By Negatives, Articles

Re: Please check for me this discursive essay !

Hello redneon,Highlights show potential problems. Remember to leave a space after a period or comma. English-speaking country, with a hyphen. You need some articles here and there. Topic: Discuss the advantages and disadvantages of studying English in an English-speaking country Bilions of...

Re: help with grammar

In the article, "Only science can save us from climate catastrophe", political philosopher John Gray advocates the role of technology in environmental debate on how to tackle environmental problems. While the ecological footprint metric indicates, that "things are bad and getting...

help with grammar

can you please check my grammar in this short analysis? thank you very very much In the article, "Only science can save us from climate catastrophe", political philosopher John Gray advocates the role of technology in environmental debate on how to tackle environmental problems....

Re: Please check the grammar

Just the kind of opinion I was seeking out. Thanks a lot!

Re: Please check the grammar

Hi MapleYou sound like a doctor of medicine! I wouldn't use the before literature: Large as the amount of classical and modern literature is ...Thus is perfectly acceptable in your sentence. ... thereby the doctors and patients' confidence in TCM therapy for the stomach pain is...

Re: anybody to correct my English

It's now grammatically correct, but I still have a comment about organization. It's not obvious what country you're talking about until the middle of the article. That's quite unclear to the reader and confusing. Survey: People Have a Feeling That Price Increase Is Much Higher...

Re: 'most vs. almost

That lesson cost me almost a hundred dollars They first settled here almost 75 years ago or Almost 1000

Re: Politeness using negative questions

Hi again,I think you guys are right. maybe now I understand. I just read some stuff on the net about negative questions, plus one of Jim's posts, and this "idea" I had seems the right one: Kooyeen wrote:Idea! Maybe that only works with modals and with requests, not permissions? So couldn't you,...

Re: Politeness using negative questions

Thank you very much.I'm pretty confused now, though! After posting, I found some interesting articles on the net, and then I was sure negative questions were used the same way as in Italian.Yesterday I found out that when you ask a negative question, you suspect you might get a negative answer,...

Re: So +adj+ as +noun

This is what the American Heritage Dictionary has to say (in part) on the subject:"A traditional usage rule draws a distinction between comparisons using as . . . as and comparisons using so . . . as. The rule states the so . . . as construction is required in negative sentences (as in...