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Is there a term for using a word twice in a row, but in a grammatically appropriate way?
There are useful possibility already offered. Another might be the adjective diplographic, which is not found in dictionaries, but could be used to mean doubly written - in this case the word 'had' ...
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How does the statement “After X I will do Y in Z hours” relate to the order of events?
They are ambiguous, and may have either of the two meanings.
However, unless there is some particular context to suggest it, (for example, we are doing some sort of exercise where our time is ...
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Why is "message receiving processing" so jarring?
It’s a little bumpy, but it seems perfectly natural in context:
A classical command and control system mainly consists of the
following parts:
Message receiving processing: to receive all kinds of ...
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Why is "message receiving processing" so jarring?
There is an associated phenomenon called the 'double -ing constraint', which has been covered on ELU before [F.E.'s Answer]:
Some verbs that license gerund-participial complements cannot
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"They treat us badly." — Is "badly" a core or non-core complement here, in CGEL's analysis?
Non-core.
Huddleston & Pullum don't quite say this outright, but from the section "Five canonical constructions" (p. 218) it's clear that only subjects, direct objects, indirect objects, ...
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Help needed in identifying part of the sentence
Assuming one sticks to binary branching, as The Cambridge Grammar of the English Language (CamGEL) does, this is simplest diagram of the sentence:
Here, "Ruby's heart" is interpreted as the ...
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Help needed in identifying part of the sentence
In the sentence "It made Ruby's heart melt", made is a catenative verb and melt is its catenative complement. The catenative complement is a clause, which in this case is just a bare ...
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"He's one of the people who doesn't/don't eat lunch." Which is correct?
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Either sentence is fine. The notional Subject of the auxiliary verb DO is the plural noun phrase the people. However, in English the word one which occurs earlier in the larger noun ...
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"He's one of the people who doesn't/don't eat lunch." Which is correct?
Q: What is he one of?
A: The people who don’t eat lunch.
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