Noun On First Syllable; Verb On Second
Is there any concise name for words that are nouns or adjectives when the accent...
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"Dear" Meaning "Expensive"
What is the status of using the adjective "dear" to mean "expensive" rather than...
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He Felt Afraid (How The Heck Is Afraid...
I just looked up "afraid" in the Cambridge dictionary. It insists afraid is an "adjective...
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"Tables Available" Vs. "Available Tables...
Hi everybody! I'm an English teacher and today I had a question that I found difficult...
Not About Beowawe Nevada
About a year ago, for reasons I won't bore readers with, we came into possession...
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Elder To?
Is it possible to use comparative adjective elder* with *to ? Elder to me, elder...
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Bolded Words - Is This Not Correct?
Hi! As a non-native English speaker, I've come to face a problem with the word...
Hail Fellow Well Met
The last time "hail fellow well met" was discussed on AUE was in 1999, in a very...
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Participle And Adjective?
Hello, I'm Lithuanian and I have two questions. First one is about adjectives and...
Miscellaneous Questions?
Dear teachers, I have a couple of not-so-big-deal questions but jar me just the...
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Grammar Errors
In another newsgroup a discussion arose about the usage 'grammar errors' as opposed...
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Down-To-Earth?
I have come across non-native students who have an incorrect understanding of the...
Using "That"-Clause For A Cause-Effect...
Not the "...so....that..." which is the common use, like this, "He was so heartbroken...
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Online Adjective List
Hi, does anyone know of an online adjective list listing English adjectives alphabetically...
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Yours ...? (Letter Closing)?
Hi, I'm subtitling a German documentary into English and at some point a letter...
Neohelpless?
I know that the word above isn't in dictionaries. There is a Finnish word, uusavuton...
A Supplementary Part Or An Supplementary...
I found the following sentence in my English dictionary: An attachment is an supplementary...