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How to answer a negative question?
Take the question:
Did you not go to the store?
If I did not go to the store, should I then say yes? Or no?
If I did go to the the store, would my answer then have to be yes or no?
For me I would think that if I did you go to the store, then the…
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What's the meaning of " you're being G.O. Sixteened."?
Some of the lines of the American drama Manifest that confused me:
It was said by a Policewoman boss to his subordinate
Look, you're being G.O. Sixteened. Do you understand? They catch you lying, you get fired. Automatically.
I googled "G.O.…
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What's the accepted way to use "criterion", "criteria", "criterions"?
In many publications, especially IT related, I find lots of expressions with criteria e.g.
What is your criteria ...
What are your criteria ...
What are your criterias ...
English dictionary says that criteria (or criterions) is a plural form of…
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What would you call someone who sneaks into and stays in places where they have to be signed up, e.g. classes/country clubs
At my school I used to be in athletics class even though I didn’t sign up or paid to be there, I just simply started acting as if I was part of the team. How would you call a person like that?
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Plastic part on the tip of a shoelace
What is the common English name for that "plastic part on the tip of a shoelace" which helps to easily insert the lace into the shoelace holes? (I'm not sure that's the correct name).
Edit: There are also metal parts of the kind.
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Are some offensive words always masculine?
I have an interesting question which has got me thinking lately. You see, there are some nouns that I have always seen be used as masculine such as the words "fucker" and "motherfucker" (which I am sorry for mentioning). So to keep it short, I would…
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What is the meaning of Brown-Bagged it?
Some unknown guy punched Brendan. Brendan appeared before V.P Trueman.
V.P Trueman: So you didn't know this boy?
Brendan: No sir, never seen him.
V.P Trueman: And he just hit you?
Brendan:Like I said, he asked for my lunch money first. Good thing…
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In how many ways can something not be right?
There's this large source of confusion among learners and sometimes even native speakers. They tend to think if something doesn't sound right to their ears, it must be ungrammatical, while that's at times not the case.
Often we hear things like hey,…
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What do we call the gesture of hitting each other's fists gently?
We all know shaking hands or a handshake. There, we 'shake hands'.
There's one more gesture I do. I gently punch other's fist.
Something like this -
What do we call this gesture as a noun?
They close the deal with a handshake
The close the deal…
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When a word ends in 's' or 'x', do you add 's or just an '?
1) Alex's house
2) Alex' house
When the noun ends with the letter 's' or 'x', do I need to put 's' after an apostrophe or not?
I remember I read some rules related to this in my school grammar book, but now I've forgotten it.
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Asking the position of a person in a sequence
How to ask the position(?) of a president (like 10th) of a country, correctly?
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Difference between "where are you from" and "where do you come from"
What is the difference between "where are you from" and "where do you come from"?
Are they the same? Are they used in the same situations or not?
When you see someone for the first time which one is better to ask?
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Is there a verb that means "to accept doing something unwillingly just to make the other person stop nagging"?
Let's say a friend of mine repeatedly asked me to go to a concert with them but the music was not to my taste and my friend knew that but kept insisting anyway until I eventually gave in and went to the concert with them.
My question is whether…
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Why is it "crouching tiger hidden dragon" but not "crouching tiger hiding dragon"?
Why is the movie named
"crouching tiger hidden dragon"?
This is mainly a question about present and past participle.
Why can't it be "crouching tiger hiding dragon"? Since the dragon must've been hiding voluntarily, instead of being hidden by…
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What is the Kool-aid reference?
I’ve heard the expression “someone’s been drinking/drank the cool aid” multiple times. I know coolaid is a drink or something but it doesn’t really make sense in the context. I feel like there’s some type of cultural reference here. Could someone…
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