In Nouns^x, Dates^x, Commas^x

3. All colour ed stone earrings list as listed at RM 88 or RM 98. 4. Some other colour stones series - buy one free two. Some other coloured stone products -- buy one, get two free.

--- There was formerly a respectable tradition (17-19c) of using the apostrophe for noun plurals, especially in loanwords ending in a vowel (as in We do confess Errata's, Leonard Lichfield, 1641, and Comma's are used, Philip Luckcombe, 1771) and in the consonants s, z, ch, sh, (as in waltz's and...

There is also an excellent discussion on the usage of Who and Whom provided by American Heritage Dictionary: Usage Note: The traditional rules that determine the use of who and whom are relatively simple: who is used for a grammatical subject, where a nominative pronoun such as I or he...

Hi, CJ. I think many people will accept the rephrased version without commas but I cannot clearly identify the reason that validates the non-use of commas in this case. I think the sentence can be re-rephrased as this but that does not seem to give arise to the valid reason for the non-use of...

Hi, In one of the replys given in response to one of the inqueries, it seems to have stated that when two adjectives modify each other and not the noun, no comma is necessary to separate and to do that one would (must?) use an adverbial form of adjectives like "a happily married couple." ...

i spose i could give it a go... Malaysia is one of the South-East ( South-East is the part of a country to the south-east; south-east is the point of the horizon somewhere in between south and east) . and here's the final compilation: Malaysian Food Malaysia is one of...

Hi, this is my first post to the group. I’ve just pasted information from Pocket Fowler's Modern English Usage. To be quite frank, I don’t really understand these definitions fully but I hope the information is useful to you. So, regarding the words 1 Than 2 that 1 Than is normally used to...