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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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Is this called a metaphor or how would you describe it?
I would term your example a simple comparison (Oxford Dictionary).
It's neither a metaphor (a hidden comparison) nor a simile (an unusual comparison) as they're figures of speech.
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Which of the following sentences is written correctly? "...while being in your house" or ".....
Both sentences are correct because
"while" is a preposition in the first sentence, and a conjunction in the second one.
Though the second sentence is preferable and less formal.
For example :
"Yo …
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a grammatically wrong sentence in a book
The sentence
"he often used rows with people to let off steam"
is grammatically correct.
USE is a transitive verb here
and means
: to take smth regularly
The sentence
"he is often used to …
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Please explain me about the grammar usage of this sentence ."It's the possibility of having ...
Your example is an emphatic statement with introductory IT.
Instead of the simple sentence
"The possibility of having a dream makes life interesting"
we use this emphatic sentence with the meaning …
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The phrase "to the numbers born"?
BORN is an adjective:
: destined from or as if from birth
// born to succeed
(Merriam-Webster's Dictionary )
In your example there is also inversion used to make the sentence more emphatic:
"Haye …
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"Our generation" - it, they or we?
The phrase "our generation", like any group including first person plural (our family, our team, etc.), can be substituted by the pronoun WE.
Look at some examples from Reverso.context.net:
And then …
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Is this sentence grammatical?
Your sentence is grammatically correct.
According to the graph the position of 'respectively' can be both before and after the verb.
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Which one is more appropriate to use: More or most?
The 'most' is the superlative degree.
So it can't be used with 'than' which follows 'more' (the comparative degree).
Have a look at this:
https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=most+poisonous …
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Grammatical structure in “best avoided”
In your case 'best' is an adverb form which is used to modify a verb.
Here's an extract from the entry in Merriam-Webster's Dictionary
(https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/best):
best
super …
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Is a subject pronoun needed in the second clause?
The subject pronoun can be omitted in the first sentence as in both clauses the subject is the same (the campaign):
The campaign is not only financially beneficial to that organisation but (the campa …
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Conjunctions, coordinators
See in Oxford Living Dictionary:
Coordinator
2 Grammar
A word used to connect clauses, sentences, or words of equal syntactic importance (e.g. and, or, for)
‘subordinate clauses can be connected with …
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can a/an modify unccountable noun?
This noun like many others can be both countable and uncountable.
In your case it is countable.
According to Oxford English Dictionary
(https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/presence):
Pres …
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Which part of speech should I use for a "from-to" construction?
The first sentence is grammatically correct because there are two prepositions (from and to) which can be used only with nouns and pronouns (the latter ones can be sometimes omitted but easily reconst …
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Future simple or present simple with "when"
According to traditional grammars (for example, see in the Oxford Living Dictionary
https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/):
The Present Tenses are used:
'' to refer to a future situation in certain ca …
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Tense/construction of verb following 'looked at'
(https://dictionary.cambridge.org/grammar/british-grammar/infinitives-and-imperatives/infinitives-with-and-without-to).
So after the verb LOOK we can use only -ing. …
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