By Paragraphs, Possessives

Basically, I have been set a piece of coursework: to compare the aforementioned poems. I am going for an A* piece at GCSE level, there is no particular question, just to compare the four poems. I have almost completed My Last Duchess, mentioning all the themes I can think of and reading the...

(1) We only played one ... and it was four years ago. - You need to use the PAST SIMPLE here because you're talking about something which happened 4 years ago.(2) ...between his wife and the girls' coach... - you need the apostrophe after 'girls' because it's a possessive...

Hi Collegebound, Welcome to the forums. Overall, you have a good essay. Stop worrying about your paragraphs. However, I 'm not sure what the topic was that Wisconsin asked for. Where did you put it? As vice president of my Catholic school’s multi-cultural student union, I have learned, first...

This is my interpretation: Hong Kong citizen = citicen of HK. In the context of your paragraph, Hong Kong is functioning as an adjective, Therefore, I prefer to drop the possessive. However, possessive is not necessarily wrong either because one can interprete HK as a proper noun. Consider...

Your introductory paragraph should present the topics you intend to discuss, your reasons for selecting them, and (if possible) some kind of link to the title. November 8, 1989, it is not necessary to insert commas before and after the year in this contextduring the late 19th century -...

Very good essay. The yellow highlights show parts you might like to re-word. The red highlight shows errors. You should also take a look at the structure of your essay, some of your sentences are just repeating what has already been said and other parts are disorganised. for example: you devote a...

Riglos wrote:1. How can we distinguish between a descriptive genitive and a compound noun? The descriptive Genative will be an inflected Genative using the apostrophe, just like the possessive. This appears to be an argument of semantics; the foundation of which rests in whether...

Only for the first part of your post: no, because it's on the same level as "its over-generosity"; "its" is the possessive adjective here, not "it's". 'The implied justification, for instance, in stripping the Australian Industrial Relations Commission of minimum wage arbitration is its...

Hi MrP. As my message ended up on page three, I take the freedom to post it again. 1) "The impossibility of giving his assent to any of the positions which are party to these various disputes, on account of their apparent equipollence, leads the Pyrrhonist to the adoption of suspension of...

please help me with my essay and can you help finish it! thnx From the poems you have studied, show how the different poets portray different aspects of love. The love poems I have studied in class all represent different types of love, such as erotic meaning...