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The serial comma (also known as the Oxford comma or Harvard comma) is the comma used immediately before a conjunction (such as "and" or "or") in a list of three or more items. The phrase "ham, chips, and eggs" is written with a serial comma, but "ham, chips and eggs" is not.The main justification...

British English, but not American English, usually omits the definite article with university and hospital. Mrs Anderson has to go to hospital / the hospital for an operation. We were at university / the university together. Page 251, A Communicative Grammar of English, by Geoffrey Leech and...

Hi I'm Justin and I'm from Pennsylvania, USA. (^_^)v I'm 24 years old and I attend university here. For what it is worth I even got into the Honor's English program, but my major is "Latin American Studies." I hope to enjoy myself here (and over at forodeespañol) but I´m really curious...

%He isn't ill, isn't he? The above sentence is quoted from The Cambridge Grammar of the English Language, Cambridge University Press 2002. The symbol % indicates the status of the following example: He hadn't many friends. According to the second edition of Practical English Usage,...

Hi Emilia,I am glad to hear that my suggestions have been useful! Good luck Emilia wrote: ...broadening the international point-of-view. Should be "point of view" without hyphenation ... the multifaceted experience of living and studying at a large campus university. Should be "university...

The talks on the Linguists Forum are preserved in a Japanese site.Q) Hello, I'm a graduate student at a university in Japan. In English class at Japanese high schools, students were told to put "the" before the name of musical instrument. But I often come across musical instruments without "the"...

Teo wrote: A Handbook of Classroom English, by Glyn S. Hughes is published by Oxford University Press. It describes standard modern British English. If you are a native speaker of American English, it's not surprising that some example sentences might strike you as strange. For example, on p98...

A Handbook of Classroom English, by Glyn S. Hughes is published by Oxford University Press. It describes standard modern British English. If you are a native speaker of American English, it's not surprising that some example sentences might strike you as strange. For example, on p98 "Take out...

Thank you very much for your inputs Waiti.Americans do understand what's a CV though. I'm very happy today because I just learnt I have been admitted to the above University which was my dream university!! Woohooo However I hope an American or someone who's used to American English also reviews...

I'm Egyptian and very interested in English I'm only 16 years and aim to speak English better than Americans. A very praiseworthy aim! However, you should remember that all native speakers of English speak it perfectly and you cannot improve on perfection. I expect you mean that you are looking...