Which of the following is more idiomatic?  List out the groups you participate in.  List out the groups you're participating in.
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A colleague asked me which of these sentences is correct, or if they are both correct which is better to use.   Are you using the current template version? Do you use the current template version?   I recommended using the first sentence but only because it sounds better to me.  Is there anything grammatically wrong with the second sentence or does it convey a different meaning to the first sentence?
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What is the difference between a phrase and an idiom?
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I frequently see statements that refer to something later in the text that use a phrase such as "the below information". Is it more correct instead to say "the information below" (or "the following information")?
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In the following expression, whom does 'who' refer to? The friends of the participants or the participants themselves?  "The friends of the participants who were told to order soft drinks"  This was an option in a multiple choice question and I suggested that it was ambiguous, yet the professor insisted that it clearly referred to the friends of the participants.
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Another murky subject arose today:  Would like to know, which one is appropriate:     I am unable to attend the mandatory meeting; I will make up some excuse.    Or:      I am unable to attend the mandatory meeting; I will make some excuse up.
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With a two-party system, our nation will divide the people (who/whom)   most need to be brought together.   Do I use who or whom for this sentence?  I think that "people" is the direct object and warrants the use of "whom", but I want to make sure I'm right.
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Im not sure why the following have different output. My understanding is that groups without specifying a user give all the groups the currently logged in user is a member of.  jacob@box:~$ groups jacob adm lp dialout cdrom plugdev lpadmin sambashare  jacob@box:~$ groups jacob jacob : jacob   Also what does it mean "groups of the current process" (from the groups man page)? Where are they set up?  NOTE: My distro is Ubuntu.
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Especially in IT it is often neccessary to write chains of nouns like "Messages List" because one cannot use "The list of messages" for variable name in a programming language. I can't understand how to construct them correctly for plurals, ex. "Message list" or "Messages list" ? What grammar rules concern this subject?  As a maybe special case, I'm interesting in naming the number of something, ex. the number of apples. It is common to use "apple count" (altough 'count' means counting, not quantity). What is right, "apple count" or "apples count", and why?  I found  question. Maybe both forms are allowed?
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Bonus question: If I am a proxy for multiple people, what's the collective noun for that group?
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Which is correct?  I am king of the world. I am the king of the world.  Additionally, which would be the better choice, if I wanted to use the expression &quot;king&quot; to signify dominance in a metaphorical way or in slang.  I am king of the backstreet. I am the king of the backstreet.  And is there a difference, if we are not king of a place but of a group of people?  I am king of (the) thieves. I am the king of (the) thieves.  Is there a general grammatical rule for that?
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What idiom can be used to name an action when a person tells a lot of redundant information?  EDIT: To be more precise I am trying to describe an action when a person speaks about the subject but there is also a lot of redundant information.
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What's the difference between these two phrases?
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I'm wondering whether there is a difference between these two expressions. I never know which one to use. Google seems to return the same amount of results for both, so I suppose there might be a difference.        What are the alternatives for this project?     What are the alternatives to this project?
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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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Should I use "was" or "were" in the following context?     A huge crowd were/was present there.
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Isn't the following sentence grammatically correct?     The group of fifty people are going to arrive Thursday.   What's wrong with it? Someone said it should be      The group of fifty people is going to arrive Thursday.   Why? People is plural so why is people is better than people are?
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Is it correct to say user accounts or users account when referring to the accounts any user has on a site like this one?  In general, in the case of a noun that is used as adjective for the noun that follows, is it better to use &lt;plural-noun&gt; &lt;singular-noun&gt; or &lt;singular-noun&gt; &lt;plural-noun&gt;?