By Expressions, Paragraphs

Melville lived at about the same time as Jackson, so he has taken a contemporary event which his readers would have known about, and used it as a label for a general category of phenomena which he is talking about in this paragraph. "with a view to some sort of covert advantage" is the...

After spending a few hours with this, I feel confident the original poster's dictionary definition of "as of" cannot be correct. Having found no explanation other than my own which describes two different uses, I'm now convinced the MW Unabridged definition is the correct one,...

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 have underlined some problem areas: Writing is one of the powerful tools that a person can have because it expresses who we are as a person. It’s a key to achievement in school, in the workplace, Writing equips you with the communication and thinking skills you need to participate effectively...

Could someone please help me with this argumentative essay? I have to write an argumentative essay against cosmetic surgery. Could someone please look if there are mistakes (grammar mistakes, vocabulary mistakes, logical mistakes), if the text is well-structured, if everything in the text is...

In answer to your first question, the expression I would use is homosexual couples, or perhaps gay couples. Second sentence--For a better understanding...a brief history is given concerning the evolution of family patterns, and the changes that have recently happened in the Brazilian family are...

Hi! I need a great help. I translated the summary of a monograph, which I have to hand in tomorrow - and I 'd like to know if there are any mistakes, please!!! Here it goes:This monograph tries to show the reality of a current and polemical topic in Brazil: adoption by homoaffective pairs...

When it really counts, meaning is almost never communicated according to the conduit metaphor, that is, where one person transmits a fixed, clear proposition to another by means of expressions in a common language, where both parties have all the relevant common knowledge, assumptions, values,...

Anonymous wrote: Hi, I usually edit some of the stuff my coworkers write around here, I believe I have good knowledge of what I'm doing but now I doubt it because of a document I'm reading right now... This is how it reads (in many paragraphs): "It is recommended that the agency review and...

Hi, everyone! Happy New Year! But I'm trying to be happy. I'm pulled into a debate over "the very English standard" in a Chinese translation forum. A "sensible" lad who crammed in China's New Oriental Language School asserts that many usages, including those in nytimes.com, economist.com,...