
capitalization - Capitalize fields of study? - English Language
2010年12月5日 · Do I say "I study computer science," or "I study Computer Science"? Similarly, "I really liked that computer science course," vs. "I really liked that Computer Science course."
Team is or Team are - English Language & Usage Stack Exchange
Strictly speaking, a team is a count noun.You can have two teams, ten teams, or one team. So if you're talking about the team, or one team, then that should take a singular verb:
single word requests - What is the name of the area of skin …
2014年4月29日 · @Doorknob - Elliot has named it correctly. The upper lip is skin-covered, skin-colored, and hairy. The pink parts are called the upper and lower vermilion, the border …
Meaning of the phrase "to blow smoke up someone's arse"
2016年12月9日 · Database search results. The earliest match in a n Elephind search that explicitly identifies someone's ass as the conduit for blown smoke (in a slang sense) is from …
single word requests - English Language & Usage Stack Exchange
2019年8月18日 · Stack Exchange Network. Stack Exchange network consists of 183 Q&A communities including Stack Overflow, the largest, most trusted online community for …
If you or somebody you know ... are/is ...? [duplicate]
The appropriate verb, formally, is is.If the subjects are a mix of singular and plural as in your example, then the verb agrees with the closest subject (after or).
Apostrophe s' or s's - English Language & Usage Stack Exchange
2019年11月28日 · On the use of so-called 'zero genitive', marked by a simple apostrophe in spelling ('), as opposed to the 's genitive, Quirk, Greenbaum, Leech and Svartvik specify in A …
meaning - 'Preternatural' vs 'supernatural' - English Language
I am wondering what the precise differences between preternatural and supernatural are. I know praeter is Latin for beyond so that preternatural literally means beyond natural. But how exactly ...
grammar - English Language & Usage Stack Exchange
2014年2月9日 · Stack Exchange Network. Stack Exchange network consists of 183 Q&A communities including Stack Overflow, the largest, most trusted online community for …
word choice - What is the name of the symbols - and ">"?
2015年6月27日 · +1, I like that this is the first answer to address the multiple Unicode code points involved. However, I think you might mention that regardless of the characters' names or …