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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...

Hi Clive, and thanks for the reply. I agree about sentences becoming shorter. It seems like there used to be longer sentences with more commas and semicolons, and that's part of what I like about those novels. It is a more complex form of writing and I'm not sure some of the modern authors...

Hi Franco, Welcome to the Forum. "Nobody would have expected the sun to shine on such an evening as this. Yet it appeared, low down upon the sea. Not with its natural golden fringe, sweeping the furthest ends of the landscape, not with the strange glare of whiteness which it sometimes puts on...

Hi guys, I'm working on my punctuation and am reading a lot of books. I come across loads of examples where the punctuation does not make sense according to a punctuation book I have been reading. I wonder if I could just ask some questions about the paragraph below, which is from a Thomas...

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,...

From Bryan Garner (Dictionary of Modern American Usage):Like a few other adverbs ... however often plays a role in run-on sentences. These sentences don't appear nearly as often in print as they do in informal writing, student papers, and the like. They read something like this: "I wanted to go...

Do you think it is all right to write as this? The computer cannot be started because the plug is loose, please tigthen it.I said that it was grammatically correct; punctuation is usually considered separately. No, it is not properly puncuated; it is a comma-splice sentence, and needs a...

I am not sure why you see the usage of this nonfinite clause differently from that of the others you mention, SB. As with the independent clause, that is a pronomial referring to astonishment and of Mr. Bennet an of-possessive:Are you perhaps disturbed by the semicolons? I am, since the clause...

Semicolon ( Punctuation sometimes regarded as a weak period or strong comma and used in ways similar to periods and commas. A semicolon can mark the end of a clause and indicate that a clause following is closely related to the previous clause. A semicolon can also divide a sentence to make...

Anonymous wrote:I see you made the descriptive phrase into a complete sentence, making the semicolon the proper punctuation. Does that mean the original sentence was incorrect as it was?Thanks!Your original sentence (absolute participle construct) is grammatically correct. But this sort of style...