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Dilawar

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22 Questions

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16 votes

8 answers

16k views

Origin of “Put up your dukes”

asked Nov 30, 2012 at 2:54

14 votes

1 answer

95k views

'Him or herself' v. 'himself or herself'?

asked Aug 27, 2012 at 1:09

12 votes

2 answers

4k views

{wend, went, went} changed into {go, went, gone}

asked Nov 24, 2010 at 15:00

9 votes

4 answers

4k views

Usage of 'had been' or 'were'

asked Nov 15, 2012 at 18:53

7 votes

2 answers

35k views

Classify into 4 categories or in 4 categories?

asked Nov 24, 2010 at 13:35

6 votes

3 answers

5k views

Do "coterminous" and "conterminous" have exactly the same meaning?

asked Aug 20, 2011 at 8:42

3 votes

1 answer

745 views

"on most of the accounts"

asked Nov 14, 2010 at 19:02

3 votes

1 answer

14k views

Not only... but also

asked Jan 18, 2011 at 2:13

3 votes

2 answers

5k views

Meaning of "slow boring of hard boards" [closed]

asked Jul 5, 2012 at 5:27

3 votes

2 answers

387 views

Confusion about the compouding sentences with 'not to say'

asked Aug 24, 2012 at 0:02

3 votes

1 answer

18k views

Difference between 'taken back' and 'taken aback' [closed]

asked Aug 26, 2012 at 23:32

2 votes

2 answers

6k views

Meaning of "... so much of what ..."

asked Aug 5, 2011 at 12:34

1 vote

1 answer

2k views

Meaning of 'Edwardian geek' [closed]

asked May 12, 2013 at 18:12

1 vote

1 answer

108 views

"A is the property of a system that regulates" or "A is the property of system by which it regulates"

asked Oct 18, 2013 at 17:35

1 vote

1 answer

18k views

"Ability of [gerund]" vs. "ability to [infinitive]" [closed]

asked Nov 8, 2012 at 7:55

1 vote

2 answers

917 views

"At the cost of giving expression to the obvious..."

asked Jan 21, 2011 at 12:57

1 vote

3 answers

1k views

Which one is the correct phrase, and why?

asked Dec 19, 2011 at 13:21

1 vote

1 answer

203 views

"Run across two axes" vs. "run on two axes"

asked Mar 17, 2012 at 13:45

0 votes

2 answers

205 views

Which is the correct construct? [closed]

asked Jul 10, 2011 at 18:40

0 votes

2 answers

1k views

'Consists of a lot of' or 'consists lot of' [closed]

asked Aug 1, 2012 at 1:28

0 votes

2 answers

1k views

Usage of “I will be. . . if it were”

asked Feb 5, 2014 at 10:25

-1 votes

2 answers

3k views

'Sit on your left' or 'sit to your left' or 'sit on to your left' etc [closed]

asked Nov 30, 2012 at 2:35