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The problem here, as Stuart F suggested in a comment, is indeed punctuation. Ancestry.com cites the Dictionary of American Family Names (2nd edition), but if you track down what I believe is the origi …

So let's look at the context in which those claims were made. Both are articles on Grammarly (1, 2) by Matt Ellis, someone with no particular expertise in English syntax whose advertised skills includ …

Here "as" just means "because"; if we undo the preposing and make that replacement, the meaning becomes clear: It is climate that largely determines the type of agriculture that may be carried out in …

In certain contexts, particularly when describing a work of fiction, you could call them sympathetic, defined in this sense by Cambridge as: If a character in a book or movie is sympathetic, they are …

The word given is likely a more idiomatic choice: For a given cell c(i), c(i+1) and c(i-1) are its neighbours. OxfordLD defines it as "that you have stated and are discussing; particular."

There are differences in meaning between these three words. … The level of formality of a word has no connection to the word's meaning. …

so is neoplanastic likely just a typo for pleonastic? Almost certainly. I can't find any other uses of the word, and the established word "pleonastic" works perfectly here.

With reference to a business you have studied, assess the use of two strategies by this business as an effective strategy. I strongly suspect that this is a typo of some sort, or an extremely badly …

A doctor (while giving me a physical) recently said to me that we needn't have to look for teleological explanations for my condition. I suspect that your doctor may have confused the word teleologi …

Hellion commented: The botanist is not sure that a variety included by (either Pliny or Theophrastus) under its Latin name should also be included under its English name.

The sentence is ambiguous, but it does seem more likely that the multiplication is intended to happen before the square root. If you wanted to force the other interpretation, you could reword the sent …

I suspect that this is a typo for fit: Hopefully all of my entries fit to the 4 attachments a lot better than the version I sent you on Friday. The message seems to be that the entries are more cons …

Two huge American footballers saved the woman. In the above sentence, the word "two" is not an adjective but a determiner. As such, you can't sensibly put it after the adjectives; this doesn't rea …

Clearly the GRE study guide's definition is wrong, or at least incomplete. It seems to come ultimately from WordNet, a quasi-thesaurus whose entries get republished by a number of other websites. Word …

Per Etymonline: "Bank" as in the side of a river comes ultimately from the Proto-Germanic root *bankon, meaning "slope." … This root led to banca in Old Italian and banque in Old French, meaning "table"; the word came to be used in English to mean "money-dealer's counter or shop," from which the modern sense is derived. …