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Bookmark or Share- Looking forward to see you vs Looking forward to seeing you?Here "to" is not the infinitive. Here "to" is a preposition and after a preposition either a noun comes or a pronoun, and a gerund is also a form of noun.
- "died from" versus "died of" - English Language Learners Stack ExchangeActually, Longman's dictionary has a helpful note about prepositions with 'die': "GRAMMAR: Prepositions with die • Someone dies of or from a disease or injury: He died of a heart attack. / He died from a heart attack. Die of is more common than die from. Don’t say: He died because of a heart attack. • Someone dies in an accident: He died ...
- "Do you know what IS IT?" vs "Do you know what IT IS?"An exception: As F.E. noted in the comments, there's a children's game called "tag" where one person is called "it".
- punctuation - Difference between ' and - English Language Learners ...There are two different uses. If you are using double quotation marks for speech, as in a novel or other quotation, then, anything quoted within the quotation marks takes single quotes: "He yelled 'Stop talking' at me several times," said John. The BBC uses single quotation marks in headlines and its online site (inverted commas) but in novels ...
- "Hello, This is" vs "My Name is" or "I am" in self introductionHaving said that, I think there is a tinge of racism to not accept e.g. "Myself X" as proper English. My reason for this is no one says that calling a friend "mate" or "dude" is annoying or wrong english.
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