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Just another quick point, one person has suggested using 'however' surrounded by commas.  Being an adverb, there are a number of positions that it can be placed in the clause.  If 'however' does not come at the start of the clause, we can insert it elsewhere with commas. E.g....

Hi, My doubt concerns the way I've changed the tenses in each sentence. "Nick sat down, thinking about all that had happened, wondering where it would take him, wondering if it made any sense to stay any longer. He took out his cellphone and began dialing a number, even as a million...

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, Generally speaking, it's not great grammar to start a sentence with 'so' like this. However, people sometimes do it. (1) So all too often, we find in situations of conflict that religion, instead of encouraging people to move beyond their own trauma and own fears, tends not...

Hi, I had a few questions, or rather need clarification on a few things. “You can't do that”, they shouted from the balcony, “you can't, you can't.” ( Why is the comma outside the quote and not inside it?) It's a matter of the style you choose to follow. If you search the...

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...

1. Can you give me some common connecting words that appear a lot in sentences that would make a comma suitable (with simple sentences)? -- because, while, so, and, or, but, yet, although. Many example sentences can be found by googling these words. Do conjunctive adverbs like "however",...

Chrismlangan wrote: The following sentences and explanation was found from a respected grammar website. … I’m curious about sentence number two because it seems to me like there should be no comma. Is the comma only necessary if the information is considered nonessential? ...