I find that these two words can be used to express to collect or gather. what is the difference between them? thank you in advance.
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I'm having a hard time understanding the real distinction between  and .  accumulative     adjective         tending to accumulate or arising from accumulation; cumulative.   tending to accumulate wealth; acquisitive.      cumulative     adjective         increasing or growing by accumulation or successive additions: the cumulative effect of one rejection after another.   formed by or resulting from accumulation or the addition of successive parts or elements.   of or pertaining to interest or dividends that, if not paid when due, become a prior claim for payment in the future: cumulative preferred stocks.      These definitions (and those from other dictionaries as well) say different things but I can't understand how they aren't really meaning the same thing.  Yet, when thinking about it, it seems there are some cases where it is distinctly more correct to use one or the other.  What's the difference, practically?
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In English, there are at least two ways to express negation, for example: — I don't have money — I have no money  or — No objects were found — Objects were not found  or — No restrictions are applied — Restrictions are not applied  Questions:   What is the difference between these two forms? Is it only the matter of style or there is more significant differences in the meaning of the sentences? When should we use the first one form and when the second? Do these two forms stress a difference between British and US English?
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I have no house.   I don't have a house.      What's the difference between the phrases like the ones above?
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Please tell me which choice below (or rather a better choice that I need to know) works better in my sentences in informal English:     I got myself out on a limb. I need to clear my check by tomorrow. No matter how, I must ............ 2 million bucks by tomorrow.   a) line up [to prepare, organize, or arrange something]  b) hook up [hook somebody up with something to help someone get something that they need or want]  c) fix up [to arrange for someone to have something that they need]  For me, all three options work in this sense with the same meaning and informality degree.
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They appear to me to mean almost if not exactly the same thing, but I am not sure. Are there differences in meaning between them?
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What is the difference between the two following sentences?     1) Where did you save that file?   And      2) Where you saved that file ?
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I want to write that I have handful of somethings.  Which of these is the correct form?   There is a handful of somethings. There are a handful of somethings.   Are both correct?
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What is the difference between these laws? Which law is more useful? When to use  and when to use ?
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Today, when looking up the definitions of the phrasal verb "take sth up", I noticed that one of them was written like this: "to start or begin something such as a job." For the first time I realised that probably "start" and "begin" don't exactly mean the same thing.So the question is what the difference is between the two, and if there are cases when they mean exactly the same thing.
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What are the differences between these two phrasal verbs and what are the best situations to use each?
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Is there any difference between     I am not having a lunch tomorrow.   and     I am not having lunch tomorrow.   This is a follow up question of : .
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Expression and idiom are used interchangeably, and so are colloquial and  vernacular; albeit incorrectly.  Please advise on differences in meaning and recommend a proper usage.
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The questions here are not about meaning. They are about the usage of the verbs get and catch in the context of getting a cold.   says that get can be used to mean 'to become infected with an illness; to suffer from a pain, etc.' and gives the example:     I got this cold off you.   My grammar confirms the dictionary and talks about get a cold in the chapter dedicated to the verb get. It also brings catch a cold to exemplify English collocations.  However, I was browsing the Internet and it seems that, at least for Americans, if we say I got a cold it is kind of uneducated. I caught a cold is what we should say.  1) Is this true? Is it better to say I caught a cold than I got a cold? 2) If it is the case, does this apply to British English as well?
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I am confused between these words. Dictionaries say they are similar, but I vaguely remember my schoolteacher apprising me of a difference between them. I would love if someone could elucidate.
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There is a large quantity of people.   There are a large quantity of people.      Are both correct?
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I encountered an expression:     key benefits to using [something]   To my mind the version below would sound more natural:     key benefits of using [something]   Are both versions correct? Is there any difference in meaning?
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I wrote:     An open -source and -society loving person   and had this corrected by a native English speaker to      An open-source-and-society loving person   Which to me changes the meaning of the phrase. The first one is meant to be short-hand for prefixing both "source" and "society" with "open", while the second one does not seem to connect "society" with "open".  Is either of the forms more correct than the other? Should it be written differently all together?