By Numbers, Commas

Hi, this is my first post to the group. I’ve just pasted information from Pocket Fowler's Modern English Usage. To be quite frank, I don’t really understand these definitions fully but I hope the information is useful to you. So, regarding the words 1 Than 2 that 1 Than is normally used to...

I know that you have spotted some mistakes but I still think it is a nice poem because it moves me. Right, distraught isn´t a noun but rhymes with thought. Who shareS, correct. It wouldn't be the tenth time that I have heard some native speakers make a mistake by not using the third person...

My little technical objections: 1. "distraught" is not a noun 2. should be "who shareS" 3. fourth line makes no sense to me; what trip? 4. "a place in my lot"???? 5. should be "share WITH you" 6. should be "this message" 7. should be "writers," no apostrophe 8. "thee" is archaic, and seems out...

If I want a sentence clear of any doubt then it has to be number 1 in your examples. In your examples you have cleverly chosen items that are linked, e.g. Tape and Disk Drives, along with other references around the same topic. In your second example we see no seperation between "Tape, Disk...