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 …

Sep 2, 2020 · I tried to research the difference beween particle and preposition in phrasal verb, but the information on this website is not very clear. According to the website, in "She is …

Apr 24, 2017 · 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, …

Aug 30, 2024 · 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 …

Nov 22, 2023 · 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 …

Oct 11, 2018 · 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.

May 24, 2023 · 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 …

May 12, 2018 · Incidentally, 'particle' is not a word category (part of speech). Most so-called particles are prepositions occurring between verb and object as in "Kim took the suitcase …

Jun 19, 2015 · A particle of dust, esp. one of the innumerable minute specks seen floating in a beam of light; (contextually) an irritating particle in the eye or throat. [OED] An example from …

Feb 2, 2024 · In the question [What is the grammar underpinning] You're too clever a man to imagine this, Laurel explains that this is termed the Big Mess Construction (see Arnold & …