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Re: I need examples of PO's and what they area.

igbruce — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 00:57:05 GMT

I have never come across PO as a term in grammar. PO is the usual abbreviation of Post Office. It may be a jargon acronym used just by your teacher. Perhaps it refers to Pronoun objects. i.e. some pronouns have a different form when they are objects of verbs to when they are subjects. e.g. 'I gave him the book.' 'He gave me the book.'

Ian

Help on Predicate Nominatives, Object of Prep, and DO!

Anonymous — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 21:12:15 GMT

Hello.

I'm in 8th grade and am homeschooled. In my English class, I have recently been learning about diagraming subjects, appositives, direct objects, object of prepostitions, and predicate nominatives.
It would be easy, if I was still understanding the major parts. So I've been doing some research here on the net about the three that I still don't understand: Predicate nominatives, Object of Preposition, and Direct Object. In abbreviation, DO, OP and PN.

I think I'm starting to catch on, but any excess help would be greatly appreciated.

So far, I've taken these notes:

Direct Object: A noun that recieves the action of the sentence but that is not the subject.
Object of Prepostion: A noun or pronoun that follows a preposition & completes the prepostional phrase.
Predicate Nominative: A noun or pronoun that appears in the predicate of the sentence, following a linking verb and refers to the same person or thing as the subject of the verb.

Did I get all of my notes correct?

As said earlier, any help would be appreciated. Thanks.

- Melissa.

A Little Help with Capitals

angel_tristan0409 — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 10:07:10 GMT

A Little Help with Capitals

This handout lists some guidelines for capitalization. If you have a question about whether a specific word should be capitalized that doesn't fit under one of these rules, try checking a dictionary to see if the word is capitalized there.

Use capital letters in the following ways:

The first words of a sentence

When he tells a joke, he sometimes forgets the punch line.

The pronoun "I"

The last time I visited Atlanta was several years ago.

Proper nouns (the names of specific people, places, organizations, and sometimes things)

Worrill Fabrication Company

Golden Gate Bridge

Supreme Court

Livingston, Missouri

Atlantic Ocean

Mothers Against Drunk Driving

Family relationships (when used as proper names)

I sent a thank-you note to Aunt Abigail, but not to my other aunts.

Here is a present I bought for Mother.

Did you buy a present for your mother?

The names of God, specific deities, religious figures, and holy books

God the Father

the Virgin Mary

the Bible

the Greek gods

Moses

Shiva

Buddha

Zeus

Exception: Do not capitalize the non-specific use of the word "god."

The word "polytheistic" means the worship of more than one god.

Titles preceding names, but not titles that follow names

She worked as the assistant to Mayor Hanolovi.

I was able to interview Miriam Moss, mayor of Littonville.

Directions that are names (North, South, East, and West when used as sections of the country, but not as compass directions)

The Patels have moved to the Southwest.

Jim's house is two miles north of Otterbein.

The days of the week, the months of the year, and holidays (but not the seasons used generally)

Halloween

October

Friday

winter

spring

fall

Exception: Seasons are capitalized when used in a title.

The Fall 1999 semester

The names of countries, nationalities, and specific languages

Costa Rica

Spanish

French

English

The first word in a sentence that is a direct quote

Emerson once said, "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds."

The major words in the titles of books, articles, and songs (but not short prepositions or the articles "the," "a," or "an," if they are not the first word of the title)

One of Jerry's favorite books is The Catcher in the Rye.

Members of national, political, racial, social, civic, and athletic groups

Green Bay Packers

African-Americans

Anti-Semitic

Democrats

Friends of the Wilderness

Chinese

Periods and events (but not century numbers)

Victorian Era

Great Depression

Constitutional Convention

sixteenth century

Trademarks

Pepsi

Honda

IBM

Microsoft Word

Words and abbreviations of specific names (but not names of things that came from specific things but are now general types)

Freudian

NBC

pasteurize

french fries

italics

Re: Decision making

phamthephong100 — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 17:27:17 GMT

Hello ngngmaiphuong, I can not find and correct all the mistakes in your essay (maybe some of my corrections are not correct), however I hope this can help

The notion of making decision alone is untenable and the one that I definitely ~~don't~~ do not rely on. A good decision needs a broad knowledge ~~to make~~ to be made, while one person's ability is limited. In my opinion, a momentous decision, the one that could affect your life, deserves rigorous scrutiny of not just an individual but of many people.

