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Questions arising from error (real or perceived): solecism, malapropism, mondegreens, eggcorns, disputed usages, so-called "corruption", folk etymologies, but also requests for interpretation when the text in question arguably contains an error, and questions which stem from a misunderstanding. Do not use when an error has not been made: for example, "which is correct" questions arise from uncertainty, not error.
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Where is the mistake in "It's essential for us to book tickets for the theatre in advance"?
It's entirely grammatical. Those two fors in different senses (one as a subordinator, the other as a preposition) excite my horror aequi, and I'd rewrite as "It's essential for us to reserve theatre t …
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What does the usage of "under" in this context mean?
The ordinary English idioms are:
One studies under a master artist or craftsman; it’s a metaphor drawn from the old guild system in arts and scholarship, where an apprentice or student put himself u …
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How widely-accepted is "What do you got?" to Americans?
Gimme a break.
In this instance, "What do you got" is a false orthographicalization of colloquial "Whadayagot", which in turn is a perfectly normal elision of formal "What have you got". A step less …
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Alleged misuse of the word 'respective'
Respective designates the one-to-one relationship between the corresponding members of two different sets of things. Thus, in the examples given in the comments to your question:
"They chatted about …
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Are there names for consonant-shifts when suffixes are added?
Shifts of this sort are very common in words of Latin derivation. In the case you cite, missus is the participle of mittere, and the nominal forms of admit, commit, emit, permit, remit all take the te …
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Is a bare infinitive acceptable as the object of a verb?
There's nothing inherently wrong with Writing helps develop ...; but a child analytically thinking is strained and at the first glance opaque.
A child's thinking analytically makes the relationship be …
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