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grammar doubts!

Anonymous — Sat, 17 May 2008 09:59:30 GMT

(1) I want to begin by saluting Professor Ravi Sharma for having brought this important conference into being. Of all the people I think of Ravi as the man who gets things done.

Should it be "is the man"? Please insert commas where necessary.

(2) But as the story has it ~~I'm not sure this is quite right~~(if it pertains to) Galileo, (but)---it used to be thought the larger objects fell faster than smaller objects.

Should "that" be inserted before "the larger objects"

(3) Now, this new way of knowing ~~proof~~which retired false hypotheses and put in place their alternative ~~ones that were confirmed~~and went on into laboratory experiment.

Are there too many emdashes? Please clarify.

(4) Let's just think about this subject that has brought us together. Religio is Latin for rebinding. And religion involves belonging and, when that belonging has been sundered, then work toward rebinding it.

Does the last sentence "And religion...rebinding it" has clarity in mening? Please rephrase.

(5) But let me remind you, the only submission by true people, a scientist and religionists, were the only one they wouldn't touch.

"were the only one " s-v agreement please check

(6) September 11 proved that the most advanced parts of the current civilization is prone to harm from its most marginalized parts and the source of this vulnerability should be found in different layers of politics, culture, and economy.

Should it be "are prone"

(7) Could you speak a little more as a blogger yourself about the role of weblogs and the new generation.

can question mark inserted instead of period

(8) I repeat what I said in my talk that so many religious conflicts in the world are just called religious. In fact, they are more political issues and they have their roots in politics.

"they are more political..." Does it make sense?

comma needed?

tamguatlay — Sat, 17 May 2008 09:12:02 GMT

Jack was rushed to Tan Tock Seng Hospital, where she dided at 3.30 a.m.

Should there be a comma after 'Hospital'?

Thanks in advance.

Re: commas needed?

tamguatlay — Sat, 17 May 2008 06:20:57 GMT

Thank you very much, Calif Jim, but would it be correct if I removed the commas.

Thanks again.

Re: with little if any thought to...

Tanit — Fri, 16 May 2008 18:37:25 GMT

Hi,
Here is how I understand your sentence.

1. rushing past >> this sets the scene, describes what was happening while they were walking. You could read it as "while heavy traffic was rushing past", if you like.

2. with little if any thought to the damaging pollutants >> they didn't think much (with little) about those pollutants they were inhaling; they probably didn't think at all (if any) about them.
"With little if any + noun " (Hmm, I think it needs a comma before "if") is one of those chunks worth learning. It means without, or with a very small quantity/amount/number etc of something.

Hope my interpretation is fine. If it's not, somebody will correct it.

Would you please help me?

Anonymous — Fri, 16 May 2008 17:19:17 GMT

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Is the above sentence grammatically correct along with the commas used?

Thank you in advance for your help.

Re: comma usage

Grammar Geek — Fri, 16 May 2008 13:04:45 GMT

What do the cross-outs mean? Shoud we ignore them? I don't see any em-dashes.

I would say that you have WAY to many phrases set off my commas. Reading sentences with so many bits set off like that is like driving down a very bumpy road.

comma usage

Anonymous — Fri, 16 May 2008 11:05:17 GMT

Are the commas and emdashes used correctly in the below sentences? Please correct them if needed.

It has to do with the fact that, due to immigration, travel, Internet, diaspora of all religions around the world, we are now in each other's faces, we are now each other's neighbors.

The Muslim Brotherhood, for example, which was founded in Egypt ~~one of its earliest leaders was Sayyid Qutb, one of the intellectual founders of Muslim renewal~~opposed, at the time, most of the movements of the modern world ~~communism, capitalism, nationalism~~in the interest of establishing what they wanted to call an original Islamic ummah, informed by Quranic justice and equality.

This pattern of tactical avoidance, though it may preserve a certain atmosphere, eventually leads to evading hard questions. It leads to obscuring the involvement, the inconvenient factor, that throughout history, conflicts within and between religious traditions have been suffused with political element, and such detextualized conversations ~~and I repeat, not all of the meetings are like this~~can therefore lead to a false sense of optimism about the interfaith relationships and the inevitable disillusionment that sets in when they don't seem to work out as we had hoped.

Re: Fell or fallen

Yoong Liat — Thu, 15 May 2008 13:32:56 GMT

Creativeguru

Thanks Yoong Liat for clarifying

Thanks, Yoong Liat, for clarifying. (Just to let you know that there should be a comma after 'Thanks' and one after 'Liat')

Best wishes

Re: comma usage

Mister Micawber — Thu, 15 May 2008 11:34:13 GMT

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First: No comma before to establish. the context of the nonfinite clause is restrictive of failure, not parenthetical.
Second: definitely NO comma before sparked. You cannot place a single comma between Subject and Verb.

comma usage

Anonymous — Thu, 15 May 2008 11:24:22 GMT

The failure of many of these secular liberal or socialist societies to establish real justice for the majority and to free the society from western economic neocolonialism, sparked a second anticolonial movement that has focused on religious renewal.

Can I insert comma before "to establish"? Will the context be parenthetical? Please advise.