Going to go vs going to - English Language Usage Stack Exchange "going to" where "to" is a regular preposition vs "to" as a complementiser (i e introducing an infinitive); Then, parallel to these different uses of "go", you need to take account of the following differences:
Where does the term heads or tails come from? Heads or crosses in Italy? Interesting When I lived in Argentina for a while, the coin-toss phrase was cara o cruz? (Face or cross?) Argentine coins, despite the strong Catholic influence on their culture, do not feature crosses on the back
Is there a connotational difference between Reality and Actuality? To be clear, though, this Answer is addressing just the question "Is there a connotational difference between Reality and Actuality?" — and offering just one framing (rather than rigorously exploring, say, epistemic vs ontological axes)
Overseas vs. abroad - English Language Usage Stack Exchange I'm a native speaker of Inland Northern American English My intuition tells me that the word "abroad" is unremarkable, especially in collocations like "study abroad" However, I've been correc
grammar - have dinner vs. have a dinner - English Language Usage . . . 2 Hi I am a teacher of English in Argentina I teach in 5 th grade ,primary school I share the same grade with another teacher and I would like to be sure about certain points we teach differently For example I teach verbs Have dinner , she teaches have a dinner Which one is correct, both are accepted?
Should I quote giue (from old texts) as give or giue? For example, Francis Bacon (1625): I want to quote Bacon verbatim (without any quot;conversion quot; to modern English) Should I quote the above as quot;And Studies themselues, doe giue forth
Why dj instead of j? - English Language Usage Stack Exchange I have seen multiple times that in English texts there is a dj to sound dʒ instead of just a single j (If J is at the beginning of the word) Even if those aren't native English words, we already
Why dont we pluralize foot in measurements? For example, to answer the question, "How tall are you?" valid answers include: Five feet Five foot three Five feet, three inches Why the discrepancy between feet and foot, seemingly only in the