Search results for 'tag:Prepositions tag:Colons' matching tags 'Prepositions' and 'Colons'

Re: semicolon usage

Mister Micawber — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 01:55:06 GMT

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As...as is a comparative form, and as is a correlative conjunction. As happy as a lark.

In my sentence, '... fine as 2 sentences', as is a preposition meaning 'in the role, function, or status of'.

When I say that #2 and 3 won't stand well, I mean alone-- as two separate sentences each. With the semicolon they are fine.

Is this sentence is natural?

Lollipop^^ — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 09:38:46 GMT

The company decided to give her a chance, despite doubts regarding her ability to perform such high-level tasks.

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I wonder that a preposition can have a colon before it.

As I know, we usually use prepositions without any colon before them like the following.

e.g) I live in New York.

But "despite" on the above sentence has a colon bofore it.

It seems unnatural for me. How about you?

the proper use of prepostions...

Anonymous — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 15:44:29 GMT

The company decided to give her a chance, despite doubts regarding her ability to perform such high-level tasks.

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I wonder if a preposition have a colon before it.

As you know, we usually use prepositions without any colon before it like the following.

"I live in New York."

So, the above sentence(the part = ", depite") seems to be unnatural for me.

Please, reply to my question. Thanks.

Re: a dedication

Yoong Liat — Sun, 14 Oct 2007 12:36:45 GMT

Cool Breeze wrote:
Yoong Liat wrote:
Masaj wrote:
Help me with this format semi colon use and who/whom. Dedicated to my mom, who always believed in me, and to my two sons, David and Matthew who I believe in.

Dedicated to my mom, who always believes in me, and to my two sons, David and Matthew, whom I believe in.

Hi YL

How do you know that the mother is still alive? Who and whom are both correct when the preposition is at the end of the relative clause.

CB

You're right. I was presuming that the mother is still alive. If she has already passed away, then 'believed' would be the word to use. I would suggest that Masaj let us know whether his/her mother is still alive so that we can decide which verb to use.

The use of 'whom' is formal from what I've gathered from English usage books. 'Who' is also correct, according to some English usage books.

Re: a dedication

Cool Breeze — Sat, 13 Oct 2007 19:19:43 GMT

Yoong Liat wrote:
Masaj wrote:
Help me with this format semi colon use and who/whom. Dedicated to my mom, who always believed in me, and to my two sons, David and Matthew who I believe in.

Dedicated to my mom, who always believes in me, and to my two sons, David and Matthew, whom I believe in.

Hi YL

How do you know that the mother is still alive? Who and whom are both correct when the preposition is at the end of the relative clause.

CB

Part of speech identification

Eagerlearner — Wed, 12 Sep 2007 20:22:31 GMT

Hello, this is my first post here, I like to know these words
kilometer
centimeter

Are those words noun if they are standing alone ? if it's, what kind of noun it's, proper noun or abstract noun or etc ?

After that, I want to indentify the part of speech of the following sentence by using the stanford parser at http://nlp.stanford.edu:8080/parser/index.jsp
if you input,
convert kilometer to centimeter
it gives convert/VB kilometer/NN to/TO centimeter/VB

if you input,
convert 2 kilometers to centimeter
it gives convert/VB 2/CD kilometers/NNS to/TO centimeter/NN

You can refer to the tagset below, my question is, is the first input grammatically correct ? if it's correct the part of speech given by the program seems to be incorrect because
the centimeter should be noun instead of Verb, or am I wrong ? If you add the "2" as the second input the program gives the correct part of speech tagging,
is it because my first input grammar is incorrect ? Thank you.

Reference
1. CC Coordinating conjunction 25.TO to
2. CD Cardinal number           26.UH Interjection
3. DT Determiner                27.VB Verb, base form
4. EX Existential there     28.VBD Verb, past tense
5. FW Foreign word              29.VBG Verb, gerund/present participle
6. IN Preposition/subord.     30.VBN Verb, past participle
218z     conjunction
7. JJ Adjective                 31.VBP Verb, non-3rd ps. sing. present
8. JJR Adjective, comparative    32.VBZ Verb, 3rd ps. sing. present
9. JJS Adjective, superlative    33.WDT wh-determiner
10.LS List item marker          34.WP wh-pronoun
11.MD Modal                     35.WP Possessive wh-pronoun
12.NN Noun, singular or mass    36.WRB wh-adverb
13.NNS Noun, plural              37. # Pound sign
14.NNP Proper noun, singular     38. $ Dollar sign
15.NNPS Proper noun, plural      39. . Sentence-final punctuation
16.PDT Predeterminer             40. , Comma
17.POS Possessive ending         41. : Colon, semi-colon
18.PRP Personal pronoun          42. ( Left bracket character
19.PP Possessive pronoun        43. ) Right bracket character
20.RB Adverb                    44. " Straight double quote
21.RBR Adverb, comparative       45. ` Left open single quote
22.RBS Adverb, superlative       46. " Left open double quote
23.RP Particle                  47. ' Right close single quote
24.SYM Symbol             48. " Right close double quote

