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quote user Jackson6612 quote user Avangi either learners of the English language or English language learners quote Why is article the essential here There is only one English language e g I m learning Chinese language these days Is there any need to specify Chinese language using the The use of...

What is the word sucks in Homework sucks Is it a verb or an adjective If it is a verb what does homework suck This brings up an excellent point and a wonderful opportunity to discover the beautiful syntactic structure of the English language The question at hand is Does an English verb need to...

There are many mistakes here mostly of usage I will address the major problems here First sentence a teen have benn victim of a short missed then he tried to kill his agressor he had a feud with the two boys Let s correct the spelling first A teen have been victim of a shot missed then he tried...

Dear MrPedantic yulysess and Roro We have opened several issues in this thread I would like to go over some of them and state what my thinking is about them now that we have discussed them MrPedantic s original post asked why very and much cannot be used equally interchangeably when modifying...

Dear Roro As you said in a previous post this is a huge question I think the answer will come from many fields linguistics philosophy psychology physiology neuro science Our language and our thinking are inherently and necessarily vague If I ask for a hammer I will be happy to get just about any...

http pinker wjh harvard edu articles media 1994_01_24_thenewrepublic html Probably no grammatical error has received as much scorn as misuse of pronoun case inside conjunctions phrases with two parts joined by and or or What teenager has not been corrected for saying Me and Jennifer are going to...

Here s the long version I ve thought about this question a lot and I think now I ve arrived at a conclusion The meanings of the sentences don t change too much without the a noun They re also still grammatically correct It was so hot that we went out still works as a sentence However the sentence...