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CAN vs BE ABLE TO vs KNOW HOW TO

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Difference between Past Simple and Past Continuous in a sentence

past-simple past-continuous

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“The Land That Time Forgot” - is it grammatical to omit “that”?

relative-pronouns

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What does the light of day mean?

phrase-meaning sentence-meaning

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Understanding would

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Are these sentence have same meaning?

grammar word-usage meaning sentence defference

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“Could not but” in interrogative sentence

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“This is not what I signed up for!”

grammar phrase-usage idiomatic-language

answered 2 hours ago Sarah Bowman 1,679

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“My sister and I” versus “I and my sister”

phrases word-order

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I saw we would/will need it

sequence-of-tenses backshifting

modified 2 hours ago Sarah Bowman 1,679

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Is doing to X grammatical?

grammar

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What does this “which” refer to in this sentence?

relative-clauses paraphrasing antecedents

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Spot vs slot in the context of advertising space

word-usage word-choice

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Rules: conjunctive adverbs

sentence-construction adverbs conjunctions

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