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Hi Exploring Your question is perfectly clear May I please reserve the right to laugh occasionally At my age it s one of the few pleasures remaining Books categories is absolutely correct and as you have noted books is not only plural but possessive as well If you have time please do me the favor...

Hi I saw the sentence from the English newspaper The meeting will be on this Monday so similarly I can say I will complete the job in this week Preposition usage in cases like this tends to be idiomatic We like to say it in certain ways but not in other ways The idiomatic expressions are The...

The Change of the Characteristics in the passage from The Hours The passage from the novel The Hours by Michael Cunningham is intriguing The passage illustrates the difference between the character s characteristics in different time settings past and present This difference is clearly shown...

Hi TeleostomiI suggest you forget all about Google Since there are millions of German people Australian people etc you don t need the article when you refer to them all in a general sense German people are said to be hard working I would prefer Germans are said If the reference is to a specific...

Angliholic wrote Avangi wrote Me too Maybe it s a gringo thing or a doctor thing risk factors How many of these are you at risk for I hear it a lot because I m at risk for all of em Doctors are too busy to worry about grammar Hi what do you mean by a gringa thing A Edit Sorry I got that wrong...

Given the structure he drew compensation from the team until beginning his investigation in March 2006 One possible paraphrase is as you have written it he drew compensation from the team until the beginning of his investigation in March 2006 But a better paraphrase is he drew compensation from...

Hi again Turns out you re right about the sentence no 3 src emoticons emotion 4 gif 10 __ the larger markets soil stability must be achieved through changing technologies In the Eastern states closely adjacent toClosely in the Eastern states adjacent toAdjacent closely in the Eastern states...

Hi I am an attorney working for the government The duties of my job position mostly involve considering legal requests called petitions My job title is Petitions Attorney I am unclear as to when the first letters in Petitions Attorney should be capitalized This is a matter of style and convention...

Viceidol wrote Hello everyone I saw a grammar rule in my grammars books not only one book and I have some doubt about it Normally we say We sent for a doctor and a nurse But my grammars books say this will have the same meaning as the above one We sent for a doctor and nurse My books say a...

Hello everyone I saw a grammar rule in my grammars books not only one book and I have some doubt about it Normally we say We sent for a doctor and a nurse But my grammars books say this will have the same meaning as the above one We sent for a doctor and nurse My books say a doctor and nurse can...