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Written Formula for Ending a Letter (British English) Informal, personal (to close friends and family): With love Best wishes Semi-formal / informal (emails, notes , business memos ): Kind regards Best regards Regards Formal letters: Yours sincerely Use when you know the addressee by...

Teo wrote: the longest river in China, that flows eastward from Tibet to the China Sea. It is also called the Yangtze. In Standard British English, the above relative pronoun "that" should be replaced by "which". What about American English usage? Hi Teo, very good question, I've always...

In Longman Advanced American Dictionary (page 219), the definition of the Chang Jiang is as follows: the longest river in China, that flows eastward from Tibet to the China Sea. It is also called the Yangtze. In Standard British English, the above relative pronoun "that" should be replaced...

1. I came across the following: “When conversing with women, men will remove their hat .” a. Is ” hat ” correct here, or should it be replaced with “ hats ”? This seems to cause a lot of questions. Because it is clear that any one man will be wearing only one hat, and no two men can be...

Hi! 1. I came across the following: “When conversing with women, men will remove their hat .” a. Is ” hat ” correct here, or should it be replaced with “ hats ”? b. What would the equivalent sentence in the singular sound: ”When conversing with a woman, a man will remove his hat”?...

Grammar Geek wrote: Yoong Liat, what part of it doesn't make sense to you? Is it because you are used to seeing adjectives before the noun? The original sentence (without the commas) is fine. What if it said "The food there was good"? Would that seem okay? If so, then keep expanding -...

I'll try to give a partial answer. A relative clause is a portion of a sentence that adds information about a previous noun in the sentence. The previous noun is called the antecedent. Relative clauses are marked by relative pronouns: that, which, who, whom, and others. Examples will help: ...

Well, both or neither, really, because "rules" governing punctuation aren't really "rules" in the sense that rules govening nouns, verbs and adjectives are rules. Punctuation "rules" vary considerably, often from publisher to publisher, or from newspaper to newspaper. I can tell you that...