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E
forged from spurs and swordhilts
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enkidu68
E
R
So/And
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3
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34
boozer
B
B
A good climate
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4
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30
Belanica
B
R
to have the speaker explain the way
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6
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143
ringu20
R
rightnow
I need three guys working on the ceiling, three people on the floor, everybody else is clean-up
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1
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35
PaulQ
PaulQ
S
Steer out
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3
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46
PaulQ
PaulQ
J
We had been having fun [Past perfect continuous]
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5
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77
sound shift
sound shift
eli7
my question is
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1
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32
Englishmypassion
Englishmypassion
thetazuo
more mourners were killed than <?> had died
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37
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392
thetazuo
thetazuo
NewAmerica
personal freedoms vs academic freedom
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3
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37
NewAmerica
NewAmerica
S
will verb+by (time)
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8
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80
boozer
B
A
Does "to back" equal to "to support"?
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6
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91
PaulQ
PaulQ
E
He doesn't/didn't know what it means/meant
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2
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28
DonnyB
DonnyB
S
get three assists with your player
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4
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68
seeeker
S
meneiggles
OR [alternative conjunction]
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3
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53
entangledbank
entangledbank
Tuanluong
The best I've read / I can't agree with you more
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11
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147
velisarius
velisarius
mia0815
heart on one's lips
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2
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48
mia0815
mia0815
nimafarahi
The Big Short
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4
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80
dojibear
dojibear
A
Came across a sticky situation
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1
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34
entangledbank
entangledbank
SuprunP
tore off part of the heel of bread
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2
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31
Barque
B
J
ask about problems with certain body parts
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4
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117
jeromedong
J
tracker890
Each boy and girl <has/is> received a good education.
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4
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61
tracker890
tracker890
G
Indefinite article before plural nouns
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11
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722
velisarius
velisarius
meneiggles
hands out [gesture]
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3
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42
meneiggles
meneiggles
N
Who threw it at you, anyway?
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4
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91
velisarius
velisarius
E
whoever did something (as a subject in a sentence)
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2
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69
dojibear
dojibear
K
has been detected vs was detected
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2
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54
keeley_h
K
keramus
a body bag with a dead man (in it)
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3
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46
Barque
B
HolyUnicorn
Carolina’s frontier was often aflame
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6
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99
HolyUnicorn
HolyUnicorn
E
Like gilded damask-flies,
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1
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35
Barque
B
Rigardo Lee
sketchy
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3
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47
Rigardo Lee
Rigardo Lee
banbi322
Of all women, <not one / not one> has
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1
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60
Uncle Jack
Uncle Jack
K
He was inadvertently describing what experts call a “microbreak
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2
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45
Kolridg
K
E
Moorish iniquity;
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6
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79
enkidu68
E
Zahraa Samy
bum bailiff
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4
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68
Zahraa Samy
Zahraa Samy
Susan Su
Is a sentence without subject acceptable?
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2
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50
Susan Su
Susan Su
B
"body heals itself"but "injured hand heals"
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6
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92
Uncle Jack
Uncle Jack
JJXR
on his way to a place <that's><that has> caught fire
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3
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66
JJXR
JJXR
JJXR
I've used different tenses. <I've marked><I marked> those tenses in bold.
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4
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73
JJXR
JJXR
JJXR
<That's><this is><it's> the first time I've ever been thinking
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4
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76
JJXR
JJXR
JJXR
I <have liked> it for three days now
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3
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95
JJXR
JJXR
G
no rest for the weary
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9
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38K
RochelleQ
RochelleQ
mia0815
pull fair
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3
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46
Cagey
C
N
itself/himself
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4
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51
Newbied
N
mia0815
pansies from the root I have been keeping
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2
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108
mia0815
mia0815
E
"by the way" at the end of a sentence
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1
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37
Cagey
C
A
Cients who have had the same experience like mine
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4
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71
dojibear
dojibear
S
stokaboka
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6
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118
daftmosquito
D
K
While/Despite English is...
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3
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64
Kiki Pantaleon
K
N
looked under the sink
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2
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55
dojibear
dojibear
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