Hello, Would you explain 'prompting business'? Does it mean 'retail business'? You may find it in the following article of NYT: The incidents terrified residents along the border of North and South Carolina,

I'll butt in if I may, Anon and MrM. As I'm a nonnative speaker of English, I think I have a clue as to what causes your problem, Anon. English is a highly illogical language but there often is at least some logic behind the seeming maze.

Hi, Thanks!! But I am still confused... Please let me organize all the things. In my understanding so far, (A) whether or not " -ese" words (Japanese, Chinese, Tiwanese, Vietnamese, etc.) accompany definite articles depends

I'm editing my book and noticed I was interchanging single quotation marks and regular quotation marks and not really sure how to make it correct. It sounds like the Brits use the 'single' ones and the Americans use the

You may have noticed that the second article I refered you to is regarding Scandanavian Sterilisation from 1930s up to 1970s. Hitler died in 1945, yet the eugenics continued. Finland is not accountable for what happened in other countries, just as

Well Howard... This is one my my most fervent pet peaves... I can't stand when I hear newscasters, politicians and even academics trying to sound ed-ja-ma-kated by using "an history" instead of "a history". What you

Cool Breeze You may have noticed that the second article I refered you to is regarding Scandanavian Sterilisation from 1930s up to 1970s. Hitler died in 1945, yet the eugenics continued. As for me - no I'm from one of the smallest

Hi, Thank you! So, there seems not any grammatical generalization about this issue because this type of university name ('region name" + university of + "specializing field") is not common in English-spoken countries.

Hi, My grammar book says that we should insert "the" before the university named as "University of ~ (the name of states, towns, etc.)" (e.g. the University of Michigan), whereas any articles should not be placed before

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