By Constructions, Common errors

Philip wrote:common sense "corrects" the intended meaning.C.B. Thanks for pointing this out. I love the way you exprssed it! I am seldom guilty of this common error myself, but I often don't catch it it others' writing. I guess I have a good deal of common sense.Hi PhilipAs I said, similar...

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...

O, I thought you were, as your quote is in Chinese. Yes, L(x) is a function indicating whether a language is 'native' or 'foreign' to a person. It is not restricted to Language Acquisition though, as it is widely used in such topics as Language Teaching (see for example, Eric Hawkin's...