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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...

Hi, Is it common or correct to use the definite article before what looks to be the abbreviation of a govenment organization at one time and don't use it at another time? I think for some government or non-government names, the definite article is put in consideration of a main noun/word. I...

Anonymous wrote: Please answer the following questions: 1. Why the word 'police' does not have a determiner in front of it when my dictionary noted that it could be a singular noun? ... identified by police and parents as the day-care center owner... 'the' could be used, but is often...

Please answer the following questions: 1. Why the word 'police' does not have a determiner in front of it when my dictionary noted that it could be a singular noun? ... identified by police and parents as the day-care center owner... 2. Is the following adjectival construction...

Believer wrote: I have a sentence I think I saw written somewhere. How would you rewrite it so it is correct? I think it is incorrect. Our company has a children's center for our employees in need of child care. I can't see a problem with this sentence otherwise. The indefinite article is...

I have a sentence I think I saw written somewhere. How would you rewrite it so it is correct? I think it is incorrect. Our company has a children's center for our employees in need of child care. I think when you have a name in the genitive, normally the article refers to the noun that...

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...

(correct me if possible, I'm learning English at the moment , esp marked with *) ex: There is a labyrinth in my figure. May I call a line, showing a path, in the labyrinth 'road'? (Check the commas, please. Is something necessary before 'road'?) (is it possible to say 'What if ...'?) What...