By Numbers, Commas

Comma after "worse each year," to set off the smart remark.I'd try to avoid the agreement issue with "number." Of course it's correct, but it's sort of unpleasant. If you removed "the number of ," then "number" would be understood. (That...

The meaning is mostly clear but the structure of the document is not so obvious from the fragment you've posted, and the English could be tidied up in a couple of places. Please see my update in my Excel sheet.

You have problems with spacing around punctuation, and you have spurious double spaces in a number of places. I have corrected these below. The other changes that I made to the date formats are not because what you had was wrong, but just to make them all consistent. Dear colleagues, This...

HiMay 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 more...

Hi N2G,This is my spin on the your article...Derek voiced concerns about the future survival of various species of sharks, which are being captured and for their fins for shark fin soup, considered(comma),a rare delicacy in Asia and in the United States (in the U.S.? really! I never knew that)...

In the US, we use "on the weekend." In the UK, it's "at the weekend." I suggest you bullet the list. One issue is with "It is the employees' responsibility" -- which employees? When you leave it up to more than one person to do something, each may assume...

(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...

It's to transfer the Time format to a string. If you have data of one type (say time), and you want to make it into another type (say string) then the usual word would be "convert" rather than "transfer". It's possible that "transfer" is correct if you are...

I think the two number 2's should be correct instead according to one of the functions of commas stated below:-The comma is often used to separate a dependent clause from the independent clause if the dependent clause comes first. After I brushed the cat, I lint-rollered my clothes....

I can understand what thing is baffling you. In the First Part you would be thinking about the use of that comma. I don't think that the second sentence is incorrect. Sometimes what choice of words/punctuation an author uses in certain expressions is completely at his discretion. So both...