By Paragraphs, Prepositions

Hi, Nona. How are you? Fine, I hope! The paragraph is like the following. Could you confirm in is still the right preposition to use here. Thanks, Nona. Hiro/ Sendai, Japan Caffeine not only blocks the action of adenosine, it also stimulates the adrenal glands to produce two stress hormones -...

Julielai wrote:Hi Bareed235, The moment my cousin was hit by a car, I felt shocked. In my town there are some streets that have not (incorrect use of not. Try another word) pavements between up the street and down the street (try: in the street). So that, (get rid of it. It does not...

Wwwdotcom wrote: 2. PREPOSITION "AT" FOR TIME DOES NOT START THE SENTENCE IN YOUR EXAMPLES. You should have said you wanted some, 3P. It only takes a few seconds: 1. At any time of year it is a superb place to walk, and visitors should make sure they reach the classical domes temple set up...

Sheena84 wrote: ... I just found that I did a very HUGE mistake in the essay, I still can't believe myself. here is the sentence, (as my contact with International corporations after the changing regime made me aware of the huge gaps our management in the fields mentioned above.) ...

Hello paco, in connection with your previous thread about 'adverbial objectives' I've just read an interesting paragraph. I'm not sure whether it concerns your question, but let me cite it. But I mention to your post first ┈ only partly, though. ┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈...

Hi Nimet-- welcome to English Forums. The following words and phrases need some work: I want to start to make a short introduction on who I am and on my education. -- delete this sentence. in K.U. Leuven on a kind of -- change to 'an' only the relations or correlations -- choose one society,...

Dear Mr Pedantic, Any novel will do as long as in the paragraphs there is a mixture of different tenses / modals, prepositions, quantifiers, articles and/or intensifiers. I would love to have some texts which would combine a variety of future tenses too. Am I too demanding... ? Thanks a...

If they date back that far, the 'rules' will undoubtedly have affected usage. It's called feedback. That's what you're missing, Mr P. These prescriptions have such a tiny affect on usage because they aren't real rules. These are the 'rules' that make prescriptive grammar teachers apoplectic...

Thank you Mr Pedantic for your advice. I'll try that and I'll come back to you. Would it be possible for you to tell me how I can get exercises -in the form of PARAGRPHS and not sentences- which would include a variety of tense combinations, modals, "fill in the blanks" with preposition,...

"in the procedure", "on the drive", "on the disk". The procedure is a text of some kind. For such things (books, articles, procedures, instructions, manuals, magazines, newspapers, explanations, texts, paragraphs, sentences, ...) the correct preposition is "in": in the book, in the article, in...