Vctory: Avangi is correct. You must learn the parts of speech to be able to use a word correctly. For example, compare is a verb, and comparatively is an adverb, and comparison is a noun. They all mean the same thing because they are different

When Eleanor lost both of her parents, she moved in with her grandmother, Mary Hall. Due to Eleanor 's shyness, she did not have many friends; basically her classmates thought that she was weird. The years that Eleanor spent with her

So I repeat my question. Which usage is correct: "how many breeds of dog are there?" or "how many breeds of dogs are there?"? In English English, for a start, and preferably with quotations (of either form) from well-respected

I am having an argument with the RFC-Editor. My co-author had written: but some of them may be required in certain types of article. and she changed it into but some of them may be required in certain types of articles. Q. Several times lately

I'm really no authority on this, but I'll give it a try, in case no one else shows. << The objective of this thesis was a thorough analysis >> This seems strange to me, since the thesis is eternal, so to speak. I could

Yep dude, you're right. According to the freedictionary it's possible. However, I think a more educated person would stick to touristic. But I know English is a very flexible language and it changes all the time. Many things I learned in

You can't call a participle a gerund, just like you can't call a cat a dog. I have to lie down and think about this a while. It has something to do with form vs. function, I think. after and before are prepositions and a gerund is used

He is a Mr. Godfrey Norton, of the Inner Temple. (Sir A. Conan Doyle. Sherlock Holmes: A Scandal in Bohemia) In older literature, the pronoun "one" or the indefinite article was used before a person's name when the character was

Is that correct? it seems wrong It's not wrong. Normally in English sentences are ordered " Subject (S), Verb (V), Indirect Object (IO), Direct Object (DO) " but can run OSV, and, where pronouns are used in substitution of either the

I don't know either. I tend to think of the terms in connection with art. Of course "minimal" as an adjective predates all of that and is still used in the pure sense, as does and is the noun, minimum. "Please keep your