I'm sure that Cathy's post would read much clearer as exemplified in the following: In our modern day, the written English in many of the visual forms that we see from day to day, reflects more of our conversational use of the language and its

Hi guys, "Cadmium, mercury, and asbestos, and materials, chemicals, and equipment which contain them shall not be used." If absolute clarity is needed, perhaps to avoid the risk of danger, I'd prefer to separate the two 'lists'. eg "Cadmium,

Hi Dean, The quality of information provided by sales representatives to physicians: another technique in pharmaceutical promotion is also has been investigated in a few studies. Similar to advertisements in medical journals, researchers have

Hi, I have the following grammar questions. Do please help me with the correct answers to the following questions. Thanking you in anticipation, Regards, Manu. 1. Choose the sentence that illustrates the correct agreement of

7.3 A dash often occurs before a summarizing statement or clause <Oil, steel, and wheat -- these are the sinews of industrialization.> Ok, I see dashes work good here, so if not a dash, what else could be used? comma? colon? for

Hi, 5) " For when a person lacks that which he regards as good, on the one hand (I'd omit the comma here, to show that 'on the one hand' refers to the phrase that follows it and not the one that precedes it) he intensely desires to obtain it

Davkett wrote: (The idea of avoiding long and complicated sentences seems, however, not to be a principle on which you've based the main body of the text--at least the sections I've read on this forum. Is it just something you worry about in

So... I might use "as regards". Or perhaps with this expression I would have the same problem. If this is the case, I could just leave the paragraph as it was... In any case, I could still replace "it" by your suggestion "such skepticism". Sextus

Dear Mr Pedantic, Sorry for this long delay. This doesn't mean that I am not eager to do these exercises, I am indeed! It's only that sometimes I have a lot of homework to do. Here are my answers: SHOULD I confess that I sometimes looked AT

On 28 Jan 2005 20:09:37 -0800, R H Draney Bob Cunningham filted: When we were in elementary school, the teacher taught us ... the vowels in "peck", "pick", "pock", and "rut" were short. That's