"Claim has received" or "was received"? - English Language & Usage ...
...The correct form is "was received". "To receive" implies that someone didn't have something before but now has it: John has received a letter [a minute ago] You can turn this around and write it in passive form: The letter has been received by John Or, in the past form: The letter was received [by John] This is the construction you should be using in your case. [The] claim was received in the ......
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Form of Participle Clause Subject: 'his' being or 'him' being
...2 The opposition leader's bid for power failed to gain traction, and his claim to the presidency is rooted in his / him being the head of the current legislature. The pronoun subject of gerund-participial clauses functioning as a complement can be either genitive case or accusative case....
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Apostrophe s' or s's - When to use each? [duplicate]
...Closed 5 years ago. In this sentence should I use Apostrophe as s's or s'? I am always confused with what exactly the rule behind s' and s's. The sentence is: Hours later Fadnavis's resignation, the the NCP-Congress leaders combined met Governor and staked claim to form the Government. Fadnavis is the name of the Chief Minister (for your ......
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verbs - A word for "to claim a position or place above something or ...
...The verb I seek is defined as: to claim a position above something, to position oneself higher than something or someone. The important aspect is the claim of superiority over something, without necessarily being superior....
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"to advocate" vs "to advocate for" - English Language & Usage Stack ...
...The standard form of the verb "advocate" is transitive, meaning "endorse" or "argue for," as in " The teacher advocated a new educational technique ", which was accepted by 85 percent of the Usage Panel in our 2014 survey....
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What is the difference between 'speculative', 'hypothetical' and ...
...A claim is "hypothetical" (as an adjective) if it can serve as a hypothesis, that is, if is a claim that can be tested. Something "speculative" is something that we may have some reason to suspect is true but it's not sufficient to justify a belief that it's true....
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Is there a word to describe a claim that cannot be disproved because ...
...I'm looking for a way to describe a statement or claim made by a person that can't be disproved purely on the basis that the situation itself will never occur (or is highly unlikely to). For inst......
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Headed or heading? - English Language & Usage Stack Exchange
...This is more of a claim than a question. I claim that a construction like "I am headed home (which you will hear a lot in America) is wrong. The present progressive must utilize the ing-form. Try...
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Succeed in OR to - English Language & Usage Stack Exchange
...succeed has two primary meanings, and your sentences contain examples of both of them. From ODO: 1 Achieve the desired aim or result. When used in the active form, this is often followed by "in" followed by a verb phrase, as in sentence #2. 2.1 Become the new rightful holder of an office, title, or property. This is the sense in your sentence #3. Sentence #1 is grammatically correct, but when ......
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What's the term/word for a legal case without merit?
...A key change will be to give judges of the Administrative Court, when refusing permission to apply for judicial review on the papers, the power to certify a claim as ?totally without merit? (TWM), thus depriving the claimant of the right to renew the application before the court at an oral hearing....
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