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What is the difference between 'until' and 'up until'?

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Is there a special name for these big balloony toys in parks? (image included)

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What is the grammatical function of 'Celsius' in "ten degrees Celsius"?

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5 answers

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"If you don't have a fresh chicken, I'll take a frozen (one)." – When can an adjective act on behalf of a whole noun phrase?

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"What I'm doing is watching TV." — Why does it have to be the gerund-participle ('watching')?

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What is a British biscuit called in America? A cookie? A cracker?

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An adjective for the condition of a used brush

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A Strange Conditional: "I couldn’t have talked to her that day if I never talked to her again"

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"Stories are so much a part of our lives that many people seldom think about them." : The use of 'so' and 'so much' as intensifiers

asked May 31, 2016 at 15:52

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Is it possible for a word in a sentence to have two grammatical functions at once?

asked Feb 14, 2016 at 12:34

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"It was the kind of story that / where you had to be there." -- Are the relative words 'where' and 'that' interchangeable? What does 'where' mean?

asked Apr 29, 2016 at 4:44

6 votes

1 answer

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Etymology of "Devil-may-care"

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Why is it "time of day" but "hour of the day"?

asked Feb 12, 2016 at 15:12

6 votes

10 answers

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The Term for Singing in a Very Sad Way

asked Oct 23, 2015 at 20:56

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6 answers

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What do you call the sheet (of fabric, nylon, etc.) that you lay on the carpet for everybody to sit around and have a meal?

asked Nov 28, 2015 at 17:59

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How do Americans pronounce the 't' in "romantic", "countable", etc?

asked Dec 28, 2015 at 20:12

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2 answers

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Intensification of Consonants in English Pronunciation

asked Jan 22, 2016 at 19:16

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"Class, open your books TO/AT page 13!"—Is it a matter of dialectal difference?

asked Apr 8, 2019 at 6:01

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8 answers

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Is there a word for a low-grade actor/writer/singer/etc who's gained a widespread attention and support?

asked Oct 29, 2015 at 15:36

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'That's a good one, isn't it/that?' -- Question Tag after Demonstratives

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1 answer

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"For who so firm that cannot be seduced?" Where is the verb in this Shakespeare quotation?

asked Oct 19, 2015 at 10:01

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What do we got? [duplicate]

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1 answer

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What does "type" mean in this text?

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1 answer

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Conditional sentence without conditional conjunctions, is that possible?

asked Oct 18, 2015 at 17:26

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1 answer

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Do more contractions always mean more informality?

asked Nov 8, 2015 at 17:52

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1 answer

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"That should do it / That ought to do it", do you say it before the last thing is done or after?

asked Nov 15, 2015 at 17:00

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1 answer

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Is "be sleeping with a person in charge" a common metaphor or idiom for "being favored by that person"?

asked Dec 14, 2015 at 13:05

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1 answer

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"Open to" or "open on"?

asked Nov 12, 2015 at 17:26

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What is the tense of the verb that goes in "I wish I would do something that ..." ? (I wish I would buy him a present that he likes/liked.) [duplicate]

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1 vote

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Declarative Clause with Interrogative word order

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What is the difference between 'until' and 'up until'?

Is there a special name for these big balloony toys in parks? (image included)

What is the grammatical function of 'Celsius' in "ten degrees Celsius"?

"If you don't have a fresh chicken, I'll take a frozen (one)." – When can an adjective act on behalf of a whole noun phrase?

"What I'm doing is watching TV." — Why does it have to be the gerund-participle ('watching')?

What is a British biscuit called in America? A cookie? A cracker?

An adjective for the condition of a used brush

A Strange Conditional: "I couldn’t have talked to her that day if I never talked to her again"

"Stories are so much a part of our lives that many people seldom think about them." : The use of 'so' and 'so much' as intensifiers

Is it possible for a word in a sentence to have two grammatical functions at once?

"It was the kind of story that / where you had to be there." -- Are the relative words 'where' and 'that' interchangeable? What does 'where' mean?

Etymology of "Devil-may-care"

Why is it "time of day" but "hour of the day"?

The Term for Singing in a Very Sad Way

What do you call the sheet (of fabric, nylon, etc.) that you lay on the carpet for everybody to sit around and have a meal?

How do Americans pronounce the 't' in "romantic", "countable", etc?

Intensification of Consonants in English Pronunciation

"Class, open your books TO/AT page 13!"—Is it a matter of dialectal difference?

Is there a word for a low-grade actor/writer/singer/etc who's gained a widespread attention and support?

'That's a good one, isn't it/that?' -- Question Tag after Demonstratives

"For who so firm that cannot be seduced?" Where is the verb in this Shakespeare quotation?

What do we got? [duplicate]

What does "type" mean in this text?

Conditional sentence without conditional conjunctions, is that possible?

Do more contractions always mean more informality?

"That should do it / That ought to do it", do you say it before the last thing is done or after?

Is "be sleeping with a person in charge" a common metaphor or idiom for "being favored by that person"?

"Open to" or "open on"?

What is the tense of the verb that goes in "I wish I would do something that ..." ? (I wish I would buy him a present that he likes/liked.) [duplicate]

Declarative Clause with Interrogative word order