Thanks Grammar Geek, Renan & Kooyen! So it could, technically go both ways, since THE DIRECTION AND PURPOSE could be taken either as singular or plural... My instincts tell me the sentence with HAS and OWES sounds better too. @ Renan: I'll

Yoga derives from prehistoric roots and develops out of ancient Indian asceticism. Yoga as a Hindu philosophy is first expounded in the Yoga Surtas of Patanjali. This earliest school of Yoga retrospectively came to be known by the retronym

I like Chairman for both genders, but I don't want to seem out of it.  Selectman which is also an official position is not mashed up into selectwoman, selectperson.  I'm searching for an answer to this for Chairman...

HI, Please can someone help me to edit this paper. Thanks. Normal 0 false false false MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 Citation Alberty-Vélez v. Corporación de Puerto Rico United Stated Court of Appeals, First Circuit, 2004 361 F.3d 1 Facts

HI, Please, can someone help me to edit (grammer, puctuations...) this paper. Thanks Citation Alberty-Vélez v. Corporación de Puerto Rico United Stated Court of Appeals, First Circuit, 2004 361 F.3d 1 Facts Alberty- Vélez and Corporación de

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How do you pronoun-ize pronomialize nouns like 'anyone', 'everyone' and 'no one'? The prescriptive grammarians recommend only he, him, himself, and his . It is said that in these cases, the pronouns are not gendered and

Both is correct. The first assumes the learner is a male and the second both genders. It can be awkward to be writing "his or her", so you can try, if possible, to rewrite it to: The learners' task then is to perform their own

I recently wrote a letter of explanation to a board of members who oversee the disbursement of financial aid to university students. Not knowing their names / gender / position / titles, I used the phrase, "To whom it may concern:". I

Regardless, it still represents a trite nuance. After a few centuries we've finally given up 'actress.' I think Zissner, Grammar Geek wrote: The authoress is a natural German speaker. Perhaps this is another Americanism, but