grammar - "Is there" versus "Are there" - English Language
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Is it considered correct usage to end sentences with "is" or "are?
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Staff "are" or staff "is" - English Language & Usage Stack Exchange
2019年2月21日 · Stack Exchange Network. Stack Exchange network consists of 183 Q&A communities including Stack Overflow, the largest, most trusted online community for developers to learn, share their knowledge, and build their careers.
capitalization - Capitalize fields of study? - English Language
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"Focus on" or "be focused on": what're the nuances?
2019年2月1日 · After viewing a couple of threads on the Internet, I found that both the legitimacy or the explanation of "focus on" (active voice form) and "be focused on" (passive voice form) seemed controversial.
Should the noun after "any" be singular or plural? [duplicate]
2013年6月16日 · There's two kinds of any-- Negative Polarity any, which requires a negative context (of which questions are one), and is the any in Do you have any books?-- and Possible Polarity any, which requires a possibility modal, and is the any in all the other sentences.
"I'm home" or "I'm at home" - English Language & Usage Stack …
2014年6月11日 · I think the implication in the expression "I'm home" is that you're home from somewhere. It may, as Mitch says, be that you've just come/gone in, but it doesn't need to be — you can be home from the front or home from university and have been back for a week or so.
grammaticality - Is "aren't I" correct grammar? - English Language ...
2011年7月15日 · The NOAD reports that aren't is the contraction of are not, and am not; in the latter case, it is used only in questions.
Difference between "voters", "electorates" and "constituents"
I'm reading an English text about politics, and in one paragraph I found "voters," "electorates" and "constituents." Now I would like to know if they are absolutely the same, or if they have slightly
word choice - When should we use "and" and/or "and/or"?
There is no official English: English is what its speakers make of it. That said, and/or is terrible English. It should be avoided, and people who use it should be made fun of.