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Providing unsolicited advice in addition to answering the question

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Election check-in 2023: Who's interested in stepping up and being a moderator here?

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Duplicates: why not be able to choose more than one?

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Should moderators delete answers for combining terseness with comprehensiveness?

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Weird behavior of [answers] tag when asking question

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Can you suggest any AI based voice chat robot (such as some website) to practice spoken English?

CommunityBot

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modified Nov 25 at 1:01

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Book that covers less obvious rules for using 'a/an' and 'the' articles

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modified Nov 24 at 17:03

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Should we expand the “It’s in the dictionary” close reason to include etymological questions?

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answered Nov 23 at 1:01

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Online collocation dictionaries and English corpus search resources

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modified Nov 20 at 22:09

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Is historical English interpretation part of ELL's remit?

LaurelMod

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answered Nov 9 at 17:56

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Is it against the rules to make ChatGPT generate a text and ask questions about how that text is grammatical or not?

gotubeMod

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answered Nov 5 at 7:32

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Can we add a new reason to the "Close" list?

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modified Nov 2 at 14:07

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Why are these questions being closed with the proofreading close reason?

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answered Oct 26 at 20:27

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Election check-in - Who's interested in stepping up to help being a moderator here?

gotubeMod

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modified Oct 24 at 20:20

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comment font legibility on ELL (letter-spacing)

TimR on some device

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asked Oct 15 at 18:32

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Vocabulary tag rework?

CommunityBot

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modified Oct 2 at 13:07

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How can I underline a text on ELL?

LaurelMod

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answered Sep 30 at 12:36

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Passage in Progressive Tense

Mari-Lou A

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modified Sep 28 at 6:18

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How can I learn Indian English?

gomennathan

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Sep 27 at 5:43

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Are answers written by AI Chatbots suitable for the site?

gotubeMod

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modified Sep 21 at 22:32

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Is ELL getting too PC ("Politically Correct")?

fred2

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modified Sep 20 at 21:37

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Would a community wiki/standard answer on dictionary definitions be helpful?

fred2

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asked Sep 20 at 21:26

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Should we close a question that is a duplicate on ELU?

Mari-Lou A

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modified Sep 8 at 8:33

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Resources for learning the proper shape of the mouth and the position of the tongue in pronunciation

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modified Sep 7 at 9:52

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How should I respond to reopen my 10 days-over closed 'ask question'?

gotubeMod

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answered Sep 6 at 18:27

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Dictionary which allows specific searches

LaurelMod

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answered Sep 6 at 16:39

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12 answers

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Formatting Sandbox – Please test stuff here

gotubeMod

48.9k

modified Sep 6 at 8:40

5 votes

1 answer

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Why so many questions about "can I mix tenses in one sentence"?

CommunityBot

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modified Aug 19 at 5:04

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Would it be helpful to have a canonical post on Tense and Aspect? [Proposal stage (incomplete)]

Quack E. Duck

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modified Aug 12 at 16:26

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Are questions about English language certifications on-topic?

LaurelMod

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modified Aug 11 at 14:26

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1 answer

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How should I summarize all ELL tags into 4-5 groups/modules?

LaurelMod

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modified Aug 11 at 13:16

2 votes

2 answers

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Are requests for part-of-speech tagging in example use on-topic?

MarcInManhattan

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answered Aug 9 at 6:38

26 votes

16 answers

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Contributor's Guide to English Language Learners

ColleenV

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modified Jul 28 at 17:32

3 votes

1 answer

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Canonical posts

Quack E. Duck

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modified Jul 28 at 3:58

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What book do you suggest for modern grammar?

MarcInManhattan

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modified Jul 25 at 2:10

6 votes

2 answers

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What should be the qualifications for answering questions?

Araucaria - Not here any more.

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modified Jul 23 at 10:52

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Should I flag ‘X or Y’ questions?

Araucaria - Not here any more.

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modified Jul 23 at 0:43

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Re-open request

gotubeMod

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answered Jul 12 at 17:48

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large general american audio archive

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answered Jun 26 at 20:15

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Resources for learning English

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modified Jun 16 at 18:58

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As English learner, it is hard for me to grasp shades of meaning between synonyms. Is there a resource available that can help me with this?

Shoe

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answered Jun 14 at 17:23

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What should I study to learn academic English that is used for mathematics?

00GB

Jun 9 at 18:11

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Why is my edit rejected?

MarcInManhattan

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answered Jun 6 at 2:51

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1 answer

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Request for migration of a question - [resolved]

gotubeMod

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answered May 23 at 3:11

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2 answers

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Which is it? People don't really take the time to understand the questions or I worded them so badly that they are unintelligible?

Quack E. Duck

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modified May 22 at 22:15

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Object complement - good sources

Meriem AISSAOUI

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May 5 at 14:23

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Backing up i.imgur.com images that may be at risk due to their new ToS

TRiG

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answered May 2 at 20:33

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