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Analyse the formality of the article in SCMP It is indispensable for us to use an appropriate style when writing. There is no doubt that formal style should be practiced for newspaper as objectivity and impersonality are important. South China Morning Post is one of the most prevalent...

JaCKo__007 wrote: A coma question! I've found that American based writers use commas after 'i.e.', but what of it in British English and does it then apply to eg. as well? Does a comma go after i.e. or e.g.? Both abbreviations i.e. and e.g. are preceded by a mark of punctuation, usually a...

Dear Mr. Pedantic Many many thanks for once again dropping in, and looking out for the inconsistencies. I really appreciate your help. I have again had a go to make the answers sparkle sticking to your kind comments and suggestions. But I’m unsure of my grammar, punctuation, style, mood, and...

I'll write the rest of the post as an example of what I meant by "fast typing" (which I never did in my post above): well..lemme get this right...i dont mean to use it to apply for a job or any other serious purposes, just as a funny informal note at the end of my emails! ie mails to penfriends,...

Hi, nice letter overall, you've stated your case very well. I've made corrections for you highlighted in blue, and added comments and highlighted in pink other problem areas you need to re-write or clarify. Dear Mr. -----, I graduated from Kiev National University of Construction and...

There are several rules governing the use of commas, but there is also a lot freedom. Webster's Third New International Dictionary begins their article on commas with:Of all the marks of punctuation the comma offers the most difficulty in use and the widest range for individual choice. Though...

Believer wrote:Did I form the question correctly? Should it be written differently? Is punctuation correct? I'd suggest identical/parallel constructions for the two alternatives: Is it safe to say that all collective nouns have a dual status and must be considered singular if acting as A...

Your revision got rid of the two birds, but the 'competitor' line is 'way out of meter. Iambic pentameter is simple-- it is the natural rhythm of much of spoken narrative English. The trick is that you must compose lines whose natural spoken cadence matches this form; the word stress and...

thanks for the comments and advice they r much appreciated i had to attempt this poem for a project so bear with me im not very good ok this is what i changed, -The Kentucky Dream- With graceful movement, heart beating so fast, The rider mounts his nervous bounding speed, So surely built,...

There are several linguistic resources that help people express genericity(??, what's genercity?). Down below, it can be observed several forms that can also express something different than genericity(?)--awkward sentence. In the first pair of sentences one find two degrees of genericity...