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What's the meaning of phrases that include "ship", "shipping", when there is a conversation about the heroes of TV series?

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Shouldn't it be "HAVE been put on hold" instead of "HAD been put on hold"?

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Why is it vanishing instead of vanished?

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What does prolific mean?

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Which of 'Question on', 'question about', 'question regarding', 'question related to' is best?

14 votes

Why is this kind of sentence still officially accepted?

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The new employee was ____ a failure

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What does "Flesh-Eating Zombie thing" here mean?

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Article after 'and' and 'or'

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“A first time” or “the first time”

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Is the sentence "A father of mine is ill." correct?

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What does "prize" in "the prize Middle White boar" mean? Can It be used as an adjective?

9 votes

in/at your place, on/at your end

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Difference between “most of the people” and “most people”

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Informatics vs. Computer Science

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at the age of... vs. at an age of

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What's the difference between "make a good teacher" and "become/be a good teacher"?

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The meaning of "still-beating"

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"I've gotten to do" vs. "I have to do"

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In fear of vs for fear of

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"Let's hear it for these ..." Why use "hear" rather than "listen", does that mean the audience do not need to pay much attention?

5 votes

What are "the Cascades and Olympics" in Washington?

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Can I use "chance" as a future-tense verb?

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Repeating the verb in a comparison

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What does "You would / I did / But really" mean?

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"What was I saying" or "What did I say" when you're interrupted?

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Can only nouns can be plural in English?

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"He even SPRUNG for the good stuff"?

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"would not have been happened" vs "would have not been happened"

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Singular instead of plural noun in context

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