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- terminology - What is the exact technical word to describe the . . .
A cognate accusative object is a figure of speech in which the verb and object are etymologically related: He slept a troubled sleep Dance a dance Die a peaceful death So there shouldn't be any problem writing: verb x and its cognate noun Since you're dealing with a language based on consonantal roots, “noun [derived] from the same root” would also work The problem with derivation
- grammaticality - Whether or not vs. whether - English Language . . .
As Henry Higgins observed in Pygmallion, the best grammarians are often those who learned English in school as immigrants My parents, who were first-generation Americans in the early 20th century, learned English grammar in NYC public schools meticulously They insisted "whether or not" is proper usage, period Over time, language evolves or erodes and the rules change, which really means
- User Abraham Zhang - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
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- Is Many thanks a proper usage? - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
I saw emails from English people with Many Thanks as a signing off phrase Is that proper usage? Or is it a phrase created by continental English speakers due to the influence of their native langu
- Why does the contraction shes mean she is or she has?
EDIT: I asked this question a while ago and most people’s answers or comments tend to be that there is no rule regarding this usage of the contraction “she’s” or contractions at all, but doing some digging (by accident) I cane upon this answer regarding clitics: The clitic 's meaning "is" can only be used to substitute for a "weak form" is (pronounced əz ) The is in in "Where is it
- A word for: something good that came out of something bad
I need a single -word to describe something good that (unexpectedly) resulted from something bad This good thing could not have occurred without the bad event happening first, as a precursor Example sentence: "I got in a horrible car accident and broke my leg, but falling in love with my nurse at the hospital was the ____," (something like that)
- Source of BB in the sense of small, spherical pellet of shot
@SvenYargs: From 1845 to 1883 "BB" meant Brigitte Bardot It was changed to mean ball bearing in 1883
- Free of vs. Free from - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
I checked Garner's Modern American Usage; although BG doesn't address free of vs free from, he writes that the distinction between freedom of and freedom from is that the former indicates the "possession of a right" (freedom of speech) and the latter "protection from a wrong" (freedom from oppression) So free from is used to indicate protection from something problematic, and free of (which
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