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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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Contraction: "it've"
It sounds fine to me. In your example "Could it've come from the cave?", the subject of "could" is "it", and so if there were subject-verb number in the example it would have to be between "could" and …
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Is "there results" correct?
Yes, as Michael Harvey says in his answer, the example sentence is fine. For a more general account, see McCawley's description.
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Strange use of "whether ... than ..." in official text
It's ungrammatical, because "other" has been mistakenly omitted. It should have been "... a closer connection to a foreign country other than the United States". The "whether" has nothing to do with …
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I posted a question on this website, but I am not sure if I punctuated it correctly
I don't think there's a good alternative. I'd use (4), which is most logical, but displeasing in appearance. Second choice is (3), which leaves it implicit that the quoted expression is an exclamation …
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perfect tense to refer to the future
Your message is ungrammatical because it uses a present perfect, which refers to a past interval of time, to refer to a future event. You could say "... about a recurrence of such an event."
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Sentence type, clause identification
The structure of your example is:
[S But then he took a great leap, [S (he was)
trying to pull a high kick out of the sky ] ]
or, more schematically, [S ... [S ... ] ] , that is, it is a senten …
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What's the error in "Either he or I is right"?
Here's a vote for "Either him or me is right."
Back in 1964 in his classic article Negation in English, Edward Klima proposed a rule to describe contemporary English: the subjective forms of pronouns …
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Is it "our work and that of others have demonstrated" or "our work and that of others has de...
I think it should be plural-agreeing "have" (unlike others who have commented so far). Does the subject of the verb refer to more than one thing? If so, the plural-agreeing form should be used.
The …
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Ways to use 'both' in a specific sentence
The incidences of both vitamin D deficiency and insufficiency were found higher in females as compared with males.
"Both" is the first part of the correlative conjunction "both ... and" (compare …
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Whenever...then
Anyone who knows some predicate logic will be able to tell that with "Whenever x is a fish, then x is an animal." you are trying to get the logical symbols to correspond directly, one-for-one with Eng …
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Missing possessive ('s) in a phrase where I expected its use
"Cromwell business" is not a possessive construction. It's a compound noun, made up of the two nouns "Cromwell" and "business". Compare it with the "Dreyfus affair" or our "Russia problem". One dia …
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Is "Type arguments constraints can with two restrictions also be used with custom types" a v...
I think "type arguments constraints" should be "type argument constraints". Even though there may be several arguments, so there is a logical plural, English doesn't usually allow inflectional ending …
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Is "Whom should I give this job to?" grammatically correct?
In modern colloquial English, "who" is always okay. In your example, you have correctly applied the rule for old-fashioned and formal English -- it would be "Whom should I give the job to?", or perha …
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Is there a grammar error here: "He does nothing but chase girls all day"?
When facts of language conflict with grammatical theories, the facts always win. In fact, your example "He does nothing but chase girls all day" is perfectly good English, as any English speaker can …
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Can I use contractions on multiple nouns like this?
I have noticed in my own speech that, at least in some cases, when the contracted form has a pronunciation which depends on both of the uncontracted forms, a coordinated structure, or relative clause …
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