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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...

SHALL AND WILL IT is unfortunate that the idiomatic use, while it comes by nature to southern Englishmen (who will find most of this section superfluous), is so complicated that those who are not to the manner born can hardly acquire it; and for them the section is in danger of...

Interlude 1 Apparently, speaker-oriented modality does not inform about conditions on the agent. So, if you feel that "I must give up smoking" is deontic, and that "I" is the agent, who would the patient be in such a sentence? You've already agreed with this paraphrase: ...

I like the dash. It lets one add emphasis and (dramatic) pauses. I think the summary in Webster's Third New International Dictionary is excellent: 7. THE DASH 7.0 In its function in writing and in the speech intonation to which it corresponds, the dash is similar to the comma and the colon,...

I think you are quite right. You have made a nice analysis of the difference between those pairs of expressions! Hats off to you! Nevertheless, that leaves us (me, anyway) without an explanation of the construction. (Yes, I realize that your original question focused on whether the...