By Expressions, Commas

"Maybe" is more conversational and less likely to be used in formal writing, but other than that the two words are very often interchangeable -- as they are in all your dictionary examples. There might be some expressions in which only one of "maybe" or "perhaps" is...

(Edit made) I never thought it modified the entire front - I just strugged to understand it. The full sentence isn't really much better, but there's a world of difference in saying "this channel" (the one we just discussed) and "the channel" (as though there is only...

The language is quite good. I'm not sure if you mean to imply that the picture is of a one-man boat. The way the sentence flows, you expect both statements to relate to comparing the size. I've never been sailing. Does the term "skipper" specifically refer to the person...

I can understand what thing is baffling you. In the First Part you would be thinking about the use of that comma. I don't think that the second sentence is incorrect. Sometimes what choice of words/punctuation an author uses in certain expressions is completely at his discretion. So both...

Hi, (1) This seems to be a perennial problem, that we cannot live without bloodshed, without going after our enemies. Comma usage, please check. OK (2) But the basic drive is to get food and to get the mating available. And it is in this here that Jainas perceive what kinds of passions...

Hello Feebs! Thank you very much for your answear. It is really very useful for me.At the moment I'm working on the next part of the page, which is about our requirements to graphical banners. And I have the same questions. Is my translation correct? Does it sound natural?Banner...

Diving in here - if the translator thought for some reason that he or she could replace "The Expression of Cathepsin D" with "what" the second time it appears in the title, the translator was wrong. You could possibly leave it out the second time, maybe if you stuck in a...

Akavall wrote: Thanks. But would it be wrong to use the commas? My understanding was that if you can take out a word or a phrase and the sentence still make sense, then you could (should in some cases) put commas around it. In this example, I can take out "exactly" and the sentence still makes...

Actually, conjunctions after semicolons are very common. Gregg Reference Manual: Seventh Canadian Edition Rules: 176 a) When a coordinating conjunction (and, but , o, nor and sometimes for, so, or yet) is omitted between t between two independent clauses, use a semicolon--not a comma--to...