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I did my degree in English/French Language/Linguistics back in the '70s, but I only got a middling grade, and I've worked in software development ever since, so I'm really only an expert on English language in the same way any articulate native speaker is.

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Why is "He knows to swim" incorrect?
Aug 20, 2014
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50
What is the difference between robbing and stealing?
Sep 21, 2014
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44
Saying for "Bomb proof"
Apr 12, 2018
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Allow (to) + infinitive, substantive, verb+ -ing
Oct 10, 2013
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Can I say "I speak Chinese as well as Spanish"?
Sep 2, 2016
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Verb tenses when asking a question
Apr 21, 2013
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'I wish to speak WITH a British accent' or 'I wish to speak IN a British accent' - is there a difference?
Apr 7, 2016
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"She dressed like/as an owl." Which is correct?
Aug 2, 2016
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Does the construction "should + of + past participle" exist?
Sep 26, 2021
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Difference between "I know where I stand" and "I know my place" and their interchangeability
Dec 2, 2018
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So, you found a sentence or phrase... (Why you should cite your source)
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How helpful is it to add "Hope this is helpful!" to an ELL answer?
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How much editing is too much editing?
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"Fixing the grammar should be done in answers not the question"
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Is it okay for users to delete questions and re-ask them verbatim?
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"Replace with" versus "replace by"
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An English idiom for "solve a problem that has been solved"?
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Is there a word for a change so small that it doesn’t seem to be a change at all?
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"There is/are more than one". What's the difference?
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Looking for a word to describe the sound of the morning as hundreds of birds begin singing before sunrise?

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