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Do you find anything grammatically incorrect about these sentences? Newton's genius allowed him to deduce this law as the common explanation for why...
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Geoff Nunberg, linguist, has claimed this about the pronunciation of nuclear as "nucular": "this disaffectation is not uncommon among Pentagon...
 
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I might have a copy in the garage. I'll take a look. Is "might" a modal or an adverb, there? How can we tell?
 
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Hi! I’m writing a term paper and for the practical part need to question people from different countries. Please, give your associations to the following...
 
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Dr Goodword has said: "To write already , also , always , although as single words, and spell alright as two, would be inconsistent, a rule breaker...
By Anonymous Latest post by MrPedantic 127 days ago
 
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Hi! here I come with a new question: I´ve been always told that stative verbs cannot appear in a progressive tense, but now I quote what I found yesterday...
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Do these contain redundacy, IYO? If so, should we omit the redundancy? I had a very, very, good day. Not in many, many many years have I come...
 
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Is there anyone out there who uses 'off of?' Take the sentence, "I can't take my eyes off of you," for example.
By advoca Latest post by Philip 129 days ago
 
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Does English really need the s -suffix when it already has many, few and numbers ? e.g. many Fords - many Ford few balls - few...
By Anonymous Latest post by Anonymous 129 days ago
 
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hi there, I've been on this phonological problem for about 3 days. All I got are a big question mark and a terrible headache... PLZ help: I have three...
 
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Which would you use, were you in the situation of having to use it? ;-) We have to staunch the flow immigrants. We have to stanch the flow...
By Anonymous Latest post by Yankee 134 days ago
 
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How's this sentence? "Everyone here knows each other."
By Anonymous Latest post by Yoong Liat 135 days ago
 
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Have you ever used, heard or seen this expression? "only dead fish go with the flow" It was used by Sarah Palin recently, but has a longish history...
By Anonymous Latest post by MrPedantic 135 days ago
 
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Is this Standard English, IYO? He too small of a person to defend himself.
By Anonymous Latest post by MrPedantic 135 days ago
 
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Apparently, "at about" was standard English enough for H.L. Mencken to use it in a letter to James Joyce. Yet, it wasn't standard for Shaw...
By Anonymous Latest post by Philip 136 days ago
 
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Which would you recommend using here? One fewer player than last season. One less player than last season.
By Anonymous Latest post by Yankee 136 days ago
 
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Wouldn't the title "Metaphors We Live By" Lakoff) be more correctly titled were it "Metaphors By which We Live"?
By Anonymous Latest post by MrPedantic 136 days ago
 
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How solid is this "rule"? " As a rule, nouns referring to inanimate things should not be in the possessive. Use an “of” phrase instead."...
By Anonymous Latest post by Yankee 136 days ago
 
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So is Standard English also a dialect, then? (English is "A language so widely distributed naturally has many varieties. These are known as dialects...
By Anonymous Latest post by Forbes 137 days ago
 
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Would you take a look at this and tell me what you think? http://www.wordnik.com/
By Anonymous Latest post by Anonymous 138 days ago
 
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Which is correct? I'm taking exams in history and geography next week. I'm taking exams in History and Geography next week.
By Anonymous Latest post by Clive 139 days ago
 
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I remember reading somewhere that Richard Lederer has said that "one of the only", as used below, is incorrect. Is it? "One of the only...
By Anonymous Latest post by Yankee 139 days ago
 
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Is it possible to use "more perfect" when describing an absolute state?
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Is the song title "Me and Bobby McGee" an example of incorrect usage? Me, and Arnold Zwicky, think/s not. Zwicky says that because " me...
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On multiple negation marking (e.g. "I ain't told him nothing.") in English. Which, if any, of these statements is more useful to language...
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