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Hi LiJI think the sentence is better with a comma It makes the reader pause and that helps him understand the sentence better Some people who consider themselves experts give this advice Use a comma after a subordinate clause but not before it If I see him next week I ll talk to him I ll talk to...

Hi I am not the Guest but I wish you will excuse me for using your post to ask and answer some questions You said A gerund may very well take an article in English On the other hand not every noun requires one I agree but only few gerunds can take an article I THINK Only one that comes up in my...

Dear professional grammar teachers Please please tell me which of the following tenses present or past I should use in formal writing in English I have been checking many grammar articles about sequence of tenses reported speech though I am still confused somehow because I often see many articles...

1 would is the modal used for the consequent clause of a conditional structure If that suit were navy blue I would buy it If that suit were black with gray pin stripes I would like it better If it were gray I would like that suit better The condition if clause is implicit not explicit in the...

Hi A She talked to the students who failed the test All the students who failed because the specified it B She talked to students who failed the test Without the article the it doesn t work quite right C Students who don t study usually fail Again without the this is a general statement This is...

Hi everyone Just when I thought I cracked the articles with generic plural nouns I stumbled on this NYTimes essay and I m totally confused Can anyone exlain why they made the choices I m highlighting below in colour Cheers Please I m tearing my hair off U S House of Representatives Democrats will...

Hanuman_2000 wrote Hello I was reading an article on conjuction It says that a conjuction is a word which merely joins words or sentences It further says that relative pronouns and relative adverbs are also conjuctions but they do the other works also My doubts are 1 Are relative pronouns and...

Hi I was looking at an automobile parts ad and I saw something like this I think the form used here can be called the point form From the recommendations I got on point form I gather that the articles are usually if not exclusively omitted for the words or phrases that are in front of phrases or...

Hi Excuse me for another question on the article I was looking at Rensselaer s Writing Center s webpage on articles and in it it noted its fourth source of Definiteness as this 4 A modifying word phrase or clause follows the noun and makes it clear which specific person or thing you are referring...

As per your request the following is an attempt to determine the word class amp clause type of your sentence 1 S He Vi ran turn Vt empty Vd Vf Vc Full infinitive to see Bare infinitive turn empty Verb sense see Preposition onto of in to Article definite the Article indefinite a Noun common...