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This tag is for questions which a dictionary cannot answer about the meaning or correctness of a word in a sentence. Give as much context as possible.
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Misused word in "What topics can I ask about here?" section
Good catch! It's a typo. It should be:
please do not post the same question on two different Stack Exchange sites
Also, this question should be posted on Meta or in chat.
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The usage of "require" in this sentence
The verb "require" in this sentence from a web page strikes me as unusual.
All cars require a $5 GA State Park Pass.
My understanding is that it is the law/regulation that requires a pass of car …
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The use 'revenge' in "The poor murdered girl must be revenged."
This usage is correct. Granted, "revenge" is the lesser used verb among the two.
The Oxford Dictionaries Online considers the verb form literary:
Inflict revenge on behalf of (someone else)
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Does the word “semantics” make sense in this context
Interestingly your question is about semantics. You have two problems, or maybe three, which you need to make sure don't mess up the semantics of your sentence.
What exactly is meant by "semantics"?
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Could you tell me "consult your advice" is correct or not?
"Consult someone's advice" is tautological and stilted, and is a locution people don't usually say. The reason is that the verb consult in this sense means "seek information or advice from" (Lexico/Go …
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Relate Vs Associate
"Relate" means to show or establish a logical connection between two things. When you relate A to B, either (1) there is already a logical connection between A and B, and you are making an effort to m …
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Jack Kerouac once wrote about his "too big world". Is this grammatically correct?
The term "too-big" is a hyphenated adjective. It is very common in English to lump a bunch of words together and construct a hyphenated single word out of them, especially as a modifier.
For example: …
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Why "offending," instead of "offensive"?
Came across the following sentence in an online article:
Her offending remarks are usually flippant and coarse, f-word-driven, her subsequent apology statement couched in the starched jargon of so …
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What is the meaning of "You are timing me"?
Time can be a verb, meaning to "measure the duration of an activity done by someone".
When you say "time someone", it means the activity undertaken by that person is being measured, not the person th …
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Would it be strange to replace "crowded" with "massed"?
No, mass as a verb means to gather or mobilize people, usually troops, or for people to assemble.
They are going to attack us! They have been massing troops in the past month.
A crowd of over …
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How to understand the usage of 'face' in "the face of an immigration debate"
This usage of face is figurative. It comes from the idea of face being the facade/outward appearance of something. As MacMillan defines:
the qualities that something such as an organization has, o …
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What does 'choo mean in " 'Choo fall over for"?
Here the word "choo" is short for what you, with the auxiliary verb omitted. This line by Stan is basically:
"What (did) you fall over for?"
Dropping the auxiliary "did", what did you becomes wh …
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How do I express the idea that at a buffet some food is being taken by people at a quick rate
Colloquially, you can just say:
The food is going fast.
And when it has all been consumed/taken:
The food is gone.
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Is "ingratiate someone" idiomatic?
All major dictionaries provide the usage of the verb "ingratiate" as "ingratiate oneself with people". However, I just came across this line:
Since the outset of last season, Curry has cut down on …
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Why is it "excite" instead of "excited" in this sentence?
"Excite" is used here in keeping with "perturb" in a parallel structure. One way of understanding it is to see it as following an implied auxiliary did.
The news didn't perturb him as much as it d …
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