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Written Formula for Ending a Letter British English Informal personal to close friends and family With loveBest wishesSemi formal informal emails notes business memos Kind regardsBest regardsRegardsFormal letters Yours sincerelyUse when you know the addressee by name Dear John Dear Mr Smith You...

Teo wrote the longest river in China that flows eastward from Tibet to the China Sea It is also called the Yangtze In Standard British English the above relative pronoun that should be replaced by which What about American English usage Hi Teo very good question I ve always wondered about that...

In Longman Advanced American Dictionary page 219 the definition of the Chang Jiang is as follows the longest river in China that flows eastward from Tibet to the China Sea It is also called the Yangtze In Standard British English the above relative pronoun that should be replaced by which What...

1 I came across the following When conversing with women men will remove their hat a Is hat correct here or should it be replaced with hats This seems to cause a lot of questions Because it is clear that any one man will be wearing only one hat and no two men can be weaing the same hat at the...

Hi 1 I came across the following When conversing with women men will remove their hat a Is hat correct here or should it be replaced with hats b What would the equivalent sentence in the singular sound When conversing with a woman a man will remove his hat 2 I found the following combinations...

Grammar Geek wrote Yoong Liat what part of it doesn t make sense to you Is it because you are used to seeing adjectives before the noun The original sentence without the commas is fine What if it said The food there was good Would that seem okay If so then keep expanding make there into where I...

I ll try to give a partial answer A relative clause is a portion of a sentence that adds information about a previous noun in the sentence The previous noun is called the antecedent Relative clauses are marked by relative pronouns that which who whom and others Examples will help 1 The fish that...

Well both or neither really because rules governing punctuation aren t really rules in the sense that rules govening nouns verbs and adjectives are rules Punctuation rules vary considerably often from publisher to publisher or from newspaper to newspaper I can tell you that QUESTION MARKS and...