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Bookmark or Share- word choice - "Particulate" vs. "particle" - English Language & Usage ...A particle is a small object. A particulate is made of one or more particles either combining to form a particle or created from one or more particles. The definition is simple enough but the usage gets dificult at times. PARTICLE(S) A drop of diesel contains many diesel particles.
- How many different parts of speech can the f-word be used as?In an "interesting" thread of comments we began to look at the word fuck in several different uses. Most of them were interjections and verb uses as would be expected. But, perhaps dialectally, th...
- Initial capitalization of foreign surnames with 'particles' when ...Practice with regard to capitalization and spacing the particles varies widely, and confirmation should be sought in a biographical dictionary or other authoritative source. When the surname is used alone, the particle is usually retained, capitalized or lowercased and spaced as in the full name (though always capitalized when beginning a ...
- verbs - The past participle of "split": "split" or "splitted ...I have just written a question in the PPCG site, and now that I read it again I have just noticed that I have just written "split" and "splitted" randomly as the past participle of "to split": C...
- When is "to" a preposition and when the infinitive marker?Some would class the three-word string as a transitive multi-word verb (and possibly reclassify the to as a particle if pressed to parse individual words). Notice that a noun as well as an -ing group could occupy the object space: I look forward to seeing you. I look forward to playing. I look forward to the concert. 1. I want to see you.
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