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Words What is the longest English word containing no letter more than once? There are two 15-letter words that we know of: uncopyrightable and dermatoglyphics. What is the longest English word? We do have genuine (if rather obviously deliberate) examples in our files of...

Q Once I saw a person who typed the sentence "I will meet you very the soon". Is the usage of definite article correct in the above mentioned sentence in quotation? No. It should be 'very soon'Q What is the difference between 'especially' and 'specially'? 'especially' means the...

Hi all, I just wanna say that your answer is probably right. I know it means like dat and once I've known dat it means an article a as a contraction of course , for example I'ma murder weapon. but when use it as 'will' or 'gonna' we make double M, I'mma you see the difference , it's not really...

Le matin, je vais à l'église. 1.In the morning, I go to church. L'apres-midi, je vais à la plague. 2.In the afternoon, I go to the beach. Le soir, je vais au cinéma. 3. In the evening, I go to the...

Jargonaut wrote:Remember that while we call words like "the" and "an" (or "a" in this case as the "n" is dropped when before a vowel sound) articles, they are limiting adjectives. "The" is a contracted form of the demonstrative "that", and "an", or "a", is a contracted form of "one" (from the...

Gomle wrote: Hi everyone! When writing English articles, one often want to use apostrophes in some words. Very commonly: you're / you are - they'll / they will - I'm /I am - and so on.. Is it ok to use this apostrophe sometimes, while not using it some other times in the same article. Like...

Hello F-M Usage of English articles is really messy to us English learners. And what is annoying us is that we cannot find any good grammar book that explains in detail in which case we should use THE/A and in which case we shouldn't. I have a feel from my past experiences that even native...

Dear friends, I am a new face in this forum and I would like to be good at English. I am not confident in my writing due to I alway get a lot of comments in grammatical structure. Therefore, I need all of you to help me to correct my assay to improve my skill. Thanking you in advance. P.S. How...

It's no surprise that the use of "up" as the second component of phrasal verbs seems chaotic. There are something like 30 to 40 different kinds of verbal concepts that take "up" as a complementary particle. I've never attempted to classify them all, but here are some examples. Note how some...