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.I'm sure you don't mind my taking a DNA sample from you.(I am really prescriptive about that grammar point. 'Me taking' sounds awful to me.)

. 1. (My husband Mark and I both do volunteer work) but (Ryan was only six years old) -- two independant clauses conected by the conj. but? -- Well, yes... BUT sample sentences should make some sense, Fernanda! There is no evident relationship between the two facts, so they should not even be...

Thank you very much indeed, Jim. That's a great explanation. You cleared all my doubts. Forgive me for thinking out loud as I hope you can correct me if I am still making any mistakes. Firstly, I didn't notice that it was (can only use "was", "is" not possible?) ...

Saturdays are slow, David. We have real lives here - softball games, trips to Sears, battling the grocery store. Don't get too upset if we take a few hours to respond. Are you looking for help on the paragraph about your gap? Don't put that on your resume! It is WAY to much information...

I have a question for any English experts out there. Actually, I have two questions. They are both sample questions from the SAT writing sections. The underlined portion of the following sentence is in need of correction: Trees are able to collect large amounts of water from fog--in some...

We are sorry to advise you that, due to a power cord shortage from the supplier, we are not able to honor our original planned schedule to start production on 05 March. We will have to extend the shipment date to the end of March. We will keep after the supplier to provide us materials on time;...

We are sorry to advise you that, due to the power cord shortage from supplier, we cannot keep our original planned schedule to start the production on 05 March and would like to extend the shipment to the end of March. We will keep chasing the supplier to provide us this material on time; hope...

Grammar Geek wrote: We must obey laws. We consider that to be our duty. We must obey laws. We consider that that is our duty. We must obey laws. We consider that it is our duty to do so. Thanks, GG and Marius. Now I seem to find out where the key problem is. Why can't the pronoun "that,"...

Grammar Geek wrote: It means "If you're writing this down, or keeping a record of my comments..." I didn't mean that "sad eyes" is not correct. Just that for your sample sentence, it didn't seem quite natural. Thanks, GG. Got it.

hi there, i'm working on my english prep-tests and there's a sentence which i'm asked to rewrite "She had not seen him until last Friday" i remember there's a structure for rewriting, it starts with NOT UNTIL and then the sentence and as far as i remember there's a change in the subject-verb...