If you ask someone working at a store 'Where's milk?' would that be right grammatically or does it have to be 'Where's the milk?' I know in the kitchen you would say 'Where's the milk?' or 'Where's the salt?' but i'm not sure if it would be the same case here perhaps because in the store you would be talking about milk in general. Even if 'Where's milk?' is wrong, then why does 'Where's milk in this store' sound right?
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I can’t for the life of me figure out where to use a and where to use the — and where there is no article at all. Is there a simple rule of thumb to memorize?   The standard rule you always hear:     “If a person knows which item you are talking about then use "the"   . . . doesn’t clear things up for me, as I have no idea whether or not they know.
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I've seen it on TV that a guy asking another man, "have you a map?"   If I were him, I would probably say, "do you have a map?"   I would like to know what grammatical rules it followed in this case.
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Why Michael, 's host at the start of each video says "Michael here" instead of "Michael is here"?   Is it grammatically correct or just a slang / simplified way of speaking?
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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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I want to ask about two sentences, and what would be the correct way to form a question:   It's very important that we eat healthy food, ...........?  Which would be the correct question tag: (isn't it) or (don't we)? It's a must that all applicants follow the rules of the competition, ..........?  Which would the correct question tag: (don't they) or (mustn't they)?   Please could you tell me the correct answers, and, more importantly, why those are correct?
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Possible Duplicate:     Which one is correct? I thought the latter would be correct but apparently the former is always used; why? Edit: Another (confusing) example:
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Possible Duplicate:          I am always confused with the prepositions to use when indicating an event happening at a place. Should I use "at" or "in" or "on"?  For example:     We had our dinner at the McDonalds at/in the shopping centre at/on Sixth   Avenue.   The McDonalds restaurant is in the shopping centre. The shopping centre is located at Sixth Avenue. So am I right to say "the McDonalds in the shopping centre at Sixth Avenue"?  Now, what if it was a street instead of an avenue? Say for example:     We had our dinner at the McDonalds at/in the shopping centre at/on Coral Street.   Here, somehow, I find it natural to say "the McDonalds at the shopping centre on Coral Street".  How do I determine the right prepositions to use? And how would the different prepositions give different meanings to the sentence?
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Simple question:     My apples and orange are wrong   or     My apples and orange is wrong   I am not a native English speaker, and I am having some trouble choosing between plural are or singular is for that kind of example.
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I just would like to know if this sentence would be grammatically correct and in which cases should I use it:  I don't know when he is back instead of he will be back . I know the rule with when "no will" in most cases but we can say" please let me know when it will be available or when it is available"  If that's not correct let me know why please
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As an example, consider the two sentences:     There don't seem to be any doctors here.   and     There doesn't seem to be any doctors here.   To my ear, the first sounds great, and the second is painfully awkward.  So which is correct, grammatically? I've found lots of disagreement on this around the Web, with various sources citing different ways of treating the word "any" (as singular, always, or as either depending on to what it refers). No consensus, however, could I locate.
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Which one is correct?         I go to school by foot.   I go to school on foot.       Are there instances when the expression by foot is preferred?    My last question is the following:   Why is the singular noun, foot, used?     If a person goes to school by bus/train/car they are using only one means of transport, they are travelling in one car not two. But people use both feet for walking, so why would the following expressions be ungrammatical?         I go to school by feet     I go to school on feet      I read the answers on this question  but they did not convince me.
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Is it proper to use the following expressions  I started to London yesterday afternoon . I started to London yesterday morning  I ask because it is supposedly correct to say 'last night'. Why don't we say 'last afternoon' or 'last morning'?
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I believe the sentence in the title is grammatically correct.   Recently I've seen too many people writing it this way:     I'm not sure what is the right way.   Is it grammatically correct as well? Maybe in a different sense? Or simply misuse by non-native speakers?
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We always change subject and verb positions in whenever we want to ask a question such as "What is your name?". But when it comes to statements like the following, which form is correct?        I don't understand what are you talking about.   I don't understand what you are talking about.      Another example        Do you know what time is it?   Do you know what time it is?      Another example        Do you care how do I feel about this?   Do you care how I feel about this?
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Possible Duplicate:          How would you answer the question "How are you?"     I'm well.   or     I'm good.   I notice that in American English, the latter is normally used, but I feel that the former is grammatically correct.  Same goes for questions like "How did it go?" Can one answer "It went well," or "It went good."  Which is correct?
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What is the difference between these phrases? When is it valid to use which? Should they be avoided as being ambiguous?
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When someone purchase something from somewhere and I ask him the location of purchasing, which one is the correct question:     Where did you buy it?   OR     Where did you buy it from?   Is preposition necessary to use in this question or there is no need to use it?