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Dear Me Pedantic, Thank you for your answers on the articles. Just one point do we need to capitalize "Cocker Spaniel" or not? As far as the Babelfish exercise you sent me it needs a lot of concentration and for the time being I have a lot of work to do. So I may answer it at a later date...

Not bad you only have a few errors: "The suit looks old and faded" you don't need to insert the "like" here "Only when the tailor uses good materials do consumers preserve their clothes permanently." The sentence it self is a bit wierd, "preserve their clothes permanently" is a little odd...

I saw this article from the web and I think it is worth to post part of the article in this forum. Following is the article ...AND REPORTED SPEECH Dear English Doctor, Please explain about word changes in reported speech. If you say to me "My sister is going to Chiang Mai", I...

After viewing a lot of articles, I found an English concept that we do use in everyday life. I am not sure for what I found is correct and I hope somebody could validate the concept for me. I found out that whenever you try to explain the current fact, present tense can always be used....

Thanks, this is interesting: http://pinker.wjh.harvard.edu/articles/media/1994_01_24_thenewrepublic.html Are both of these correct? If not, why? What do they mean? 1. If I remember correctly, I asked ask you about a car last week. (This one looks right to me, but is this a conditional...

There is a very good reason why native speakers don't follow the prescriptive "sequence of tenses" or "concord of tenses". These rules are simply not accurate reflections of how language works. Language needs to describe the infinite. If we followed these errant rules, there would be much we...

Say the right words in the right order. Make subjects and verbs agree in number. Use the correct case for all pronouns. Add "ed" to form the past tense. Add "s" to form plurals. Add "'s" to form possessives. Invert subject and verb in a question. Don't use a countable singular noun without...

Hello MrM How do I disprove it? No I can't do it. It has been a few decades since I learned such a thing like statistical significance, and to my regret I forget almost all about it. Anyway what I noticed in the results of the Google survey was the fact that a 'significant' portion of native...

I'm hesitating about which article I should use in the following sentence: I remember a/the strange idea coming to me: how come he appeared out of nowhere that night? And one more question. Can the verb 'hesitate' be used in the progressive tenses?

(1) great moment = great importance, significance (2) Using 'that' would merely change the confusion for the reader into a confusion between 'that' and 'this' in the next clause. The sentence, employing both an existential 'there' and a preparatory 'it', is indeed more awkward than it need...