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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, 1. For small investors, Budget has always a big event to take some fresh decisions. It should be budget has or have (here we are speaking about annual financial budget) The word 'budget' is singular, so say 'has'. You need an article, and you don't need a capital...

1. Are specific titles always written with capital letters? 2. Which preposition is better "for" or "of"? He is the director for / of a trade company.

Hi, what is scorrect you are one of those people on whom i can count or you are one of those people whom i can count on Neither is correct, because you need capital letters and punctuation. #1 is a bit more stylish than #2, but you can put the preposition in either position. Best wishes,...

Anonymous wrote: When referring to a novel in a paragraph, what is the proper punctuation - do you underline the title only, do you underline and have quotations, do you only have quotations? Also are all the words of the novel's title capitalized? HB Common Errors in English The Right...

Hi Diddy, Here is the piece with errors corrected, and a couple of amendments made to make the style better. All in all it looked very good, there are a couple of expressions in which the correct preposition is not obvious, you just have to know these I'm afraid! One point is that King or Queen...

Demetrius You gave me a very interesting answer and pushed me to delve into my grammars. Let us say talk about a watchdog. They are keeping a prying eye on the activities of governments/organizations. That is why I thought the preposition 'on' is the best choice. Our focus is on...

Dear MrP, This is one passage you sent me taken from the book. I put the verbs in the infinitive and tried to find the right tenses again. If you wouldn't mind, I would like you to tell me if, without other context, the tenses / prepositions in capital letters are possible. The tenses in...

That's a big subject! A noun clause is formed with: subordinator + subject + verb (+ rest of clause) Noun Clauses usually begin with Subordinators: how, however, if, that, what, whatever, where, which, whichever, whose, whether (or not)........etc A noun Clause can serve as a: (Noun clauses...