LOL a friend of mine asked me to help edit his paper. I editted it, but English is my ESL also. This is a personal statement to a UC... help pls, thanks in advance. Normal 0 false false false EN-US

Dear friend, 1. We got a good look at the most extraordinary thing about the animal. Its foreclaws were nearly as long as my fingers. - correct; two independent clauses. We got a good look at the most extraordinary thing about

Is as well as considered a parenthical phrase? Should it be set off with commas? Thanks! My non-linguistic view thinks not. I may be wrong but one of the "as well as" usages has a prepositional property which is typically

In the following sentence , do I need to place a comma after the introductory participial phrase? Walking in the street, the boy spotted one of his friends.  I have read a grammar book, which mentions that you only need to separate the

1 A dog's brain is disproportionately small (compared) to the size of head. Among mammals, a dog's brain is disproportionately small for his head. 2 She knows him so well as to be able to write a message in his place and people would

Dear friend, the clauses within your sentence are correlative clauses of proportion (a kind of adverbial clauses), the comma is obligatory to separate them. One dominant use of a comma is to separate closely associated clauses within a sentence

Although Martha remained at Mount Vernon when George went to Philadelphia as a delegate to the Second Continental Congress, she often accompanied him to his headquarters during the war years. She spent the winter of 1775 in Cambridge,

Hi everybody, My background is in toxicology, but I'm always looking to improve my writing skills. I joined this forum hoping to get some friendly advice on the rules of grammar when I need it. I must admit that I'm a bit embarrassed to

"Hi!" is a sentence by itself. Dear Jane, Hi! I bet you thought you'd never hear from me again. I've been very busy since the move but I hate to lose touch with my friends, so I thought I'd write you. The correct way to

What's wrong with this sentence? "Maybe we should wait until everyone is seated," Ana said to her band mates.