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I'm not sure what guideline you have heard, Kolndom-- I am aware of no particular 'clause' (I think you mean conjunction or conclusive phrase) that need be put at the end of a body paragraph (this would make the sequence of paragraph endings rather boring). You must simply complete the...

Which clause is usually put in front of a closing sentence in body paragraphs? Is "the result is" or "therefore" such clause that signify the closing sentence? Thank u in advance :-))

To me, the rules regarding punctuation around quotation marks are not always logical. To 'remember' them, I extracted the following from Webster's Third New International Dictionary: 13.1 Direct quotations: "When I am dead," said one of the keenest minds, "lay a sword on my coffin." 13.2 In...

I found an article about ex-astronaut Schirra in a page from CNN. Walter M. Schirra Jr. Schirra in his Mercury pressure suit with model of Mercury spacecraft behind him. The jocular Schirra logged more time in space than any of the other Mercury seven -- 295 hours -- aboard Mercury 8, Gemini 6...

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...

http://pinker.wjh.harvard.edu/articles/media/1994_01_24_thenewrepublic.html Probably no "grammatical error" has received as much scorn as "misuse" of pronoun case inside conjunctions (phrases with two parts joined by is an object that requires object case, it does not mean that is an object...

Hello MrP. So, a poet! Poetry is an area regarding which I must acknowledge my complete ignorance. Of course, I can’t write anything of this kind, and I can only read with some enjoyment some things by Borges, Manrique and Prévert. Thanks for your very useful suggestions. Here I’ve four more...

Hello, Silver Moon! Nice to meet you. Welcome to this forum. I'm a Japanese guy and I want to help you. However, I am a bit confused. I agree that women in Japan are not treated equal and that the law for equality on both sides of the gender is just a scapegoat for politics in Japan which is...

Heh... they are all right. It could be 1,2 and 3 or just clause 3. But you said the entire bit, it wouldn't matter because each condition is "stacked" upon each other. If 3 refers to 2 then Clause 3 will actually mean: more platters means more moving parts What you wrote above is not standard...

Hi, Paco, This grammatical phenomenon comes under the heading of "pseudo-cleft" sentences, although your example (the second sentence you cite) is a modified form of it. Prototypical examples are: What John lost was his wallet. What caused the problem was a leaky faucet. What the committee...