By Possessives, Essays

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...

The comma is needed because the prepostional phrase is in apposition to 'secretly'; without it, the phrase is redundant (it's probably redundant anyway, but I'll lay it to style).The writer has used 'them' because the form is coming more and more into use, as native speakers ignore the possessive...

This is one example from that page: Make sure that a pronoun refers to a specific noun, not a possessive noun or a noun within a prepositional phrase. Faulty In George Orwell's essay "Shooting an Elephant, " he reports an incident that shows the evil effects of...

Feebs11 wrote: Super Sonic wrote: Hi everyone, I am from Turkey and I have a problem: Yesterday I learned that I got 56 points out of 100 from the writing lesson, which made me sad(I am a university student) The teacher said that my essay wasn't coherent and that MY ENGLISH WAS POOR I have...

Super Sonic wrote:Hi everyone, I am from Turkey and I have a problem: Yesterday I learned that I got 56 points out of 100 from the writing lesson, which made me sad(I am a university student) The teacher said that my essay wasn't coherent and that MY ENGLISH WAS POOR I have written another...

I'm not sure what happened, but these are correct: It's significant that.... It's not clear in the scenario...... It's evident that.... It's does indeed mean It is, but the contraction should not be used in formal writing like essays; it should read It is significant, etc.Its is of course...

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...

Hi Mr. Hung, I've highlighted your glaring errors. Feel free to correct them and repost. Hope this helps. Many people think that it (who is it) should be given unlimited space for artists to create their ideas. However, others consider authorities may regulate the publications (music and films...