How to find out if a tag is good to have/make I present to you, the MAR Tag Test™ (abbreviated as MATT), a short test with three possible responses to each question, designed as a crude way of diagnosing the health of a (imaginary) tag. Imagine X, a tag$\,\ldots$ \begin{array}{|c|l|c|c|c|}\hli...

I find it difficult to understand why we expend so much effort and discussion on tags. I’ve browsed around other SE sites, and I can see that tags serve a useful, perhaps even essential, purpose in filtering questions related to a specific language or application. But I don’t see a similar purp...

Can anyone explain the correct usage of 'have had' and 'had had' in English language? It will be helpful if you can explain it with examples.

Example with a context: "It would be boring without gossip," Putin said, smiling easily before television cameras. He looked relaxed, if pale. Could you please explain how this expression is actually used? I have a hunch that this must mean the same thing as saying even though he was pale, ...

Can there be more than one verb in a sentence, such as one linking verb and one action verb?

There's More to Life Than This I Need More. What do you think about the word "more" in these two sentences ? 1 look like noun and 2 adverb to me.

What does this mean? "every fourth person is fat."

Ok so i said a joke to my friend saying "i hope she sends me pics just despite you", then he said "it's not, "just to despite you" you dumbass, it's spite, not despite, kill yourself", "you thought "to spite" was, "despite". I'm pretty sure they meant the same thing, but i just wanted to know if ...

Mostly likely it means curtains or blind, things attached to a window to block light coming into the room.

I think in that case, "US" is better. An interesting example would be a film in 2013, "Her". The director did not adopt the name "She". I wonder this is not about grammar rules but custom usage?

A question to native speakers: what would your first response be, when you hear [waɪt naɪt] or [waɪt naɪts]? What is the first image that comes to your mind? Answers from people from different English-speaking countries (United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Australia) are welcome – I guess, the...

The definition of 'some' reads as on OALD page (#3) a large number or amount of something But then the next entry says... (#4) a small amount or number of something I wonder if someone says ... We have known each other for some years now Or I met him some years back What ...

Is "to debate a person" a correct use of the verb "debate"? I looked up several dictionaries, but did not find such an example. However, when I searched Corpus of Contemporary American English by "debate him", it returned 26 results one of which is as follows: He knows Perot is much better kn...

Here is the dictionary (WordWebOnline) that says it's possible to 'debate [someone]' debate: Argue with one another The example follows John debated Mary

Using tags in searching Tags can be a very strong tool for searching. The more healthy a site's tagging system is, the more effective tag searching will be. Currently, tags is the second most applied tag on meta, which means users and editors on chemistry Stack Exchange do care about tags. Let's...

About Moderators don't like seeing a whole horde of flags in their precious flag queue. They dislike this even more when all the flags are from one user who is obviously running a search or query and flagging everything. However, this bad content shouldn't be ignored. This app (if it ends up...