of the definite article. Now I would like to ask about the following text (the spot to discuss is marked with "(the?)"): "... It is better to ...

My supervisor and I wrote a research paper to be sent to journal for review. My supervisor wrote the cover letter of the paper as Dear Editor in Chief You are requested to review the paper "...

An Amazon delivery guy rang me and told that he was waiting for me at my place and I replied by saying that "I won't be able to attend you before 12 pm" but I am a bit confused about whether I was ...

Child: Mister Jackie is a bad man. Detective: Why is he a bad man, sweetie? Child: He follows me into the bathroom. Detective: Why does he do that? Child: When I have to go. It's ...

Most of the land in Namibia belongs to the whites. To Afrikaners who are descendants of European colonists. They raise cattle and game. 'They raise cattle' I can understand, but I don't know ...

The Handbook of English Pronunciation. (Marnie Reed, John Levis referring to J.C. Wells) Аs the pronunciation of most speakers is rhotic, there are no centring diphthongs, because the vowels /ɪə,...

Do the names of classes remain without capitalization if they are the simple names of subjects and not specific course titles? The example that I am looking at is: "She asked a question in calculus, ...

Dismissible is defined by Vocabulary.com as: capable of being removed or taken away or dismissed Dismiss is (from Merriam Webster): to permit or cause to leave In my context, I am trying to ...

The name Dreadnought, a class of naval ship, originates from the eponymous HMS Dreadnought. Wikipedia indicates that Dreadnought's name, and the class of battleships named after her, means "a ...

I overheard Alex talking to his brother-in-law, Bobby, about making a… a run. Is there an another meaning of 'making a run'? This is a dialogue from a TV show. And Alex who is a mayor candidate ...

Why is 'traffic' an uncountable noun while 'traffic jam' is a countable noun? I have asked many people and also googled but didn't get a satisfactory answer

I'm filling an English document and I'm being asked to complete my family name, then my name at birth and then my first names. Does anyone know the difference between these 3 concepts? My guess is ...

The question is inspired by the today's announcement of the Nobel prize awards in Literature for 2018 and 2019. The short description for Olga Tokarczuk has been worded as follows: The Nobel Prize ...

I've seen, "second largest" being used more often. Is there any special reason that, "second maximum", is not a correct thing expression? For example, if I have an array of numbers: 1,2,3, is it ...

I want to open my mail with the following sentence: It's great to hear that you have chosen me for the position! But after talking with a friend he suggests that I should change the sentence to ...

Example: So you might need help from various resources—such as parents, classmates, school administrators, and so on. Or should I write: So you might need help from various resources—parents, ...