By Contractions, Quotation marks

(if, for instance "far ... ones" is an excerpt from the book you're quoting)A couple of comments:- It is better not to use contraction in an academic paper.- Avoid ellipsis (.. after promotion) - Attracting new ... is a new sentence. Either you start a new sentence or you make use...

What is proper? We saw Dad and Mom's new boat. (YES!) We saw Dad's and Mom's new boat (Wrong!) Joint possessives In the case of joint possession, i.e., when two or more people own something together, place the apostrophe or apostrophe s (‘s) only after the...

Hi Crazy-- I finally got here. I have added some comments in brackets after underlined 'problems':Do Sports and Drugs Mix? Since the dawn of time years while playing football and was the quarter back of our team. Everyone thought he was going to make it to the NFL but during our...

GW, there are rules for these things (which unfortunately sometimes differ between AmE and BrE usage), and there is an over-riding guideline of clarity: if it gets too messy or iffy, reframe the sentence. With regard to your specific examples:The word 'and' can be used intermittently...

Hello Ben Ben9108 wrote:1. The provisional items included in the maintenance works are 'less' urgent compared to the fixed items."Compared to" is a fixed (idiomatic) phrase, so we'd better take it as it stands without analyzing it grammatically. But please note that "less urgent compared to" is...