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Contributor's Guide to English Language Learners

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Should accepted answers appear first, just above the highest scored answer? Or should answers appear only in order of score?

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Last chance to review the 'accepted answer' feature!

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Be a bastion of Democracy! Promote inquisitive minds! Champion the autonomy of learners! Let's pin accepted answers at the top of the page!

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2021 Moderator Election Q&A – Question Collection

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2021 Community Moderator Election

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I would like a second opinion on back-shifting

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Formatting Sandbox – Please test stuff here

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Suggestion: Markup for an incorrect example

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How do I indicate which other site in the SE Network when voting to close?

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answered Sep 26 at 20:31 James K 124k

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How to vote to keep a question open?

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modified Sep 22 at 20:56 gotube 5,938

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Serial proofreading?

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modified Sep 22 at 15:26 ColleenV 11.4k

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Should we create a new tag or even a new site for reviewing (short) English essays/passage written by learners?

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Where do I can find the real-world-based and trusted-worthy English verb tenses exercises?

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How to encourage use-mention distinction?

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Many comments under my answer

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modified Sep 10 at 18:00 GlorfindelMod 13.9k

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Why did "Community" (the system) delete three questions with their four answers?

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Toxic and Inappropriate comments by the Community bot

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Is this question really unclear? [closed]

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Is there a guide for English verb tenses?

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Can I ask for passage reviews in this community?

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answered Aug 29 at 19:37 James K 124k

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Edits to my answers sometimes generate multiple answers rather than applying the edits

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Are 'research/detail' close votes being used too liberally?

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answered Aug 11 at 19:13 ColleenV 11.4k

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What's the policy on using profanity in answers (where appropriate)?

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Are "what does this mean: [phrase in particular dialect]?" questions off-topc?

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Consolidated grammar tag discussions and a clean-up proposal

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Overuse of 'multiple questions' close reason

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Odd link colors rule on ELL main

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Announcement: We have our 5,000th question

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Using symbols without explanation

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modified Jul 28 at 6:01 CommunityBot 1

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Where else for help on English Reasoning Questions?

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What can we do to encourage people to participate here in meta?

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How to emend or improve my English Reasoning Questions?

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unlocking questions with historical significance

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Why can't I post questions?

discussion questions

modified Jul 23 at 4:54 Mari-Lou A 21.4k

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Should the "writing" tag be changed to "written-english"?

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English textbooks [duplicate]

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What's the standard process for getting a closed question reopened again?

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Why was an edit which improves an imprecise point of the original answer rejected? [duplicate]

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Why was an edit which adds new points rejected?

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We should probably have this option too while recommending deletion

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Most comprehensive guide for article usage (a/an/the/no article)

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answered May 18 at 14:01 ColleenV 11.4k

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DO NOT FEED THE BEARS

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(Completed) Should [answers] be a synonym of [responses]?

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Research, research, dictionary, dictionary, do OPs need to look up all the dictionaries on the internet?

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Why do ELL posts need to be edited before reversing a downvote to an upvote?

support editing votes

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Traditional grammar vs. "contemporary grammar" as a vocabulary for talking about grammar with EFL learners

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Book recommendations for English learners

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