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Is there a word or phrase used to describe romantic partners of a family both married and unmarried but not the family itself?
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Is "sinnate" a word? What does it mean?
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Can "et ali" be proper?
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get it done VS get it to be done
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Meaning of joined in marriage [closed]
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What kind of comma is at play in this sentence from Middlemarch?
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Opposite of a rhetorical question
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Word with a meaning of "personal internal struggle"
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"Romantic" (likewise "Romanticism") historically always capitalised?
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A word that is NOT provoke, but means to more or less elicit a reaction
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What is the meaning of '"It's nart'ral" in "Pollyanna" by Eleanor H. Porter?
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Does double negation make sentences ambiguous? [closed]
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Can I use a colon to introduce direct speech, if I continue the sentence after the quote? [duplicate]
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Using "content" vs. "contents" when referring to multiple written works
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More professional word for "day to day task"
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"That NP is Ving" as a noun phrase: different degrees of acceptability for different nesting?
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"unparseable" vs. "unparsable" [closed]
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Is it "banknote" or "bank note"?
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abǽde in context: which verb and inflectional form?
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"Is called" + article?
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Use of exclusive "we" with no explicit clarification
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"change directory" or "change directories"?
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Does it make sense when I avoid a formal subject "it" referring to a "to+verb" clause or "that+subject verb " clause? [closed]
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"I have loved." is this in isolation a proper use of English?
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A descriptive noun (slang term?) for “cordial while also inept and disagreeable”
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Why is an article often used with (the) Rubik's cube, although other "name+'s" constructions usually don't use one?
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What is the meaning of "pouf"?
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When did the meaning of "to like" flip?
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What is the origin of the "one" pronoun
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Singular or plural: "30 subjects put(s) us"
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What is the passive voice of sentence "When I met you." [closed]
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Synonym for "to follow from"
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Greatest extent possible vs Greatest possible extent [adjective position]
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English Translation from the german word "IT Systemhaus"
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Meaning of "no kitty killed"
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Capitalization rules for nicknames and name-replacing honorifics
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Does the word "some" mean the same group of things or not?
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What is "horror show of rule salad" intended to mean?
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Is ‘the’ used before a number as determiner, when ‘all’ is used before them? [duplicate]
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What is a term to describe "attempting to refute?"
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Analysis of the following sentence: "The front door was open, which concerned me". What is the function of "which"? [duplicate]
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dialect/idiolect quirk? "for whom" instead of "whose"
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What's the subject of the "tipped"
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What's the meaning of "for a while now"?
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Meaning of "hats and cats"?
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"X not Y" structures [closed]
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Can I modify a quote in this manner? If so, what is the correct way to do it?
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What does this split subject phrase, "it might all have started", imply?
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Is omitting the definite article in this case grammatically correct (and preferable)?
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Words That Have the Form A-B-A [closed]
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Punctuation for "the following" followed by sentence [closed]
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Colon and semicolon use in a list of questions in APA style
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English equivalent to the Swedish idiom "Har man tagit fan i båten..." [duplicate]
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Is there a definitive direction for going “full ass” relative to going half-ass?
Awarded May 6 at 2:32
why are people revealing secrets spilling the tea instead of the beans lately? [duplicate]
Awarded May 5 at 16:27
The use of the adjective fraught
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Is saying " you know what I mean" and " you know what I am saying" rude in a formal setting?
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A sentence such that the use of the contraction "y'all" would fix the ambiguity of the sentence's meaning
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