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Thank you. It will take some time to reflect upon your response. As to your question of where I wanted to put a semicolon, it was in the underlined part. I was pretty sure a semicolon is appropriate but wanted to confirm. You changed the tense of the last sentence to present perfect; (semicolon...

I should have edited the post - they are clearly related, but the first three seemed unrelated to each other.I broke them into each line so I could comment one by one. I think the probable date I noted for his visit is one month from the day of writingYou wrote, "If I sleep one more day, I...

Thank you so much.How would you divide this type of writing (diary or reflection piece?) into paragraphs, especially when the content of a possible paragraph is two or thre sentences long?You asked: I am starting to work on my two-month project on today this afternoon;, and when my nephew gets...

Mister Micawber wrote:I much prefer the first (except it should of course read 'with the'). I suppose the second is possible, but generally the information following a colon is detail rather than an alternative.Hi Mister MicawberI wonder how you should pronounce the word 'read' here. Is it in...

Question 1Although the question has already been answered, I should like to comment on why arise is the correct choice. The subject of the clause should any difference arise is difference, which is singular and third person. One of the fundamental principles of English grammar is that the subject...

Hi Believer, 1 - Both of your "Which... is correct" are okay, to my ears. If you are speaking in the present tense, I still HAVE no answer or answers, depending on the context. I've been strugging with this math problem for an hour, but I still have no answer. (A single answer to the math...

Hello Sextus, how have you been? 1) Yes, > troubles me a little. I suppose the sense here is 'equilibrium of contending opposites'. There must be a common phrase for this. 30) Commas fine. 31) Clear to me, yes. 32) Perhaps report > account. If 'gave', I would put 'did' for 'does'. Or gave...

Pilita, I think your problem is that you are inconsistent. Some of your sentences are perfectly correct, but then you make elementary mistakes in other sentences that seem to show that you haven't totally understood why your best sentences are as good as they are! For example, your sentence:...