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The meaning of "come home"
In India, when I ask a friend to "come home", it often means I am inviting the friend to my home. I am told that this is different in England or the US, where native speakers would use "...
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Meaning of these phrases
What is the meaning of "long way out" and "long way yet"?
Like in a sentence ::
We are all aware that our country has achieved self sufficiency in food but we have to go a long way _____ in order to ...
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The word Hindu in American English
I, as an Indian, am often surprised when the Americans use the word Hindu, when they actually mean
The country of India
The Indian subcontinent
The Hindi language (possibly)
whereas it should ...
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Difference between 'REVERENCE' and 'DEFERENCE'
MY EFFORT: this a straight-forward question. I was practising for 'SAT' and met a question which required knowledge of difference between the afore-mentioned two words. I have searched the following 2 ...
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What do we mean by the phrase 'conventions of standard written English' [closed]
A question came and it had one of its options: correct according to conventions of standard English.
I don't remember the question but the question was from a grammar section.
I do not have an idea ...
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British and other English variants of 'write to me' - 'write me'' [duplicate]
In British English, the standard is 'write to me'. In American English the standard is 'write me'.
Similar variants exist with 'out of the window' and 'out the window'.
When did the dropping of ...
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