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1. Is it ever okay to start a sentence with the word but?
2. Please look at this sentence: Both Peter and John like soccer. Should it be: Both Peter and John likes soccer.
3. What are the four genders of noun?
4. Is it grammatically correct to say "take some shots"?
5. What does ignominy mean? (From Shelley's Frankenstein)
6. What does pecuniary mean? (From Dickens' A Tale of Two Cities)
7. Why do some authors use the word an before all words that start with an H? Is this form of writing correct?
8. Which is correct: "if I was" or "if I were"? And why?
9. Could you please explain the difference between affect and effect?
10. What does it mean to ululate? (From Golding's Lord of the Flies)
11. Is there a difference between envy and jealousy?
12. Is ambrosia a salad? (From Homer's The Odyssey)
13. What is a harbinger? (From Shakespeare's Macbeth)
14. What does it mean to be refractory? (From Dickens' Great Expectations)
15. Can you define the words prostate and prostrate?
16. What is a querulous kid? (From Wharton's Ethan Frome)
17. What does it mean to be threadbare?
18. What does the word runagate mean? (From Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet)
19. What is homeostasis?
20. Is there a difference between the words ignorant and stupid?
21. What is the word, imprimis? (From Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew)
22. What does the word alchemy mean? (From Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter)
23. What is an estuary? (From Conrad's Heart of Darkness)
24. What or who is a scullion? (From Shakespeare's Hamlet)
25. I used the word reoccur in a paper and my teacher said it should have been recur. Can you tell me the difference?
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