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• Do you compare your memories with others or others'?
• The last but not least reason
• What's the difference between two capitalization styles related to acronym? [duplicate]
• "Have you?" vs "do you?" in awkward sentence
• What's the difference between using single and double quotation marks/inverted commas?

Do you compare your memories with others or others'? Posted: 31 Dec 2021 01:44 AM PST You (plural) have different memories. Suppose you are all students in my class. Now I want to ask you to compares your memories by talking to students in another class and hearing about their memories. So should I say: Compare your memories with others? or Compare your memories with others'? The second makes more sense because you are not comparing your memories to people but to THEIR memories, but something about the sentence looks weird, so I thought to ask here.

The last but not least reason Posted: 31 Dec 2021 12:31 AM PST I wrote a small letter describing my motivation for applying for a particular job. The last but not least reason for applying for this position is the opportunity to grow in the consulting field. In this sentence, I wonder if I used "The last but not least" correctly. I know that we can use "The last but not least" at the beginning of a sentence, but can we combine it with the word "reason"?

What's the difference between two capitalization styles related to acronym? [duplicate] Posted: 30 Dec 2021 11:34 PM PST I know NAT is the abbreviation of "Network address translation", but there is another style of this phrase, "Network Address Translation", which capitalize the first letter of each word. What's the difference of these two styles, and which one is more appropriate? From my observation, names like British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) are using the first style (capitalized with first letter of each word) in all circumstances. Does it mean phrases can be used in both styles but names can not?

"Have you?" vs "do you?" in awkward sentence Posted: 31 Dec 2021 12:05 AM PST This question arises from a debate between friends about what is "technically" more correct in this sentence: "You don't happen to have read <book name>, do you?" Should the question be "do you" as in "You don't happen..., do you?" or "have you" as in "have you read"? (I understand that there are better ways to write this sentence.)

What's the difference between using single and double quotation marks/inverted commas? Posted: 31 Dec 2021 12:21 AM PST I'm quite unsure regarding the usage of single quotation marks (') and double quotation marks (") in English. I had thought that double quotation marks were usually used to quote sentences from passages/given sources, nouns/things ("Westminster Bridge", "alliteration", or "voice" regarding its usage in poetry), as well as some less common/important uses including being snarky and using them to indicate a sarcastic remark. Someone had told me today that you were supposed to refer to things with two inverted commas (") instead of one. Which one is correct? Could someone explain the usages between the two different types of quotation marks?

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