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You're welcome. thank you for the helping how can i say 9:30? other way rather than half past nine You can say "nine thirty." (Just say the numbers, but pronounce what's to the left of the colon as another number. In other words, don't say "nine, three, zero," or "nine hundred and...

They are all ok except I would use a colon instead of a comma in number 2.

To whom, not For whom Colon, not comma after concern for the patent, not for patent spell out small numbers: three in a good, not within good to European, not at European no hyphen: North American no capitals: the construction site gained in not gained into the no comma after...

Hello Hela Very good indeed! I think I left the original on another pc, so will fish it out and post it as soon as I can. In the meantime (comments in curly brackets): SHOULD I confess that I sometimes looked AT the door with a half-expectant wish to see IT open and give entrance to Mr....

Oh, OK! But I don't think a colon would do the work. To me the verb takes the number of the first noun that follows. Wouldn't you think so?

Hello Sextus Here are my efforts: 1) ‘Aim’ is fine; or ‘Aims’. Capitals after a colon is (I think) AmE; BrE usually uses lower case. So it depends which style you’re using. Are ‘ataraxia’ and ‘philanthropia’ lower case because they’re in Greek characters? 2) I would say: “The analysis of these...

This letter is well written, and your English is good. But I did spot a few mistakes. And many of your sentences are too long, you need to use more commas and fullstops. In the second paragraph: "...my future plans of seeking a carrier in an international organization...." The word is...

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...

Hi, 1. in the atmosphere. ("middle" does not imply "average") A few points: A) We usually use "transparency" as opposed to "transparence" B) cloudness should be cloudiness C) I think you should educate your reader on transparency and pollution first, and then discuss Moscow. To measure...

Thank you, MountainHiker, for your attantion and help! It is so useful, because people neglect my mistakes a great deal. Still I have a few questions. 1. . - The average temperature remains at zero, obviously. Here in Russia, the temperature is measured in whole numbers of degrees only. Thus,...