In Numbers^x, Dates^x, Prepositions^x

My name is … and I am a 2008 honors graduate of …... I have been accepted to (university), where I plan to further my education. (University) is a prestigious, highly selective, college that prepares students to change the world. Its liberal arts education empowers students to excel...

Bokeh wrote: It modifies "extension". Upwards/downwards can also be adjective. Actually, "upward/downward" is the adjectival form, while both "upward/downward" and "upwards/downwards" can be used as adverbs, and "upwards/downwards" as prepositions (according to the OED only...

Hi! This form was designed for people in railway business. So terminology is a little bit specific and I’m afraid that we are moving discussion away from the purpose of this forum that is grammar issue. --------- It is form for freight trains, not passenger trains. I...

Hi Giorgio Your quote was: " Use "on" with: street names, days of the week, dates , specific time frames, holidays Use "in" with: names of cities, towns, states, provinces, countries; years, months , specific weeks, large comfortable chairs " "April 10" = a date (i.e. month+number=date)...

Like CalifJim said, the preposition "on" is optional with regard to dates. It's perfectly acceptable to say "His birthday is July 5th." When referring to time, the preposition "at" is obligatory when using a complete sentence. However, it's not necessary in conversation when responding to a...

i spose i could give it a go... Malaysia is one of the South-East ( South-East is the part of a country to the south-east; south-east is the point of the horizon somewhere in between south and east) . and here's the final compilation: Malaysian Food Malaysia is one of...

In modern English, 'who' works as both a subject and an object. ++ http://pinker.wjh.harvard.edu/articles/media/1994_01_24_thenewrepublic.html The first story was a nonpartisan analysis of supposed pronoun case errors made by the two candidates in the 1992 US presidential election....

If they date back that far, the 'rules' will undoubtedly have affected usage. It's called feedback. That's what you're missing, Mr P. These prescriptions have such a tiny affect on usage because they aren't real rules. These are the 'rules' that make prescriptive grammar teachers apoplectic...

U.S. presidential elections are held every four years. The election day is decided (semantic problem: sounds like the date, not the election, is decided in November) on the first Tuesday in November. The reason why the election day was chosen on November is (tense) that farmers would finish...

Hi, this is my first post to the group. I’ve just pasted information from Pocket Fowler's Modern English Usage. To be quite frank, I don’t really understand these definitions fully but I hope the information is useful to you. So, regarding the words 1 Than 2 that 1 Than is normally used to...