By Negatives, Colons

HI Doll, Describe one event from your country's history, and explain why it was important. Provide clear explanations and details in supoort of your answer. (This is supposed to be a descriptive essay.) The Gallipoli Campaign still has its memories vivid in our minds although 86 years...

"The Change of the Characteristics in the passage from The Hours" The passage from the novel The Hours by Michael Cunningham is intriguing. The passage illustrates the difference between the character's characteristics in different time settings: past and present. This difference is...

I'm more surprised that she didn't object to especially special! It's common to but a comma before a conjunction that joins two independent clauses. In the negative, the comma makes a semantic difference. I think it's good style to include it. I don't know why she objected to "there were no...

Sextus wrote: Well, I could replace "indispensable" by "necessary". That would eliminate one negative. Sextus It's amazing what that does for me! I personally thank you for that one.

Well, I could replace "indispensable" by "necessary". That would eliminate one negative. Sextus

Sextus wrote: Well, what about this long one? Long sentences don't particularly bother me. What I always find complicated is a string of negatives, like "being non-skeptical... is not... indispensable...for rejecting..." Those strings slow me down every time.

Hello Sextus Here you go: 1) “The past few years have witnessed the publication of a considerable number of books and papers on the influence that ancient scepticism (broadly defined) . I don’t understand whether by adding “an” before “assimilation”, the sentence is correct, or whether I...

Dear Guest, I changed the emphasis of your letter slightly. I didn't want to bother explaining the pitfalls of the broker relationship. I am sure that they have not been happy either. Besides, nobody really wants to read about the negative stuff, just tell me how things will improve. I am...