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The grammar of 'Ready to take' versus 'Easy to take'
adjectives
infinitive
syntax
subordinate-clauses
asked Dec 4 '14 at 18:25
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CHECK constraint to enforce ###.###.#### pattern match
sql-server
sql-server-2012
constraint
asked Sep 17 '16 at 14:18
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In “Give it here!”, is “here” a pronoun, adverb, preposition, or what?
prepositional-phrase
intransitive-preposition
locative
asked Nov 28 '14 at 14:05
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7
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What's what with “Collect them all”
parts-of-speech
asked Jun 8 '17 at 19:36
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7
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Who decides how a foreign name should be transliterated and why do such transliterations change over the decades?
transliteration
asked Nov 24 '14 at 23:01
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In the American regionalism “Put 'er there, pardner!” why is the hand a she?
gender
asked Nov 29 '14 at 14:29
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“Nearly” in the phrase “nearly everyone”
grammaticality
asked Nov 27 '14 at 14:52
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can gravy be 'atop' potatoes
word-usage
asked Dec 25 '14 at 15:43
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Top Answers
124
I'm being corrected “I had a headache yesterday” vs “I have had a headache yesterday”
ell.stackexchange.com
123
If cow = beef, pig = pork, and deer = venison, then where is the word for human = [flesh as food source]?
english.stackexchange.com
63
“The Jesus who said” - why is there a definite article before the proper name “Jesus”?
ell.stackexchange.com
63
What was “Herbal Tea” called before ‘tea’ was introduced in Europe?
english.stackexchange.com
60
What is the meaning of “You've never met a graph you didn't like?”
english.stackexchange.com
55
Is there an idiom about how humanely killing something is better than letting it live in pain?
ell.stackexchange.com
53
“He borrowed me some money.”; right or wrong?
ell.stackexchange.com
50
What is the correct term in sports for “get to the next round”?
english.stackexchange.com
46
What does “call BS” mean in the sentence “We call BS”?
ell.stackexchange.com
45
Can we say “bed of disease”
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43
In “a so-called “HPACK Bomb” attack”, if “so-called” is not sarcasm then what is it?
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42
What is the difference between feet and very feet?
ell.stackexchange.com
42
“Jump out the car” Vs. “jump off the car”?
ell.stackexchange.com
39
Is there an idiomatic way to say “go to the path of no way out”?
ell.stackexchange.com
36
What does “One CPU is going to 'smoke' another CPU” mean?
ell.stackexchange.com
35
Is there an English word for a woman who has recently given birth?
english.stackexchange.com
34
A controversial GRE verbal reasoning question
ell.stackexchange.com
32
“Do never…” vs. “Do not ever…”
ell.stackexchange.com
32
The act of declaring and revoking a structure a church
ell.stackexchange.com
32
Is “Whom” a deprecated word?
ell.stackexchange.com
30
“To science the sh*t out of something”
english.stackexchange.com
29
Why is “for a tortuous three days” singular even though days is plural?
ell.stackexchange.com
28
I do not really understand the proposal: “Don't hate Monday. Make Monday hate you”
ell.stackexchange.com
28
what does “stuck for an angle” mean?
ell.stackexchange.com
27
An expression for comparing things accurately in English
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27
Help to understand: “leaders as diverse, patriotic, and big-hearted as the America…”
ell.stackexchange.com
26
How to ask briefly about the ownership of a frying pan?
ell.stackexchange.com
26
Is 'ditzel' a real word?
english.stackexchange.com
26
Grammar of titles - wh-clause vs. question
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25
jokes played or cracked
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