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What sort of English should I use on Stack Exchange websites, British or American?
What kind of language should I learn to properly ask and answer here?
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Are possibly rude comments allowed?
Someone made a comment on my answer saying:
Very poor answer tbh of a new contributor bounty hunting.
Would this be allowed? I don't think this is the purpose for commenting, so I flagged it.
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Am I allowed to post short, simple answers if they answer the question?
An example answer would be:
The second sentence is correct.
Which would be an answer to this question:
Which sentence is correct? “I is human” or “I am human”?
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The only answer on a bountied question
If my answer is the only answer on a bountied question, do I still get the bounty even if my answer is not accepted?
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Telling people not to advertise in an answer
An advertisement was posted on the site. I posted an answer:
Please do not advertise here, this is a place for asking questions and answering them.
Would this be allowed? (To protect my reputation ...
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The IELTS academic exam [closed]
I want to prepare for the IELTS academic exam, and I am so confused about the best resources. Do you have any suggestion for me?
And in your opinion, which is better Collins or Cambridge books for ...
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Book that covers less obvious rules for using 'a/an' and 'the' articles
Could you suggest a comprehensive textbook or academic research study that covers all the cases of using articles (a/an and the) in English? I'm having trouble finding a detailed and well-reasoned ...
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Happy 10th, English Language Learners!
It’s been 10 years since this site was proposed in Area 51, so we’re celebrating ELL’s 10th anniversary!
In the beginning, this site was started by users of English Language and Usage (EL&U), as a ...
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"You can’t post new questions right now"
While trying to post, I'm receiving:
Sorry, we are no longer accepting questions from your account because
most of your questions need improvement or are out of scope for this
site. See the Help ...
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Resources for learning academic/formal writing?
Referring to this Amazon review of a book,
The writing style is extremely poor ... The grammatical style is horrendous: incorrect usage, nonparallel structure, misplaced commas, run-on sentences, etc....
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What famous formal literature or writing has used "still more" as a conjunction?
I have a question about my English Language Learners Stack Exchange post: What famous formal literature or writing has used "still more" as a conjunction?
How can we improve or salvage What ...
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Is it on topic to ask about English advice given by ChatGPT?
This question
Can "neither do I" apply to both disagreement with positive statement and agreement with negative statement?
asks whether the advice given by ChatGPT (we can use 'Neither do I' ...
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2022: a year in moderation
As we say goodbye to the old year and welcome the new one, we have a tradition of sharing moderation stats for the preceding calendar year.
As most of you here are aware, sites on the Stack Exchange ...
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EL&U.SE vs ELL.SE
I'm a monolinguist but have had a bad experience on English Language & Usage (EL&U).
Might I break any (site-specific) rule for asking questions here instead of EL&U?
Sure I could get ...
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Can I submit a video here for feedback on my pronunciation?
I am trying to improve my pronunciation of English words. For these purposes, I make short videos. That is, I want to know not about a specific word, but in general how understandable my speech is.
My ...
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How to further improve English listening?
I can easily understand the conversation from Twitch or Live Youtuber shows. However, when I watch shows on Netflix or Amazon Prime videos, I cannot understand their talks... It looks like I listen ...
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Short rhymed English texts for memorization
I'm searching for short English texts to memorize. Provided that it has: rhyme and assonance easy to repeat (Like:If— by Rudyard Kipling).My experience in learning my mother tongue Arabic in addition ...
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Is there a platform that provides actual education and puts a huge emphasis on students' improvement?
Am I the only one who feels that these English-teaching websites are just a way for teachers to make a few bucks here and there?
It seems that the majority don't really focus on the intricacies of ...
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Are grammar and usage beyond the scope of the ELL site?
The question concerned the difference between for and to in terms of a guiding principle:
Original question on ELL
The moderator posted this under the question:
"There are several rules that ...
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What is "slang"?
Moving this topic of conversation from If someone says "That hair tho", does it have a positive or a negative meaning?
I am more than happy to (or have someone else) remove the 2 instances ...
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Answering when proof of negative required
Someone asked a question of the form: "What makes these words special grammatically, and are there any others like them". link
I am near 100% certain that there is no rule, but, sadly, not ...
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Feature request for "reopen votes" queue: Can it display the reasons for close votes?
When I go through the "reopen votes" queue, it is useful to know why a question was closed. Knowing that, I can more quickly assess whether the problem has been fixed or not. (I still check ...
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I don't believe my answer should have been deleted
This post explicitly asks why people use the phrase in question:
I assume people say it just for fun, unless there is a good reason to say it this way, is there?
My answer is the only one that ...
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Moderators privileges
Let me start by stating that I am not questioning the right of moderators to close questions or perform any other of their duties. However I have noticed that, recently, more questions are being ...
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In the future, can questions and answers support the <iframe> HTML tag?
Stack Exchange supports a little bit of HTML.
For example, we can use <kbd> tags
<kbd>Example</kbd>
Example Example
CAT FACE
:3
I was wondering if the English Language ...
