Should the following sentences take the possessive gerund? If so, why? Thank you " In spite of vehicle sales rising 17 per cent " "These proposed changes are central to Cattles achieving a more cost-efficient

His sentence is awkward and not quite correct. I would have said: "The past ten years have seen a big rise in small businesses." And yes, my current dictionary has the pronunciation of "near" as "nir."

Hello! Can I ask for help please? I have certain doubts about the sentence my teacher said to be correct. He said the following: "The recent ten years are seeing a big rise in small businesses" Is it really correct? I mean

Hello! I'm writing a letter of motivation to our local office for international relations. So I have to convince them to accept me and to arrange an exchange with an American university. This is a very raw version but I would appreciate it if

Welcome to EnglishForums. Here are my suggestions about how to improve the letter of recommendation. Underlined words are where I made spelling or grammatical changes to your language. Strikethroughs are where I deleted your original language.

Sky is a big place - "flying solo" in such a big sky is difficult, don't feel ashamed to have failed.She's continuing his metaphor. One too many names - no, this sounds like he's added another name as author and she thinks

The following is a line from a documentary film: "The Rockerafella fortune had begun over a hundred years earlier with Nelson's grandfather, John D Rockafella, the founder of the Standard Oil Corporation." I'm confused about the

hi, The following sentence was sent to me by an employer. The 2009 entry vacancy we currently have is for a position in our investment team. Our 2010 entry holds both investment and accounting vacancies. question1 Clearly, there must be more

Grammatically, the sentence is OK (though you should remove the dash after the word "usual"). Practically speaking, I'd say most people would not use the passive phrase "the company I am employed by" in that sentence, and

hi, The following sentence is one of the sentence from the email of an employer. Thank you for your interest in our 2010 Entry vacancy. Clearly, there are more than 1 vacancy, but why the employer did not write "vacancies"?