By Quotation marks, Prepositions

In the first sentence the use of a present tense (think) emphasises what your opinion is now. The past tense (thought) refers to the past; your opinion may have changed by now."I told her that I am (was?) happy in my job" Both are right. The sequence of tenses would require was but if...

User_gary wrote:The remark made by `Bultin' on me haunted me for many days and is still haunting me. Please correct my sentence. No quotation marks for proper names! Otherwise, a good sentence, apart from incorrect preposition. Remarks are made to people.

Yahoo is one of the big search machines on the Web: http://search.yahoo.com You type the phrase (use the quotation marks, as I mentioned), in the Web Search form, say: "key element in becoming" click on the button, and you will have the hits, the pages on which the phrase is found.

Both. Make some searches at: http://www.nytimes.com with: "at the office" "in the office" (quotation marks are important) to see examples

Marius, Thank you for that hint about the quotation marks, i had completely forgotten about that when using search engines!!! I have not gotten that source yet and will find it at the library! I go to the University of Illinois in Urbana Champaign and have a huge library, so i should be able...

you might have tried that already, search of course Yahoo with: "Ending A Sentence With A Preposition" (quotation marks are important!) gives many links

My head fell off days ago... 1. While eating, I fixed my bike. (conjunction with omitted subject and verb; i.e., While I was eating, I fixed my bike). 2. That's right. Having already eaten my lunch (event #1), I fixed my bike (event #2). 3. Well, er, um, given our original example though,...