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As a native speaker, can I ask a parsing/meaning question?
English is my first language, but I have encountered a text that I cannot parse. I can extract some meaning from it, but on closer inspection it doesn't actually seem to be formally correct. Can I ask ...
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Need help understanding the logic behind the multiple downvotes
Firstly, I'm not asking this question to judge any member's freedom of giving downvotes nor am I judging their decisions. However, I've been wondering why I'm sometimes getting serial downvotes to my ...
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Mark-down tables fail to display on the English Language Learners Stack Exchange
I was trying to answer a question on ELL.
I tried to draw a table:
| A header | Another header |
| -------- | -------------- |
| First | row |
| Second | row |
There is a ...
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Are non-helpful negative comments typical of this site?
This isn't a complaint; I'm just trying to understand what's going on with this site, which I joined only 2 days ago.
My first answer, The usage of "would have",
received a comment ...
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Vocabulary tag rework?
The vocabulary tag has 1000 over questions, but unfortunately I'm not very sure how to tag questions with that tag. The description reads:
This tag is for questions about a body of words. It should ...
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No votes means not trustable?
In this question, the OP pointed out that the answer in the question I shared had no votes, so it was "untrustable":
break up or break down?
Should no votes mean the answer isn't trustable?...
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Should we take action on posts from experienced users with uncited quotes?
I got a flag quite recently pointing out that an experienced (rep >2k) user had included a quoted text in a post as an example, without specifying the source, or giving either attribution or ...
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What does that mean? (User was removed)
I see this but my account is not removed, I'm still able to ask questions.
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Are there conversation forums? [duplicate]
I have two friends who are learning English and badly need to practice speaking. Are there any sites that help with that? They live in the UK but are surrounded by many nationalities, and having ...
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Request question reopen (and/or explanation for closevotes)
The question Which is correct? do they? or don't they? or have they or haven't they? was summarily closed for reasons that aren't clear to me.
Personally, I don't think it's necessarily obvious that ...
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2022 Community Moderator Election Results
Moderator election #6 on English Language Learners has come to a close, the votes have been tallied, and the new moderators are:
They will be joining the existing crew shortly — please thank them for ...
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Are there any recommendable books or websites to learn grammar myths?
There are many methods of phrasing one's words that are not told in a standard grammar book, especially in oral English. If there is a book or website about this kind of myths, it would be very ...
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How to access the comments generated during the nomination phase of the election?
During the nomination phase of the election, under each candidate's self-nomination form, there was a comment thread. I found those comments quite valuable in helping me decide whom to vote for.
I ...
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Lack of "will-future" tag
Our site doesn't have a tag for "will-future".
For such a basic part of English grammar, and for a site with as much question depth as we have, its not an oversight. This tells me there's ...
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Nomination Criteria for Moderator Elections
It is very easy to be a candidate in a moderator election. Only three requirements are needed:
To be 18 or over
To have earned 300 reputation points (equivalent of thirty upvotes)
Not be suspended ...
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Profile info in contributor's guide?
This answer has been proposed for the Contributor's Guide to English Language Learners (which I recommend). It suggests things that a contributor might want to include in his or her profile. Is ...
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What is the Minimum Number of Candidates?
What is the minimum number of candidates needed for an election of moderators to proceed to the final, election, phase? What happens if there are not enough?
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Are you wondering how a candidate’s score is calculated?
One bit of information voters might find helpful that I don't see linked anywhere obvious in the election pages is how the candidate score is calculated:
The Candidate Score can range from 0 to 40, ...
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2022 Community Moderator Election
The election is now over! You can read the results here!
The 2022 Community Moderator Election is now underway!
Community moderator elections have three phases:
Nomination phase [Completed]
Primary ...
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2022 Moderator Election Q&A – Question Collection
The purpose of this thread was to collect questions for the questionnaire. The questionnaire is now live, and you may find it here.
English Language Learners Stack Exchange is scheduled for an ...
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Why so many questions about "can I mix tenses in one sentence"?
There seem to be a lot of questions about "Can I have more than one tense in a sentence?" (e.g. I ordered a product on saturday and it has been delivered as well)
I'm wondering if there's ...
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Answer needs to be undeleted
Lambie's answer to "Counter" in "countersteering" an adverb or adjective? which was recently re-opened should be undeleted promptly. I see no valid reason why it was ever deleted. ...
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How can get help from this community if I can't hear some audio clearly?
Recently I am learning the Cambridge practice tests for IELTS, the listening part is the most difficult for me. Even if I look at the transcripts when I am listening to the audio, I find that there ...
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Is it me or is it crazy that 70% of the questions on the main page were downvoted at least once?
It's me or is it crazy that 70% of the questions on the main page were downvoted once? I am not sure why this is OK, I think there's a serial downvoter who just downvotes every question for the sake ...
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Should we force people to tell you why they downvoted a question?
What do you call this input, terminal device?
Should we force people to tell you why they downvoted a question? Some people seem to downvote people for personal reasons. I feel a reason should be ...
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