Is as well as considered a parenthical phrase? Should it be set off with commas? Thanks! My non-linguistic view thinks not. I may be wrong but one of the "as well as" usages has a prepositional property which is typically

Send me a copy. It doesn't matter if your wife gets one or not. It won't change the pronoun. And PLEASE, don't change it to "Send a copy to my wife and myself." That's even worse! (But alas, so common.) "Me" is

Welcome to the forums. We will help you after you write your first draft. It's not "help" if we simply do an assignment for you. For you to learn, you have to try to do things yourself. Remember that you will need to

In the following sentence , do I need to place a comma after the introductory participial phrase? Walking in the street, the boy spotted one of his friends.  I have read a grammar book, which mentions that you only need to separate the

1 A dog's brain is disproportionately small (compared) to the size of head. Among mammals, a dog's brain is disproportionately small for his head. 2 She knows him so well as to be able to write a message in his place and people would

1 Form the plural. 2 Add an apostrophe. 3 If the ending is now s', stop. 4 Otherwise add s. boy 1 boys 2 boys' 3 STOP Answer: boys' person 1 people 2 people' 3 No s'. 4 people's Answer: people's child 1 children 2

Dear friend, the clauses within your sentence are correlative clauses of proportion (a kind of adverbial clauses), the comma is obligatory to separate them. One dominant use of a comma is to separate closely associated clauses within a sentence

Although Martha remained at Mount Vernon when George went to Philadelphia as a delegate to the Second Continental Congress, she often accompanied him to his headquarters during the war years. She spent the winter of 1775 in Cambridge,

Hi everybody, My background is in toxicology, but I'm always looking to improve my writing skills. I joined this forum hoping to get some friendly advice on the rules of grammar when I need it. I must admit that I'm a bit embarrassed to

"Hi!" is a sentence by itself. Dear Jane, Hi! I bet you thought you'd never hear from me again. I've been very busy since the move but I hate to lose touch with my friends, so I thought I'd write you. The correct way to