By Universities, Constructions

I am writing to apply for ***. Having considered several major universities, I would like to attend *** as the courses would provide me with a good knowledge of construction management skills. *** also allows internship, which I believe will be a good experience for me and a chance to see the...

Another kind of illegitimate argument is based on analogy between one area of grammar and another. consider yet another construction where there is variation between nominative and accusative forms of pronouns: , where the subject has the form of a coordination of pronouns. This shows us not...

Hi, I am planning to apply for master course in Holland. I come from Indonesia and it is my first time writing a motivation letter. Any critics and suggestions are welcome. Thank you Dear Sir or Madam, I am writing to apply for ***. Having searched several major universities, I found...

Using the first living thing on Earth as a model By William J. Cromie Gazette Staff Jack Szostak is trying to make a living organism out of nonliving chemicals. It would be a modest creature, a microscopic bit of genetic material in a bubble of fat, capable of making...

Hello, I am a girl from Hong kong. My friend just told me here. Well, it is a great forums with great people! I would like to be your friend. Ok, I am writing a cover letter for a job, but I still dislike this letter very much.Could you give me a hand? Thank you in advance. Dear Sir or...

I agree with cairn, a) from A University Grammar of English,Randolph Quirk and Sidney Greenbaum, ELBS with Longman, ISBN 0 582 05886 4, page 179. " Indefinite expression of amount 7.24 Another area of ambivalence is that of indefinite and negative expressions of amount. For example in ...

Dear Mr.*** : After finishing high school , I enrolled in the School of Engineering at ***University. Because of my interest in power generation and distribution, I chose electric power engineering as my major study when I was a junior. In my fourth year final project, I studied the...

hi everyone ,This is the first time for me and i need your help .I'm going to apply for a thesis in some research institutes. It would be nice if someone can correct my letter.Thank you in advance Dear Mr.*** After finishing study from high school , I joined School of engineering,...

Although "my wife today" was not a good example, the construction itself, with an adverb of time following a noun is relatively common, at least in the relatively standard middle-class, university-educated Canadian English of my circle of friends. Take three sentences, with the construction...

Hello Tonyoung I'm sorry but I'm Japanese. In my language we say "The reason is that ..." or "It is by the reason/cause that ....". By the way, I found a similar question and the answer to it in Webster's grammar QA site. This is the first I've heard of this objection. Burchfield speaks...