I was just wondering this because of noticing a lot of people I've worked with typed this way.  Examples:  Okay, that's great .  Thanks, Stephanie .  Was there anything else ?  I was wondering if there is something that this could derive from.
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In written English (mainly online) I often come across sentences ending with a question or an exclamation mark with a space before it. Is it always just an error or a typo? Or there are cases when it is a correct English, for example after closing parentheses or some other punctuation marks?
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Does it sound unnatural to you (natives) when people skip 's' ending of the verb in 3rd person? Heard it many times (e.g. in 50 cent songs - she go, she have, etc.) and always wondered how much it sounds ok.
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From :     [...] in early parts of this century when it was the most user- and hardware-friendly Linux operating system available [...]   Is the user- fragment valid (outside this technical/informal context)?  The usage in this context is clear, as it's just avoiding the repetition of -friendly, but is it correct?  Would it be more correct to omit the hyphen?
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What's the name for a part of speech which is not quite rhetorical, but not expected to be answered directly, either? I know the word exists, it refers to greetings such as "How are you" and similar. There's a very specific term for those greetings and I cannot recall it.  It's not perfunctory or pro forma; it very specifically refers to a common query that isn't really a question but a conversation opener. Might be from a specialized field like linguistics.  Frustrating!
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It may be limited to the web ecosystem, but I've read a lot of those sentences lately, where each word is followed by a period. Examples:  Oh. My. God. Best. Job. Ever. No. F***ing. Way.  Putting each word on its own hints the readers should give their full attention to each and every one of them. Does this technique have a name? Can its origin be traced back to a book or article?
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I run into  with rather simple solution which was placed as the first comment by SuperScript user.  Two minutes after this, another user literally copied this single sentence comment into answer with no added value. Since he is 113k rank and later other users commented with more useful notes, it seems to me like automated and rather parasitic behavior.  I've met situations like this before, but at least the answer added something useful. So what to do with situations like this? Is it desirable/honest to hijack the comment?
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You're too clever a man to imagine this.   The above sentence was , a man of excellent rhetorical skills.   Since he said it, I doubt it's wrong, grammatically. But, I wonder if there is an explanation for this. Because adjectives always come after the article not before it. e.g. You're a clever man.   How could this be, grammatically?
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Is this correct?     That is a real cool answer.   I learned that that was incorrect, since "real" is an adjective which can describe a noun, e.g. "real answer" but it is not an adverb which can describe an adjective, "real cool". Instead you would have to say:     That is a really cool answer.   Since "really" is an adverb.
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On a  to one of my other questions on this site, a user said:     It’s much easier to answer questions like this when you specify where   you've come across the word.   Is the use of the word this correct in such case?  I would be inclined to say “questions like these”, or if I wanted to use the singular form I would rephrase it as “a question like this”.
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I am not a native English speaker/writer, but I am working on a technical thesis written in English. To me, for some unknown reason, it feels natural to write the following:     However, the simplicity of the theory implies that it is not possible in reality, lest someone would surely have already done it.   Googling for the definition of lest seems to imply that this is not a correct usage.  So, can I use lest like I do, and if not, do any of you also feel there is any merit to my spontaneous feeling that it actually is ok to use it here? The first answer of  post () seems to support my case, but i am not sure.
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Possible Duplicate:          I was writing a LinkedIn recommendation one day, and ended up pondering for a while which of these forms to use:     … is a great developer whom I always   found easy to work with.      … is a great developer who I always   found easy to work with.   Both are basically correct in contemporary English, right? But is one or the other preferable, and if so, why?   (In this case I went with the latter, as it seemed more common (Google)  and I wanted to avoid sounding unnecessarily “archaic”, although I’m not sure whether that would have been the case. Also note that I try to write in a “friendly professional” style instead of overly formal one. :-)
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I instinctively translate it "as best as you can", however this makes no sense.  What is the real structure behind this phrase?  I'll include an  to illustrate the historical presence of this phrase:    Whatever the structure is, I'm guessing that it has something to do with 19th century grammar.
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When I write something like this:     I am a man that is doing these things.   Is it correct to shorten it like this?     I am a man doing these things.   And does it require commas?
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An online retail store is asking its customers to construct a sentence beginning with them in order to win a voucher. I just can't believe there's  any such sentence, at least I don't know of any!   I've had enough laughs with friends coming up with Americanisms that fit, so that's not what I'm looking for.  I'm just very curious, is such a sentence grammatically possible or is this store just being mischievous?
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Is it correct to say e.g. "I like your way of wearing" or "the way you wear looks perfect"?  Is it politely? Is it in use or not? May I use "the way you wear" referring to whole wearings including dress, scarf, hat, bracelet. jewellery, etc?  Thank you for your suggestions in advance.
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I've seen many people put an extra "DO" in a sentence. I know it's for emphasis, but is there an official name for it?  For example: "I like her" is perfectly correct, yet "I DO like her" is also pretty common.   One of my students asked me this and I just said it's for emphasis, but I can't figure out whether it's just colloquial usage or if there's an official rule for it.
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Here's an example:        Chocolate lovers rejoice!   Chocolate lovers, rejoice!      To my understanding, the first one says that chocolate lovers are rejoicing and in the second one, we are asking the chocolate lovers to rejoice.  Am I correct? Or is it fine to use both 1 and 2 interchangeably?   Also, if am wrong about the second one, then how do you convey to chocolate lovers that they should rejoice?