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Hi, Glad you asked this question. How English speaking people use English does not represent the correctness of their English. That said, I would say what you hear depends a lot on the class of people you converse with and this has nothing to do with economics. By that, I mean rich people don’t...

1) I hope to the birthday party tonight. (a) I' shall able to come (b)to be able to come <<answer B is correct. After the verb “hope” it’s almost always followed by infinitive. If this sentence structure is too complex, you can replace with “ I can...

A Blinkin',A colon could be used in some of your examples in which one phrase or clause supplements the other. The dash gives a bit more emphasis; the colon is a bit more formal.To round out our discussion, here is how Webster's Third New International Dictionary describes the use of the...

A Blinkin',I think I'm understand a little more about dashes. But I was also wondering, in a sentence like the example: The Daily County News--our noisy and aggressive local paper--trumpeted news of this incident in three-inch headlines. could the dashes be replaced with commas? Yes, but...

thanks for the help! I think I'm understand a little more about dashes. But I was also wondering, in a sentence like the example: The Daily County News--our noisy and aggressive local paper--trumpeted news of this incident in three-inch headlines. could the dashes be replaced with...

I like the dash. It lets one add emphasis and (dramatic) pauses.I think the summary in Webster's Third New International Dictionary is excellent:7. THE DASH7.0 In its function in writing and in the speech intonation to which it corresponds, the dash is similar to the comma and the colon, and a...

There are often optional ways of looking at sentence structure, but here are my opinions: 1. She | tried phoning | his home number, | but | he | didn´t answer. Subject | Verb | Direct object / noun phrase | conj. | subject | verb - Could "but he didn´t answer" be a clause?-- YES, it...

chemas-microsoft-com:office:office" />> Your essay is clear in general. Yet you have to be careful about some points.>> First, try to paraphrase what you want to say if it's given by the topic. Don't use the exact wordings.>> It's good for you to have used different sentence structures in the...

(Mr M forgot to log in again!-- MM) It is a matter of natural sentence flow and stress for meaning. Let's write it like a prose sentence: I think that I shall never see a poem as lovely as a tree. Spoken in conversation, sentences carry several levels of stress, not just stressed and...

I cannot find out the main clause and subordinate clause of the following sentences? 1) . She’s gone back to work at CIA headquarters after her leave of absence, has been photographed by Vanity Fair, and has stood beside her flamboyant husband as he accepted accolades from liberal...