By Colons, Constructions

To whom, not For whom Colon, not comma after concern for the patent, not for patent spell out small numbers: three in a good, not within good to European, not at European no hyphen: North American no capitals: the construction site gained in not gained into the no comma after...

Hello Paco To my mind, 'I define something as do you' only becomes possible if we add a comma, dash, or semi-colon after 'something': 1. I define something, as do you. Even then, we have to struggle to find a context. Perhaps two professors of philosophy or mathematics are comparing notes on...

Pilita, I think your problem is that you are inconsistent. Some of your sentences are perfectly correct, but then you make elementary mistakes in other sentences that seem to show that you haven't totally understood why your best sentences are as good as they are! For example, your sentence:...

I need to know if the subjunctive ‘though’ creates a dependant clause. Is the clause, “Though the car always starts for her,” a sentence or is it a fragment? In other words, which of the following are correct? a. Most people consider Jill’s car unreliable. Though the car always starts for...

Hello Let's see if I can help. It is true that any utterance can contain just one main caluse or more than one. I'm not sure if the definitions of "single clause" and "multiclause" were given to you and you have to stick to those definitions. I must say, however, that an utterance with more...

Hi, If my child was marked down because she used a capital letter for words in a spelling test, I’d be angry with the teacher. When I went to school, my spelling exercises tested for spelling not style. However, if your child is a high school student and if the teacher was marking hard, then...