By Paragraphs, Clauses

Hi, everyone! Happy New Year! But I'm trying to be happy. I'm pulled into a debate over "the very English standard" in a Chinese translation forum. A "sensible" lad who crammed in China's New Oriental Language School asserts that many usages, including those in nytimes.com, economist.com,...

CalifJim wrote:Hi, Paco, This grammatical phenomenon comes under the heading of "pseudo-cleft" sentences, although your example (the second sentence you cite) is a modified form of it. Prototypical examples are: What John lost was his wallet. What caused the problem was a leaky faucet. What the...

Hi, Here is a paragraph of Hannibal's speech: Here, soldiers, where you have first met the enemy, you must conquer or die; and the same fortune which has imposed the necessity of fighting holds out to you, if victorious, rewards than which men are not wont to desire greater, even from the...

Here is a paragraph of Hannibal's speech: Here, soldiers, where you have first met the enemy, you must conquer or die; and the same fortune which has imposed the necessity of fighting holds out to you, if victorious, rewards than which men are not wont to desire greater, even from the immortal...

Hello, Hoa Thai. Although Goodman outstripped me and deserved the brave one's laurels, I'd like to add some of the comments which I had started typing yesterday in the university, but hadn't time to finish... Your reasonong is interesting but not fault-less. «As CalifJim clearly explains...

Make your doubts clear does not mean 'clear your doubts' (= eliminate your doubts), but has the opposite meaning: 'Make your doubts clear' = present a clear statement of your doubts.I made the paragraph clear = I wrote a clearer paragraph.I made my thoughts clear = I explained my thoughts...

Will someone please check my homework. If I am doing it wrong will you please correct me and tell me what I am doing wrong before my quiz tomorrow. Ex 1 Classifying Sentence according to structure Underline each subordinate clause in the paragraph below. On the line before each sentence...

Hi again, What about the paragraph:If a negative settlement range exist, *to* convince the seller to reduce her resistance point to create a positive settlement range or *to* change his own resistance point to creare an overlapIs the *to* here necessary? If yes, please advice further. Let's...

I think the following would be considered a typical Type 3 Conditional. If I had studied hard in college, I would have become a successful person. Yes. This is a typical Type 3 conditional. If ... had ..., would have .... Here, I think would is a modal verb for a clause that...

I think you have done very well, Sandura. You might try adding a 'because' clause at the end to explain why you have chosen Tweenty University in particular. And a final short paragraph (sentence) thanking the reader for his/her time and consideration.