By Paragraphs, Clauses

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...

(1) great moment = great importance, significance (2) Using 'that' would merely change the confusion for the reader into a confusion between 'that' and 'this' in the next clause. The sentence, employing both an existential 'there' and a preparatory 'it', is indeed more awkward than it need...

I have a few questions about an article I read: 1. Custom has not been commonly regarded as a subject of any great moment. What is "great moment"? 2. There is no social problem it is more incumbent upon us to understand than this of the role of custom. "it is"? or "it " should be replaced by...

No fisticuffs, gentlemen. Sorry about the mess, people. I didn't mean to fight with eagle2184. There must be a reason why the author of the book thinks it's #1. Is he/she generally reliable, Taka? I don't really know. He/She is one of the co-authors of the book, so I don't know who is...