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The difference between /ɪ/ and /ə/ on unstressed syllable
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Using the word “interwind”
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"they have been married for 10 years" OR "they have been marrying for 10 years"?
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Why is November a proper noun but not thalamus?
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Speeding fines are based on a/the person's daily income
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Assuming that there is a difference between the two, how could I create a perfect construction in regular second conditional rather than subjunctive?
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See X to Y pattern permissible in English?
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How to follow a quoted question with a comma
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the construction [to count on someone {to do/doing} something]
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Who used it? ('Russian Hackers Target Ukrainian Organizations Using Stealthy Living-Off-the-Land Tactics")
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"Offer a drink" vs "serve a drink", are they roughly equivalent?
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Should an indefinite article before adjective in parenthesis match the adjective or the word which is after the adjective?
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First conditional
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Is it/they a man or a woman?
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Vague time marker for future tense
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Grammatically correct? “about whom it is quite certain that the testator did not mean to make him the object of this bounty”
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"wasn't playing" vs "didn't play"
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Tense reference
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So... why "wouldn't had"?
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Arriving and leaving places
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Is the expression, "don't touch my cake" only food related?
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What does "One is five" mean?
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Scope of negation and adverb
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Difference between "tips for study" and "tips on study"
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Is it correct to say “to bite the bait”?
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Comparative adjective after object
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transitive or intransitive phrasal verbs
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Can possessive pronouns take the saxon genitive (i.e., "mine's")?
Awarded Jul 18 at 19:37
She is a confident and a practical speaker who always impress/impresses the audience
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What does “youth” mean when they are being addressed?
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"If I were President" v.s. "If I had been President"
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I('ve) learned English to/onto/on/through a/the C2 level
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In Dickens‘ Bleak House, does “Michaelmas term lately over” mean the term has started or ended?
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Does "and wanted" is past simple or past perfect if first part is present perfect?
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'wore' vs. 'was wearing'
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A dilemma of writing a concise overview of a report and making it more confusing for the reader
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The use of the definite article in sentences with general meaning
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Where is better to place "at" preposition?
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Predicate? of sense verbs
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Question on a colon before for example
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Does "I'm worth your trust" sound natural?
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Is my English-speaking friend leading me astray?
Awarded May 28 at 19:54
I just want to know whether these two sentence are correct and are giving the same meaning
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The correct way to use neither
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A weird problem with the part of speech in a clause
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Is the phrasal verb 'put away' in the meaning 'to send someone to a prison or mental institution' a euphemism?
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Why "camera matrix" and not "camera's matrix"?
Awarded May 12 at 21:25
'Who' versus 'that' in American English
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Repetitions of the main verb across all tenses ('And he swam, (and (he)) swam, (and (he)) swam)
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Possible interpretations of the phrase "Yeah, right"
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Passive or active here?
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Arrangement of Words
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What is the difference between "the present simple passive "and "the present perfect "
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Additionally at the end of a sentence?
Awarded Apr 18 at 16:49
Collective-nouns in British English
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What does “-ass” mean as a suffix?
Awarded Apr 14 at 6:49
Use of the Present Simple as instantaneous present when the listener is present physically
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Can I say "random people I didn't know…"?
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Use of its for an Artist of whom I don’t know the gender
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