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Hello Katsudon Hello Guest. G: ? I'm a Japanese student and learning English in school. ? {questionable, possibly ungrammatical} K: One has to be very careful in the deployment of these 'rules' you learn. I'm sure you've learned that you can drop the subject in coordinated clauses, but you...

Q Do you have any detail on this Red Cross worker who was killed in Afghanistan? Any more than you said? MS. TUTWILER: No, other than he was a male. Q Who he was killed by? How he was killed? MS. TUTWILER: Not yet. "Translation:" Q Do you know anything about this worker who was killed in...

Good question, lemon. One definition of 'as' is 'like'! I think what is probably slightly wrong with your sentence "I wrote such sentences like.." is the word order. It would be better to say: I wrote, "sentences such as ..." or "I wrote, "sentences like ...." LIKE is similar to a...

Why? Because causes precede effects. Going out of the house is not a prerequisite for shouting. They are independent actions. Being at a bar is related to and is a sort of reason for drinking, so the mention of drinking comes after the mention of being at a bar. Getting home late is a good...

Consider the following sentences: 1. "He went out of the house shouting loudly." 2. "Shouting loudly, he went out of the house." The present participle clause can be placed at the beginning or at the end of the sentence. However, that is not the case here: 3. "She was at a bar having a...

No - this site is specifically about marking written work. An 'F' paper is a fail. if you google 'faulty diction' you'll come across lots of sites concerned with proof reading, exam and essay marking etc. This is a teacher's correction code for students re: marking...

I think no inversion (DO first and S-V then) is needed in this case as there is no DO... I would say "The more forests disappear" is right (my teachers used to tell me: "the more you read, the more you learn", which is a similar construction, "the more"+S+V), however, I've found on the Internet...

Paco, I read your Split Infinitive offering. Very interesting. The Star Trek example floored me! "to boldly go" was regarded as the best version. "to go boldly" did not have the fluid feel of the original??? What fluid feel? It sounds positively clunky to me! I agreed that "boldly to go"...

My guesses: (1) 'Queen' is the fifth noun, acting as an adjective; 'guests' is subject of the dependent clause. (2) Subject preceding verb is normal word order in an affirmative statement. (3) 'Answers' is the head-- it is modified by the other words. (4) In ( a ) 'book' is the direct...

The following is copied from David Megginson Copyright © 1994, 1995 and 1996 by the University of Ottawa Adverb Clauses An adverb clause is a dependent clause which takes the place of an adverb in another clause or phrase. An adverb clause answers questions such as "when?", "where?", "why?",...