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In the U.S. "arguably" doesn't have an "e".
In England is the same word spelled argueably?
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Does anyone know the "formal" or "technical" name for the words that announce the speaker?
She said," In a long speech quotation marks appear at the beginning of each new paragraph, and end when the speaker has finished."
In the above
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My MerriamWebster Collegiate Dictionary 10th edition has
succor, succour and sucker phonectically identical
and rhyming with soccer and the four words are accented on the first syllable. Who knew?
Succor is defined as something that
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I think in U.S. standard English a semi-colon here is wrong. We use a semi-colon to connect two independent clauses that are related.
In that ad a colon is the correct choice. They are giving an example of what they are talking about.
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The wonderful, wide world
The wonderful wide world
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Yeah, I looked it up in the dictionary. But I'll let you in on a secret not all dictionaries are the same and here is an example, oh great guru of the English Language. My Merriam Webster Colliagate 10th edition lists snuck as an actual word, when
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Is the word lossed ever used?
I know the past participle of lose is lost, but I just can't help thinking that lossed is a word. Have I just been pronoucing the word wrong all these years, or perhaps I can blame it on one too many Agatha
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I think there is a difference in tone.
Will you ever let go of her? Is almost pleading; dramatic and femimine
Are you going to let go of her? Is abrupt; the tone is harsher.
If either sentence is written as part of a longer work, then the
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I think that the correct expression is
"Angry with" and it is an idiom. I guess that's redundant. Oh well.
So the sentence would be:
I am angry with you.
Also, around here the former Hub of the Universe the following expressions are
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Regarding the above.
This is a subject complement. As such I think it requires a subject pronoun.
So me is out and I is in.
I thought, however, when answering the phone the proper response was: Yes, this is she/he.
She and He are subject
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