By Expressions, Commas

Hi tobeornottobe , This is very interesting. Just a few, very minor, corrections, and a few more paragrahs, to make it easier to read. And lose the comma in the first sentence. If there is one nation in the world that has its history and culture shaped by poetry, that nation has to be China....

Yes; 'blimey' has become quite fashionable. But only in a certain tone of voice; and it must have inverted commas now. If someone tells you a startling fact, you look—startled: then you say, after a pause, and perhaps with a slightly upgraded accent, 'Blimey!' In the old 'Blimey' (Michael...

hi, i have a problem with expressions. i want to discuss some. i once wrote in my essay: 'eyes dilated, i watched and admired the heiroglyphics scraped out on the huge walls.' so tell me what is wrong with it because my teacher underlined the words 'eyes dilated' and wrote 'why, are you on...

There is no conjunction! The expression "with an upgoing toe on the left" is 'in apposition' - though a comma after 'intact' might help. If you are desparate for a conjunction "but with an upgoing toe on the left" would catch the contrast which the author seeks. Dr M JC Brown

Hi MrP. The corrected proofs were sent. Hope they’ll correct all that is needed. Back to the paper. I have read it like five times so as to note the final doubts. There are quite a lot; hope this is ok with you. 1) “For the Skeptic does not consider that the good relative to each person...

Was it also the hearts of men like you that created the laws of puncuation? I'm only asking because personally, I wouldn't have put that comma in there after "men." But that's just me.

This may be an expression exclusive to British English. I can only tell you what it means to an American. Years ago, there used to be animated cartoons presented at the movies before the feature film was shown. At the end of some of these there was a cartoon character who said, in a very happy,...

I would have used a comma before the final "and" or "or" in a series, like this: mother, and lesbian church, or community You need "losing parental custody" -- one "o" in "losing". I think you need a more parallel structure than "as an activist and through faith", maybe "through faith and...

Hi LM, Can't think of any particular rules. Your example is an adverbial complement, so the subject and verb are inverted and no comma is correct-- which won't happen in such sentences as 'under the moon, the wet trees glowed like corposant'. Certainly do not avoid fronted phrases, nor on the...

1) The "has" is required because it shows that it's a present perfect tense, ie. Jones denied using drugs in the past and at present, is still denying it. It's a repetition and continuation of the verb (denied) from the past to the present. If you say "Jones consistently denied", it implies that...