Supercede or Supersede? - English Language Usage Stack Exchange As the following Ngram charts indicate, both spellings in each pair have a long history of use, but in each case the supersede version is significantly more common than the supercede version Here is the chart for supercede (blue line) versus supersede (red line) for the period 1680–2008: Here is the corresponding chart for supercession (blue line) versus supersession (red line) for the same
Why is for preceded by a comma when it is used in the same way as . . . It seems that when "for" is used essentially as a subordinating conjunction even though it's supposedly a coordinating conjunction (correct me if I'm wrong on that), it's preceded by a comma despite the usual advice not to do so for subordinating conjunctions
grammaticality - Gerund preceded by a genitive? - English Language . . . In the sentence immediately above, your having a rough day is a gerund clause that serves as the subject of a subordinate clause because it is preceded by that, what Linguistics Professor John Lawler calls a complementizer, which means that it requires a predicate: a verb and what some people would call a subject complement
Use of that when proceeded by people, proper nouns, or pronouns The "rule" is right (as far as there are any rules in English): that should not be used when it is preceded by a word which refers to a person *People that use words like this are wrong The reasoning is that that objectifies the person it references, and who should be used instead People who use words like this are right However, in your example, that is not referencing a person; it is
Nouns and determiners - English Language Usage Stack Exchange Are singular non-proper countable nouns always preceded by a determiner (a, the, some, any, this, that)? ORIGINAL QUESTION: "Dose singular no-proper [Are singular common] nouns always preceded by
grammar - Does anathema need an an? - English Language Usage . . . Anathema is a noun Ref And, nouns generally need articles in certain kinds of sentences Consider: Jane is _______ Then: Jane is a cat is proper but Jane is cat (no article) is not proper However, I see both usages for "anathema": Jane is anathema and Jane is an anathema As in these examples from Dictionary com: Risk assessment is anathema to most environmental groups That's an
Proceed or precede - English Language Usage Stack Exchange When I use Microsoft Word, it shows me that the word proceed is wrong with the following sentence: This is the only way I can proceed with school and it corrects it to the following: This is th
Really in a negative sentence - English Language Usage Stack Exchange 2 You put really in the right place, but when it is preceded by not, it weakens rather than strengthens the speaker's intent If you say "I am ready to get married" or "I am not ready to get married", each one is an unambiguous statement of your readiness (or the lack of it, in the second case) If you say "I am not really ready to get married",