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Bookmark or Share- How should "Merry Christmas" and "Happy New Year" be capitalized?As others have mentioned, Christmas and New Year are proper nouns, and thus are capitalized. Generally the phrases "Merry Christmas" and "Happy New Year" are used in greetings, as headings, or in some other isolated way, and thus "Happy" and "Merry" are the first word of the sentence, and thus those words are capitalized.
- ing vs. try to - English Language & Usage Stack ExchangeWhich sentence is correct: Why don't you try to give up candy if you want to lose some weight? Why don't you try giving up candy if you want to lose some weight?
- time - What's the Best English word for 6 months in this group: daily ...Just being positioned between "Quarterly" and "Yearly" should mitigate the ambiguity. So either one would be understood. (It won't stop some from making a mental note that it might be the wrong word, but they will still know your intent.) I would go with semiannually, myself.
- grammar - Subject and Object in Commands? - English Language & Usage ...You can tell that the subject is you because of the way the reflexive works. Only transitive verbs can take objects, and when the subject is the same as the object of a transitive verb, one has to use the reflexive pronoun (the ones that end in -self/selves).
- meaning - When and where did 'bulldozer' originate, what did it ...The earliest newspaper occurrences of ‘bulldozers’ and ‘bulldozing’ Hendrickson’s uncertainty about who the first bulldozers were and what they were trying to accomplish is a tribute to the effectiveness of an early counternarrative propagated by newspapers aligned with the Democratic party arguing that the original bulldozers weren’t white vigilantes from Mississippi and Louisiana ...
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