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Hi N2G It has become more and more fashionable to use hyphens in English and therefore some might put a hyphen between much and needed but I don't think that is necessary. I wouldn't object to one, either. Clearly, the relative clause is a non-defining one and thus a comma is needed,...

. (1) So, can we use hyphen in the above sentence as "five-years-old" or is it wrong to use?-- Wrong. ' A three-year-old' is a pronoun. (2) Does the second sentence need any correction or rephrasing? -- In the first sentence, no comma after Spectator . In the second...

Just a side note, with nothing to do with the commas: ...and giving it to its soldiers. Most corporations do not have soldiers, so this pronoun leaves me wondering who or what the soldiers do belong to. Of course, if this is science fiction, then perhaps the corporation does have soldiers.

Hi Andrew, How would you punctuate this: Clearly, the one gene-one protein relationship does not apply to schizophrenia. One gene-one protein relationship? One-gene one-protein relationship? One-gene/one-protein relationship? One gene, one protein relationship? Some other way? I'm...

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...

Thanks Clive Please look at the following sentences of the above. Nearby, a huge crane waited to lift it into place on top of the church dome, for the crowning moment of a reconciliation process that has lasted nearly 60 years - and is not entirely over yet. The...

1) The "has" is required because it shows that it's a present perfect tense, ie. Jones denied using drugs in the past and at present, is still denying it. It's a repetition and continuation of the verb (denied) from the past to the present. If you say "Jones consistently denied", it implies that...