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Is "considering stealing" grammatically correct? [duplicate]
I am working with a student who sends me essays and I help edit them. In one of his paragraphs, he wrote "The lecturer indicates this is illegal since it is considering
stealing." In my head,...
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Word choice - Grammar! [closed]
I came across these questions in an old English Language book from the 70s and was wondering if one form of the following sentences is more correct than the other.
Only the team with the lowest ...
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"will be finally" or "will finally be"?
What I know is that adverbs are positioned between "be" verb and passive verb, but I can find many examples of both sentences:
"will be finally deleted" OR "will finally be deleted"?
"have ...
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Is the verb "went" necessary? [closed]
I wrote the following sentence at Wikipedia concerning Bob Wian who later founded the Big Boy restaurant chain:
His father's furniture business bankrupt, Wian washed dishes in the school cafeteria ...
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Confused of three deverbal nouns in dictionary
I have learnt something about deverbal nouns before.
a)These readings are quite interesting (Here it means books,refers to something)
b)I did some reading of history books(Here it means the act, it ...
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