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This tag is for questions about morphology and syntax, the two elements of grammar. DO NOT USE THIS TAG IF YOUR QUESTION IS ABOUT WHETHER SOMETHING SPECIFIC IS GRAMMATICAL. For such cases use the 'grammaticality' tag. Also do not use this for punctuation or spelling (orthography); those are not about grammar, and they have their own tags.
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Man in blue shirt
You can omit 'shirt', but then without other context to tell you that it's shirt colour that sets people apart, readers won't necessarily assume that the person is wearing a blue shirt, but just that …
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Which one is correct? He doesn't have got a car or He doesn't have a car
In the 'has got' construction, have is an auxiliary verb, and therefore never combines with do in negative sentences or questions. (The * means "unacceptable to a native speaker").
John is here. - J …
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Is "now" a "preposition"?
Syntactic criteria for prepositions
Although definitions of parts of speech sound nice, they really don't capture the generalizations correctly much of the time. So in order to answer the question of …
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How to distinguish it-cleft and extraposition? 'It was Ben that found it' v 'It was clear th...
The phrase immediately after 'be' in the cleft construction is always related to a position inside the that-clause:
It was in the apartment that Ben found something interesting.
-> Ben found somethin …
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