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As long as your question's accepted answer is the only question/answer ever askable on ELU regarding tense, there will be only the boilerplate stamping "Duplicate" and thus it is, thus it will ever be …

I can't recall, but I'd be one to downvote for the following reasons: I don't know how a sucking sound relates to English Language & Usage I can't figure out if the request is serious, and in what c …

An opinion-based question is one that cannot be authoritatively answered based upon standardized sourced material. It should be closed because it cannot be authoritatively answered based upon standar …

On How can I prove a word is a noun? @Aurucaria thus spake: @DanBron Bad advice;-) Dictionaries are RUBBISH on parts of speech. If the reference materials that we hold dear–genuflection includ …

In a comment to a question, I mentioned that I hadn't heard the usage of a specific term as an American. I was told that the comment was not relevant and would have been subject to request for deletio …

It seems we have an influx of questions relating to non-native English speakers attempting to, for lack of a better term, wrap their tongues around the English tongue. The arguments: It should be …

I, too, have been frustrated with there is no such word and then have been proven wrong, or at least overruled by well-meaning editors upvoting other answers that, of course, clearly don't reflect my …

Do you feel that questions that begin with Is or Can are generally poor questions? I'm tempted to downvote them in general, but rather now I'm attempting to edit the questions to not be Yes/No. If th …

I made the change to the answer to conform to the rules: I made the edit because it's okay to edit questions and answers here. You were given an opportunity to make a change to make an answer an an …

In my opinion, even as I'm one who has answered a known duplicate question, I won't delete my answer if it's significantly different from the answers given on the duplicate question. Some duplicate qu …

I have 3 out of 4 close votes for POB on something that is not POB. There's an answer, a real one, that has real English rules that should be attached. I want to know ... whose opinion would it be tha …

Part of the use of tags is the [question] use of tags. The other part is the [viewer] use of tags. If one uses tags and another does not, it's just unnecessary tagging. Tagging should be as precise a …

The question: Word for an Origin and Destination without regard for route [closed] was closed as off-topic. I can't figure out why. I know an (unfortunate) edit to the question indicated naming of p …

The Question Future tense and future perfect tense [closed] was marked as off-topic. Admittedly, no sufficient followup for clarification was presented, but I wanted to ask (or at least find an answe …

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