What’s the difference between particulate and particle? Should it be diesel particulates or diesel particles, and why? Could you provide three or more examples where it should use particulate rat...

Sep 2, 2020 · I tried to research the difference beween particle and preposition in phrasal verb, but the information on this website is not very clear. According to the website, in "She is making up …

Apr 24, 2017 · Fortunately, The Chicago Manual of Style (16th edition) deals with this question on page 388: 8.5 Names with particles. Many names include particles such as de, d', de la, von, van, and ten. …

Aug 30, 2024 · In addition to the interrogative particle 'ara' in Greek or 'ne' in Latin, a speaker/writer could signal that the expected answer was 'yes', by using instead the particle arou (Greek) or nonne …

Oct 11, 2018 · The past tense, and past participle of "split" is "split". I don't think that "splitted" is grammatical, though I dare say it gets used.

Nov 22, 2023 · Is "don't" a particle of its own? Is there a name for this grammatical phenomenon? Are there other cases besides negated questions where don't cannot be deconstructed? negation …

May 12, 2018 · Incidentally, 'particle' is not a word category (part of speech). Most so-called particles are prepositions occurring between verb and object as in "Kim took the suitcase down" ~ "Kim took down …

Jun 19, 2015 · A particle of dust, esp. one of the innumerable minute specks seen floating in a beam of light; (contextually) an irritating particle in the eye or throat. [OED] An example from OED: Moving …

May 21, 2023 · Take off is a particle phrasal verb (warning: terminology varies). In the sense that you’re using it, it is a transitive verb whose object determines whether the verb can be split.

Feb 9, 2013 · That is, it consists of a verb followed by an adverbial particle, followed by a preposition. It can be followed by a noun phrase (‘I’m looking forward to the match’) or by the -ing form of a verb …