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Is there difference between bedding, bedclothes and linen or are consider synonym?

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They have vs. had three children

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Are "academic" and "academical" completely equivalents? What about "academically"? (vs. "scholar", "scholarly")

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How many times ... "in a week" or "a week"?

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Usage of the idiom "around the block"

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Is there a "at some time in the future"?

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What does "It's about damn time" mean in this article?

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Does a comma go before "and then" when an independent clause comes after it?

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Is it grammatically correct to say 'I have not much time?'

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Should I write "said someone" or "said by someone"

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"I've watched a video..." or "I've watched the video..."

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"in the night of" VS "On the night of"

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Me too vs You too

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What's another word/phrase for "departure time"?

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A few were, or a few was?

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How to answer a negative question?

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"I can't get over the way your face looks"?

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If you went to bed earlier you would not be so tired

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Difference between killer, murderer, slayer?

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A secretary with ____ good knowledge of English: "a" or no article?

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"Often went" vs "would often go"

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They are called a cat/cat/cats/the cat

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What do you call a situation where you have choices but no good choice?

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How are you finding [something]?

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"the exact" vs "exactly the"

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What do you call a person who's receiving a service?

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Is there a difference in meaning between "pleased with" and "pleased about"?

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Which is the correct phrasing: Do any or Does any?

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How to explain when one event affects something else, and then something else again

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"Easy TO me" or "easy FOR me" in this context

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Now we’re talking!

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'what are you talking about?' and 'About what are you talking?'

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My favourite hobby is + verb + ing

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Someone who loves to live a luxurious life

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"Isn't it?" Vs "Is it not?" [duplicate]

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Is there a simple website that can show the different forms of any word? [closed]

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What does "during the week" exactly mean?

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Kindly for closing email! [closed]

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How to show radio interferences in writing?

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What does "partial credit" mean?

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Is the French J sound used in common English words

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Meaning of "I won't be long"

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"just now" vs "only now"

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What does Django mean by "The 'D' is silent"?

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A word to describe the period from midnight to six in the morning

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see ON the images vs see IN the images

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The difference between Such thing, such a thing, a such thing

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What does "it gets old pretty fast" mean in these sentences?

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Which are other collocations meaning "to fill in the gaps"?

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What is the meaning of "Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy"?

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“Firstly, secondly, thirdly,…”, what comes next? [duplicate]

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is believed to grammar sentence, which one is correct?

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Somewhere, or sometime, down the road?

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Is there a short form of "greater than or equal to" (≥)

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"given that", "if", "providing that", or "assuming"?

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What's the meaning of "in the 90s"

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Is "there has been outage in my house for the past 8 hours" correct?

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Diffrence Had broken and had been broken

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"are you wanting" vs. "do you want"

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"Beforehand" vs. "in advance".

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