Oct 27, 2015 · I am trying to find out if this question is correct. Did Wang Bo used to be awkward? Should I write "use to be" instead of "used to be," or is "used to be" correct in this sentence?

Feb 14, 2024 · 1 To add to Kate Bunting's comment, some has been used with singular nouns to refer generally to the noun (e.g. "some church", "some castle") as early as the 12th century. The practical …

Jul 28, 2017 · If "used to" is a set idiomatic phrase (i.e. not a tense), then why would it change its form from "use to" to "used to" for the sentence as it does in the positive?

Jul 29, 2024 · These make up the vast majority of hits for 'can help doing something' in the Corpus of Contemporary American English. In the sentence given though, help is quite definitely a verb, and …

Jul 29, 2023 · Spook was actually used by black people to refer to white people, presumably on the notion of “white” ghosts. spook n. [SE spook, a ghost] (US black) a white person. 1939 [US] P.E. …

Oct 17, 2023 · The parenthetical should be (read "bogus") This is often used as a sarcastic way to point out that the word being referenced is not being used honestly, and this is the actual way to …

Aug 12, 2021 · First, "more than one" and "many" are acceptable meanings for " multiple." 1 : consisting of, including, or involving more than one: multiple births, multiple choices 2 : MANY, MANIFOLD …

The that is a pronoun referring back to a noun phrase and the which is the relative pronoun used for non-animate antecedents. If we expand the shortest of the OP's example sentences to replace the …

To me, "used to" and "used for" are incompatible, as shown in the examples below. However, I am unable to substantiate this. MS Word doesn't "see" the differences, so I turned to "Essential grammar...

Oct 5, 2015 · "Non-" is defined as "a prefix meaning 'not,' freely used as an English formative, usually with a simple negative force as implying mere negation or absence of something (rather than the …