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If administration is modifying a president should it be capitalized? Is it incorrect to say The Trump administration restricted immigration from 7 countries?

Examples of the minutiae at issue are things like a person's hometown, the name(s) of their partner(s) and/or children, which, if any, college they attended, occupation, etc. Any piece of personal ...

We can say "We launched the rocket." We can say "We made the plane take off." Can we say "We launched the plane?" If not, is there an acceptable way to say it using a ...

If I want to talk about a country as an animated thing (i.e., creating a meme that represents an action, where one subject is a country), should I use a "she", "he" or "it&...

There's some words that end in "er" or "re" depending on the word, and depending on what country you learned English from. There's words like reader with the "er" ending, ...

What is the minimum number of unique words (in a given dictionary) required to describe every known word in a given English dictionary? In other words We are to describe any randomly chosen word in a ...

Can anyone clarify.. why "today" is not a noun, when "morning" is a noun? Thank you

Can you use "at dusk" to describe something at its later or final stage? E.g. Does "at the dusk of the 20th century" make any sense at all? If not, is there any expression that ...

"If she had gone to university, she would have found a really good job." The past perfect is 'If she had gone to university' but I wonder which one of them is the simple past. "she didn'...

I have booked a flight in September. In the above sentence, does it mean the flight is in September or the action of booking is in September? In May, I have booked a flight back to home in September....

I'm native Russian and when we need to talk about some tough choice between two alternatives, we use a metaphor of a traditional scale. Namely, it's bowls. Так вышло, что на одной чаше весов был ...

In UK/Commonwealth styles, is there a generally accepted convention for whether or not one italicises or renders roman an italicised phrase within the title of a book? My specific example, which may ...

The term camera lens normally refers to the whole barrel containing a set of glass lenses proper, plus the mount mechanism into the camera body and the rings for adjusting aperture and focus, mainly. ...

Page 229 of Garner's fourth edition reads When couple is used with comparison words such as more, fewer, and too many, the of is omitted <have a couple more shrimp>. In the predicate of the ...

I’ve had a few interactions with people from countries other than my own, and when I greet them, oftentimes they’re response is just "Oi." What does that mean in this context? Where is it ...