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Dear teachers, Could you possibly tell me the meaning of the phrase" be likely to+ver" as appears in the following paragraph: A common misconception is that none must always be treated as singular. The customary support for this view is that none necessarily means "not...

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...

The following is in the Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English. 4 balance the budget : if a government balances the budget, they make the amount of money that they spend equal to the amount of money available My question is in a phrase "a government balences," "a government" is...

Read the following and choose the number of word which is not proper in context. (originally it has diagram, but I couldn't post picture last time. I'll try to post again. but even if I fail, please try the following and give me your precious opinions) In order to make a paper plane, you...

Sorry, I changed the category of the question to Voc. and idioms Read the following and choose the number of word which is not proper in context. (originally it has diagram, but I couldn't post picture last time. I'll try to post again. but even if I fail, please try the following and...

However, it would be unfair to say that the two books cover two totally separate aspects of the revolution ; they do share some common ground . Both books begin with a fair by making a reference to the development of the modern society that follows ( the Congress of Vienna and Revolutions of...

Mister Micawber wrote: Dependent clause, independent clause, separate sentence, separate paragraph-- the pronoun must agree in person, gender and number with the noun to which it refers . This is a simple rule. The only problem that remains is what to use for a third person neutral gender...

1. Run a spell-check. You seem to have problems with plurals as well, so work on that. 2. Re-write the first paragraph. The first sentence has you tying yourself in knots. Just state that you are writing to apply for the internship. The second sentence needs to take a different emphasis: why...

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...

Dear Beverly, I am not an English expert, (far from it, I too suck at writing and am a terrible speller and it is my first and only language!) but if I were to judge you by your letter and the writing skills demonstrated there..Well I'm sorry to say but you are not writing at a level that one...