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Dear Howard Leigh Ph.D., If we are going to get into silly mudslinging battles over the word "often" and claiming illigitimacy of posts due to lack of name, qualifications, and misspellings then I suggest that you start with the very word misspelling which contains two of the...

Hi BW2/3,The goal of an editor is to correct and clarify, not to change the structure and meaning so much that the original writer's "essense" is removed. Let's take these one at a time:I am truly sorry what I'd written to you a compassion love letter a couple years ago. And here are my...

Doesn't it drive everyone crazy when your girl/boyfriend constantly corrects your use of verb contractions to start a sentence. In my daily conversations with others, I often begin a sentence with the use of a verb contraction. In the example I used to start this paragraph I would be interrupted...

Hello CJThank you for the suggestion. I can rather easily explain the grammar of your sentence with a rule of WHIZ deletion (clause contraction): "The book contained only two paragraphs (which were) explaining the cause of the Civil War". But in the case of my sentence, we need a "queer WHIZ...

Hello In your second to last paragraph, you say, "With my graduation from high school approaching all the more rapidly." In my opinion, this particular line should be reworded. The rate of when a person graduates does not accelerate. I know what you are trying to say, but it can be said in a...

please help me teachers/ english professors with my essay. feel free to email me about my mistakes @ phu53@yahoo.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ “The Scarlet Ibis” The short story “The Scarlet Ibis” by James Hurst...

Hoonkaew, Chalita 248/90 Charansanitwong Rd Bangkoknoi Bkk 10700 Thailand 24th November 2004 Dear NEO of France, -Thailand as a Local Committee Coordinator and Local Officer on Refugee and Peace. I took part in many projects of this association, for example, the donation camp for disable...

Like a lot of other people, I had heard of high blood pressure but I never thought of it as being a big concern. My first introduction to high blood pressure was when I found out that my mother had it. I remembered my instructor explaining the I-Search Paper to the class, and she said that it had...

Dear Mrs. Guest, I encourage you to register though it is not required. As far as spacing is concerned, I would single space my sentences and I would leave a space between paragraphs. This is only a letter, not a manuscript. So it is no big deal either way. I would encourage you to only ask...