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What is particle in the syntax? - English Language & Usage Stack Exchange
In addition to the interrogative particle 'ara' in Greek or 'ne' in Latin, a speaker/writer could signal that the expected answer was 'yes', by using instead the particle arou (Greek) or nonne (Latin), or could signal the opposite by using instead the particle (s) 'ara may (αρα μη). They are indicating to us 'how to take the sentence'.
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What’s the difference between particulate and particle? Should it be diesel particulates or diesel particles, and why? Could you provide three or more examples where it should use particulate rat...
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particle vs preposition? How to know the difference?
2 I tried to research the difference beween particle and preposition in phrasal verb, but the information on this website is not very clear.
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Initial capitalization of foreign surnames with 'particles' when ...
Fortunately, The Chicago Manual of Style (16th edition) deals with this question on page 388: 8.5 Names with particles. Many names include particles such as de, d', de la, von, van, and ten. Practice with regard to capitalization and spacing the particles varies widely, and confirmation should be sought in a biographical dictionary or other authoritative source. When the surname is used alone ...
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Is "don't" a particle of its own? - English Language & Usage Stack Exchange
The sentence * Why do not you just do it? sounds ungrammatical to me, but Why don't you just do it? seems fine. (I am not a native speaker.) I have three questions: Is "don't" a particle of its own? Is there a name for this grammatical phenomenon? Are there other cases besides negated questions where don't cannot be deconstructed?
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To negate a participle phrase we use not at the beginning of it, as in "Not having heard the news, he had no idea what was going on." Can we also use the negative particle in some other porition in...
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The past participle of "split": "split" or "splitted"?
The past tense, and past participle of "split" is "split". I don't think that "splitted" is grammatical, though I dare say it gets used.
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Comma before 'like' - English Language & Usage Stack Exchange
The third example is confusing. Is it a) Metaheuristics, like particle swarm optimization, evolutionary algorithms, and memetic algorithms, are used in the literature to solve the optimization problem, or, b) Metaheuristics are used in the literature, like particle swarm optimization, evolutionary algorithms, and memetic algorithms, to solve the optimization problem, or, c) Metaheuristics are ...
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idioms - Idiomatic stress: phrasal verbs - English Language & Usage ...
The members of this list of 'phrasal verbs' with particle 'down' provided by Proofreadingservices.com seem to have the stress on 'down' (I've only checked a sample). And note that 'pour forth' has the expected stress on the particle 'forth' rather than the simplex verb. It seems that pour/ing // pelt/ing // tipping down are anomalies.
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When is "to" a preposition and when the infinitive marker?
That is, it consists of a verb followed by an adverbial particle, followed by a preposition. It can be followed by a noun phrase (‘I’m looking forward to the match’) or by the -ing form of a verb (‘I’m looking forward to seeing you’), but not by to + infinitive.