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A Little Help with Capitals This handout lists some guidelines for capitalization. If you have a question about whether a specific word should be capitalized that doesn't fit under one of these rules, try checking a dictionary to see if the word is capitalized there. Use capital letters in...

Here's the relevant definition from that first link. intr.v. verged, verg·ing, verg·es To approach the nature or condition of something specified; come close. Used with on: a brilliance verging on genius. Note the abbreviation intr. This means intransitive. That is, the...

Grammar Ninja is an educational game where the player identifies parts of speech in rapid succession. Correct answers help you advance; wrong ones blow up in your face. The game is modeled after Brain Age's CalculationsX20 exercise. Grammar Ninja is my final project for my Independent Study in...

Hey, i'm new here. My name is Tim and I got this forum from a friend of mine. He told me that this might help me with the problem i got. I have a brother that is 16 years old and i'm 23( in the US Army). He needs help with his english. The teacher gave him the study guide, but no answer on...

Hey, i'm new here. My name is Tim and I got this forum from a friend of mine. He told me that this might help me with the problem i got. I have a brother that is 16 years old and i'm 23( in the US Army). He needs help with his english. The teacher gave him the study guide, but no answer on it. ...

It's fine, not to mention clear, and user friendly. EX: Put it here, like this or like so (e.i., as I am doing it). Use "as" before a (subject) + verb sequence, and use "like" before a nominal. "like" functions as a preposition in our example, and it takes "so", a nominal as its object. "so"...

Yes, of course. That's what WHL was saying. But they follow a pattern, and so that patten must have had a history, an evolution. Whole sets of phrases like that with parallel structure don't just appear out of nowhere. Something must have existed before it, and whatever it was, it probably...

In another thread (Prepositions) Chameleon made reference to the difference between "different from" and "different to". For what it's worth, here's my take on it. DIFFERENT FROM is correct. All else is ... less correct. Here's why: Why is "different from" correct? Okay, let's start with some...