"If you knew what I had gone through, you would surely pity me." Don't listen to these people. You can change it to "have" because only the first verb has to be in the subjunctive mood. The verb "knew" is

Hi. Thank you. You wrote: 2-- I don't understand your question. The second is correct. 'Near or far' are coordinate post-modifying adjectives. Thank you for helping me. Could we safely say that the words in parentheses

Hi Avangi I know I should not have butted in but it's too late to regret it now! Unlike Jim, I'm not at all familiar with transformational grammar even though I do remember reading an introduction to it in the 1960s. Besides, grammatical

Is this a case in which the verb complain is a transitive verb? It's matter of terminology and depends on what one wants to call an object. In Scandinavian grammatical terminology a clause can be the object of a verb : Students know the

..., when it burned to the ground A comma is fine. when can even be replaced by and then in this case, so there's even more reason to use a comma. I lived at home until I was 18, I went away to college. when I went away to college does not

Oh, no. I was asking about the comma at the end: E.) have never been recovered , thrived on the coast of Egypt from 295 B.C. until the fourth century A.D. , Right after that is the adverbial clause: when it burned to the ground.

E.) have never been recovered , thrived on the coast of Egypt from 295 B.C. until the fourth century A.D., Pardon me! I don't see an adverbial clause. Is the "red" comma your question?

Hi, I was doing a the PSAT Practice test, and I was asked the follow question. Correct the underlined portion of the sentence. If the underlined portion is correct, choose A. The vast Library of Alexandria, whose ruins have never been recovered,

can I start my essay like this?: "The Tell-Tale Heart" is a short story by Edgar Allan Poe first published in 1842. Yes, but don't forget that you can vary the order and include more descriptive material, burying the dull facts

Hello, this is my first post here but I've been visiting the site for at least several months since I have found some very interesting discussions here. My question is going to be really complicated and it will take you some time to read