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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 and, on the other, he thinks he is ‘persecuted’...

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 an opening paragraph?) Touché! Yes,...

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 the door with a half-expectant wish to see IT open...

Hello Sextus Here you go: 1) “The past few years have witnessed the publication of a considerable number of books and papers on the influence that ancient scepticism (broadly defined) . I don’t understand whether by adding “an” before “assimilation”, the sentence is correct, or whether I...

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No offense taken and I'm not being defensive here, but it seems as though Britain is moving out of step with much of the rest of the world with regards to punctuation. It is now very much optional whether to use punctuation at all after the name and colons are uncommon. We are also taught now to...

Your name and address 25 October 2004 date should be here Mr. Jones Find out his name and position Supermarket Manager EL HAYAA Supermarket P.O. Box 2774 Abu Dhabi United Arab Emirates Subject: Error in Bill No. 2554, dated 24 October 2004 Dear Sir: colon is required for...

hi elena! i found this is an interesting topic. i have got some facts to post ..it has nothing to do to offence non-vegetarianism! though very lengthy every word is worth reading... How humans are not physically created to eat meat!! Although some historians and anthropologists say that...

Pilita, I think your problem is that you are inconsistent. Some of your sentences are perfectly correct, but then you make elementary mistakes in other sentences that seem to show that you haven't totally understood why your best sentences are as good as they are! For example, your...