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This tag is for questions about the correct order of words in a phrase or a sentence, or how changing the order affects the meaning.
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word order: to keep an open mind vs keep your mind open
Keep your mind open.
Keep an open mind.
The first sentence concerns the mind of a specific person. The speaker is telling that person how to keep their mind: they should keep it open. "Open" …
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Is it “gel spray” or “spray gel”?
In English, a noun adjunct is a noun used to modify another noun that comes after it. For example, a house cat is a cat that lives in a house, but a cat house is a house in which a cat lives. In this …
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Correct question sentence construction
The correct way is:
Where is the location?
Questions are usually formed with inversion in English.
Sometimes non-interrogative sentences are simply spoken with a questioning inflection (or writ …
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