I believe the noun is practice and the verb is practise, as demonstrated in;     The doctor with a private practice practises privately   However, if I wanted to say:     It is good practi(s/c)e to colour-coordinate wires   Which is correct when you are using it as an adverb?
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As an Australian, I like to follow British forms of words such as license/licence and practise/practice. I have no problem with licence the noun and license the verb, but I find it hard to keep practise and practice straight.  To get better, I practise my juggling. When I see a doctor, I visit their practice. But what about preparing a set of practice problems? Are they a set of problems that are used for practising, being instead practise problems? Is there a use of the word practice besides referring to, say, a doctor's establishment?
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Sorry for the title, it is not very evident and intuitive but I really do not how to tell it better...  Well, you know, several times, or better, many times, we use this form:  If I want to say:      "development of special weapons was   the first point in Hitler's   program..."   I will say this (a better form):      "special weapon development was..."   OK...  is it      "special weapon development"   or      "special weapons development" (note   the plural...)   what's the grammar rule in order to understand how to use this very used form?
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An acquaintance recalled this specific example from an English textbook, but it is jarring to my native ear. Is this an example of prescriptive grammarians gone wild?
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Usage of "%"  I'm almost positive it's a prepositional phrase since it's really means "per cent" or "per 100".  So in a sentence like:     90% of my street are doing lawn work.   It would be "are" and not "is" because both "%" and "of my street" are prepositional phrases and therefore cannot contain the subject.  Am I right?
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"He is having a cell phone" - is wrong.   Instead we use:     "He has a cell phone".    However, both A and B below are correct:     A) "We are having a class"       B) "We have a class"     Why?
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I am a Japanese teacher of English who is making a teaching material for my students. I would like to know whether the following usage would be totally accepted in school grammar. To put my question in other words, would a very grammar-sensitive person allow the following usage (in bold font)?  A: What is your favorite movie? B: It is Titanic created in 1997 by James Cameron.  So, the point here is whether you can grammatically modify a proper noun with a participle. I know it's totally okay to write something like "a movie created in 1997 by James Cameron," where participle modifies a common noun, but I'm not sure if the same is allowed for proper nouns.  Thank you, Tom
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I have read a sentence from “Diary of a Wimpy Kid 4”:     The teachers have really been cracking down on kids copying off of each other this year.   How to understand "off of"? Please parse it.
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"whitened", "blackened", and "reddened"; but "yellowed", "grayed", and "blued".  Is there some rule or is it just one of those things?  "Greened" makes sense; no one is going to say "greenened".  "Pinked" or "pinkened"?  "Purpled" or "empurpled"?  First person to not make an Arrested Development joke gets a +1 from me.
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Could anybody clear it to me whether these two sentence are grammatically equal? If not, what is the difference?     1) They must use some methods...    2) They are to use some methods...
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This is a phrase I’m particularly confused about, because it’s used often when something is manipulated or changed.  For example, sometimes images surface online that are clearly Photoshopped, but people refer to them as “doctored” images. Why use the word “doctored” here?
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Whenever I think of a concrete noun, I think of something that can be perceived by the five senses.   I was wondering, if I could see a particular practice taking place, as in a series of football drills, would the word 'practice' be a concrete noun?  I can also see a 'lesson' taking place, so would that also be a concrete noun?   Also, are sounds concrete nouns too? I can hear a 'bang', so would it be classed as a concrete noun?  Thanks in advance for any answers to clarify this.
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My example in this case is &quot;activity- and experience verbs&quot;, in the meaning &quot;activity verbs and experience verbs&quot;. Does the hyphen suggest that &quot;activity-verb&quot; or &quot;activityverb&quot; is the uncontracted phrase, or is it correct to use a hyphen like shown in this case?
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Recently at work I was writing the following, and I have not been able to get a firm answer on which version is the most grammatically correct. The sentence is:     We would like to use one of the cables that _________ between rooms.   Is the correct conjugation run or runs?  I think 'run' is correct, because I think that the verb in the prepositional phrase is referring to 'cables' not 'one.' However, a number of colleagues have said that 'runs' is correct because one is singular.
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I was reading about various terms for incorrect words, but they didn't seem to fit.  I saw a post where someone said "what do you like to do when you're board?".  That kind of thing.  Also, would that be considered a mistake in grammar?  I didn't think so, but my friend insists it is.  I'm not sure if there even is a word for that kind of mistake, but was just curious about it.  Thanks!
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The sentence     Women driving cars is, of course, such a foreign sight to a society like   Saudi Arabia   The subject is not "women" (otherwise, the verb would have been 'are'); the subject, as I mean to use it, is the rarity of seeing women driving cars. The subject, in other words, is "women driving cars" as a thing. Does this give me licence to use 'is' here? Thank you.
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Not being good at swimming, he didn't like it.   Could we omit the word "being" here?     Not good at swimming, he didn't like it.   Which one is grammatically correct?
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I apologize in advance for any and all wrong use of terminology.  Consider a sentence of the form      The project was created to practice X and learn Y.   I believe the "practice X and learn Y" is a compound predicate and so there should be no comma before the "and". However, I get confused if X is a list. If I simply replace the X by "V, W, and X", I get      The project was created to practice V, W, and X and learn Y.   Is this correct? It looks strange to me, and I'm not so sure since the "X and learn Y" could be read as a single item? I was going to write a similar sentence, and I wrote it as     The project was created to practice V, W, and X, as well as to learn Y.   However, if the "as well as" is just a placeholder for "and", then isn't the comma before "as well as" wrong, since it "splits a compound predicate"?  Any help is appreciated. Thank you for your time and have a great day.