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Dear BBG - Please try to be careful when you write. If you don't think carefully about every word you write, you will not learn why you make mistakes. Think about tenses - present, past, future. Think about plurals - is this one, or more than one? If it is more than one, add an 's'....

Hi Nghiatran and welcome to the forums. You seem to have some problems with plurals and articles. You need to be careful about saying something WILL happen, instead of CAN happen. There are some negative effects in using computer in our life. First of all, using computer in all of important...

Grammar Geek wrote: Oops. Sure enough, it's there. I didn't go back far enough in the paragraph. Nevermind! Let me make sure, GG. So now you do see the word 'someone' there, but still you don't see the plural 'readers' used in the paragraph as a problem, right?

Numerous too weak a word - more than numerous literary works have been created since stories first began to be written down. Though the number of literary works is endless not exactly endless - it's a finite number , works of fiction are often more popular among young readers. Are the works...

I have also been a business studies teacher all my life. I assumed that because you have various customers, they might each require a different solution for their individual needs. Therefore I used the plural tense for solutions to match the plural word "customers" - but not knowing exactly what...

Grammar Geek wrote: Slang is singular. Slang words can be plural. You seem to like using "Buddy," which isn't really that common. It's odd to say "don't use too many vulgar words." It would seem you either object to all vulgar words or not. When we talk, please don't use vulgar...

You have problems with determiners, plurals, verb tenses, prepositions and general grammatical structure. I've corrected the first paragraph for you and highlighed problems in the second. In the second paragraph you have started inserting a space before commas, which is incorrect. The...

Hi Webreaper, Welcome to the forum. Today I wrote an email referring to paragraphs in a journalist's article, and was corrected for my use of abbreviation combined with apostrophes. My goodness, who is correcting your email? The reason I ask is this. Email is a very informal medium. eg...

Some university universities(you need the plural when you’re using “some”) are adopting Internet-based learning(or “e-learning” for short) while others are sticking to the traditional, face-to-face teaching. Personally, I prefer the former. I’d like to explain the second change a little more...

http://pinker.wjh.harvard.edu/articles/media/1994_01_24_thenewrepublic.html Probably no "grammatical error" has received as much scorn as "misuse" of pronoun case inside conjunctions (phrases with two parts joined by is an object that requires object case, it does not mean that is an...