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vi. If I had not watched him, he would have gone without food himself in order to feed the refugees.what is the meaning of it?He wanted to give his food to the refugees. However, I watched him and would not let him. If I hadn't been watching him, he wouldn't have eaten and the refugees would have...

Hi, My English teacher has reached out of the bowels of hell and given me and a friend a project: we have to make a video project on commas in direct address.I have searched through the internet and have found little to help give a good explanation. If someone could tell me the rules for this......

Kooyeen wrote: Yoong Liat wrote:Then, I drank three beers too many. Is it wrong to place a comma after "Then" in the above sentence?Hi Yoong,umm, I don't know if it's wrong, but on second thought it's probably better without. I think it is a very common error to place a comma after "Then". If...

Thanks Barbara, I seached for "comma splice" on the Internet after I saw your reply and consulted a book on punctuation (By Oxford University Press). What I understood is "comma splice" is a common error that most of the people often make. The book said "It's not normally correct to join the...

Hi, "Because of a confusion with that type of sentence, it is a curiously common error to put a comma in the absolute construction"Should not we use "beacause of confusion..."? Confusion is an abstract noun and can't take 'a' before it.Yes, 'a confusion' is wrong. Your following examples, with...

Hi, I was reading some resource of grammar on internet and came across this sentence."Because of a confusion with that type of sentence, it is a curiously common error to put a comma in the absolute construction"Should not we use "beacause of confusion..."? Confusion is an abstract noun and...

HelloFor the convenience of other readers, I'll paste what is written in the URL you referred.common error ~ that/which　If you are defining something by distinguishing it from a larger class of which it is a member, use "that": "I chose the lettuce that had the fewest wilted leaves." When the...

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