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It seems there's a lot of wrist slapping going on on grammar websites when folks try to use "y'all", and such, but what is the world...
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I saw this sentence today: Odd sense of fairness, these kids! That is obviously a part of the whole "these kids have got a stupid sense fairness"...
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I understand that for the past 100 years or so most traditional grammar books have defined the English past tense in this way:
the past tense...
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When you can understand the text below, you know you're getting good at English. ;-) Cdnuolt blveiee taht I cluod aulaclty uesdnatnrd waht I was rdanieg...
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Millions of British Standard English speakers use "who" where others might use "whom". Does this mean that there is more than one variant...
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Hi All. Which is correct and why? I'm talking about a woman who everyone seems to think is an angel. I'm talking about a woman whom everyone seems...
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Is there something wrong here? "Unless Mary doesn’t study, she will pass."
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Hello Is "may have used to" a standard form? e.g. "Well, he may have used to live in Africa, but it doesn't naturally follow that he...
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What does "fuktoid" mean and where does it originate?
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Would anyone here , like to have a go at explaining the meaning of this sentence? "Unless an investor does not care about return and is willing to...
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Has much changed since 1979? "Such common expressions as it’s me and was it them? are incorrect, because the verb to be cannot take the accusative...
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Has "fail" become a noun in your area?
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"He relied on his boss." Is "on his boss" an adverbial?
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Just a funny video. Hope it makes it through the moderators.
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Is the sentence "We will inform you post weekend", linguistically correct?
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At what age would one stop being labeled an orphan? I mean, if one's parents died when one was over 20, for example, could one still be called an orphan...
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Commas are overused. A good writer only uses commas when /he/she wants readers to hear the intonation curves in his/her writing. Do you agree?
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Do US Americans in general favour an official language policy? If so, why?
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This question was asked and, somewhat answered, by Gabe Doyle, linguist:
How do speakers choose among the various ways an idea can be expressed...
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Apparently some prescriptivists all calling for a standardization on either "e-mail" or "email". Have they got nothing better to think...
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Is it really fair to call Strunk and White's The Elements of Style "the book that ate America's brain" (Geoffrey K. Pullum) ?
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Which is correct: neither He nor his parents... or neither him nor his parents...?
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If a time came when mobile phones where the only phones in existence, do you think the meaning of the phrasal verb "hang up" meaning finish a...
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Hey, I'm from Israel (that is, English is not my mother toungue) and I wanted to know how can I differenciate between nouns and adjectives. are there...
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How can members of this forum hope to give and receive adequate descriptions of grammar if the likes of Halliday believe this? "...an account of the...
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