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Can I use "prone" in (1), if can't, why? [closed]
I'm wondering if I could use the word "prone" in this sentence. If not, is there any reasoning to back it up?
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Adjective that explains a variable (e.g. curve in a diagram) is growing slightly exponential
I am writing some sentences describing the diagram below. From my perspective, the GDP resembles a bit like a curve (exponentially growing) rather than roughly a straight line.
Is there a particular ...
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Is it "mockup" or "mock-up" as a verb? [duplicate]
I work in design and regularly use "mockups". These are templates that let me see what my design will look like.
I know that "mockup" is widely accepted as a noun, but what is the ...
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Collective term for uncountable nouns for places, like "hospital", "school", "prison", "court", "church"?
Certain nouns for places, locations or buildings seem to have idiomatic uncountability.
This blog lists a couple of those.
Idiomatic uses:
Home / town: No article precedes ‘home’ unless you add ...
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Is there a linguistic term that describes words that change pronunciation when combined together? [closed]
Examples of this include Breakfast which is just 'break,' and 'fast.'
Of particular interest to me is helicopter, which is a combination of 'helico,' meaning spiral, and 'pter,' meaning wing.
This is ...
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How/what others think of you
In this sentence
Don't worry about ( what / how ) others may think of you.
I think "what" is the answer, but I do not know why I cannot use "how" in this sentence.
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Farthest vs Furthest [duplicate]
I am trying to describe the distance from a root node in a programming context. The root node is abstract and not physical so I'm thinking the proper usage would be furthest, but what would be ...
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What is this sound called?
So, I know there is a word for this sound, but it's driving me nuts. For some reason I'm remembering troleling?
Basically, I'm asking what is the sound when someone goes like, "Tra la la dee dah!&...
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'' to '' meaning ? which one?
What is the meaning of the preposition "to" in these sentences?
The shoulder is proximal to the elbow.
The ribs are lateral to the lungs.
to :
used for saying where someone or something ...
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Is the word "adjectival" used in this context?
My English Fundamentals professor keeps using the word "adjectival" as in "adjectival clause" but I can't find it being used anywhere else but his class notes. I know that the word ...
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Is it possible to write "in line XX there is an irony" or "in line xx we see an irony/ a hyperbole"? [closed]
Written language analysis/rhetorical devices.
Is it possible to write in an analysis:
in line XX there is an irony
or
In line xx we see an irony/a hyperbole?
Doesn't it sound weird?
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What is the subjective of this sentence? [closed]
Dong,2019 said that
A firm that colludes with other firms in a foreign product market is
subject to that country’s antitrustlaws. Foreign leniency law passage
is thus likely to affect firms that operate ...
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feel passionate vs passionately about
I teach English in South Korea.
One text book says that only the following sentence is grammatically right: "Highly skilled athletes feel passionate about their successful involvement in sport&...
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Past tense alternative for "wind up"
I am writing an action scene and trying to stress that a character is winding up a punch. For clarity this means frames 1-3 in the image below.
At the moment the sentence is : She winded the first ...
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Is there a term for the grammatical/rhetorical construction of "He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named"?
Is there a term for the construction of specifying someone or something solely via a relative clause without explicitly naming it, as in the example in the title - either at the level of grammar or of ...
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