It was the fitting into Confucian patterns of conduct and of family and community life rather than blood kinship or ancestry which labeled one as civilized and as Chinese. The sentence is correct and your analysis is right. It is a preparatory

That would be correct. You just need to add a few capital letters and a full-stop. The dog barked at my cousin and I.

The answer to your question is probably not as clearcut as you'd like it to be: Couple can take either the singular or plural verb. It all depends on whether the couple is seen as one social unit ( a married couple) or whether the members

By 26? Do you mean By the age of 26? Only the "must have watched" version sounds okay to me. Don't forget that the pronoun I is always capitalized in English.

This is how i created I don't understand your question. Are you looking for a correction? If so, your words are not a complete sentence, and the pronoun I is always capitalized in English.

GG is right. More information: "12c. shortening of O.E. ic, first person sing. nom. pronoun, from P.Gmc. *ekan (cf. O.Fris. ik, O.N. ek, Norw. eg, Dan. jeg, O.H.G. ih, Ger. ich, Goth. ik ), from PIE *ego(m) (cf. Skt. aham, Hitt. uk, L. ego,

Are you sure they speak standard American or British English? It sounds like it might be from a sort of dialect of English. Where I live nobody puts that pronoun there. The only meaning it might have, to my ear, is a sort of enthusiastic emphasis,

Hi. Thank you. If the phrase "living creatures" were happen to be (for the illustration purpose of asking this question) "a living creature" in the singular, would you say placing a comma before the pronoun

Hi. Thank you. I think comma would be correct (or possibly optional in this case) before the word "which" in the definition I found in the Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary. I feel/think the part "that is

Hi. In the Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary, it has this definition for the word "enzyme," and I wonder if a comma before the word (pronoun?) "which" would be correct. Please help. I also think that the