By Constructions, Capital letters

Hi, According to a wesite named "grammar.ccc.comnet.edu" in its THE ELLIPSIS section, I have noticed a paragraph that is written like this and I couldn't understand fully: If words are left off at the end of a sentence, and that is all that is omitted, indicate the omission with...

Hi i have an essay to write on Louis Macneice's - Sunday Morning. I was wondering if anybody could help me analyse it as i have a very hard time reading and understanding poetry. Any help would be amazing - meaning, use of enjambment, causuras, repetition, aliteration, assonance, etc. Thanks...

No mistakes in your construction of the passive. (Where are my mistakes?) Just remember to start with a capital letter and end with a period.

Hi, how will i decide this? i saw that both of them are used!i want you to ''verb'' This is the common construction. i want you ''verb'' Before we get into a discussion about this construction, you say that you have seen this used, so can you please provide a few sentences as examples that I...

Hi again, Do you say if word is being used as a title and name of a role, then no articles will be necessary? He is President of the JC Company -- this is the case of it being used as a title. Yes He plays president in the play. -- this is the case of it being used in reference to a role....

Your revision got rid of the two birds, but the 'competitor' line is 'way out of meter. Iambic pentameter is simple-- it is the natural rhythm of much of spoken narrative English. The trick is that you must compose lines whose natural spoken cadence matches this form; the word stress and...

By a fragmented sentence I assume you mean a group of words that begins with a capital letter and ends with a period, exclamation point, or question mark, but that does not have all of the pieces that grammar requires. Common sentence fragments may be divided into verb sentences and verbless...

Hi, Malory. 1. "Preserving rare and valuable books and documents is one of the challenges FACING THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS." The construction in capital letters is a participial clause (present participial); it functions as post modifier of "challenges". It is what's also called a "reduced...

Hi, If my child was marked down because she used a capital letter for words in a spelling test, I’d be angry with the teacher. When I went to school, my spelling exercises tested for spelling not style. However, if your child is a high school student and if the teacher was marking hard, then...