By Grammar, Alliteration

Hi knjiga, Welcome to the English Forums. Thanks for joining us.IMHO "Doubtlessly" doesn't fly here. Sadly spoiling your alliteration, I'd go with "Doubtless, those tributaries are divergent." The image is still problematic. I wouldn't exactly call it a mixed...

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Are there any grammar mistakes in the following answers? I've highlighted the area I doubt. What letters have been repeated in the last stanza?1. Any English text that contains more than 26 letters must repeat at least one letter. Some letter-repetitions are a function of the language itself....

Your grammar is fine.Stanza 1, #5-- the Ws affect alliteration, not meter.Stanza 2, #3-- I don't understand the question. Which line? 'Letter' indicates that the question writer is concerned with only a single letter. Anyway, I fail to see that letters per se are of any significance; it is the...

Grammar Geek wrote:Do you mean alliteration? No, no...that's what they'll feed us when WWIII starts.

Grammar Geek wrote: That's my take on it. Somehting like she's saying, in a joking manner, that he's "killing" her with his obsession over writing, so she may as well lay down under the car so he can run over her and finish the job. It's just a joke. (There's another expression - just shoot me...

Hi, Everything like what? That is, without _your_ good grammar, everything (like... in your life) would collapse? What precisely he is referring to with the "whole"? Or maybe the whole world would collapse? Like a metaphor Yes, the whole world, everything. I read somewhere that there was some...

Hi! 3. Trying to warm his way into the confidence of the orphans' new guardian (their aunt that is a grammar freak), Count Olaf says: Count Olaf: Why, perhaps it's just the ramblings of an expert fisherman, but grammar is the number-one most important thing in this here world to me. (A man...

Hi, Don't worry, it's no trouble for me. 1. Doctor Steffano (Count Olaf) talks with Doctor Montgomery about his experience as a (fictitious) scientist: Well, I am a fan, if I may gush. Your work has profoundly influenced my research up at the Monterey Bay Aquarium... on the sea snake. It's a...

Not ungrammatical (no hyphen, though). The bone I pick is stylistic: ...the Jewish Museum memorializes the history of German Jewry and the horror of the holocaust. In this form, the rhythm, structure and alliteration reverberate much better in my ear.