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Stephen Hawking believes that the earth is unlikely to be the only planet ____ life has developed gradually

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What's "a liquid lie"?

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Why do we say "English-speaking world" rather "spoken-English world", while "spoken English" rather than "speaking English"?

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What is "Wrong question" short for? "A wrong question" or "The wrong question" or not short at all?

asked Mar 27, 2018 at 2:13

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How about "When I saw Debbie, she had played golf"?

asked Nov 5, 2018 at 3:32

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What's the grammar of "What was it you said?"?

asked Jun 14, 2018 at 14:42

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What's the grammar of "Me, Benjamin Clawhauser, ... stereotyping you"?

asked Jun 25, 2018 at 5:14

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What's the meaning of "Run away now, there's a good girl"?

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"Call me right after the interview and tell me how it went": why "went" when talking about the future?

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What's "come to doing something"?

asked Apr 19, 2018 at 0:50

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What's the grammar of "there's no stopping her"? What's the difference between "there's nothing to stop her" and "there's no stopping her"?

asked Apr 19, 2018 at 9:42

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Is "I bought this radio here yesterday, but it can't work" grammatical?

asked May 1, 2018 at 1:06

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What is the metaphorical meaning of “hover between red and black”?

asked Jan 24, 2018 at 5:28

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If a clause/sentence doesn't have a verb/predicate, is it grammatical?

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Is "Long live our noble Queen" inverted? Is it imperative?

asked Jan 23, 2018 at 8:00

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Is it better to use the same form of verbs in one sentence?

asked Mar 19, 2018 at 1:13

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What's the structure of the clause in Italic?

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Jane is back in May, by____ the new house should be finished

asked May 1, 2018 at 8:13

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Why not "to stop it being blown away"?

asked Apr 23, 2018 at 13:58

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What's the meaning and grammar of "who had gone for it of theft"?

asked Apr 26, 2018 at 3:28

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"... that something happen soon or that something happen now", shouldn't the third-person-singular form be used?

asked Apr 10, 2018 at 0:32

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How to understand "and found it ever increasing", particularly "it"? [closed]

asked Apr 15, 2018 at 4:28

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Is "might well" equal to "might as well"? Is one "that" not enough for an object-clause? Are they two other old-fashioned ways?

asked Apr 16, 2018 at 8:23

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What's the meaning of "self-spoken"?

asked Jun 13, 2018 at 14:44

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What's the structure of the sentence?

asked Jul 13, 2018 at 12:42

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What's the grammar of "You kiss me tomorrow, I'll bite you face off!"?

asked Jun 8, 2018 at 1:48

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What's the grammar of "rescued" in "may the Heaven rescued land"?

asked Jun 27, 2018 at 12:44

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"people who puts ... their mouth is" vs "people who put ... their mouths are"

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"Oxford Guide to English Grammar" says "lime" is a pronoun. But I think it's a noun

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What's the grammatical structure of "all three of them periods"?

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Stephen Hawking believes that the earth is unlikely to be the only planet ____ life has developed gradually

What's "a liquid lie"?

Why do we say "English-speaking world" rather "spoken-English world", while "spoken English" rather than "speaking English"?

What is "Wrong question" short for? "A wrong question" or "The wrong question" or not short at all?

How about "When I saw Debbie, she had played golf"?

What's the grammar of "What was it you said?"?

What's the grammar of "Me, Benjamin Clawhauser, ... stereotyping you"?

What's the meaning of "Run away now, there's a good girl"?

"Call me right after the interview and tell me how it went": why "went" when talking about the future?

What's "come to doing something"?

What's the grammar of "there's no stopping her"? What's the difference between "there's nothing to stop her" and "there's no stopping her"?

Is "I bought this radio here yesterday, but it can't work" grammatical?

What is the metaphorical meaning of “hover between red and black”?

If a clause/sentence doesn't have a verb/predicate, is it grammatical?

Is "Long live our noble Queen" inverted? Is it imperative?

Is it better to use the same form of verbs in one sentence?

What's the structure of the clause in Italic?

Jane is back in May, by____ the new house should be finished

Why not "to stop it being blown away"?

What's the meaning and grammar of "who had gone for it of theft"?

"... that something happen soon or that something happen now", shouldn't the third-person-singular form be used?

How to understand "and found it ever increasing", particularly "it"? [closed]

Is "might well" equal to "might as well"? Is one "that" not enough for an object-clause? Are they two other old-fashioned ways?

What's the meaning of "self-spoken"?

What's the structure of the sentence?

What's the grammar of "You kiss me tomorrow, I'll bite you face off!"?

What's the grammar of "rescued" in "may the Heaven rescued land"?

"people who puts ... their mouth is" vs "people who put ... their mouths are"

"Oxford Guide to English Grammar" says "lime" is a pronoun. But I think it's a noun

What's the grammatical structure of "all three of them periods"?