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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 it grammatical to use "an even better " rather than "even better"?
"Try to speak in front of mirror, or an even better option is to take English classes." is fine.
However, there is an idiom using just the bare phrase "even better" which would not require using "a"/ …
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Can 'default' be an adverb?
I parse the sentence as "default names are honored as written and explicitly-mapped names are honored as written."
"Explicitly mapped" would therefore be a phrasal adjective, but leaving out the hyph …
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How should I shorten this sentence?
Your proposal is OK, but to lessen the (remote) possibility of someone taking it to mean that "Company A weighs as much as the services," you could say:
The weight of services given by Company B i …
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"Should I" vs. "Shall I" vs. "Do I" in AE
"Shall I?" is an offer. You are poised to take that course of action and are asking if they confirm your decision. It often implies that the speaker is leaning towards the affirmative.
"Do/Should I?" …
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Plural of “advice”
I looked into AOP a little bit with my under-qualified eye and I see that in the documentation for various frameworks (such as Spring), the authors never use a plural form. This is important, because …
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