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Dear Loretta: Thank-you for your letter. It is always interesting to hear from someone with a similar background or interest. Let me answer some of your questions for you. I want to share with you what I have learned over the years in this business. I hope I can be blunt? 1) You asked:...

I'm not an expert on grammar or linguistics, but here are my thoughts as an ordinary native user of English. I hope I got all the grammatical terminology correct! I think that all verbs -- transitive or intransitive -- are able to form present perfect sentences: "He has...

I'm taking a correspondence course. These are some of the exercises that I need to submit. So please I need help from grammar exerperts thnaks. Exercise 1: Identify each of the “ __ ” words in the sentences as one of the following parts of the sentence: 1.Direct object ...

Another opinion... From the Gregg Reference Manual: When words taken from other parts of speech are used as nouns, they are usually pluralized by the addition of s or es. Ifs, ands, or buts Dos and don’ts Yeses and nos Ins and outs Ups and downs Yeas and nays Pros and...

Lin1978 wrote: Dear Masters, The grammar, "the verb transferred to passive terms", preplexes me all the time. I have read an article,"women with money encounter the fragile male ego on date", in New York Times. There is a sentence in this article, "Women are encountering forms of the hostility...

Grammar Geek wrote: Let's see what other people think. Which of the following are acceptable? Which are outright wrong? Situation one: Of all the nice young ladies we just met, which would be good candidates to join our Tea and Cupcake Society? Correct, as an interrogative pronoun, which is...

Kooyeen wrote: Grammar Geek wrote: "I know your birthday is May 23 so I am going to send the card no later than May 18th... Hi everyone, I just noticed "...is May 23" instead of "...is on May 23". I've always wondered when we can leave out "on". I know it can be left out before the days of...

1. The sentence is fine. Search for affect and effect in the search box. There are probably hundreds of posts on the subject. Long story short: 99% of the time affect is a verb, and effect is a noun. 2. Fine. 3. Fine. a goes with interview , not with the date. The date is used as an...

Hello, Colombo, "It" is used for all animals when a speaker either doesn't know their gender or is indifferent to it. "He" and "she" are used when a speaker wants to indicate the gender of an animal. According to grammar rules, "she" is used for ships and for countries. But maybe in modern...

Clive wrote: Hi Marius, My opinion was that you'd seldom ' hear anyone say this'. Do you know the publication date of Jerome's short story? Best wishes, Clive I agree with Clive. According to traditional grammar, 'It is she." But in modern English, it should 'It is her." ...