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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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Why does "is" replace "has"?
They are not interchangeable. What happens is that the contracted forms of has and is sound the same in sentences like:
He's been doing that for years.
(He has been doing that for years.)
a …
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Is there a simpler sentence than this?
There is a card with a number for each
whole number from 1 to 10.
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What is the object in "Anna ate her cold chicken sandwich for lunch"?
her cold chicken sandwich
The question that you can ask to check this is "What did Anna eat?" or "What did Anna eat for lunch?"
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differences between different noun forms of same adjective
Suffixes -ness and -ity are roughly synonymous, but they have different etymologies.
There are two roughly synonymous
suffixes, -ness and -ity, which
are typically used for forming
abstrac …
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What's the meaning of "he walked away a free man"?
"Walk away" can mean simply "to leave a place".
In that sentence, I'd say that the meaning is closer to "to achieve or win something" (In the end, he achieved the status of a free man). It's hard t …
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Constructing compound sentences
One of the items that needed a further
development was a research on child
nodes of a story representing its sub
categories being updated the moment
the list of sub categories is changed
…
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What is the meaning of the phrase "clean up after" and when and how to use it?
From the Macmillan dictionary:
clean up after someone: to clean a place after someone has made it dirty or messy
Residents have been told to clean up
after their dogs.
Another example (closer …
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What does "it" refer to in "it's raining"?
Nothing.
In some languages, a subject is always present in the sentence, even when conceptually there is no subject. English is one of them, as well as French ("il pleut" for "it's raining").
In ot …
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Is "Create Product" a <Verb> + <Subject> or <Verb> + <Object>?
Create Product = <Verb> + <Object>
Update Page = <Verb> + <Object>
Stay Here = <Verb> + <Adverb>
Note: create, update and stay are all conjugated as imperative here. When that is the case, there is …
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Difference between "I have got" and "I have gotten"
Gotten is probably the most distinctive of all the AmE/BrE grammatical differences, but British people who try to use it often get it wrong.
It is not simply an alternative for have got. Gotte …
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