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This tag is for questions about verbs. Verbs are words that express an action, occurrence, or a state of being. Add this tag to single-word-requests if you are looking for a verb. Add the tag word-usage if you are asking about the usage of the verb.
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Type of usage in these examples
By freeing ourselves from conventions, we see things more clearly.
By freeing ourselves from confinement we embrace freedom.
Do both of these require the comma.
Do these form complete sentences? Why …
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Type of usage/mood
jail house rock peaks. (the record jail house rock peaks)
titantic sinks (the ship the titanic)
Carter for president
film flops
Family flowers only please.
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Usage with noun phrases
During the interview he promoted a new book, his brutally honest and funny memoir.
So this is a noun phrase in apposition, but is that what defines it as a noun phrase in this example (being in …
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type of usage with determiner
A determiner serves to express the reference of that noun or noun phrase in the context.
Highs & Lows, an addict's path to recovery.
Highs & Lows: addicts path to recovery.
So is the second example …
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Isolated information and usage of bracketing commas in these examples
This is always the case with bracketing commas, and it gives you a simple way of checking your punctuation. If you have set off some words with a pair of bracketing commas, and you find you can't remo …
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Difference between supplemental noun phrase and absolute clause?
What is the difference between a supplemental noun phrase and a absolute clause? In these examples and in general. Is it just the non-finite nature of the second example? Are they not serving a simila …
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