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Hitesh_best wrote: "After hearing a string of unruly remarks about me from Gaurav, my patience finally gave out and I slapped him hard."This is a typical clause equivalent of the kind one hears frequently. It is ungrammatical but the ungrammaticality doesn't hinder communication because...

Hello, Being a simple minded person, I might not be able to add much into this conversation. However, I've just realized my opening sentence has only one actor, I! The issue that we are dealing with here has to do with a construct in which 2 actors involved, 'the mountains' and 'many...

Hi KooyeenI agree with CJ that all kinds of things can come out of people's mouths in the 'heat' of conversation, but my vote is to avoid intentionally using those two words together in the same sentence/clause. (Maybe you could just save it for occasional informal use in the sentence "But...

Each of the following sentences contains a faulty comparison. Rewrite each sentence to eliminate the error. a. The word-processing equipment in the direct-mail department op­erates more efficiently than the customer relations department. b. The production manager expressed greater...

Welcome to English Forums! I think Grammar Geek hit the nail on the head (although I thought John stopped to help the lady paint her face). What you should not have is really a non-sentence, that is a sentence fragment, that starts with a because clause and never introduces a main clause...

SHALL AND WILL IT is unfortunate that the idiomatic use, while it comes by nature to southern Englishmen (who will find most of this section superfluous), is so complicated that those who are not to the manner born can hardly acquire it; and for them the section is in danger of being...

1) Is it true that "which" is not correct according to prescriptive grammar (since it's "restrictive") and it should be "that"? In my opinion, no. It's only true in Microsoft Word and according to some people. I don't know where they got the idea, because I can't find a serious grammar...

1-- I certainly don't think I am reading too much into that simple statement, but I don't get your point. What is it? 'Streams' means 'consecutively many', so....?2-- 'While men's is competitive' is a dependent clause, headed by a subordinate conjunction. That is why it cannot stand alone as a...

Thank you, Mr. M. In your answer you said "the post-colon portion elaborated the number of books on chaos theory" in regard to the following example sentence: We've had streams of books on chaos theory: no fewer that tweleve since 1988. My one possible foible is the fact that I try read the...

Hi, 1. I was looking at the punctuation section of cogs.susx.ac.uk website for its help on semicolons and colons and I have some questions on them. In its "The Semicolon" section, it is noted, "If a suitable connecting word is used, then a joining comma is used, rather than a semicolon: Women's...