By Nouns, Spelling

There are often optional ways of looking at sentence structure, but here are my opinions: 1. She | tried phoning | his home number, | but | he | didn´t answer. Subject | Verb | Direct object / noun phrase | conj. | subject | verb - Could "but he didn´t answer" be a clause?-- YES, it...

I found no stated definition. It appears to be a misspelling of commerciogenic and, judging from the following quotations, means 'of or related to characteristics caused by commercialism (the needs of business): "1968 Dr Derrick Jelliffe in Jamaica, coins the term ...

Hi Anonymous, Please note, the spelling is solution. Allot 5 points if the solution contains no errors.

Hello rvw. I'm that anon who asked about apples and Issinbaeva. Oh I see you are not so enthuisiastic for the pole vault (in addition the spelling of her name was wrong: Isinbayeva. She broke the world record at Helsinki, at IAAF world championships this year. She is beautiful, by the...

Forbes wrote: LeicesterLad wrote:It does seem a little inconsistent though. Surely it would make sense to use the apostrophe universally to imply possesion, whatever or whoever the "possessor" I used to think this when I was first taught about the possessive 's'. Apparently it was at one...

Yes, hyphen; no 's'-- when it is an adjective. No hyphen and add 's'-- when it is a noun. A ten-minute coffee break; a 3-day binge. The coffee break was ten minutes long; my binge lasted 3 days. You will admittedly sometimes find the hyphen missing as in the movie, The Seven Year...

Hi Pieanne, Are you sure that spelling b-u-t can mean 'target'? The only noun definition of 'but' that I found in M-W was: Scottish : the kitchen or living quarters of a 2-room cottage

Not easy questions, Bubu, and I am only trying to answer some, because no one else has: 'Expenditure', my dictionary says, is irregularly formed from 'expend', so no reason beyond history of use is accessible. 'Mixture' has a 't' because it is derived from the Latin mixtus-- again from my...

Hi everybody!! It's been a long time since I visitted this forums last. My reagards and best wishes to you all. Please accept my good greetings to you all. And here is my question I would like to know if there is any spelling rules for the words below. *Expend=expenditure *Mix =...

Hello, Guest, "advertise" is the US spelling, "advertize" the BE one. The noun form is advertisement, short form ad.