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Meaning: “waiting for 6 hours” vs. “6 hours since I was waiting”
Aug 24 '15 at 4:50
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Using “at a jail” vs. “in a jail”
Apr 4 '16 at 1:17
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The meaning of “shooting” in this sentence “Here's the HTML we're shooting to generate”
Jul 30 '14 at 5:06
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The difference between 'extra chair' and 'spare chair'
May 1 '16 at 22:06
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Words to describe the situation in which my diary book has a few fresh pages left
Nov 16 '15 at 6:19
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'I got a cold' versus 'I caught a cold'
Sep 19 '15 at 23:39
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“puked” vs. “vomited”
Oct 24 '14 at 3:57
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Which one(s) of “up”, “above”, “over”, “on” and “upon” is (or are) correct for this sentence?
Aug 27 '14 at 2:49
12
“in the morning” vs. “in morning”
Nov 10 '14 at 17:22
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Alone or by yourself?
Aug 19 '17 at 19:40
11
Alternative ways of saying “…, right?”
Aug 1 '14 at 4:28
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Overdose or overdo on vitamins?
May 13 '16 at 21:03
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Meaning of “That was all he had in the way of a wheel barrow”
May 3 '16 at 19:30
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“Lily, not he/him, had planned the party” — Which pronoun is more appropriate?
Sep 26 '17 at 17:56
9
take a screwdriver to something
Sep 2 '15 at 5:50
9
Difference between “fat chance” and “slim chance”?
Feb 6 '15 at 6:37
9
A word for the machine that tells a news reader what to say (using scrolling subtitles)
Dec 30 '14 at 5:31
9
difference between “came along” and “along came”
Dec 29 '14 at 6:13
9
What do we call an act of making sounds from bending/twisting body joints (as in knuckles)?
Jul 19 '14 at 4:45
8
Bring versus Take: specific example
Mar 5 '17 at 6:32
8
My passed-away grandmother
Mar 31 '16 at 22:24
8
What “Mechanics can pull codes for many of these sensors” can exactly mean?
Feb 21 '16 at 20:57
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Now we're only a nip and tuck away
Jan 11 '16 at 19:14
8
“Product list” vs “Products list”
May 26 '15 at 22:10
8
Sarcastic Idioms for being slow to notice something
Jan 4 '15 at 20:43
8
'Would you mind' and 'Do you mind'
Oct 21 '14 at 22:45
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Would anyone like a drink?
Sep 28 '14 at 23:57
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has a flu or had a flu
Sep 1 '14 at 1:32
8
Correct plural usage for “hundreds” and “thousands”
Jun 10 '14 at 5:33
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Using an idiom, how to describe a two-faced friend who speaks ill of you behind your back?
Aug 27 '18 at 1:09
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