New posts in animacy

"What am I" vs. "who am I"

word-choice grammaticality pronouns questions animacy

"Whose" but not in reference to humans [duplicate]

grammaticality pronouns possessives animacy possessive-of-which

Verbs with Inanimate Subjects

verbs animacy

Why is "the tail/house of the dog" correct, but "the bowl of the dog" not?

prepositions animals animacy

Using Verbs With Inanimate Objects

verbs adjectives animacy personification middle-voice

What is the appropriate usage of this Who's and What's to imply possession of a property [duplicate]

grammaticality pronouns possessives animacy possessive-of-which

Can 'whose' be used for objects? [duplicate]

possessives animacy possessive-of-which

Using "he" or "she" for an animal not a person?

personal-pronouns animacy natural-gender

Why is it common in English to address animals as "it"?

personal-pronouns animacy natural-gender

Can I Switch from "it" to "he" or "she" when referring to an animal in a story? [closed]

personal-pronouns animals animacy natural-gender

Animateness-neutral "its"

american-english grammatical-number collective-nouns animacy notional-concord

smitten with/by

prepositions adjectives past-participles animacy

Is it correct to use an apostrophe to indicate something that belongs to an object? [duplicate]

possessives apostrophe animacy possessive-s-vs-of

Can an inanimate object "claim" to do something? Like a car that "claims" 45 mpg?

animacy direct-objects

Is it grammatical to say of some potential meaning that it is "able to be said" or "trying to be said"?

grammaticality infinitives passive-voice animacy

Isn't "who"/"whose" only used for people?

relative-pronouns animacy

"He" / "she" vs. "it" regarding beloved objects

personal-pronouns animacy natural-gender

Question about "The portrait utilizes a palette of..."

meaning word-choice animacy

Which is correct: "staff that may have this information" or "staff who may have this information"? [closed]

relative-pronouns collective-nouns animacy who-that

Usage of "whose" not referring to a person [duplicate]

grammaticality pronouns possessives animacy possessive-of-which