Wow! Your knowledge is incredible! I somehow understood eveything you said, thanks. Except for when you said this: We have become friends sharing passions. ... where the "friends sharing passions..." is the direct object of the verb .

Hi, I wonder what is the guidelines for deciding whether to use hyphens or quotation marks for cases like these. ... his way was a my-life-for-yours way. (Could one have written it using quotation markslike this: ... his way was a "my life

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

Dozens of UN humanitarian workers are exposed to risk on their job every day. A good example is truck drivers who deliver much needed food to remote villages in poor countries to combat malnutrition , which is becoming more and more widespread.

Hi, Welcome to the Forum. I am new to this site, if i am doing this wrong please correct me but i need your opinion and was so happy when i came upon this site. English is not my strong suit but i try and reason as you will see below. Just what

Hi I am new to this site, if i am doing this wrong please correct me but i need your opinion and was so happy when i came upon this site. English is not my strong suit but i try and reason as you will see below. Just what would you do, Cheryl, if

I find your sentence very satisfactory. It may be Jane Austenish but there is no law against such language even today. Why should everybody speak and write in exactly the same way in English? People don't do that in many other languages. I see

Hi, Those look to be hyphens but as an expert, I have to trust you. By the way, what are en-rules? Before asking, I did try to do some research but had hard time trying to find anything that I can understand online. Help. I think you can use a

They are not hyphens, but rather are en-rules used to indicate a clause in parenthesis. "off late" - a misprint for "of late",

Belly wrote: And for Hoa Thai, what are the differences between using - and , ? Hi Belly, You had a problem with a comma splice , which is a sentence in which two independent clauses are joined by a comma with no conjunction. Often at the end