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Consider this common construction: She ran to the end of the field and never looked back.Or you might find this punctuation:She ran to the end of the field, and never looked back.I think the second is more common, but the first more correct. I analyze the sentence as containing a compound...

To my ear, it reads better with the pause. "That and thus" sounds like a phrase, if you're not already familiar with the sentence. The subject is "use," and there's a compound predicate with the two verbs " rule" and "conflicts." They're...

Hi, Hanchechat! I'm rather fond of the language myself! Easy stuff first: We need to stick an "n" in "consumerism." I believe you're looking at the word, "demand" as if it were a verb. I read it as a noun, as in, "the law of supply and demand." (Tell me if I'm wrong.) They want to meet and...

Hi again, But I seem to remember that there is a certain rule saying a simple sentence can have compound verb (or predicate). Therefore, I have always thought that: u I moved to Singapore and got a teaching position at a small college. (simple sentence) Whereas: u I...

Clive, thanks again, for coming to my rescue. But I seem to remember that there is a certain rule saying a simple sentence can have compound verb (or predicate). Therefore, I have always thought that: u I moved to Singapore and got a teaching position at a small college. ...

curious why the difference in comma usage exists between introductory prepositional phrases and other introductory elements. I don't know precisely why, but my educated guess is that verb phrases are the main driving force behind the majority of the comma rules. When a subordinate clause...

1. Combine each group of sentences below into one sentence that contains only two main clauses connected by the coordinating conjuntion in parentheses. Separate the main clauses with a comma. 1.Parents were once legally required to bestow the father's surname on their children. These laws have...

Anonymous wrote: 1.Combine each set of simple sentences below to produce the kind of sentence specified in parentheses. 1) People begin to recycle. They generate much less trash. (Complex.) <No idea, but TIP: Using subordinating conjunctions!> 2) Environmentalists have...

Welcome to English Forums! "people" is plural, so you need "oppose", not "opposes". No comma between a subject and predicate. "biased" is a past participle acting as an adjective. Verb tenses don't enter into it. People who oppose the pronoun 'they' can argue that 'they' has a root word...

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...