By Pronouns, Football

Ignorant88 wrote: I was told that when a parenthetical element follows a coordinating conjunction used to connect two independent clauses, we do put a comma in front of the parenthetical element. 1) The Tigers spend much of the season at the bottom of the league, and even though they picked...

Dear Jim, Where is this paragraph taken from? And is the following your explanation of the text ? The bad condition of his eyes came about suddenly; he was not expecting it.When blindness comes, it will be as if someone shut him up in the dark. (No one is really going to shut him up in the...

I too find 'who are singing?' (and 'who are going?') strange. There doesn't seem to be a problem with the relative pronoun, which supports the point about known referents: 1. 'The people who were singing in the room...' But even where we know at least 22 people are involved, 'who is' seems...

Another common version is e.g. 'Thierry's better at football than David is.' 'Thierry's better at football than I am.' 'I'm better at football than she is.' This is often used for emphasis: 'I'm better at football than she is!'. MrP

Here the word neither is an adverb and it connotes the words 'also not''. Simply speaking when the child is not happy, parents are also not happy. The would form sounds well to my ears; but I can't tell you why. In this context, for me, the words neither and would go hand in hand; however, I...

Hi Camilus, You've given me a lot of homework. it weighs on my back, but it never is the last straw. Fortunately, my back is strong enough. I Appositives vs. Parenthetical Element a) Neil Armstrong, the first man who walked on the moon, is a native of Ohio. Here, “the first man who walked...

Hi, sorry for not trying to answer. I’ve just dumped reference material from the net. Hope it helps. "such" Pocket Fowler's Modern English Usage. Ed. Robert Allen. Oxford University such. 1. SUCH AS AN EMPHASIZER. How can the House express its indignant rejection of football hooliganism...