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Hello Abbie and Mav I hope you don't mind if I add something here. 1. 'Your age should not act as a preclusion to your being accepted on the university course.' 2. 'Your age should not act as a preclusion to you being accepted on the university course.' In #1, 'being accepted' is a verbal...

Hi all, I'm not a native speaker of English, so I guess proofreading is necessarily for my essay. And, could you please look for non English phrases or expressions as I might not notice them, but you certainly will recognize that it is a strange way of expressing a point. Suggestions are always...

From: HOW GRAMMARS OF ENGLISH HAVE MISSED THE BOAT (ref above) Consider the English pronoun pairs, her : she, him : he, me : I, us : we, and them : they. It is easy to show that the uses of these paired forms are not directly related to functional (subject and object) “cases” in the manner of...

Hello Casi Thank you again for your detailed explanation. But I am sorry I have to say that I cannot still get what you mean by the word 'incorporation'. First I thought your 'incorporation' meant something like 'housing', that is, the IO functions as a house of the DO in the SVOO sentences....

Hi all, I'm not a native speaker of English, so I guess proofreading is necessarily for my essay. And, could you please look for non English phrases or expressions as I might not notice them, but you certainly will recognize that it is a strange way of expressing a point. Suggestions are always...

Question: Can adverbs function as subjects? If not, then "there" must be nominal, a pronoun, an expletive known as existential "there". The true, or logical subject is "three universities": Three universities (Subject) are (copular Verb) in this city (Adverb)

hank you veru much. I am not sure all the sentences are right others. General Notes: 1) Overall good. 2) You need to work on proof reading your work for missing words. It is a problem that I have too. 3) You need to be consistent in your paragraphs. It you are talking about what a...

Focus Magazine, September 04: Correspondence is taking longer to read because of poorly punctuated email, according to optometrists at the University of Bradford. They discovered that missing fullstops and capital letters are behind the time-wasting trend. View the full press release here. By...

I think the best way to handle it on a resume is not to say I. Under education just put MBA university of.... Rarely have I heard of the pronoun I being used on a resume. So leave it out. In general writing a would be correct as m is a consonant sound.

Hi, sorry for not trying to answer. I’ve just dumped reference material from the net. Hope it helps. "such" Pocket Fowler's Modern English Usage. Ed. Robert Allen. Oxford University such. 1. SUCH AS AN EMPHASIZER. How can the House express its indignant rejection of football hooliganism...