If I want to make a question, shall I start using Is there or There is?  For example I want to say: Is there a way to calculate energy produced by the combustion of an hydrocarbon? but I am not sure if I have to say There is a way to calculate energy produced by the combustion of an hydrocarbon?
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I hear and read them all the time. I mean stuff like:      You're just going to stay here?   Instead of:      Are you just going to stay here?    Then I write like this out of habit and get called out on my grammar issues by people who speak English much worse than I do. That's kinda embarrassing. So, could someone please explain to me whether it's correct or not? Are they acceptable at all, and if so, in which situations?      So, what? You're gonna kill me now?
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I have a doubt about having a doubt. I learned from  that in Indian English the word doubt is used to mean question, that is, as a countable noun. If my understanding is correct, the following is grammatical in InE:     I have two doubts about SQL. 1. Can I type in lower-case? 2. Does null equal null?   I’m curious about what other usages this has. Can you ask a doubt?      ? I captured a spy and asked him many doubts.   Is it a verb?     ? I captured a spy and doubted him for hours.   Are there other uses that are possible or things you’d think should be possible but in fact are not possible?
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The 10th and last round of negotiations between Iran and the six world powers was held in Vienna in a bid to strike a final deal. However, after the sides failed to agree on a final deal they decided to extend the negotiations until / by July 1, 2015.   In the original text the preposition until has been written. I am, however, wondering if we could use by instead, if so, is there any difference semantically?  Any help would be greatly appreciated
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While I'm aware of  it does not quite answer my question. I have a simple sentence:     If any of the devices was not switched off, do something.   Is there supposed to be was or were? I was thinking about was since it could be rephrased as:     If any one of the devices was not switched off, do something.   But maybe that does not make any sense at all. Also, this is for a technical documentation where more formal language is preferred, not sure if that makes any difference.
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Similar to '', is it also ok to add an example?   I was going to  but I noticed that one answer had most of the things I needed to say, except perhaps that the questioner didn't perhaps understand the answer and  I feel that an example may help.
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There doesn't seem to be a way to navigate to a specific question using the . If there is, then it wasn't obvious to me. I tried entering the question number or URL into the search field, but it didn't work.
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I have come across both the phrases - 'on the internet' and 'over the internet.'   I'm pretty sure that both are correct but then which to use when?  Please note, I'm well aware of all over the Internet which I'm not concerned about.
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I want to ask a question whose meaning is "what is the exact way in which X works?". Where is the most appropriate place for the adverb "exactly"?   How exactly does X work? How does exactly X work? How does X exactly work? How does X work exactly?
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Which is correct?     There are no comments.  There is no comment.   Which would you use for a web application, i.e. what to display when a blog post or an article has no comment attached?    Actually, I am trying to fix an application that says: "There is no comments"! Would that ever be right?  More generally speaking, it feels wrong to have a plural after the negative no/none or with the preposition without (see my previous question ).  Those words imply zero, i.e. less than one, while plural is two or more. Yet, I know that phrases like "There are no comments" or "He is without friends" are common. It seems illogical to me.   Are the majority of people making a grammar mistake when using such expressions, or else can you explain why this is correct?
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If she be found guilty… ()   I got a curiosity what difference there is when I put ‘is’ instead of ‘be.’ The dictionary says ‘is’ is used in spoken language. Is that all? Is there no semantic difference at all?
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Take the following example sentence:     There was nothing there save for the warmth of the immeasurable light.   Is this the proper use of save for?  Is there ever a proper use of save for? Can someone explain to me the correct usage, if there is one, and possibly some etymology of this phrase?  Examples of other correct use would be appreciated, though not critical.
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Q: "Do you have any juice?"   A: "Yes, there's some in the fridge."   Sounds perfectly fine to me, but:     Q: "Do you have any towels?"   A: "Yes, there's some in the closet."   Does not.  I asked for towels - plural - so wouldn't "Yes, there're some in the closet," in which there are is turned into a contraction be the correct way to say it?  Spellcheck, however, doesn't like "there're", and I think I'm the only person I've ever heard use the word "there're".  Even folks who I know say "there are" shorten it to "there's" when possible.  Am I saying it wrong, or are both forms acceptable?
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Would you please tell me which of the following terms is correct? If both are correct, are they equal?     I have no [...] I don't have any [...]
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When discussing a treaty or international agreement, which is correct?  "There are 100 states party to the treaty." (for example, as used )  Or:  "There are 100 state parties to the treaty." (for example, as used )   Or: "There are 100 states parties to the treaty."  (for example, as used )
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I wanted to get the usage of There’s clarified. I have read sentences like:     There’s a lot of projects on that topic.   It appears to me that There’s applies to a lot of projects, rather than to the projects themselves. Is that right? If that’s the case, is     There’s many students standing there.   not grammatical?
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Formally, is it correct to write:     A number of questions has been asked here.   or:     A number of questions have been asked here.   As a non-native speaker of English, I would prefer the former: the subject seems to be "number", therefore the verb ought to be singular, I'd say. However, the latter seems more common, and therefore I believe that my gut feeling is just plain wrong — but I would really like to have a definite answer.  Moreover, is it the same for "a myriad of", "a plethora of", and so on?
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Are there any rules about when to say exist and when to say exists in mathematics? For example, both these sentences appear in a book of mine:  There exist αi in I such that xn = Σ αi xi. There exists s'' in S such that s''(s'm – sm') = 0.  I'm a bit confused about when to use exist and when exists.