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"That's your only friend that I've ever met." Why is this an impossible sentence?

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Quack E. Duck

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Can I say "I play a little piano" to mean I am not an advanced player?

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Fattie

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Canonical Post #2: What is the perfect, and how should I use it?

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DialFrost

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Should the present perfect form of the verb "continue" not be used in the following sentence?

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CringyLearner

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Was made vs is made

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Aesthetic

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Is "that" being used as a relative pronoun or conjunction in this sentence?

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A. B.

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Difference between continuous and simple

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My brother has turned writer VS. My brother has turned a writer

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If you have any question(s)

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Hit count or hits count

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Konrad Viltersten

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Why 11 am + 1 hour == 12:00 pm?

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Eugen Sunic

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Subject of "Rain is forecast for tomorrow"

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The best way to do it is (to make / by making) him friend

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Caroffrey

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A question related to participles

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Kshitij Singh

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Any difference between "coming up, coming up next, next, up next, ...."

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John Arvin

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Difference between ‘as little as’ and ‘as many as’

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Yuri

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How does the "Dalai Lama walks into a pizza shop..." joke work?

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MD XF

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Is this plain form "I requested her hand for marriage from her father" acceptable in general; as opposed to the idiomatic form?

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Farewell Stack Exchange

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Difference : 'so on' and 'so forth'

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Irfan434

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Meaning of the word "Stones" in a quote from Californication

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Martin

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Past Perfect VS Past Simple in the context of previous experience

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Mohd Zulkanien Sarbini

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The difference between 'way' and 'manner'

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Billal Begueradj

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Is "supposed to play" semantically different from "supposed to be playing"?

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The use of "Could you" [duplicate]

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Alexander

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How to use relative words instead of absolute words

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Peyton B

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Typical behavior and habits via the present simple and "will"

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When does one drop the article after "with"?

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Andrew

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Is this -ing form a gerund or a participle?

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tchrist

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Use of "up" in "back up", to mean going in reverse

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Nathan Tuggy

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Requesting someone to ask a question of another person

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Jim Reynolds

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Possessive and language cases

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Is "I was slept when he came back... " grammatical?

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How to understand this sentence? (... "denied" the more intelligent and mature.)

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Sam Harrington

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What does "Although the Second Amendment people" mean?

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Alan Carmack

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Improve translation: You are nobody and your name is no one

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Victor B.

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Put your hands "in" or "into" your pockets?

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Why do people say "explain to me", not "explain me"? [duplicate]

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Karen

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'lose your money' or 'lose money for you'

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Definite article with "9/11"

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This is the first time vs. This is the last time

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What is the opposite of higher in "Bounce me higher"?

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Meaning of "hard society woman"

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Article selection before the first appearance of a term

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"the set of elements >whose each< pair is ... " - Is this acceptable?

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Question-like structure (word order) in non-question sentences

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Can the subject be an adjective phrase, adverb phrase, or a bare infinitival clause?

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Differences between order of verb and subject

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Araucaria - Not here any more.

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shore, shoreline, beach, coast, coastline

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CoolHandLouis

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pronunciations: copy

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Meaning of "(assessing) points to nowhere"

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When to use "wherein" instead of "where"?

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How to Improve Intonation?

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Nico

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Words that differ only in the suffices -cal vs -able

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CRABOLO

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'All Yours' Vs. 'All is Yours' Vs. 'Everything is Yours'

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As expected or as expectation

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Kinzle B

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When adjectives become predicatives, do they also become adverbs?

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ʇolɐǝz ǝɥʇ qoq

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(How many years) have you been married?/studying English?

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Tyler James Young

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When to use 'which' or 'in which' or 'that' (as relative pronouns)?

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are general assumptions in simple or passive way?

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Meaning of "Hostages to Providence"

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Gilles 'SO- stop being evil'

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