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So I need to say: Entrepreneurially minded. What if I say: ...., entrepreneurship, ... (in a list of qualities, omitting the word "minded"). Experience summary (What I have done): Elaborate and update integrated schedules (Linkage Throughout Engineering, Delivery, Construction &...

Hi, This is a passage from my resume. Please check if I should put the highlithed words instead of the corresponding words (those before the brackets in each word). Please make any comment/correction you may see suitable ...

Hi, Why do we say "He will pay her for an extra two hours of work" when "two hours" is obviously plural?" "I'll take an extra dozen." "It will accommodate an additional three persons." In this kind of construction, we are thinking of 'two hours of work' as a single 'amount of work', and...

In modern English, 'who' works as both a subject and an object. ++ http://pinker.wjh.harvard.edu/articles/media/1994_01_24_thenewrepublic.html The first story was a nonpartisan analysis of supposed pronoun case errors made by the two candidates in the 1992 US presidential election....

2. 'They' is becoming in writing the accepted 3rd person singular pronoun of unknown sex; it is already accepted in spoken English. A careful writer would avoid this, however, by casting the clause in the plural: 'when riders... panic before they crash'. ...

English passive construction is a problem to me. There are many reasons why I feel it difficult to acquire. A) English rather mandates to choose an active construct when the animate agent overtly appears. This rule seems rather rigorous especially the agent is a personal pronoun. We have not...

Hello CJ and Mr P She me the job. You show indeed nice evidences against the hypothesis! But among them 'offer' was nearly 'pure' English. Its use (in the form of 'offrian') dates back to as far as 825. On the other hand 'guarantee' was imported as a noun and its use as a verb started not...

1. "Worse" is the comparative of "bad" while "worst" is the superlative. bad-worse-the worst His new movie is worse than his last. Your cooking is getting worse! (compared to before) Among his movies, the newest one is the worst. This is the worst of all! 2. I'm reproducing...

Hello MrP History of English Gerunds (quoted from OED) The most notable development of the verbal nouns in form of -ing is its use as a gerund, i.e. a substantive with certain verbal functions, particularly those of being qualified by an adverb instead of an adjective, and of governing an...

Data, It's an interesting question. I saw two usage notes. From GuruNet.com... Let's go through them. USAGE NOTE The word data is the plural of Latin datum, “something given,” but it is not always treated as a plural noun in English. The plural usage is still common, as this...