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If we are talking about number representation system, Base ten Base-ten Base 10 Base-10 Base of ten by the way, what is the part of speech for the "base"...
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Hello everyone, This has been boggling my mind for a few days and I was hoping I could use your help! I know I've seen the situation many times before...
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The word "crack", in its relation to drug use/abuse, was once seen as slang and used only among certain people, but now, many people know and...
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"Their disdain rarely failed to evoke in him a delayed sense of self-irony not at all fatal in nature." First of all, is that sentence at all...
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I am trying to formulate guidelines for learners of English as a foreign language with regards the use of may/might/could to express possibility. It seems...
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There is really tricky problems in identifying the subtle differences between seemingly similar sentences like the below.
(a) Joe helped Mary make...
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I begin to realize that natural language or human language is not just governed by a couples of rules or grammars, but as well as naturally formed rules...
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I got used to your being here. 1. How would this sentence be parsed? 2. Is 'used to' a prepositional verb? 3. How does 'here', which is...
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Hello all, I hope that someone can help me, a german for whom English is only a foreign language, with the following problem: Does "let the first...
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What's your take on this comment when related to prescriptive rules of grammar? Are there true, correct prescriptive rules for English grammar?
"It...
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This statement was made by Lord Macaulay in 1835. Quote: "I have no knowledge of either Sanskrit or Arabic. But I have done what I could to form a...
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Hi everbody,
Could anyone explain the meaning of "engative verbs" in English Grammar, and give some examples, please?
Any'll be much appreciated...
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Hi All, I'm a newbie to this forum and I'm really glad I found this forum. I'm based in Chennai in India. I'm good in English as far as...
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In a book for the general public, would the author most commonly refer to himself/herself as "I" or as "we" in English? "In my...
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We know that the computer use only two codes to describe the whole universe. Can people using two phonetic symbols, for instance A and...
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I was wondering when tagging part of speech of a sentence which contain compound noun, should we treat the words of compound noun separately or treat the...
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When I say (with its equivalent part of speech according to PS. Penn Treebank tags http://www.ling.upenn.edu/courses/Fall_2003/ling001/penn_treebank_pos...
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Definitions of 'proper noun' describe it as a noun designating a particular being or thing.
But that is not enough, because in "I am riding my bike...
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If someone writes "In this thread alone, several people have compared Obama to Bush" , are you more likely to interpret it as: A) Several people...
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hello guys... I am teslians who's taking english structure as one of my core subject for this semester... Anyone here know where I can find any good...
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Hi, Sometimes I read the answers from our moderators, I can sense a bit of frustration in their trying to explain the naturalness of a sentence / part...
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hello .i am studying teaching language skills.if i have problems while studying my lesson may ı ask you questions?
now i am studyig vocabulary.
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Hello everyone. I've always thought that we should always use the article with lakes (unless it has a word "lake" beside) But I met a teacher...
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I'm sometimes surprised, and somewhat puzzled, when I read linguistics papers written by nonnative speakers. The use of language in such articles...
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Recently, I've heard this sort of theory so I'm gonna share this with you and want to hear your opinions as well. It's about categorizing the...
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