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I was reading a website on English grammar. I came across a sentence which reads:"The old man wanted hide his money, for he feared his children would steal it from him."My quesiton is, why there is no "to" after "wanted"? Would someone shed some light on it?...

The last predicate is redundant and jars the sentence; I would omit it: There are seven steps to ensure an excellent essay: finding the best environment, deciding the topic, organizing the ideas, writing the thesis statement, writing the body paragraph, writing the introduction and...

Hi, The brown layer. . . disrupts the . . . elements and . . . mediates the picture, giving it that holistic energy of nature that is inherit to earth. I am not sure why you dismiss the group of words in blue as not being a clause. According to the grammars I have reviewed, a group of...

Hi, I have the following grammar questions. Do please help me with the correct answers to the following questions. Thanking you in anticipation, Regards, Manu. 1. Choose the sentence that illustrates the correct agreement of subject and verb. A. Either the students or the teacher have...

And I will respond to the punctuation question. Here is the Short Course: VERY SHORT PUNCTUATION GUIDE Very basic points about punctuation marks: A COMMA isolates groups of words in a sentence in order to make the sentence meaning clear. If you don't need one, don't use it. If you...

Hello Let's see if I can help. It is true that any utterance can contain just one main caluse or more than one. I'm not sure if the definitions of "single clause" and "multiclause" were given to you and you have to stick to those definitions. I must say, however, that an utterance with more...