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Is "please let me know if otherwise" grammatical?
Is this sentence grammatical? "please let me know if otherwise" The context for it is when I am sending an email to the boss saying: I am gonna do this and that, please let me know if otherwise.
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"Lunch" vs. "dinner" vs. "supper" — times and meanings?
There's actually quite a bit of variation in different regions of the US. As I said, it's quite common to hear Dinner as the noontime meal in many areas of the American South. I've noticed that there's even a split in Texas where some regions use Lunch/Dinner and others use Dinner/Supper. These differences have tended to mix up and get confused as people from different regions have mixed, and ...
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Origin of fag (meaning a cigarette in British English)
Aside from the offensive meaning, colloquial British English uses the term fag to indicate a cigarette. James has gone outside for a fag In my googling, I thought perhaps this originates from one...
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"Have a look" vs. "Take a look" - English Language & Usage Stack Exchange
What is the difference between Have a look and Take a look (meaning/connotations)? For example: Have a look at the question. Take a look at the question. For some reason I only found first versio...
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Should it be 10 US$ or US$ 10? - English Language & Usage Stack Exchange
Which is correct to use in a sentence, 10 US$ or US$ 10. Perhaps USD should be used instead or even something else?
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Which day does "next Tuesday" refer to? - English Language & Usage ...
And then there's "Last Tuesday"... but let's not get started on that one! All in all, unless you know that you speak the same "calendar language" as someone else (and it isn't always obvious) your best bet is to: Use a different way to express yourself, "Tuesday of Next Week", for example. Use dates, "Tuesday 11th". Or get out your calendar and ...
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verbs - "Let's" vs. "lets": which is correct? - English Language ...
Let’s is the English cohortative word, meaning “let us” in an exhortation of the group including the speaker to do something. Lets is the third person singular present tense form of the verb let meaning to permit or allow. In the questioner’s examples, the sentence means to say “Product (allows/permits you to) do something awesome”, so the form with lets is correct.
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Using contracted forms ("don't", "let's") in a formal text
How compelled should I feel to use non-contracted forms (do not rather than don't and so on) when writing in a rather formal text, say an academic paper? In one case I am afraid to seem too stilted...
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Why is karma a bitch? - English Language & Usage Stack Exchange
Also used as the rhetorical question Ain't karma a bitch? Synonyms: What goes around, comes around Getting his just desserts He had it coming and strongly related to Payback's a bitch It is likely a mix of having bad Karma and the idiom Payback's a bitch, where Payback is performed by someone wronged by the now punished person, but Karma just happened to the person for some seemingly righteous ...
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Correctly say "I will let you know with further updates"
3 Try this - "I will notify you of further updates. This is common in business AmE. More colloquial, and common in casual situations: I'll let you know if anything changes.