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Grammaticality refers to whether something obeys the rules of English grammar.
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"I feel like such a fool" Possible?
There appears to be a difference in usage between British vs. American English for this sense of feel. British English uses "feel such a" and American English (the dialect I speak) uses "feel like suc …
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A teacher said to use "I don't need that" instead of "I won't be needing that" because there...
Both "I won't be needing that" and "I don't need that" are grammatical.
The problem with your teacher's logic is that "need" is not a modal in either of those. Two easy-to-detect signs of modality ar …
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I don't understand use of "you" in "away support you were amazing"
The message uses extremely informal writing. There are three separate parts:
"Fun game" Hopefully self explanatory.
"good performance from the boys" This is complimenting "the boys" (the players) on …
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Does "Are thousands of times a charm?" sound correct?
Looking at COCA, where I searched for * * BE the charm (and also without the definite article), there is some variation on the expression. However, I was not able to find examples with "times", as in …
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Three verbs in a row, how?
Both of those sentences are grammatical in American English. (It could also be altered to create a natural sounding sentence with four consecutive verbs: We will go help repair his car.)
"Go" here i …
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Is it acceptable to use "For example" and "e.g." interchangeably
This is a matter of style. Under some style guides you might have to. For example, APA says that "e.g." should be used inside parentheses and "for example" outside:
Other standard Latin abbreviati …
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