English Language Learners Weekly Newsletter - Thursday, November 27, 2014

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Top new questions this week: Should I say "She is in the park or She is at the park"? I am really confused which one is correct. She is in/at the park, They are at/in the park, or I am in/at the park? prepositions   asked by Ana 14 votes answered by Colin Fine 24 votes "I talk dog talk to the dog." I read a kids' story book. In the story book, it says: I talk dog talk to the dog. [. . . .] I talk baby talk to the baby, and the baby talks back to me.Source: Talk, Talk, Talk, by Joy ... grammaticality   asked by bingo bin 13 votes answered by J.R. 26 votes How is "doze off" different from just "doze"? How is doze off different from just doze? I think they mean the same thing— sleeping lightly. What's the difference between them? difference phrase-meaning   asked by Jin 10 votes answered by CopperKettle 12 votes How is "better off" different from just "better"? By definition of Cambridge Dictionaries Online The word 'better' means comparative of good: of a higher quality or more enjoyable than someone or something else By most dictionaries, better off ... word-meaning phrase-usage   asked by Jin 9 votes answered by Gary Botnovcan 13 votes thousands of people rallied, MOST peacefully... -- most people rallied peacefully or did they rally most peacefully? Source: http://news.yahoo.com/no-indictment-chaos-fills-ferguson-streets-083434303.html Thousands of people rallied in other U.S. cities, most peacefully, and President Barack Obama appealed for ... grammar   asked by Cookie Monster 8 votes answered by CopperKettle 9 votes I left them (at) home Consider this question: Where are they (things or people)? Would the following answer be with (at), without it or either one? I left them (at) home I have done a quick Google search and ... prepositions phrasal-verbs   asked by learner 8 votes answered by CarSmack 8 votes Meaning: "Angular is what HTML **would have been had it been** designed for applications" I was reading the Angular.js documentation when I saw this: Angular is what HTML would have been had it been designed for applications. I've never seen a construction like this and I can't get ... meaning conditional-constructions sentence-structure   asked by rewobs 8 votes answered by Luke Willis 21 votes Greatest hits from previous weeks: scissors cut/cuts paper, which is correct? First I'd apologize for I can't describe it clearly. I've heard that "scissors cut paper" is correct, but I found Sheldon said "scissors cuts paper" in The Big Bang Theory. Which is correct, or both ... verb-forms grammatical-number   asked by mariotaku 22 votes answered by Nanne 27 votes Free as in "free speech", not as in "free beer" Free software is a matter of liberty, not price. To understand the concept, you should think of free as in free speech, not as in free beer. — Richard Stallman Translating free to my ... meaning-in-context legal   asked by bytebuster 55 votes answered by Michael Kjörling 43 votes Can you answer this? What's the difference between modifiers and determiners? Genitives, such as Christ's in [4iv, Christ's College], we take to be modifiers not determiners. They occur readily in names that are themselves functioning as modifier within a larger ... determiner modifiers   asked by Listenever 1 vote

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