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How do the tenses and aspects in English correspond temporally to one another?

What are your favorite English language tools? [closed]

What words are commonly mispronounced by literate people who read them before they heard them?

Is there an American English equivalent of the British idiom "carrying coals to Newcastle"?

Difference between "I have got" and "I have gotten"

What do you call the interconnecting bits of a puzzle piece in English?

Is there a word for a change so small that it doesn’t seem to be a change at all?

What are the similarities and differences between "irony" and "sarcasm"?

Why do I instinctively want to use the present tense with a conditional?

Why did "sceptical" become "skeptical" in the US?

What is a collective term for castles, citadels, forts, palaces etc.?

Where did the expression "my two cents" come from?

A murder of crows?

What are the rules about using 'half of' with plural nouns?

Old English instead of Latin in early Britain

What is the difference between "quicker" and "faster"?

Is there a word for answering a question with a question?

Ambiguity of "Dogs must be carried on this escalator"

Where can I find a reasonably well recognized free style guide that is online?

What is the English word closest to Japanese “Ganbatte,” the word for encouraging people who are in disaster, or challenging a severe ordeal?

How does a word come to have two completely opposite meanings?

31th or 31st is correct? [closed]

Are there other idioms like "a stone's throw away" that both describe an activity and act as a measurement?

Heavy usage of synonyms in English or not?

Can "already" be used after a simple past verb in American English?

Why did "insofar" become a word, not "insofaras"?

Does English have frequently used ordinary words that distinguish between equality and equivalence?

Which is grammatically correct: "Let he who..." or "Let him who..."

What does the door do?

What is the best paper-based dictionary? [closed]