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"The Change of the Characteristics in the passage from The Hours" The passage from the novel The Hours by Michael Cunningham is intriguing. The passage illustrates the difference between the character's characteristics in different time settings: past and present. This difference is...

Hi, now I have some questions: * In the sentence "and already in high school they brought me to the decision that I would like to continue my future studies..." you placed "even" instead of "already", so we don't use already in this context? Because in Hebrew and Russian it's the most suitable...

Thank you very much Clive! Your edits was VERY useful. But now I have some questions: * In the sentence "and already in high school they brought me to the decision that I would like to continue my future studies..." you placed "even" instead of "already", so we don't use already in this...

The paper is in MLA format and I had some trouble keeping it in present tense, block quoting a speech from poetry, and siting the poetry inside the paragraphs themselves help would be very very appreciated. sorry its so long. also I dont know if i like my closing statement, should I add more or...

Hi,welcome to EF.I am a non-native speaker, but I tried to read your text very quickly, and I noticed this: Ajwrighter wrote: Looks like you had to deal with the calibration curve later. You hadn't already done that when you wrote that paragraph. But the following sentences seem to refer to that...

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...

Hello, Hoa Thai. Although Goodman outstripped me and deserved the brave one's laurels, I'd like to add some of the comments which I had started typing yesterday in the university, but hadn't time to finish... Your reasonong is interesting but not fault-less. «As CalifJim clearly explains...

Goodman wrote:My immediate reaction from reading the red part of the paragraph is "subjunctive". Aside from the context of the debated paragraph, consider the following: John has already spent 4 year in college and he is still struggling with is grades to graduate because he spends too much...

Hi Collegebound, Welcome to the forums. Overall, you have a good essay. Stop worrying about your paragraphs. However, I 'm not sure what the topic was that Wisconsin asked for. Where did you put it? As vice president of my Catholic school’s multi-cultural student union, I have learned, first...

We have arranged for the surveyor to inspect these goods in November (or do you mean, on 7th November). After that: your paragraph sounds like it is part of a formal letter to a client or customer, so that "after that" is slightly too informal. You could say, "Following this inspection, they will...