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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'....

Not to mention that the instructions said"Put ALL NOUNS in these phrases into the plural form." I believe leader is a noun. CJ

This is a very scholarly work dealing with the complexities and analysis of Grammar, with a special section devoted to Gerunds, participles, and infinitive phrases. If you want to read the entire work, it is online. A link to the entire chapter follows. This section is on determining if an -ing...

To be honest, it doesn't strike me as wrong, but I think the test-makers prefer you to use the present perfect (have begun) with a since clause as a matter of style.The same is true of the other parts of that sentence. They want you to decide on the basis of style, not grammar, so it's...

In (1) through (3) the noun remains singular. In (4), we omit both a noun and an article. It seems to be difficult to mentally supply both, and this has the effect of turning 'first and second' into a plural modifier. The phrase is then analogous to 'the two boys'. The other...

Hi,Can anyone explain when 'their' - possessive pronoun is used? Is it used to refer possession of something with respect to 'people' only or 'objects' like planets etc..thanks

Sentence: Your future will be tied up with that of Japan? orYour future will be tied up with that of Japan's?Does "Your future will be tied up with Japan's future" sound better?

Haha, you gave me a funny picture in my head. If you told Paul to wash a weary face, he would probably be looking around for someone else's weary face to wash because you can't tell him to wash his own face that way; a tells the listener that we are being generic. If you wanted him to...

Hi, (1) John and Paul were the obvious stars and spokespeople of the group. George and the band confined himself to a background role, quiet, reserved, somewhat mysterious. Should it be themselves? Please advise.Yes (2) The inferiority Harrison felt as a songwriter resulted in strained band...

(1) John and Paul were the obvious stars and spokespeople of the group. George and the band confined himself to a background role, quiet, reserved, somewhat mysterious. Should it be themselves? Please advise. (2) The inferiority Harrison felt as a songwriter resulted in strained band...