The first and blatant advantage of not making decision alone is the more possibility that decision to succeed. This could be exemplified by my own experience. In Vietnam, students who attend to secondary schools need to decide whether science or art they will pursue. At first, I thought that science is tedious; my parents, however, realize the superior importance of science in contemporary society so they ~~help~~ helped me to change my perception. I finally ~~to choose~~ chose science as my major, and after a long process of study, I now could say that I will never regret because of that decision. I am, in fact, proud of it. Without ~~others~~' my parents' help ~~to make~~ in making decision, I might choose the wrong way.

After a lot of decision making processes in life, no need to say, a lot of people could feel the burden while trying to decide something. Just the idea ~~that~~ of wrong decisions would ruin the one's future can make anyone of us hesitate to decide anything, and the veritable failure really comes, that fault will linger over one's mind forever. With others' help, everything will be different. The more people help us to decide, the fewer burdens we have.

Many important opportunities need expeditious decision. How long does it take for an individual to make a decision? Of course ~~it's~~ it is longer than the time of some people's work. (What do you mean?)
If ~~one~~ a person wants to be successful in this competitive world, he or she (may) need(s) others' help to make not only a fast decision but also a good one. More people would accelerate the decision making process. I ~~don't~~ do not mean that individual's work is ineffective, but it's less expeditious in a prodigious number of cases.

The fact that we have been building this world together is a striking evident for the effectiveness of many people's work. With others' help, the decision making process become not only effective but also faster (as well).

Is this an academic essay? If yes:
You should avoid personal pronoun as much as possible and NO abbreviation and NO opinion. And I can "smell" some kind of Vietnamese English here ( Am i right? -I wonder), it means you translate some word from Vietnamese into English, the result is some of your sentences are not very natural.
Did you use a dictionary? I can see a wide variety of vocabulary here,he he he.

Re: can someone help me edit my essays?

phamthephong100 — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 06:32:41 GMT

Hello Davidzhaos, I can not find and correct all the mistake in your essay, i hope this can help

In US today, one of the most significant issues we are facing is the automobile. Currently automobile produces the second largest amount of CO2 gas, the leading cause of environment damage and the cause of oil crisis we are experiencing today. It is said that necessity is the mother of invention. Well, one of today greatest necessities is the need to replace conventional gasoline automobile and as result I would like to invent an eclectic power car that just do that. By using electricity rather than gasoline, my new electric automobile will solve both the environment problems and oil crisis cause by conventional automobile.

But first of all, what is my new electric automobile? It is a conventional design compact car that will use electricity rather than gasoline to power itself. This new car will feature four 36 by 24 inches solar cells located on the roof of the it that will allow the car to convert sunlight into electric power. It will also feature a 36 by 24 by 24 inches lead-acid battery located in the retractable hardtop of the car to store power. This new car will replace the conventional gasoline engine with an all new electric power engine that will use the electric energy stored in the lead-acid battery to power the itself. During day time this car will use energy from solar cells to power itself and during night time or in other conditions such as rain where the car does not have access to sunlight, it will rely on the energy store in its lead-acid battery to power its engine. Last of all, ~~this new vehicle will also has plug-in battery ability that will allow the car's acid-lead baterry to be recharge by connecting a plug into power source such a electric power grid~~ The battery of this new vehicle will be rechargeable so it can be connected to an eclectric power source for recharging.

