By Commas, Metaphors

Hello GG!Well i was trying to insert some how a metaphor. But it seemed awkward now as how can bed sheet colors and sunlight give rainbow in room. I have rearranged it again and cutting the rainbow. Tell me it look like a sentence? The luminous sunrays are brightening the chromatic colors of the...

Ignore my comment about the giant. I was just trying to think of a metaphor for you. I didn't mean giant, the adjective, but giant, the noun. Your computer is a giant in its power - it's just a small size. My light brown table supports the intelligent computer system at the opposite side...

GlynMorris wrote: Fighting battle with author. I say following is incomprehensible babble. Any opinion? Harry was that way with his life, too. Everything was right there up, front and center, open doorways, as he navigated through a conversation from one topic to the next, all meshing...

Hi, Where you have put semi-colons, I'd usually use commas. I have also suggested some other changes to your punctuation. My general advice is not to get into the habit of using semi-colons and colons. They can often make tyour meaning more obscure rather than more clear. You seem to have a...

Hi, Please read very carefully as I've made a small number of small alterations. You're welcome. Clive v COMMENTARY ( of 'Children' by 'Henry Wadsworth Longfellow') This poem starts with a call of welcome to children, for the poet sees them as our future and hope. They are the...

Dear Clive, It’s so nice of you for always being there to help me. I am very thankful to you. Please bear with me if I don’t thank you adequately. Because I think what you have done for me so far deserves a colourful bunch of thanks. I really appreciate your help, and respect your kind...

The question that arises from your original is whether it's the bud or the metaphor that "delineates and sets forth..." Put a period after bud, and start with "This metaphor..." (With "Earlier" I would expect "used" not "uses." If you want to stick with uses, then go with early. Earlier creates...

My teacher left me a comment about my comma usage...i am reworking some of my paper and i want to know if this is proper comma usage. I have always had problems with proper comma useage. "Earlier in the development of the poem, Kinnell uses an extended metaphor as he describes a flowering...

At school I was taught to use commas before quotations, so that's BrE too, but maybe the colon is a more recent innovation. Anyway, it certainly doesn't look wrong to me.As for the metaphor, the important thing is not to say "literally" to add emphasis, because this means it is no longer a...

With A Theory of Justice (ATJ), John Rawls attempts to propose ('attempts to propose', or simply 'proposes'?) an alternative to the major political view dominating Anglo-Saxon politics, namely utilitarianism. As such, Rawls's work emphasises the rights of (omit 'the') individuals over the...