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Can "unless" be used in unreal past (with would have)?
I found conflicting information about the subject:
BBC World Service states that:
And we cannot use unless with would to talk about unreal future
situations:
If he didn't take everything so ...
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dropping 'the' after 'of'
Is there any rule for dropping 'the' after 'of' in the following that can be used to infer other general cases:
the rate of change
the amplitude of deflection
the sections of metal bar
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The use of "as"
I'm trying to understand the use of as found in this passage from P. F. Strawson's Scepticism and Naturalism: Some Varieties (1985):
Such an assumption puts us in the way of a non-arbitrary, full,
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Present Continuous expressing future
One of my grammar books says:
The future use of the present progressive is limited to actions brought about by human endeavour.
Therefore sentences such as "It's raining tomorrow" or "...
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Why in this example do we need to use "working" in the gerund form after the verb "love"?
In the example below I believe do we need to use "working" in the gerund form?
You will love working here
I thought that verbs following "love" can be either in the gerund form ...
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About conditionals (future tense)
I have been teaching conditionals to another student. I taught her the zero, first, second, and third conditional. We are not tackling mixed conditionals, and we were identifying which part of the ...
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"There was no such thing as ... " + "nor were there..."? "Or..."? "Nor... ?"
I would like to convey two ideas in a single sentence.
Idea 1: "Rock music" was not (yet) an established music genre at some point in time
Idea 2: There were no more than a handful of songs ...
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Singular or plural after "by"
Question:
They are categorized/grouped by the generation mechanism or
mechanisms?
I am not sure which one should be used after "by", singular or plural?
Intuitively, I would use the plural ...
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"Can I use either of them" or "Can I use both of them"?
Let's say, in a question on this site, I am giving you two sentences which I think probably carry the same meaning and I want to ask you if I can use either of them interchangeably. I feel like if I ...
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Commas in "The function is not reliable with low sample size, but in this case a good estimate can be found by simulations."
I know my question is a little bit specific, but I would like the following sentence:
The function is not reliable with low sample size, but in this case a good estimate can be found by simulations.
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What do you call an area of the sea that sinks many ships?
What do you call an area of the sea that sinks many ships? I am pretty sure there was a word for it. When there are treacherous rocks that sink wooden ships, there was a word pirates used to refer to ...
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Is "died by suicide" a correct use of preposition?
Recently, when film actor Sushant Singh Rajput passed away, a famous daily reported it using this sentence: "While the police have confirmed that he has died by suicide ...".
Is "died ...
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“I rode / was riding / used to ride a bike every day”
Which tense should I use if I was on a holiday which lasted two weeks and during that time I rode a bike every day?
It was a great time because I rode a bike every day. (Past Simple)
It was a great ...
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When guide someone to think something which one is more appropriate, "find" or "find out"?
I answered a question just now, but I am not sure I expressed appropriately.
I am trying to guide the guy who posted this question to look into source code
take a look at the source code, you'll ...
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He brought a bag for someone to take (it)
I have been thinking about the sentence "He brought a bag for someone to take (it)" because if I used "so that", I think "it" would be required.
"He brought a bag so that someone can take it". I have ...
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