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Memos show Clinton turmoil Question: I would have written ''Clinton's turmoil''. Why didn't the author use apostrophe? BY CRAIG GORDON AND TOM BRUNE | <email addresses removed by mod.> August 13, 2008 Question: Why is semicolon used instead of comma to separate...

1. Do not place a phrase or clause: A. in a sentence. B. at the beginning of a sentence. C. at the end of a sentence. D. too far from the word it is meant to modify. Answer D. 2. In every sentence, the subject must agree with the: A. object of the preposition. B. verb. C. intervening...

Hi Teleostomi I suggest you forget all about Google. Since there are millions of German people, Australian people etc., you don't need the article when you refer to them all in a general sense: German people are said to be hard-working. (I would prefer: German s are said... ) If the reference is...

Hi Goodman You often make some very good and legitimate points, but your decision to post that "he is in troubles again with the laws" sentence was an extremely unfortunate one. The websites you posted prove rather than disprove that. Did you notice that one of the guys who used the expression...

Both are fine. Here is what the American Heritage Dictionary has to say: USAGE NOTE: Every is representative of a large class of English words and expressions that are singular in form but felt to be plural in sense. The class includes, for example, noun phrases introduced by every, any,...

In your ( 8) X 'In case someone ASKED, I was never here.'-- 'in case' means 'if' (possibility); but 'asked' is past tense (the asking already happened), so there is no logical possibility that the listener could subsequently tell them that 'she was never here'! Your only choice is 'in case...