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How to analyze lightly varying senses of adjective very

semantics determiners meaning

as mine - as I (am). semantics [closed]

grammar grammaticality american-english british-english semantics

Is there a term for ascribing acts of the human mind to non-human objects, and when is it appropriate to do this?

meaning word-usage formality semantics abstract-nouns

Is there a word that describes this particular sneaky play on words?

single-word-requests phrase-requests semantics expression-requests

Is a thumb also a finger?

meaning nouns usage semantics hypernyms

Is it acceptable to use "womyn" or "womin" instead of "women"?

orthography semantics variants

Does "criticism" imply positive as well as negative?

semantics semantic-shift

Is there a term for “neutral” words whose connotations are limited to being either positive or negative?

semantics linguistics rhetoric

Is there a word for a question that leads to more questions?

meaning semantics

Syntactically correct, semantically incorrect sentence

syntactic-analysis semantics homework

Idiom: in my neck of the woods, AmE

etymology idioms american-english semantics

Idiom: Bear with me

etymology idioms semantics

Intransitive use of "to wake" vs. "to wake up" [closed]

word-choice meaning-in-context differences phrasal-verbs semantics

"Liberty" versus "freedom"

word-choice semantics

Does "mislead" imply intent?

verbs semantics

What do you call private and public boxes where letters are put?

single-word-requests word-choice word-usage semantics speech

What does ”gosh” mean? [closed]

Is "to" inclusive in “I worked at company X from April 2012 to April 2013”? [duplicate]

prepositions usage semantics dates range-inclusion

What is the grammatical construction in “Be but sworn”?

semantics early-modern-english syntactic-analysis shakespeare

Re: "a premise which maintains that…" Can a premise maintain?

usage semantics