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Is there a single word for both “atom” and “ion”?
May 13 '18 at 15:42
31
What does “unanimously disagreed” mean?
Oct 16 '18 at 0:38
26
What is the meaning of the word “cop-flat”?
Oct 17 '18 at 15:31
14
“watching the television” or “watching television”?
Apr 30 '18 at 13:20
12
Verbs after 'as well as'—is this Merriam-Webster example wrong?
Sep 24 '18 at 22:19
12
Help me to explain this sentence's grammar
Sep 11 '18 at 15:26
12
The grammaticality and function of “people ages 20 to 30” (as opposed to “people aged 20 to 30”)
May 18 '18 at 23:26
10
Why don't we say “We're going eating”?
Sep 10 '18 at 20:44
8
Is “commerical” a valid and different word from “commercial”?
Jan 19 at 18:39
8
Origin of ending a sentence with a preposition-German separable verbs?
Oct 17 '18 at 22:55
7
How to express temperatures greater or less than
Aug 1 at 23:26
6
What do you call people who give out awards, certificates and trophies?
Jul 30 at 18:46
6
How did “to wish that” come to hate the present tense in the subordinate clauses it governs, and why is it alone in this?
Jul 23 at 5:25
6
What is the plural for “Egg in a hole”?
Jan 22 at 23:00
6
What is an adjective for somone who displays ‘fake’ gravitas?
Oct 19 '18 at 19:36
5
one or [the] other in American and British English
Aug 4 at 7:46
5
Should one use “an” or an “a” before an acronym beginning with the letter H?
Oct 15 '18 at 17:42
5
Missing part of an idiom or expression I heard “Have you lost the [something] you were born with”
Oct 11 '18 at 21:13
4
Does ‘overleaf’ necessarily imply turning over paper?
Jan 23 at 19:31
4
Word for the direction of written words
Oct 14 '18 at 3:39
4
Synonym for “Show the absence”
Oct 3 '18 at 0:32
4
What exactly is tense?
Sep 22 '18 at 23:54
4
Is “looked at me funny” correct grammar?
Apr 15 '18 at 23:45
4
Is the verb following “rather than” always used in a plural form?
Apr 2 '18 at 13:22
3
How do you make a phrase possessive?
Aug 5 at 1:09
3
Is there a word - not 'anachronistic' - that means 'impossibly futuristic for the historical period'?
Jul 30 at 20:01
3
Are these PPs or non-finite clauses – or something else entirely?
Jan 20 at 18:06
3
Using which or where to refer to place
Jan 19 at 3:07
3
What do you call the feeling of knowing something is going to happen but not knowing what?
Oct 31 '18 at 2:08
3
Absent the doctor - a 'hanging' adjective?
Oct 26 '18 at 15:13
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