Part of Speech identification

Anonymous — Wed, 12 Sep 2007 20:16:08 GMT

if you input,
convert 2 kilometers to centimeter
it gives convert/VB 2/CD kilometers/NNS to/TO centimeter/NN

You can refer to the tagset below, my question is, is the first input setence correct ? if it's correct the part of speech given by the program seems to be incorrect because
the centimeter should be noun instead of Verb, or am I wrong ? If you add the "2" as the second input the program gives the correct part of speech tagging,
it it because my first input grammar is incorrect ? Thank you.

Reference

1. CC  Coordinating conjunction  25.TO  to 
2. CD  Cardinal number           26.UH  Interjection 
3. DT  Determiner                27.VB  Verb, base form 
4. EX  Existential there   28.VBD Verb, past tense 
5. FW  Foreign word              29.VBG Verb, gerund/present participle 
6. IN  Preposition/subord.   30.VBN Verb, past participle 
218z     conjunction 
7. JJ  Adjective                 31.VBP Verb, non-3rd ps. sing. present 
8. JJR Adjective, comparative    32.VBZ Verb, 3rd ps. sing. present 
9. JJS Adjective, superlative    33.WDT wh-determiner 
10.LS  List item marker          34.WP  wh-pronoun 
11.MD  Modal                     35.WP  Possessive wh-pronoun 
12.NN  Noun, singular or mass    36.WRB wh-adverb 
13.NNS Noun, plural              37. #  Pound sign 
14.NNP Proper noun, singular     38. $  Dollar sign 
15.NNPS Proper noun, plural      39. .  Sentence-final punctuation 
16.PDT Predeterminer             40. ,  Comma 
17.POS Possessive ending         41. :  Colon, semi-colon 
18.PRP Personal pronoun          42. (  Left bracket character 
19.PP  Possessive pronoun        43. )  Right bracket character 
20.RB  Adverb                    44. "  Straight double quote 
21.RBR Adverb, comparative       45. `  Left open single quote 
22.RBS Adverb, superlative       46. "  Left open double quote 
23.RP  Particle                  47. '  Right close single quote 
24.SYM Symbol  48. "  Right close double quote

Re: tense

Tung Quoc — Sat, 28 Oct 2006 16:45:37 GMT

Hi,

You wrote:

Generally, when using the present perfect tense, we are not specific RE: when the action occured. (1)

I think the correct sentence is:

Generally, when using the present perfect tense, we are not specific RE when the action occured.

Am I right? "Re" is a preposition, so why did you use a colon in (1)?

Sorry, I still don't understand what we are not specific RE mean?Why didm't you write:

We don't specific Re....

If specific is an adjectif,specific describes we, so why is there re/about?

I don't understand.

Please analyse we are not specific re when the action occured ????

Re: This sentence

Grammar Geek — Thu, 01 Jun 2006 13:53:31 GMT

Well, it was wrong in the first case because it was two sentences together with no punctuation. It's wrong now because you have what's called a comma splice, in which you use a comma when you need either a perior or semi-colon, or a conjunction, which is why I rewrote it. Your opening paragraph above has the same mistakes.

Anyway, you asked at first if the preposition could come after "that" and now I see you meant before "that." In this case, the preposition "of" needs to follow "aware." I am aware of, I have knowledge of, and a lot of other verbs take of. There's no reason that "that" can't follow this phasing, or a similar "I have no information on that."

Re: using ;/prepositions at and by

Grammar Geek — Wed, 29 Mar 2006 22:13:05 GMT

The problem isn't with the semi-colons. It's that odd construction with the Amy and the pronoun I. Is the speaker supposed to be Amy Potter?