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Why is this a complete sentence?
"Another organization, the International Writing Program at the University of Iowa, offers writers from around the world a three-month residency in which to share not only stories and poems but also ...
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Position of "here" in a sentence
Background In my thesis I have to write without 1st person. On the other hand I sometimes have to explain how I have chosen some parameters or how I have realized some implementation etc. (which in a ...
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How is this structure named in English grammar? (main clause + object + -ing form)
I've been hearing this sentence structure for a while, so i wanted to learn about it but couldn't find specific information on the internet since i didn't know how this structure was named in English ...
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Can a sentence with a relative that-clause be interrupted with a new independent clause and a comma?
I was very interested in the following sentence from the compilation The Colored Lands by a youthful G.K. Chesterton, in, more specifically, "The Taming of the Nightmare." For context, a boy ...
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Meaning of "tall" in "I never saw him look so tall."
M. Hamel stood up, very pale, in his chair. I never saw him look so tall.
What does 'look so tall' mean here?
My book states the following MCQ as well :
M.Hamel :
(a) had grown physically taller
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Better to put interrupting phrase before or after that-conjunction?
Which sentence is either correct or better than the other? Are they both valid?
Then she eagerly dug into every basket and confirmed that, to her pleasant surprise, they were all loaded with good ...
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"Who is" or "who was" the last person to do something?
I'm currently watching the US open at one of the commentators said "Andy Roddick was the last American male to win a grand slam". Is this correct, or should it be "he is the last ...
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What is the predicate part of the sentence in an "X is ___ed" pattern?
Basically, this derives from an NLP problem I am facing in software development. NLP stands for "Natural Language Processing", and it is ML dependent. Since it depends on ML, it is ...
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How to use "Some more so than others"?
Consider the following sentence:
Americans all around the world felt a sense of pride, some more so than others.
Is such a usage of the phrase correct?
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Is the sentence "we don't need to be what they want us to" correct without the "be" in the end?
The formal way to say the sentence would be "we don't need to be what they want us to be", but would it be acceptable and understandable in colloquial language (eg in a song) to say "we ...
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Combining sentences and preposition usage
Edited after Yosef Baskin's suggestion:
Assume that I wanted to combine all of these sentences into one, but strictly without using a semicolon or repeating the word "them":
"I'm ...
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Help me understand the structure of this sentence from Virginia Woolf To the Lighthouse
I have some knowledge of English syntax with tree diagrams. Now, I'm learning traditional sentence diagramming. Of course, I want to challenge myself, and I chose to understand a sentence from ...
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Does "such as" require an adjective?
Someone changed a sentence in a Wikipedia article from
These cassettes became associated with genres like Gipsy rhumba, light
music and joke tapes.
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These cassettes became associated with genres ...
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Far better than
Can we say:
He is far better than you are in rain dance
Or there is something grammaticaly wrong?
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Does the following sentence make grammatical sense?
I am writing and essay and I am not sure if the following sentence makes grammatical sense (especially the bold part):
"This shows that Victor thinks so little of himself that he must fill the ...
