I had made two of my friends buy CS:GO and today, while texting in a group I said "I made both of you buy the games". My friend corrected me with "*game". Was I wrong? I tried googling but couldn't find anything.
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The usage of singular and plural has always been confusing for me.   I often see sentences like these         People are using cell phones.   People are using a cell phone.      Does the first sentence mean everyone has a phone and they are all using their own?  Does the second sentence mean they are sharing one cell phone?   If I see a group of people holding a cell phone in their hand(s), &lt;- even this is confusing for me, should I use the first sentence then?   Another example: you see two men, and both of them are carrying a bag. Which sentence should I say/use?        They are carrying backpacks          They are carrying a backpack      Could you please make it clear for me?
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When we use the word "to buy" and when the word "to purchase"? I do not understand the difference between these words.
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When someone states "I have a Masters in Computer Science" should the word masters have a capital M?  I've seen arguments for both and can't determine which is correct.
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When reviewing suggested edits, I ran across . It took a post originally in French and Google Translated it to English. I approved it, as it gave the post a chance to survive, and it properly attributed that the post had been translated. It appears that two others did the same.  But should have I? It probably falls under a 'radical change', right?
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Here's this message from Sathya:    It usually shows like this in the rooms when you're in another chat room:    I edited the post to change a word repetition that sounded weird (Can you tell I'm bored and we don't have any flags in our queue?), and suddenly it changed the author to me:    What happened here?
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If you have a more illustrative title, feel free to change it. I searched but I couldn't find one.   This may be an easy and trivial question; if so, I am sorry.  What are the differences between these two sentences?     These two guys seem to be inseparable.      These two guys seem inseparable.   I can intuitively say that the latter one is grammatically wrong. Could you please explain?  EDIT: What I think is John Lawler's and FumbleFingers' answers are worth to read. The reason why I  noted that someone who wants to learn the answer of this question, accidentally misses FumbleFingers' answer.
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It seems that  by the OP of  was attributed to the community user.   I'm assuming that the edit was by the OP from the edit summary:     updated my question   and from the actual update. Both texts are speaking in the first person.
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I see a lot of people saying things such as      Nice work, Nick   Or     Thanks, Mat   Is the comma really needed? I'm not 100% sure because my spelling and grammar is not great, but I think it reads very strange.
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I was reading this today:  We look forward to following your progress.  Am I correct in thinking that it is missing a be or that -ing should be removed?  So  We look forward to be following your progress.  or  We look forward to follow your progress.  Interestingly I get the same jarring feeling when reading the examples here
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It's often confusing for me to talk about my friends, especially my female friends. This is because in Dutch there are words for both male ("vriend") and female ("vriendin") friends. In English however, there's as far as I know only the word friend, which can mean both a male or a female friend.  For this reason I was wondering if there is a word to say a person is both female and a friend.
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Someone edited my message on StackOverflow, but it really bugs me out.  I'm not sure what's wrong with it:   As you see, the bigger the circle becomes, the more vertices I need for hiding the straight lines. As you see, the bigger the circle becomes, the more vertices I need to hide the straight lines.   The latter (corrected) sentence just bugs me out for some reason. It would sound better if there was a comma after the word "need", perhaps, but I guess that would be even worse in means of grammatical correctness.  Can someone explain why is the first sentence bad and the second sentence correct? And could there even be better solution to fix the first sentence?
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In the online game , the following sentence is used:     Your barracks is finished. A good step towards world domination.   Shouldn’t it instead be:   Your barracks are finished.   or    Your barrack is finished.
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I'm looking at , which was closed as off-topic a few days ago. Just a few minutes ago, the OP radically revised it; it doesn't even resemble the original question anymore. In fact, the two versions only share about seven words and some punctuation. Here's a screenshot of the most recent revision:    So, the question for the community is this: Is this proper, or should it be rolled back?  Edit: I went ahead and rolled it back because it has a couple of answers already (responding to the old version). But I would still like to know the community consensus on this.
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How did the word "nerf" develop to its current meaning in MMO/multiplayer games?  I can remember seeing it for a long time to have the same or similar meaning, even before the explosion of MMOs that happened with World of Warcraft.  (I used the terminology tag, as it seemed the closest fit, though I'm not actually asking what the word means.)
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I know the rule is to use past simple when you specify the time when the described action happened, but I strangely dislike this sentence and I'm not sure if the rule applies:   "It's the best movie I saw this year".  Shouldn't it be: "It's the best movie I've seen this year"?  Please, could you justify your answers? Thank you in advance!  Cheers
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I took an English assessment test online and this was my answer:     Someone suggested to go for a walk.   My answer was wrong and this was the correct sentence:     Someone suggested going for a walk.   Can someone please explain why my answer was wrong?
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They agreed to stay connected for hours in their provisional support group, looking for answers in their counterparts.   I want to change the bold part to say that they all shared the same problem.  Might end up using one of the above, but I feel like I need some more options to weigh in.    Edit for context: they all share the same rare cognitive impairment