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played in almost all As ia n and European countries . The sentence consists of a main clause and a relative clause , which has been reduced by omitting the relative pronoun and the passive auxiliary (is). I call such structures clause equivalents, but terminology is unimportant here. The...

The reason is that many Spanish questions can have the same form as a statement and inversion of subject and verb is quite common in statements. Also subject pronouns are not usually expressed. In speech the difference between questions and statements is apparent from intonation. In writing the...

Focus Magazine, September 04: Correspondence is taking longer to read because of poorly punctuated email, according to optometrists at the University of Bradford. They discovered that missing fullstops and capital letters are behind the time-wasting trend. View the full press release here...

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...