Top new questions this week:
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Married people are called “spouses” and people that are in a romantic relationship and live together without being married are called “cohabitants” – but what do you call people …
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I’ve got the same questions from different students recently. They question the necessity of learning Perfect tenses (even the Present Perfect Simple) claiming that as rumors say or as they hear in …
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The thing a blue arrow points at is called a “checkbox”, right? What do you call the round elements, the ones that look like bullet points?
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Would you tell me which one is more correct and natural: drive in a car or drive with a car? For example: Because my car broke down, I had to drive home in a rental car. Because my car broke down, I …
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Does “your hand closes over your fist below it” mean the hand is directly on top of the fist in the following definition for “hand over fist”? Thank you! “Hand over fist meant climbing a …
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Consider: This determined at once the strength and the weakness, the achievement and the limitation, of the materialist theory. What pushed that theory forward was, so Engels writes in Ludwig …
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Is the use of ‘in where’ correct and natural in the following sentence? In where I live, people usually eat with their bare hands. (This is not the case. Just an example sentence.)
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Greatest hits from previous weeks:
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What is the meaning of ‘K’ in 20K or 30K or 40K when disclosing price?
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Call me when you are available to talk Is that correct? Can I use it that way?
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Today I said some event was a couple of weeks away. A native speaker from Australia corrected me and said, no it’s at least three weeks away. What followed was a discussion as to whether a couple …
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I’m a little confused about the word though. I hear it a lot of times in different sentences in different sequences, as well as in speaking and writing. Sometimes it seems to me that this word is …
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I need an alternative idiom for ‘A coin has 2 sides’ to make my writing piece look richer and comprising broader lexical resource. I am writing a discussion essay, and I wish to say something unique …
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The title of this question says it all. Are there nouns for longer periods than a millennium ? I mean words designating a specific number of years. Era, age and epoch don’t count as they just …
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Which one is correct “cost” or “costed” The website, englisch-hilfen, says that the word “cost” does not change in three different tense form (past, present, and past participle). However, the …
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Can you answer these questions?
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I’ve heard the following in the news: “They are working with the church community, which has one of its congregation test positive.” 1- What is this “have + infinitive” form called ? (I …
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As I age, I am now remembering 50 years ago. We are in a good condition compared to before the war. In these sentence are “ago” and “before” used as a noun or is there a hidden noun before them like …
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A statement which is temporally scoped implies that the statement stands only in that timepoint or between that time interval. What should I use if I want to express that the statement holds only in a …
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