Most answered questions under tag english

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posted Dec 24, 2016 by Atindra Kumar Nath

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"A Dictionary of the English Language", first published in 1755, becoming one of the most influential dictionaries......

posted Jul 15, 2016 by Madhavi Latha

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What is "The Brown Bag" Idiom means?

posted Feb 22, 2016 by Atindra Kumar Nath

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What is an adverb in english, please explain with example?

posted Dec 29, 2015 by anonymous

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Before 1066 when William the Conqueror was crowned, what body counselled the English king?

posted Apr 12 by Dilbagh

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In the lyric "If I were a rich man…", from the musical "Fiddler on the Roof", what describes "were" grammatically?

posted Mar 1 by Parampreet Kaur

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What word is used to denote a summary or miniature form of something, and is also used as a synonym for "embodiment"?

posted Feb 20 by Mohammad

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The word "meow", or "miaou", is an example of what?

posted Jan 8 by Manish Tiwari

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Which English explorer commanded the ships "Discovery" and "Terra Nova" to explore the Antarctic?

posted Dec 20, 2023 by Rahul Chandel

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The English sovereigns Henry VII and Mary I were members of which Royal House?

posted Oct 5, 2023 by Simranjeet Singh

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Which is the closest synonym to "gavage"?

posted Oct 5, 2023 by Anuradha Tabyal

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The convention in the English language which means that there is "mish mash" and "zig zag" and not "mash mish"..........

posted Sep 25, 2023 by Ankur Athari

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What is the adjective usually attached to someone called a codger?

posted Sep 11, 2023 by Aarati Mahajan

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How many common nouns are there in the words "Twinkle, twinkle, little star. How I wonder what you are."?

posted Jul 10, 2023 by Sandeep Bedi

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The words "the", "a" and "an" are what parts of speech?

posted Jan 10, 2023 by Nimish

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English artist Alison Lapper, MBE, who with her son also featured in a BBC documentary series "Child of our Time".......

posted Jan 2, 2023 by Sidharth Malhotra

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What flower is the English rugby team emblem?

posted Nov 11, 2022 by Sidharth Malhotra

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Who was on the English throne at the time of the "Gunpowder Plot" to blow up the House of Lords?

posted Oct 27, 2022 by Nikhil Pandey

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How many apostrophes should be in the following sentence: "Andrews dogs licked their lips whenever Pavlovs bells........

posted Sep 19, 2022 by Swati Arora

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Which mainland South American country has English as its official language?

posted Aug 4, 2022 by Ritika

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How many verbs are in the following sentence: "Roger told his dog not to jump on the furniture with muddy feet"?

posted Jun 2, 2022 by Ritika

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What name was given to a trooper in the Parliamentarian cavalry formed by Oliver Cromwell during the English Civil War?

posted Jun 2, 2022 by Vikram Luthra

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A sound change within a word that indicates grammatical information is known as what?

posted May 8, 2022 by Kuldeep Apte

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What is the opposite of diminuendo?

posted Apr 28, 2022 by Anamika

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What was the name of the English parliament that restored Charles II as king in 1660?

posted Apr 22, 2022 by Madhavi Latha

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The word "the" is what part of speech?

posted Mar 2, 2022 by Aarati Mahajan

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Which English soccer player, whose career in first class soccer ran from 1958 to 1976, was captain...................

posted Feb 3, 2022 by Manish Tiwari

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The English football team played the World Cup Final in 1966 in what coloured shirts?

posted Nov 5, 2021 by Puneet Batra

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Which English King died of dysentery while campaigning in France?

posted Aug 23, 2021 by Saif Khanam

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Which English town is known for its collection of concrete cows?

posted May 6, 2021 by Aastha Joshi

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What was the name of the English law court, subsequently abolished in 1641, that had a mandate from Henry VII...........

posted Apr 7, 2021 by Ujjwal Mehra

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What is the most populous country that has English as an official language?

posted Apr 1, 2021 by Divya Bharti

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Which English King was married to Eleanor of Aquitaine?

posted Mar 25, 2021 by Rajni

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Who was the last English king from the House of Normandy, succeeded by Henry II in 1154, the first of the Plantagenets?

posted Mar 18, 2021 by Saif Khanam

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Which English poet, dramatist, and art historian, a pioneer in the European study of Far Eastern painting wrote.........

posted Nov 27, 2020 by Rajni

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In English folklore, what symbolises fertility and rebirth?

posted Sep 29, 2020 by Basabdatta Mukherjee

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What is the meaning of the longest word in the English language which dictionaries have the space to include?

posted Sep 10, 2020 by Nikhil Pandey

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What well-known English author first published under the name Ellis Bell?

posted Sep 8, 2020 by Tapesh Kulkarni

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Which is the only country in the South American mainland to have English as its official language?

posted Aug 9, 2020 by Pardeep Kohli

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What name was given to the English Civil war in the 15th century between the rival houses of Lancaster and York?

posted Jun 21, 2020 by Anil Chaurasiya

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The English town of Hay-on-Wye is famous for a festival featuring what?

posted Apr 24, 2020 by Parampreet Kaur

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Shortly before her death, English writer, Anna Sewell (1820-1878), daughter of a successful children's book.............

posted Apr 18, 2020 by Mohammad

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Michael Billington was a well-known English critic in what field?

posted Mar 3, 2020 by Upma

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Which English novelist wrote "Decline and Fall", "Brideshead Revisited" and "Officers and Gentlemen"?

posted Feb 10, 2020 by Chahat Sharma

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Which English computer scientist and MIT professor implemented the first successful communication between an HTTP.......

posted Sep 10, 2019 by Sandeep Bedi

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Which English sculptor's famous works in London are the lions at the British Museum, "Peter Pan" in...................

posted Sep 4, 2019 by Maninder Bath

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What does the phrase "lickety spit" imply?

posted May 29, 2019 by Pardeep Kohli

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Identify the tenses of the following english sentences?

posted Apr 1, 2019 by Roshan! Katara

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Which article would be suitable in the following sentence - "He is_____boy who gave me a book."

posted Dec 29, 2018 by Sabzar Sofi

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Is it cheatting

posted Dec 23, 2018 by Norman Walker