One of the major advantages of my new electric automobile over conventional automobile is ~~environment friendly~~ being friendly to environment. Although today cars allow us to travel faster and further, they also produce 1.5 billion tons of CO2 annually. CO2 is one of the major threats to our environment today. When this insidious gas is (emission) released from the cars, it can mix with cloud and create acidic rain. Acidic rain is extremely harmful as it can destroy farmlands and damage city's buildings. ~~Worse~~ More over, the increase of CO2 gas in atmosphere can also increase the greenhouse effects, which trap heat absorbed from sun. This increase in heat can lead to global warming, a serious threat to our ~~survival~~ lives. Global warming can melt ice in both North and South poles that will raise ocean level and consume our land. It can also increase in the intensity of extreme weather such as cyclone and increased pace of desertification that degrade land into desert. Overall CO2 can cause major damages to our environment that will make Earth unsuitable to human. As result by replacing conventional gasoline automobile with my electric automobile, we can stop producing this deadly gas when we drive, thus protecting the environment.

Another threat that results from conventional automobile is the oil crisis we are facing today. Every time we drive our automobile we use gasoline. Not only does this cause CO2 emission that damages the environment, but it also cost us a large amount of money. In US, the average person buys 16 barrels of oil each year, that is $1400 a year! Think of the all the things can be bought with that money and all the money can be saved if we ~~didn't~~ did not waste all that money on oil. Even worse US ~~didn't~~ did not make all the oil it need, as result US has to import 60% of oil. ~~Our~~ The current major supplies of oil of the USA are from Middle East. This is very damage since this makes us depend on foreign oil (your opinion) . If anytime Middle East stop the flow the oil to us, it would be serious damage to our economy such what happen in 1973 oil crisis. By switching to my new eclectic, not only will we save money by stopping buying expensive gasoline, it will also stop USâs dependence on foreign oil. ( not true )

Although nothing is perfect, though progress we make thing closer and closer to perfect. Today gasoline automobile have many ~~faults~~ disadvantages including the environment damage and dependence on oil it cause, thought progress I can invent a new electric car that solve these problems and a more step toward perfect.

P/S: In a academic essay,

You should avoid personal pronoun as much as possible, it should be NO personal pronouns in your essay.

Your should not use abbreviation and NO opinion and don't forget to make sure what information is true and what is false.

More over, I think there are many repetitions of structure, information and word in your essay. This make your essay less interesting.

ABBREVIATIONS AND ARTICLES

Anonymous — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 08:33:22 GMT

Hi,

Is it common or correct to use the definite article before what looks to be the abbreviation of a govenment organization at one time and don't use it at another time? I think for some government or non-government names, the definite article is put in consideration of a main noun/word.

I don't know this particular Korean organization exits currently or not.

The Korean National Tourism Organization ... KNTO operates tourist information centers.

Re: Application letter for vacation

Grammar Geek — Sat, 05 Apr 2008 00:47:39 GMT

First, capitalize the word I and other proper nouns, and then rewrite this without using abbreviations, and spell August correctly - then we can worry about grammar and syntax.

Re: pages/amount

Anonymous — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 20:21:15 GMT

In British English p. stands for 'page' and pp. 'for pages', so Ant is correct when he says that the plural of p. is pp. Here is an example from a book, and below the definition from a dictionary.

p (PAGE) noun [ C ] plural pp
WRITTEN ABBREVIATION FOR page (PAPER)
See p. 27.
The references are on pp. 256-264.

Re: pages/amount

Yoong Liat — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 19:37:44 GMT

Hi Newguest

In AmE, the abbreviations for page and pages are as follows:

pg (PAGE) noun
MAINLY US WRITTEN ABBREVIATION FOR page (PAPER):
See pgs. 67-69.

(from Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary)

Re: Apostrophe or not?

Yoong Liat — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 15:55:24 GMT

The tendency nowadays is to add a simple -s when pluralising abbreviations, letters of the alphabet, symbols, numerals, and so on, though -'s is still fairly common. So the abbreviations MP and VIP would preferably be pluralised as MPs and VIPs; similarly words not usually used as nouns: whys and wherefores. (The Right Word at the Right Time)