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She has provided five witness statements
Consider this sentence, please:
She has provided five witness statements to the court in total, detailing acts of physical, mental violence etc.
Can I write 1) as two separate sentences?
She has ...
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What do you call people in positions of power or some criminal who protect you in some way?
What do you call people in high places or some criminal who protect you in some way? For example, if it's someone in a high place and you did something illegal, they abuse their power to help you get ...
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“When is the next time you come to downtown”
I wanted to ask my friend when he would come to downtown again. So I came up with
"When is the next time you come to downtown"
is this sentence grammatically correct? Should it be
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How can I apply inversions to sentences that include “because”?
Which of the following sentences is correct?
Because did I love the dinner, I ate it to my full
Or
Because I loved the dinner, did I ate it to my full
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Can we use “would have had” to speculate about past?
Can we use "would have had " to make a guess about the past?
For e.g.
He would have had those dollars!
(We don't know if he has the dollars but he might have had them)
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Can I use the past perfect without an action described by past simple?
Can I use the past perfect without an action described by past simple?
For example:
Alex: There were people at the cinema?
Me: No, because it had just opened.
Another example
Alex: What had you ...
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Can 'It does “to” subject' be used in this context?
Wealth does not make you happy, but it does “to” me.
I don’t want to repeat the phrase “make subject happy” as seen below, so can I say “it does to me”?
Wealth does not make you happy, but it does ...
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Is “When I got back home, did the lights go out?” grammatically correct?
Is the sentence
When I got back home, did the lights go out?
grammatically correct, as compared to it's inverted form
Did the lights go out when I got back home?
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“Say for definite” vs. “say exactly”
Is there any difference betwee the colloction say for definite and say exactly? For example:
I can't say exactly how much money I have in my bank account.
I can't say for definite how much money I ...
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How do I express subjuctive future in English?
This is a question already asked. However I have a case that is not covered.
There are cases where the subjunctive is not part of a typical "if" conditional sentence.
I'll give an example in ...
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“…focuses on the person’s individual motivation to pursue skills,…”
I read a sentence on a video but am not sure what does "motivation" means in it.
Does it mean "enthusiasm for doing something" or "the need or reason for doing something" ...
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Use of articles in software documentation
I have some questions about the use of articles in the documentation of the Laravel framework.
The chunk method breaks the collection into multiple, smaller collections of a given size
Why is used ...
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What does “be the one” mean?
In The Old Guard (2020), immortal Andy speaks to herself:
Andy: I've been here before...over and over again, and each time the
same question. Is this it? Will this time be the one? And each time
the ...
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can I use present perfect in this case
I received it this morning .It has been a long time coming but the long wait has been worthwhile!
I wrote this in the beginning of the afternoon, so can I use present perfect for these two verbs or ...
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What is the meaning of the highlighted text in the paragraph given below? [closed]
I really found the sentence structure very difficult comprehending. I couldn't really make sense of it at all. So please help me.
“More specifically, this usefulness is usually defined in terms of ...

