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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...
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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.
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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...
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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...
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How's this sentence? "Everyone here knows each other."
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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...
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Is this Standard English, IYO?
He too small of a person to defend himself.
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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...
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Which would you recommend using here?
One fewer player than last season. One less player than last season.
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Wouldn't the title "Metaphors We Live By" Lakoff) be more correctly titled were it "Metaphors By which We Live"?
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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."...
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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...
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Would you take a look at this and tell me what you think?
http://www.wordnik.com/
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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.
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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...
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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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