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...

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 …

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. …

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 …

Nov 22, 2023 · The sentence * Why do not you just do it? sounds ungrammatical to me, but Why don't you just do it? seems fine. (I am not a native speaker.) I have three questions: Is "don't" a particle of …

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.

May 24, 2023 · To negate a participle phrase we use not at the beginning of it, as in "Not having heard the news, he had no idea what was going on." Can we also use the negative particle in some other …

If you have a phrasal verb, that erstwhile preposition is now part of the verb, and we can call it a particle. What makes this whole thing a thing is the fact that the meaning of the verb plus particle is different …

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 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 …