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This tag is used for questions about the proper construction of sentences.
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That's not how he really sounds like
Neither.
Either:
That's not how he really sounds.
or:
That's not what he really sounds like.
"How he sounds like" just sounds wrong to me.
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Let’s get a taxi home after the concert
Purely idiomatic.
We just don't say "to home".
In the morning:
"I'm going to work".
In the evening:
"I'm going home."
Next morning:
"I'm going back to work."
Again that evening:
"I'm going back …
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Which is better: "Interaction of x with y" or "Interaction between x and y"
My instinctive response is: "interaction of x with y" is to describe what x is doing to y, but not what y is doing to x.
"Interaction between x and y" describes what both are doing with each other.
Se …
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Tried to frame a complicated sentence mid conversation this morning and it didn't work out. ...
Sounds perfectly good business-office English to me. We often talk about being committed to projects where I work. There is even a standard joke about the difference between "committed" and "involved" …
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The woman tries to dial again, but the phone is dead
The phone being dead does not prevent the woman from actually dialling, so it is not the dialling itself that she "tries" to do. It is getting results from dialling again that is fruitless.
Perhaps:
" …
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Is it a natural expression to ask 'do you not want to come'?
Answerers are focusing on the more "formal" nature of the second option, but I don't believe that's the key to this.
If I see "Do you not want to come?" written down, I would hear it in my head with a …
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Which sentence is better? "Sites no longer use..." or "sites not use anymore..."?
The first is correct and good.
The second is grammatically incorrect.
"anymore" should be "any more".
"any more" should go at the end.
There is a missing word "do".
Hence we have:
"These sites d …
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Is it OK to say "a cat is on the table"?
To add something whimsical to the already comprehensive answers:
I'm imagining a game of Dungeons and Dragons.
"You are in a room ten feet square. There is a table in the centre of the room. A cat is …
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Which verbs are used with the conjunction "and" in my example sentence?
My English teacher from high school taught us the rules for this sort of sentence, and more to the point, told us why.
I can no longer remember the precise "why", but the rule we learned was that when …
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What are the alternatives for "If I were you"?
"If I was you" is always wrong.
"were" in this context is not the plural form of "was", it is the subjunctive version.
"If I was" refers to a statement about things that happened in the past:
"If I …
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