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- Why . . . ? vs. Why is it that . . . ? - English Language Usage Stack . . .
I don't know why, but it seems to me that Bob would sound a bit strange if he said, "Why is it that you have to get going?" in that situation
- Why is c*nt so much more derogatory in the US than the UK?
Why is 'c*nt' so much more derogatory in the US than the UK? Ask Question Asked 14 years, 7 months ago Modified 8 years, 11 months ago
- grammaticality - Is starting your sentence with “Which is why . . .
Is starting your sentence with “Which is why ” grammatically correct? …our brain is still busy processing all the information coming from the phones Which is why it is impossible to actually rest
- Why would you do that? - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
1 Why would you do that? is less about tenses and more about expressing a somewhat negative surprise or amazement, sometimes enhanced by adding ever: Why would you ever do that? It is in fact part of a conditional sentence in which the if clause is omitted but implied The implied part could be for example: If you were in your right mind,
- Why is pineapple in English but ananas in all other languages?
The question is: why did the English adapt the name pineapple from Spanish (which originally meant pinecone in English) while most European countries eventually adapted the name ananas, which came from the Tupi word nanas (also meaning pineapple)
- phrases - Why the for in And Ill tell you for why? - English . . .
It's just an 'old-fashioned' usage I can't tell you why the graph shows a massive increase in recent years, but a lot of the results seem to be false positives such as "Daily wisdom for Why does he do that? " (a companion volume to another book), "Judaism's case for why persons matter" and so on
- Politely asking Why is this taking so long??
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- Why so many words in English are pronounced different from their . . .
As a non native English speaker, I am astonished at the amount of English word pronounced different from their spelling For instance, 'Would' is pronounced like 'Wood', 'Whole' is pronounced like
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