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"why was late reply" is not a sentence. It has no meaning. In English a sentence begins with a capital letter and ends with a punctuation mark (. ; : ? !)In addition, you seem to have omitted a definite or indefinite article or a possessive pronoun and mixed up the word order."Why...

I see the greatest problems as follows: Foreigners' errors, leaving out articles etc.Often valid, but alien word order.Incorrect verb selection; your verbs seem to have been selected directly from a bilingual dictionary. The only way to sort this out is to read plenty of well-written books,...

Hi all!I've been giving English conversation lessons to a theology professor for about a year now. He's getting on in the years - a couple years from retirement - and his primary goal has been just to get his spoken English going a little stronger. His mother tongue is French but he's...

That is exactly what I have been taught. And yet the second example is what I come across from time to time both in books and films. It seems to me that the position of the article in the second sentence emphasizes how beautiful the ship is (in this case anyway) even more than in the first...

I'll try to give some information on this as a non-professional.This is how it looks like in the serbian language,and I suppose,it is very similar in all other slavic languages and also the latin language.For indicating a location the locative case of a noun is used.If the english language...

The standard word order is Have you managed to find any more articles? I want two more. any articles more is very unusual, and want more two is incorrect. CJ

I have recently come across some strange looking sentences: 'I haven't been to so enjoyable a party for ages.' 'That was too boring a book to read.'I thought it was wrong, because I was accustomed to the word order as with 'such': "This is such an enjoyable party". Why is here the article...

Hi there. I think that your first publication is very very good. Where are you from? Where do you want to publish it? But some things seems suspicious, i meant using tenses and grammatical constructions. Do You know what? - use do is necessary, but in informal way of writing skipping is...

Hi, What if "Newcomers Guide to Immigration to the UK" was a newspaper headline? Would be fine then to write "Newcomers Guide to Immigration to UK" without "the"? Yes, newspaper headlines often omit articles. How about: Newcomers Immigration Guide to the UK, would it sound fine with this word...

I see nothing wrong with your sentences. There are other possibilities; for instance, if you were a pop star or a famous writer, you might say People who love me... without the article. This would imply you have lots of "lovers".You have resorted to variety yourself by using a different word...