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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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Lady's Ladies' or ladies
The lady's shoes.
This refers to shoes owned by a lady.
The ladies' shoes.
This refers to shoes owned by several ladies.
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Why is “Don't you forget about me” a correct use of the imperative?
This is a turn of phrase that is used often in American English. Not only in the example given in comments. It's not even only "don't you" do something. Explicitly stating the subject you can add an …
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What exactly is a flat adverb?
You can't just willy-nilly remove the suffix and make it a flat adverb. Well, technically you can, but it's going to sound awful bad to a lot of people. See what I did there?
Some adverbs are flat …
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