English Language & Usage

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Is there a tool that provides/suggests words that come before or after a word?
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Website that identifies different sentence types
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Thank you, Professor Lawler and Rest in Peace!
Awarded Jan 8 at 19:31
Replacing our "research" close reason: Completed
Awarded Nov 23, 2023 at 15:09
Good free dialect quizzes?
Awarded Nov 20, 2023 at 4:04
Is SE enforcing "no answers in comments"?
Awarded Nov 2, 2023 at 2:16
Are Oxford Dictionaries available online now that Lexico is dead?
Awarded Sep 18, 2023 at 15:06
Warn people of the rules for [Single-Word-Requests] before posting
Awarded Sep 15, 2023 at 20:18
How can you tell if someone here actually knows something about a subject?
Awarded Sep 6, 2023 at 2:17
Good books or tutorials about English stress, tone and intonation
Awarded Aug 20, 2023 at 19:33
How does the ELU community define a century? When did this century start 2001 or 2000?
Awarded May 10, 2023 at 19:33
Difference between "locked" and "closed"
Awarded Apr 12, 2023 at 17:47
Should we update our site's policy against helping programmers choose names to use in their software?
Awarded Feb 28, 2023 at 3:08
Is there a site that you can search for words of the same root/origin of the word you enter?
Awarded Feb 15, 2023 at 23:18
Announcement: AI generated answers are officially banned here
Awarded Jan 4, 2023 at 3:35
Is there a free online Canadian English Dictionary? [duplicate]
Awarded Dec 3, 2022 at 10:07
Common accepted online resources [duplicate]
Awarded Nov 14, 2022 at 23:05
"Lexico" will be gone in less than a month
Awarded Oct 24, 2022 at 2:06
List of nouns by category
Awarded May 22, 2022 at 22:07
Would ELU like to start a trial of needing only 3 votes to close/reopen a question?
Awarded Apr 11, 2022 at 19:47
2022 Moderator Election Q&A – Question Collection
Awarded Mar 23, 2022 at 16:32
3-vote close - how's it going?
Awarded Mar 23, 2022 at 1:00
2016 Moderator Election Q&A - Questionnaire
Awarded Mar 9, 2022 at 4:02
Who will take up the mantle?
Awarded Feb 28, 2022 at 22:32
Difference between 'No Action Needed' and 'Skip'
Awarded Jan 18, 2022 at 5:03
Exception to 30 character minimum for answers
Awarded Dec 29, 2021 at 20:47
What is a “canonical answer”?
Awarded Nov 22, 2021 at 6:07
Why are answers being posted in the comments on the question?
Awarded Nov 3, 2021 at 7:18
How to compare frequencies of words over time between British and American English on the same graph
Awarded Aug 2, 2021 at 10:30
RIP Oxford “living” Dictionaries
Awarded Apr 28, 2021 at 11:30
I want to know the meaning of 'OP?' [duplicate]
Awarded Mar 2, 2021 at 13:47
Where can I find a list of English words sorted by popularity, together with their pronunciations?
Awarded Feb 11, 2021 at 22:32
Objectively relating how common a word is
Awarded Feb 8, 2021 at 2:05
Do we really need to add "NSFW" in question titles?
Awarded Dec 30, 2020 at 16:31
Word Frequency on the Web
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What emphasis to use when referring to words?
Awarded Aug 15, 2020 at 15:16
Answers in comments
Awarded Jul 25, 2020 at 8:34
Top 10,000 English Verbs (Open Source List)
Awarded Jul 21, 2020 at 0:33
Support for Monica Cellio
Awarded Apr 13, 2020 at 22:00
Add tag synonym [opposite] for tag [antonym]
Awarded Apr 4, 2020 at 18:45
Where are lists of hyponyms and their superordinates?
Awarded Mar 27, 2020 at 19:45
I'm human but can't get past the captcha; because it does not display
Awarded Mar 13, 2020 at 9:30
Is it easy to spot an educated non-native speaker on a website like this?
Awarded Mar 3, 2020 at 15:30
English Dictionary in one text file
Awarded Dec 25, 2019 at 17:15
Are minor jokes in answers and questions OK when they are slightly discriminating against certain groups?
Awarded Dec 20, 2019 at 16:15
Should we fix backticks?
Awarded Dec 4, 2019 at 1:45
Is spoken language ontologically superior to written language, really?
Awarded Oct 16, 2019 at 19:45
Please vote on this proposal to ban from question titles certain words whose posts we usually end up closing and deleting
Awarded Oct 16, 2019 at 7:30
What the f*** just happened?
Awarded Oct 14, 2019 at 13:30
How should the new Lexico-hosted Oxford dictionary be cited?
Awarded Oct 13, 2019 at 16:30
Google Ngrams for the web (not just books)
Awarded Oct 10, 2019 at 0:45
Can anything be done about mean-spirited requests for terminology?
Awarded Jun 28, 2019 at 20:00
What's the English word for my father's brother's nephew's cousin's former roommate?
Awarded Jun 17, 2019 at 15:30
Would someone please explain why these question closures are such a bad thing?
Awarded May 13, 2019 at 8:15
So, what's your story?
Awarded May 9, 2019 at 13:45
Is 'damn' offensive?
Awarded May 8, 2019 at 22:45
Memes of English Language & Usage
Awarded May 8, 2019 at 17:30
Proposal to add small-capitals formatting directive
Awarded Apr 19, 2019 at 2:30
This is not a site for "serious English language enthusiasts," and it never will be
Awarded Apr 7, 2019 at 13:45
Is using "colored girls" as an incidental example offensive or unwelcoming?
Awarded Mar 5, 2019 at 3:15
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