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Thank you very much MrP Now in my question In the following sentence how would you analyse the second IT Is it a kind of demonstrative pronoun It was dark out there and I couldn t really tell who IT was creeping about Would you please explain this particular type of construction Do you think that...

Dear teachers Is the word foodstuff quite informal in English or can it be used in academic English Is the sentence Give me thread correct or should I say give me some thread instead In the following sentence how would you analyse the second IT Is it a kind of demonstrative pronoun It was dark...

I had a look through my Quirk et al Paco and I can find no reference to special uses of either form other than that pronouns in one are regarded as more elegant than those in body You are right of course that this set of pronouns is sometimes used to mean VIP but I can as I said see no consistent...

English is a Germanic Language of the Indo European Family It is the second most spoken language in the world It is estimated that there are 300 million native speakers and 300 million who use English as a second language and a further 100 million use it as a foreign language It is the language...

Due to repairs the garage will be closed next Saturday Using due to in this way is regarded as incorrect by some This is because due is an adjective An adjective can only qualify a noun or pronoun In the above sentence due has nothing to qualify except an implicit state of closure It is therefore...

Hi Camilus You ve given me a lot of homework it weighs on my back but it never is the last straw Fortunately my back is strong enough I Appositives vs Parenthetical Element a Neil Armstrong the first man who walked on the moon is a native of Ohio Here the first man who walked on the moon is as...

The incomplete Punctuation FAQ Hopefully this will grow in time as other questions are asked and answered and other people add to this Hopefully some kind moderator or adminstrator will mark this thread as sticky INTRODUCTION In grammar the rules are forged in a delicate balance between history...

nq 1 Did they pronounce words back in Elizabethan England very differently than they do now Nowadays Shakespeare s stuff just doesn t sound like poetry And what s the deal with art thou etc It s still understandable but very annoying nq We have a brief information sheet on that at http alt usage...