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Hi, I have the following grammar questions. Do please help me with the correct answers to the following questions. Thanking you in anticipation, Regards, Manu. 1. Choose the sentence that illustrates the correct agreement of subject and verb. A. Either the students or the teacher have...

http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/runons.htm Run-on sentences happen typically under the following circumstances*: When an independent clause gives an order or directive based on what was said in the prior independent clause: This next chapter has a lot of difficult information in it,...

I guess the questioner picked up this sentence from Grammar Station . Here they are teaching how to punctuate sentences and phrases, but I agree they are making two serious or stupid mistakes here. The first one is the grammatical error that GG pointed out. The second one is the redundant use of...

Anonymous wrote: Hi, I have a sentence below for your check-up for a proper semicolon use. He wears shoes with socks, on expensive one; but I prefer loafers myself. I think I read somewhere that you can not use a semicolon with "but"? I suppose it should be: "He wears shoes with socks, an...

Grammar aside, the purpose of writing is to clearly communicate with your reader. It's unwise to rely on your reader's knowledge of syntax to convey your meaning, so if there's a likelihood that the meaning will not be immediately clear, then re-write. If you really wanted to keep them...

Hi, A grammar book I was looking at told me (literally) that when using a semicolon, no conjunction, like and, but, and so, is allowed. Now taking that as the rule, I saw many cases where a conjunction like "and" is used with a semicolon. Ex. He was kind to people; and for that reason the poor...

Hmm...what say you? Well, I did a bit more research, NG, and since these are some of the definitions: Cladding-- A protective covering that protects the outside of a building. A metal coating bonded onto another metal under high pressure and temperature. A protective or insulating layer...

Hi Clive Descartes wrote 'Cogito ergo sum' without a comma and without 'et'. OK. But Lacan wrote Descartes' "Cogito ergo sum" with semicolon: I think; therefore I am. Would you say he was ungrammatical, or just that Lacan uses different rules for grammar and punctuation? just a ...

No, 'pursue' is wrong; it should obviously be 'pursuit', but you have dumped that for the rhyme and no other reason. You are sacrificing meaning and poetic impact for cheap rhythm and rhyme-- and you're failing in the rhythm anyway. The poet does not force words into form-- s/he finds the...

#1 is correct. #2 is a comma splice (two finite clauses, no conjunction); it needs a semicolon instead of the comma.