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Can candlelight be in plural contrarily to light?
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Plurality in “A second set of motors [is/are] attached there”?
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“Seven high” but “Eight high”, another meaning?
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Regarding a metaphor “Old Nick is not just lurking in the small print,”
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Does “upset victory” mean “a victory that people are not happy about”?
Awarded May 1 at 2:51
Listen, … vs Look,
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Is it “Adapted to” or “Adapted for” ? Knowing that its phrasal verb is “adapt to”?
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How can one wish someone a “good night” when they sleep during the day?
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“Be yet to do” vs “have yet to do”
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The connotation of the expression “Jack of all trades, master of none”
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a short answer on a question “Could you wait for a moment?”
Awarded Apr 21 at 1:33
Is using “ed” (2nd form of verb) with “did” correct in “Did she have us figured out all along?”
Awarded Apr 21 at 1:33
“A few” takes a singular or plural verb in present simple tense?
Awarded Apr 21 at 1:33
Why “yourself” instead of “you”?
Awarded Apr 17 at 19:49
What does “that public schoolboy polish” mean here?
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Put things in disorder?
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Why has Marx's “Das Kapital” been translated to “Capital” in English and not “The Capital”
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What is a proper synonym for 'keep somebody/something away'?
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Make room on your bookshelf for this compelling leftist primer
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Proper way to express “He disappeared them”
Awarded Apr 11 at 19:56
“In term of” vs. “in terms of”?
Awarded Apr 10 at 18:02
Should I always use a hyphen to make clear what an attributive describes?
Awarded Apr 8 at 23:42
What does “the past day” mean exactly?
Awarded Apr 8 at 17:46
Is ‘I want to meet your enemy’ ambiguous?
Awarded Apr 7 at 13:25
Does either 'messy' or 'untidy' necessarily imply 'dirty'?
Awarded Apr 4 at 22:22
I made a mistake in my predictions for/on/by/in 42 days?
Awarded Apr 4 at 6:01
in/at one fell swoop(=at one time) What's fell here?
Awarded Apr 2 at 16:46
Double negative
Awarded Mar 31 at 3:06
What does “the churn” mean in this passage?
Awarded Mar 29 at 16:47
What does it mean by ask a question?
Awarded Mar 29 at 12:55
Pronunciation rules for “CH” and “arch-”
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What does “a singularly sh*t strategy” mean in “Showing images is a singularly sh*t strategy”?
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What does “farm off” mean?
Awarded Mar 26 at 4:12
What does “a path up and to the right for stocks” mean?
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weren't playing vs didn't play
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Which possessive should I use when referring to the car of a friend?
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What is the meaning of “nail” in “if they nail vaccinations”?
Awarded Mar 16 at 7:07
Should I say “sent by post” or “sent by a post”?
Awarded Mar 16 at 2:41
Difference between bed and shore
Awarded Mar 15 at 5:57
“Outside there is a money receiver which only accepts coins” - or “that only accepts coins”? Which relative pronoun is better?
Awarded Mar 8 at 2:50
Term for words that seem like they should rhyme because of the way they are spelled, but don't
Awarded Mar 5 at 22:56
Should vs. had better
Awarded Mar 5 at 2:09
Adding 's' after Number of a Year
Awarded Mar 4 at 15:47
What is the name for this sarcasm-like form of words?
Awarded Mar 4 at 3:27
What does “some type of sheep meat” mean
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Idiom “off the rack” and the definition from dictionaries and the usage in a sentence “off the rack policy”
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“too soon” versus “too early”
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Use of 'are' or 'is' for a named non-binary person
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The meaning of “out of question” vs “out of the question”?
Awarded Feb 27 at 20:46
Do we say “The dog mistook/misunderstood his image in the mirror for another dog”?
Awarded Feb 27 at 3:26
What does “whole 360” mean in this context?
Awarded Feb 26 at 13:57
What does “Write code that creates a list of all integers from 50 to the power of 300.” mean?
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Is hi-fi a proper English word?
Awarded Feb 22 at 9:40
What’s the word (synonymous to “pour”) for describing the pouring of a solid substance?
Awarded Feb 22 at 1:11
Why is it “crouching tiger hidden dragon” but not “crouching tiger hiding dragon”?
Awarded Feb 15 at 14:05
Should I use the past tense with did?
Awarded Feb 12 at 19:41
What's an umbrella term for academic articles, theses, reports, etc.?
Awarded Feb 12 at 8:55
Is it correct to say you are talking “to Skype”?
Awarded Feb 11 at 0:40
What does a trivia themed party mean?
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