Linked Questions
10 questions linked to/from So, you found a sentence or phrase... (Why you should cite your source)
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Please, everyone … details. Please!
I've seen a lot of questions crop up recently, where individuals are giving a very brief snippet of English, and asking questions like these:
Is this correct?
What does this mean?
What is the ...
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Contributor's Guide to English Language Learners
I thought it would be nice if we had a community maintained guide to ELL written in easy to understand language and arranged to make the most important things to know easy to find. The help center has ...
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DO NOT FEED THE BEARS
A question was just asked on ELL, and it needs a lot of work.
Here's a screen shot. There are two problems with this question: first, the way the initial question was asked; second, the way a follow-...
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What is the deal with voting here?
When can 'the' be used before a name?
That is just an example. I have noticed that people here don't bother to vote much. Can something be done about it?
Now I don't know which one of those ...
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Would you like some of EL&U's questions?
A couple of years ago this meta talked about taking question from EL&U:
Preparing for ELU to start migrating questions to ELL
There has been more than one occasion at EL&U where their ...
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Handling scant “What does this mean” questions
We have recently seen a number of questions in this basic format:
What does this mean?
The magic words are squeamish ossifrage.
I don't understand this quote.
When encountering ...
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2answers
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How to provide context If something randomly comes into your mind?
So I had asked a question and it was put on hold because there was not enough context.
What is the difference in these two sentenses?
So if you are writing a letter and you are confused between ...
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Comment Templates
Guidance is pretty important, and that's usually emphasized when we notice a new user's downvoted question without any comments.
Comments are also ephemeral necessary evils — they're both ...
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Why will my account be blocked?
I was trying asking a question , it says :
Wait! Some of your past questions have not been well-received, and you're in danger of being blocked from asking any more.
For help formulating a clear, ...
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Could somebody explain how to get the Curious, Inquisitive and Socratic badges?
I don't understand very well how it is possible to ask a question on 5 separate days or more. I can ask a question in 5 minutes or less.
Also very confused about what the phrase "positive question ...