By Pronouns, Spelling

Your instinct is right--the phrase refers to "last year's figure" but the word "figure" is understood and so dropped. So grammatically the spelling should be year's. However, it has become common especially in conversationto drop the 's, and that has slipped into...

Thanks , why did you change the words:"It is " to "its"?something else about it :"You must remember to use capital "I" for the personal pronoun. " - you mean also if i have "," after it will be capital letter ?- for example :"I wrote the...

You must remember to use capital "I" for the personal pronoun.

Anonymous wrote:The first one is definitely wrong. Once you have "most of YOU" you cannot refer to the "you" as "they." If you wrote instead "most, if not all, do not bother to check the spelling and grammar of the sentences" then you could use "they write." Exactly. Keep the same subject...

Here's another one denying that errors by native speakers are possible: "This goes back to the whole descriptivism versus prescriptivism matter, even though such is in a written context. Aside from purely orthographic matters like spelling, since when can you say that a usage by a native speaker...

Pojo wrote:Hi Tell there is any spellingmistakes are any mistakes in below letters. (nobody have the right to irritate or make fun of any body.. by sending ths mail you have proved that you are a silly person and not matured.. in this mail you have sent, you have mispelled the word...

Forbes wrote: Cool Breeze wrote:Fortunately English is structurally so simple... ?Hi ForbesIn the days of Old English the grammar of the language was more complicated than it is today: nouns had three genders, and there were even strong masculines as there are in modern German, 's' wasn't the...

Hi WAThere is no difference between the pronouns unless of comes after them. Note that noone is wrong, the correct spelling is no one or no-one:No one / No-one knows about it.But:No one of us knows about it. (Quite a few grammarians think you should say: None of us knows about it.)Every one of us...

Hi NewforspeedWelcome to the forums. Anyone with some knowledge of English can tell that you didn't write your questions yourself. Someone else did that for you, but I'll give you some answers anyway.1. There were only 4.5 million speakers of English in Shakespeare's day. There are three major...

Yankee wrote:"...shee hath more haire then wit, and more faults then haires, and more wealth then faults..."I think it must have been Shakespeare who started all the confusion between 'then' and 'than'... For your information, here is the etymology:then adverb of time, from O.E. þanne, þænne,...