By Prepositions, Paragraphs

Anonymous wrote: I discovered my passion for social action last year, after watching a film in my Contemporary World Problems class about the genocide that is taking place in Darfur. Since my grandparents were Holocaust survivors, I wondered how I could remain silent in the face of such a...

Well, just looking at the first couple of paragraphs you need to work primarily on plural/singular forms, use of articles, prepositions and verb tenses. And don't fall into the trap of thinking that 'whom' is just a more formal version of 'who'. It isn't and you are using it incorrectly. So, the...

Please, can someone help me doing this exercice: fill in the blanks with the appropriate prepositions to get a meaningful paragraph. The name of London is Celtic,but the city is Roman; it was .............Roman foundation, a roman legacy to the future; and............roman times it quickly...

Anonymous wrote: When referring to a novel in a paragraph, what is the proper punctuation - do you underline the title only, do you underline and have quotations, do you only have quotations? Also are all the words of the novel's title capitalized? HB Common Errors in English The Right...

You have problems with determiners, plurals, verb tenses, prepositions and general grammatical structure. I've corrected the first paragraph for you and highlighed problems in the second. In the second paragraph you have started inserting a space before commas, which is incorrect. The government...

Hi, this is interesting, it reminds me of something I read in a book for improving pronunciation (the famous "American Accent Training"). The title of the paragraph is "Spoon or Sboon?" She (the author) say: "Say spoon. Now say sboon. Hear how they sound the same?" This is similar to your p/b...

You don't have to answer each question in a single paragraph and these are too long - it makes your essay difficult to read. Go through and check your articles and prepositions as these seem to be the main difficulty you have. Otherwise, very nice.

I think the majority of disagreement to my post so far has been on the actual points. The points are well known and well established. What's more, and I am hesitant to say this as doing so appeals to authority, mathematical geniuses who currently are contructing a mathematical paragon for the...

Well, it was wrong in the first case because it was two sentences together with no punctuation. It's wrong now because you have what's called a comma splice, in which you use a comma when you need either a perior or semi-colon, or a conjunction, which is why I rewrote it. Your opening paragraph...

Dear teachers, Would you please correct my exercise ? Read the following paragraphs. Decide which relative pronoun is correct and fill in each blank. Then decide which clauses are restrictive and which are nonrestrictive. Add commas where necessary. If there are two blanks, add the necessary...