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The aquatics centre will have a total capacity of 22,500, out of which 17,500 seats will be for the diving and pool competition(,) and the other 5,000 will be in the water polo section of the centre. Notes: Capitals - only capitalise the first letter of a sentence of names of things (proper...

2. I'd say "first light" is definitely not countable. That is, we don't have a "second light." I take "first light" as a fixed expression, or compound noun, or something like that. I don't think "first" is used as a number here, but as a synonym...

Hi, I tried to find some good information of "which and that" distinction online and have acquired some good information, thanks to them. In the suite101.com's website with what I would call an online search phrase of "That or Which? Don't Misuse These Relative...

Hi May I quote an excerpt from M. Swan, 2005, Practical English Usage, 3rd edition . OUP. (para. 370.5 "Two negative ideas: not ... or / not ... nor") I posted some months ago in another thread? In the other thread, I think I learnt that: 1. neither ... nor ... / not ... or ... are...

(Again, I should emphasise that these are just my personal views. Some of the questions have no "right" and "wrong" answers, and other people may have different opinions.) 1. Sitting at my writing desk placed right-hand side of open window, and working on my English...

Hi, Here is how I understand your sentence. 1. rushing past >> this sets the scene, describes what was happening while they were walking. You could read it as " while heavy traffic was rushing past ", if you like. 2. with little if any thought to the damaging pollutants ...

I think this would be impossible to distinguish the difference when speaking not writing. If I said: Two men who I had never seen before came into the office , who would know if I used the comma or not and how to interpret it? So in your opinion Kooyeen I can write: Two men I had...

I don't think the number of jackets or men is important when considering relative clauses.

Hello: I am new to the site (was led here by a search engine) and am surprised to see a number of grammatical errors in and around the site in general. I haven't looked everywhere, but below you will find a list of the ones that I noticed right off the bat: The site mistakenly uses, in...

Hello, this is my first post here, I like to know these words kilometer centimeter Are those words noun if they are standing alone ? if it's, what kind of noun it's, proper noun or abstract noun or etc ? After that, I want to indentify the part of speech of the following sentence by using the...