- Had it been other usages - English Language Learners Stack Exchange
Recently, I came across a very interesting expression (I shall consider it as an expression) - Had it been Ex: Two boys were caught robbing Had it been two girls, no one would have paid attention
- Is the addition of s ever correct for basic pluralization?
That page has too many s and #s on it Finally, a few sources accept its use in an alternative spelling of the plurals of a very few short words, such as do, ex, yes, no, which become do's, ex's, etc In each case, dos, exes, yeses (or yesses) and noes would be preferred by most authorities
- What is the term for when you become more aware of something?
For example, when you buy a car, you start becoming more aware of cars with a similar make and model The number of that type of car hasn't increased, but your awareness of it has Similarly, when
- Do you capitalize both parts of a hyphenated word in a title?
Given the huge difference between how likely people are to capitalise the second component in Ex-wife compared to Co-Founder, I think choose a rule and be consistent with it is terrible advice Whichever rule you choose and stick to, you'll be swimming against the linguistic tide with much of your text!
- Should I write X and I, X and me, I and X, or me and X in a . . .
A helpful trick for determining whether to use I or me in a multi-person scenario is to take the other people out of the sentence If you still have a valid sentence at that point, then you have the correct pronoun For example, with the sentence Samuel was with Susan and I, you take out Susan, leaving you with the sentence Samuel was with I Hopefully you can tell immediately that this is
- meaning - Tautology and Redundancy difference - English Language . . .
Ex:Forever and ever, past history Tautology refers to phrases that repeats a meaning with different though semantically similar words Ex: Free gift I really can't understand the difference
- adjectives - Should I use related or -related - English Language . . .
What is the correct use of the term "related?" For example, should I use it like computer related, or is it more proper to use computer-related (where the word "computer" is just part of my examp
- grammar - English Language Learners Stack Exchange
ex — Could it be that the wind banged the door shut? — This can become a possibility only if there was a sufficiently strong wind that day, and if the corridor pulls in strong enough draughts — (After two phone calls) This can be possible: it was windy and the caretaker confirms that the wind in the corridor can at times bang the doors
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