By Verbs, Essays

You might try revising and editing yourself before you post your work online and ask someone else to do that for you. In general there are many problems that I'm sure you will catch yourself in the form of run-on sentences, comma usage, verb form, and capitalization. I think your ideas about...

This, I believe, hindered my overall performance in high school. Now when I compare myself to other classmates, (Im talking about the present. Is this correct/clear enough?) I see that they took more advanced classes than I did but it wasn’t because I wasn’t good at one particular subject or that...

We welcome your opinions, Marcelinx, but it is dangerous to try to compare your native language so closely with English-- they do not work the same way. Nor is your logic very careful.Well, I certainly hope he helps you.There is nothing subjunctive about this. The form of the subjunctive verb--...

Please tell us more about your assignment. You need to fix the parts in red. Cheese1987 wrote: Newspaper journalism today is quite different from what it was ten or twenty years ago. Instead of objective stories with detailed analyses, we now see the words in the newspapers are full of...

The sentences mean the same thing. This is an example of passive and active voice of verbs. This is easily seen in a sentence such as, "The boy threw the ball." That's active voice, and the subject (boy) does the acting (threw). One could say the same thing in passive voice, "The ball was...

I can only tell you my experiences as a parent. My older daugher is 10. This year, she brought home papers in which she had to identify things like the simple subject, the complete subject, the simple predicate, the complete predicate, etc. She also had exercises last year on whether something...

Well, my main comment is that the author is far too verbose. To make it into an acceptable English essay, it needs to be hacked down by about 50%, eliminating most of the adjectives and adverbs. Otherwise, the reader will not have the patience to finish reading it unless s/he is starving to death.

two thoughts really stands in the forefront. plural subject = plural verb.Secondly, I started Cub Scouts when I was 7, working my way the self discipline and responsibilities given by my pears peers truly expanded brought tremendous satisfaction, having once been in their shoes. giving...

Analyse the formality of the article in SCMP It is indispensable for us to use an appropriate style when writing. There is no doubt that formal style should be practiced for newspaper as objectivity and impersonality are important. South China Morning Post is one of the most prevalent...

As a noun in its usual sense, we pronounce it as you suggested / 0es.eI/ in Western Canada. If it means attempt or used as a verb, the stress is on the 2nd syllable.