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What is the strange sentence structure in "He was far more careful, the bike wobbling a bit..."? [duplicate]
Awarded Jan 3 at 18:04
When did the phrases like "move your ass" take on their modern meaning in American English?
Awarded Jan 2 at 1:35
Does this sentence sound natural to Natives?
Awarded Dec 31, 2024 at 20:41
Why are unequipped hands "bare" but unequipped eyes "naked"?
Awarded Dec 31, 2024 at 9:21
Is a particular person meant in 'I can't pretend to be much of a judge of poetry, I'm an English teacher, not a homosexual.'? [closed]
Awarded Dec 30, 2024 at 9:58
How often do you use 'nowadays' vs 'these days' in your dialect?
Awarded Dec 29, 2024 at 20:55
How to describe when a person is sitting beside you at the table at a very specific direction?
Awarded Dec 29, 2024 at 17:25
Suffix use in "materialality"? [closed]
Awarded Dec 29, 2024 at 0:47
The purpose of a semicolon in a dictionary definition [duplicate]
Awarded Dec 27, 2024 at 16:57
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Awarded Dec 26, 2024 at 14:08
Word for being poked by many sharp points at once
Awarded Dec 25, 2024 at 13:51
What exactly is this comma doing?
Awarded Dec 25, 2024 at 2:27
Is ‘drop by’ formal language?
Awarded Dec 22, 2024 at 18:48
The “Polite” Conditional?
Awarded Dec 20, 2024 at 17:17
Is the word "boy" racist in the following situation?
Awarded Dec 19, 2024 at 11:18
Is "negotiation room" a correct expression?
Awarded Dec 18, 2024 at 9:25
Is there a more obscure word that means "smallest"?
Awarded Dec 18, 2024 at 1:01
Is it appropriate to use the following sentence for someone who is dead already? "He is not a philosopher as he is usually believed to have been" [duplicate]
Awarded Dec 17, 2024 at 23:06
"Knave upon the Cross" and lines by Edward Bulwer-Lytton origin
Awarded Dec 17, 2024 at 8:40
Is it idiomatic to apply a false title to inanimate things?
Awarded Dec 17, 2024 at 6:22
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Awarded Dec 16, 2024 at 19:10
Looking for a word or a term similar to Auteur, applicable to app makers
Awarded Dec 15, 2024 at 23:48
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Awarded Dec 15, 2024 at 19:46
Is there a word describing a time interval that would be an antonym to "delay"?
Awarded Dec 14, 2024 at 21:35
How are the expressions "rather than" and "instead of" classified?
Awarded Dec 13, 2024 at 23:35
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Awarded Dec 13, 2024 at 7:31
How to identify an expletive / "dummy it" when sentence diagramming?
Awarded Dec 12, 2024 at 22:47
"Discrepancy" just as "difference" or "difference between accounts"?
Awarded Dec 12, 2024 at 16:41
What's the origin of "laughing all the way to the bank"?
Awarded Dec 12, 2024 at 14:10
Modifying dashes within quotations
Awarded Dec 12, 2024 at 13:33
Off the top of your head, or heads? [duplicate]
Awarded Dec 12, 2024 at 11:56
Correlative Conjunctions [duplicate]
Awarded Dec 12, 2024 at 2:46
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Awarded Dec 11, 2024 at 17:26
Past tense of past tense [closed]
Awarded Dec 11, 2024 at 15:15
Nonrestrictive attributive clauses, comma and meaning of the sentence
Awarded Dec 11, 2024 at 0:12
"Why there is no X?" vs "Why is there no X?"
Awarded Dec 11, 2024 at 0:06
'History of modern art' versus 'the history of modern art'
Awarded Dec 10, 2024 at 12:00
Can a hyphen be a "letter" in some words?
Awarded Dec 10, 2024 at 3:58
Temporal deictic expressions and the latest reference point
Awarded Dec 9, 2024 at 19:49
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Awarded Dec 8, 2024 at 23:02
Word or longer string meaning "to do something without really doing anything"
Awarded Dec 7, 2024 at 8:01
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Awarded Dec 6, 2024 at 20:47
Relief vs. belief pronunciation
Awarded Dec 6, 2024 at 19:47
Right node raising of an indirect question and a free relative is possible?
Awarded Dec 6, 2024 at 11:00
Order of qualifiers 'wailing' / 'dismal'
Awarded Dec 5, 2024 at 22:56
What's more common: car seat or child seat?
Awarded Dec 5, 2024 at 17:56
Why don't words like "Monday", "Tuesday", "Wednesday" etc. have the adverb denotation in their dictionary definitions?
Awarded Dec 3, 2024 at 10:38
What is the difference between "up for it" and "down for it"
Awarded Dec 2, 2024 at 14:42
Have you it there?
Awarded Dec 2, 2024 at 12:15
Usage of "may" as a model auxillary verb and whatnot
Awarded Dec 2, 2024 at 10:34
Why does "not" come after "it" in "he knows it not"?
Awarded Dec 1, 2024 at 19:05
What's the contrary of formation as in the opposite of the process of formation?
Awarded Dec 1, 2024 at 9:20
Why ���are’ not ‘is’ in “a paradigm are bulk excitations”? [duplicate]
Awarded Nov 30, 2024 at 16:51
What does "zap" mean here? [closed]
Awarded Nov 29, 2024 at 21:15
Meaning of "sinc" at the very beginning of the Introduction section
Awarded Nov 29, 2024 at 21:02
Use of “12 m.” for noon and “12 p.m.” for midnight
Awarded Nov 29, 2024 at 11:56
Why is "message receiving processing" so jarring?
Awarded Nov 28, 2024 at 19:07
The way that/the way in which
Awarded Nov 28, 2024 at 16:49
What is the linguistic perspective on stylistic change over time?
Awarded Nov 28, 2024 at 16:30
How do I describe food in solid and liquid forms?
Awarded Nov 28, 2024 at 5:40
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