In Cookies^x, Clauses^x

a: Because it was a fine day, we went on a picnic. b: It being a fine day, we went on a picnic. When making a sentence with participles, we can leave when, after...etc. with the clause. Is it a must to delete "because" like sentense "b". Because being hurry, we ate a lot of cookies. ...

I'm pretty sure you wrote this show me something but I don't see it. Can you tell me the importance of this? I don't really understand it. What do you mean by negative becomes positive? You're doing great. Let's take a small step back. TRUTH: 1. Jack didn't understand JTT's posting....

A. The Unreal Conditional, focusing 1) on the past posting, a past action; and 2) on your normal, routine, habitual condition: Jack's turn: If I hadn't got something you posted, I would keep asking questions. BASICALLY PERFECT IN INTENT I think this is right. I had some difficulties...

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I enjoy your analyses too, Casi. You take threads in intriguing directions. The concept of a digitized Santa has a certain charm: 2.1167(X) = -2.1167(Y) =>Santa is Scrooge Returning to words, but retaining mathematical "=" briefly, if I may (perhaps at this moment, on MathForums.com,...

Hello, I am scoring a psychiatric test that asks patients to orally describe a certain picture (of children stealing cookies). I must determine whether an utterance (any effort to express a thought that is terminated by a pause with a falling inflection) is a single clause (complete or...