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I already have giant steps / huge strides in the context of 'Having previously taken tentative, half-hearted baby-steps Sophia began taking -------- towards attaining her life's ambitions'.

Is it correct to say Win-win lottery? It is meant the kind of lottery where you will get a prize anyway.

Glucose lowering agents consist of multiple subcategories of drugs, including metformin, DPP-4 inhibitors, and insulin and analogues. My question is how should I write a list with an "and" in one of ...

Today, the New York Times online edition reviews a documentary film. The review contains the following sentence: The filmmakers don’t villainize anyone, though a few participants come awfully close ...

As English is my 2nd language I am not sure how to say this sentence the right way What I am trying to say is that i have multiple subsets that each item on the first one will be used along with ...

I need to write a short sentence where I refer to people from all around the world. Can I use 'global people'? Or is it a totally different concept? Thanks!

What do we call the act of overtaking a vehicle which is already being overtaken by one or more cars? You see that some other car begins overtaking, and you join this overtaker, and others may join ...

In the Indian subcontinent, we're accustomed to saying sentences like: Who is your favorite personality? My father is my favorite personality. You are a dynamic personality. You are a great ...

I hear she stresses both "don't" and "know", "don't" was said in higher pitch than "know" but "know" was more drawled than "don't". So which word do you think she want to emphasize the most, or both ...

It's a GRE sentence, even though I know the meaning of each individual word, the complete sentence doesn't make sense to me. Some of the translations that I have come up with : A stick is shortened ...

When the word "want" is unstressed, is it pronounced like /wənt/ or /wʌnt/? https://vocaroo.com/i/s1nUhAfWsc9k

I was reading a book "Call me by your name" and I was so confused by the tense they use in the book. It is obviously the story they tell happens in the past but they use present tense. I am trying to ...

Which one is correct? "Algorithm A outperforms Algorithm B by a factor of two." "Algorithm A outperforms Algorithm B by a factor two."

If one says "I don't know" in 3 different ways, like, when they stress "I", "don't" and "know" respectively. How does the meaning of this sentence change?

The passage is an excerpt from an 1823 essay on Macbeth by Thomas De Quincey: From my boyish days I had always felt a great perplexity on one point in Macbeth. It was this: the knocking at the ...

Why do you say ‘natural resources' in plural? We can't count coal oil nor coal in earth.

I know "-mancy" already exists (like necromancy and pyromancy), but if you look into the root of the word, it acutally refers to divination, and not general magic powers It could be easily argued ...

Could you please advice should i add 'the' before planet when referring to our planet Earth? And should the words "the" and "planet" be capitalized? So is the sentence written in the following way: "...

I have some doubts regarding Possessive Case of Adjective. Q1. The price of your book is more than (mine/that of mine). Q2. The ideas of your friend are as beneficial as (hers/those of hers). Q3. The ...

(It) (will take) (me) ten more minutes (to finish my work). S V O C Can "ten minutes more" be considered as OBJECT? IF not, what could be it be considered as?

Can you teach me some example about using prepositions "The monster within me" vs "The monster in me" vs "The monster with me" "The monster on me" vs "The monster onto me" vs "The monster into me"

Which one is correct? "Let me know, How can I do it?" vs "Let me know, how I can do it?"

I was passing past a school where it said "separate classes for boys and girls", meaning separate classes for boys and separate classes for girls. Does this phrase "separate classes for boys and girls"...

The President took a commemorative photo with the scientists, or The President took a reminiscence photo with the scientists?

When one wants to say that the depth of the room is less than 14 feet, which of the following preposition is more appropriate - The depth of room is just below 14 feet. The depth of room is just in ...

Just wondering which of the two sentences below is correct: a) Making fools of yourselves trying to one up the other (of two people) b) Making fools of yourselves trying to one up each other (of two ...

For instance, a school, say S, was established in 2000, with the first class in the same year. I entered the school, with other students, in 2002, i.e. the third time of a student cohort. Should I ...

TATA Group SETS SIGHTS on the new project TATA Group SETS SIGHT on the new project I read it in a newspaper and the sentence 1 was the headline but why sight is used as sights

I have seen both usages. Stay tuned on our Facebook page to know more Stay tuned to our Facebook page to know more But don’t know which one is more appropriate. Please help me figure it out. ...

I am not a native speaker of English and I was having a casual conversation with my friends in the US. I asked them, "Where do you stay?" (which is pretty common in India, as far as I know) for which ...

I am writing an academic paper and confused about the following usage of "a/an": with an MAP score below 0.4 Or with a MAP score below 0.4 While the second one seems more "grammarly" correct, ...

I am wondering if the following two sentence are correct. We can divide children on the ground into two groups: those playing soccer, and those not. We can divide children on the ground into two ...

So other day I stumbled upon this one particular grammar question, which seems to have many right answers according to my friends. Question: I (have) my hair cut whenever it gets too long. My first ...

The following sentence is grammatically correct, although it really doesn't sound like it is: I love oil spills, that is to say, great globs of cancer-inducing poison, not brown, that is mixed all ...

I understand what the idiom means: as per this question, it means a person or creature unwittingly used as a test for danger, often destructively. I understand why coalmines: as depositories of ...

Which of these two sentences is the proper way to write. Hi betty, thank you or Hi Betty, Thank you

I increase the value of two parameters in an equation through two (differing) ranges - with the second iterating through the entire range for each value of the first. i.e. If increase the values of ...

I wanted to ask a question about the adverbs away and apart. The villages are miles apart. The exam is only two weeks away. It is three days apart. It is five kilometers away/apart. Away and apart ...

I'm curious about the phrase “dearly beloved”. – It looks to me to be a phrase consisting of an adverb (dearly) modifying a noun (beloved). But I thought adverbs could only modify verbs or adjectives? ...

I'm making a bar graph, where the height of the bar is the distance I ran on a particular day, and there are multiple bars, one for each day in the (historical) date range I'm plotting. My question ...

Any word to describe someone who pretends to be sophisticated, smart and know-all but in reality is just so stupid to realize his/her stupidity because he/she always surrounded by likewise stupid ...

Which one of the two following sentences is more appropriate? Each state stands for a possible configuration of the system, and it is represented in the state space by a point. Each state stands for ...

I was thinking about my English version of my nickname. It should be related to toast. It can't be just toast so I decided to add some prefix, here's my propositions: don; captain; lord; the king; sir....

So, I have been writing my application for a job, and I want to mention that I consider the job as an opportunity where I convert the theory I have learned in my study into practice (real work). In ...

During a recent conversation with one of my friends, whom I had not been regularly speaking to, I asked her whether her sister had applied for a job as I knew she’d graduated some months ago. She told ...

I was wondering if there is a word that describes when someone emotionally agrees with someones argument regardless of whether the argument actually is a valid argument or not. For example a fan of ...

An author I'm currently reading often uses language in a slightly irregular fashion. I've been trying to decide if it's playful and intentional, which would be intriguing. If it's not intentional, ...

Someone told me this a while ago, but I always remember it cause I couldn't quite understand. Does the "earlier" in the sentence "1 year ago, maybe earlier." means that it was prior to 1 year ago (...

My question is about meaning of word "affair". Does it has a meaning of "case,deal" or "relations, love affair"

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