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Good answer, Teri! May I add a couple of things that you overlooked? First Paragraph, Sentence #1: This sentence needs the verb "is" -- "Do you feel that your life is boring?" In sentence #3, "everyday" is one word only when used as an adjective ("an everyday...

Hi, everyone! Happy New Year! But I'm trying to be happy. I'm pulled into a debate over "the very English standard" in a Chinese translation forum. A "sensible" lad who crammed in China's New Oriental Language School asserts that many usages, including those in nytimes.com, economist.com,...

"The Change of the Characteristics in the passage from The Hours " The passage from the novel The Hours by Michael Cunningham is intriguing. The passage illustrates the difference between the character's characteristics in different time settings: past and present. This difference is...

Hi, Where you have put semi-colons, I'd usually use commas. I have also suggested some other changes to your punctuation. My general advice is not to get into the habit of using semi-colons and colons. They can often make tyour meaning more obscure rather than more clear. You seem to have...

a present tense after expressions like "the first time" is practically always unnatural Perhaps this is true after "That was the first time ..." followed by the description of a past event or action, but not when discussing a "work of art", including films, sound recordings, plays,...

I think the majority of disagreement to my post so far has been on the actual points. The points are well known and well established. What's more, and I am hesitant to say this as doing so appeals to authority, mathematical geniuses who currently are contructing a mathematical paragon for the...

After a half-century of hardships, twists and turns, through concerted effrots made by teachers and students all along one after another, not only has our school composed a splendid chapter of entrepreneurship, but also found a spirit of perseverence and unyieldingness. It is this spirit that...

Diamondrg wrote: Taken from a nationwide exam in Turkey. Do you think there is anything wrong with this sentence? I do. A comma is needed after the word "aim" and I have doubts about the use of "one of which" to refer to a singular countable noun "aim". What do you think? Can the...

Re: What is Morality? "Now here's a straightforward question. What is morality? Is it a personal code of conduct? Is it in some sense absolute? I would be very interested in understanding where the various participants in this forum are coming from on this one, as I hope it will help me to...