Questions tagged [grammaticality]
This tag is for questions about whether something obeys the rules of grammar in English. The question must INCLUDE THE SPECIFIC GRAMMATICAL CONCERN. If your question is about grammar itself, please use the "grammar" tag.
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"Imagine if..." vs. "Imagine..."
I've increasingly noticed people online using the following construction, sans "if":
Imagine you died on Spotify Wrapped day.
To my ear, it feels like the sentence should read:
Imagine if ...
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Do present continuous tense(for future meaning) and future continuous tense convey the same meaning and can be used interchangeably?
Do present continuous tense(for future meaning) and future continuous tense convey the same meaning and can be used interchangeably?
See this example " I will be going to work from tomorrow (...
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Grammatical perspective: "go home" or "come home"
Husband and Wife are at home. Husband is going to point A and wife is going to point B later in the day.
Wife asks
After going to point A will you come to point B or will you go home?
Husband claims ...
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Which is grammatically preferable: "In [MONTH] of [YEAR]..." or "In [MONTH] [YEAR]..."?
For instance, would it be more correct to say "In April 2024" or "In April of 2024"?
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There don’t need to be or There doesn’t need to be [duplicate]
My original sentence was “There don’t need to be any “buts” or “even thoughs”.” Should I be using doesn’t or don’t?
For context, I’m referring to when people use the terms “but” and “even though” in a ...
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Increasing/Increased vs Warming/Warmer Temperatures
I'm a climate scientist, so professionally invested in changes in temperature.
When the air gets warmer then I say we're experiencing "increasing temperatures". Some others (often colleagues ...
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Does there need to be an "of" in the construction "as [adjective] [of?] a [noun] as possible"? [duplicate]
Which of these two phrases is grammatically correct and why?
"as fast a reply as possible"
"as fast of a reply as possible"
The second phrase sounds perhaps a bit more natural to ...
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"The reading shows the highest speed of 120 km/h" or "... a highest speed of 120 km/h"?
It’s widely known that a superlative follows the definite article the. However, in the sentence shown in the title:
The reading shows ___ highest speed of 120 km/h.
I am not certain which should be ...
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Use of "on" in professional formal writing
Is it acceptable grammar to say "There is a fault evident on my car"? I'm talking about formal writing in a professional context, e.g. engineering reports.
Whenever I come across a statement ...
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What are more non-animal collective nouns? [closed]
I’m wondering if there are more non-animal examples of collective nouns?
Like “a murder of crows”, but not referring to a group of animals.
So far “a flight of stairs”, and “a fleet of ships” is all I ...
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Is the phrase "is submitted <something>" without a preposition correct?
I am following a Coursera course on something related to Large Language Models (LLMs). In the Module quiz, one question reads:
An LLM is submitted a prompt that asks whether[...]
This strikes me as ...
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Are the following usages of "had" and "needed" lexical or auxiliary?
In Exercise 8 of Chapter 3 of their A Student's Introduction to English Grammar, Huddleston and Pullum ask the reader the determine whether the highlighted verbs are auxiliary or lexical. The answers ...
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How to use tripled correctly? [closed]
Can I use tripled to describe “problems” multiplying?
Ex: Considering his line of work tripled by wife's condition and raising his son alone, its sad he couldn’t get help.
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Tags after imperatives
How would you add tag questions after imperative sentences like "Follow me" or "Let's eat something" or "Let him think"?
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Disagreement of subjects in a sentence containing a participle clause
I often see the following type of sentences where the main clause in the passive voice is followed by a participle clause with a different subject. I wonder if these sentences are grammatically ...
