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This tag is for questions about correctly using a word. The word has to be provided within the question. The question should be limited to the usage of one word. For the usage of complete phrases there is the tag phrase-usage.
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Can "glade" and "mist" go together?
A glade is a treeless area in a forest. A "glade in the mist" would be a treeless area in a forest that is in the mist.
If you want to talk a mist-less patch in a misty area, you could talk about a …
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Use of was/were vs ing verb
First, fingers is plural, so you'd have to say his fingers were tugging at his hair, rather than "his fingers was(*) tugging...".
Second, using the progressive tense here emphasizes that the tugging …
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Are "NLT" and "NMT" acronyms generally used in sentences?
These are not commonly known acronyms in general usage.
is it necessary to add a description for NLT and NMT to explain what they mean; e.g. NLT stands for 'not less than'.
In a paper written fo …
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Use of the word "wrong" in causal learning exercises
In engineering, we often talk about the "cause" of a failure. We might talk about the "root cause" or several "contributing causes" for an incident or a failure of some kind.
For example, in the dron …
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area or area size?
In the US you are likely to hear square footage, meaning area when measured in units of square feet.
You might also hear floor space or floor area to indicate the interior area of a building.
In your …
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How to say the share of count/amount? "Number share"?
I would recommend percentage, proportion, or fraction, depending on the exact usage required.
Your example can be reworded as
While the manufacturing sector's percentage of firms among public listing …
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Everybody/Somebody don't vs doesn't
Instead of 1 or 2 I'd say "Nobody wants to do it" or "Not everybody wants to do it", depending on the intended meaning.
However, the expected solution is probably 2 and 4, because "everybody" and "so …
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Why is “Rectangled” not accepted usage?
Microsoft is marking this word because it's so uncommon that a typical English reader might not understand it if you used it without a visual example on the same page.
The word (and this usage) is u …
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Differences between "fortification nouns"
A fort or fortress is a building whose purpose is purely military.
A fortification is also purely military, but might not be a building. It could just be a fence or "palisade" around some area, or tr …
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Another evidence
I want to explain why this is wrong but I can’t.
This is because evidence is a non-count noun, so you can't talk about "an evidence" or "another evidence".
This was previously addressed in the …
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Difference between the meanings of "textbook" and "technical book"
A textbook is a book published with the intention of being studied as part of a class. It could cover any kind of material: math, physics, other sciences, a foreign language, grammar of your own langu …
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Logical disjunction and English Language
In contemporary English, "and/or" is becoming fairly common, in both writing and speech.
An alternative that might come across more naturally in some contexts is to ask something like "Is the person …
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