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What is proper? We saw Dad and Mom's new boat. (YES!) We saw Dad's and Mom's new boat (Wrong!) Joint possessives In the case of joint possession, i.e., when two or more people own something together, place the apostrophe or apostrophe s (‘s) only after the...

Hi Crazy-- I finally got here. I have added some comments in brackets after underlined 'problems':Do Sports and Drugs Mix? Since the dawn of time years while playing football and was the quarter back of our team. Everyone thought he was going to make it to the NFL but during our...

across with my legs isn't OK/idiomatic Just make a search at Yahoo for "across with my legs" (quotation marks are important) and you'll see a very low number of hits The rest seems OK. Now you have some work to do ------ across with is seen only in some constructions, such as:...

1. exclude/cut/remove from childrens's lives ---------------- cut out 7 a : REMOVE, OMIT <cutting out the needless explanation in the speech> b (1) : ELIMINATE <wasteful expenditure that must be cut out> (2) : to stop or desist from <the children were told to cut out...

Paco2004 wrote: Once I was blamed here that I used Google too much, but I still believe a google search will give us a good clue about what form of sentence a majority of English speakers actually use for such a questioning. Do you have children? 2,040,000Do you have any children? 185,000Do you...

Well first, punctuation is not usually included in grammar, and the former can be even slipperier than the latter. In this case (as in many), it is more a matter of what communicates most clearly. I think all of yours are OK; I do have opinions (see below), but they are not important:a "by the...

I have studied the apothecary system, and notice they use roman numerals on prescriptions to indicated the number of tablets or capsules in the signa, such as iii po BID Alos, some doctors do: TTT po BID (for three tablets twice a day by mouth) But I notice most doctors, when...

I am going through an article. The premise is: Since the mid-1970, the number of unionized public-section clerical workers, most of whom are women, has increased 22 percent. Then the author lists some crucial reasons for the upsurge in unionization, and claims "the absence...

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Playing to Win by Margaret A. Whitney 1 My daughter is an athlete. Nowadays, this statement won’t strike many parents as unusual, but it does me. Until her freshman year in high school, Ann was only marginally interested in sport of any kind. When she played, she didn’t swing hard, often...