By Quotation marks, Numbers

Hi,I think I have seen more than enough cases where what people call a verbal noun has the indefinite article 'a' in front of it and at the very least, the sheer number (should it be - sheer numbrs??) of it warrants some good explanations from experts in this forum. I think I can laid out...

(if, for instance "far ... ones" is an excerpt from the book you're quoting)A couple of comments:- It is better not to use contraction in an academic paper.- Avoid ellipsis (.. after promotion) - Attracting new ... is a new sentence. Either you start a new sentence or you make use...

People are using the number of Google hits for all sorts of things that you don't believe. Ever heard of a ring (the kind that you wear on your finger) that checks the number of Google hits of your name everyday and shows it to you? There are scientists who try to use the number of Google...

Mister Micawber wrote: 1) What can we call the package that helicopters throw on the land when there is a catastrophe happens? -- (Emergency) Aid packages? Air drops? 2) About punctuation, should we punctuate before or after the : She told me," I want to go out. " or She told me," I want to...

1) What can we call the package that helicopters throw on the land when there is a catastrophe happens? -- (Emergency) Aid packages? Air drops? 2) About punctuation, should we punctuate before or after the : She told me," I want to go out. " or She told me," I want to go out".) -- Most...

Clive wrote:Hi guys, The number of results Google gives you on the first page . . . could even be wrong by 10,000% sometimes I didn't know this. Do you mean Google has an error in its actul counting? Can you please explain a bit more? Thanks, CliveHi Clive,yes, Google isn't supposed to give...

Hi GoodmanI often use Google as a tool, too, but it is very easy to get false and/or misleading results. You got over three hundred million results for "If I had been, I would have" -- but you didn't use quotation marks, right? In that sort of a search (i.e. without the quotation marks),...

No, you should search for them on the Web, then come here. E.g. go to: http://www.yahoo.com and do a search with: "sandwich short of a picnic" dictionary (quotation marks are important) to find the dictionary pages referring to your expression. Choose the minimum number of...

What is proper? We saw Dad and Mom's new boat. (YES!) We saw Dad's and Mom's new boat (Wrong!) Joint possessives In the case of joint possession, i.e., when two or more people own something together, place the apostrophe or apostrophe s (‘s) only after the...

Hi Crazy-- I finally got here. I have added some comments in brackets after underlined 'problems':Do Sports and Drugs Mix? Since the dawn of time years while playing football and was the quarter back of our team. Everyone thought he was going to make it to the NFL but during our...