By Quotation marks, Vocabulary

Go to http://www.google.com Type in the search box: site:literaturepost.com "struggle with" (quotation marks are important) start the search (click on Google Search) and see what you get. This way, the Google search machine will look for pages at literaturepost.com that contain the...

I'd strongly suggest buying these books: Oxford Collocations The BBI Dictionary for English Word Combinations Also, consider this site: http://www.answers.com/library/Idioms (both word and idiom searches) as they provide many examples For literary context, I'd suggest searches...

Englishuser wrote: Hi Cool Breeze, You wrote: Yes, I agree, but a native speaker's command of his language is usually superior to that of those who have not lived in total immersion. It is practically impossible to master a language if you are not in constant contact with those who speak it ...

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...

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2. What needs to be done to correct the following sentence? Have you read the article entitled, "Increase Your Vocabulary?" a) The sentence is correctly punctuated. b) Remove the comma after entitled and place the question mark outside the end quotation marks. c) Remove the comma after...

2. What needs to be done to correct the following sentence? Have you read the article entitled, "Increase Your Vocabulary?" a) The sentence is correctly punctuated. b) Remove the comma after entitled and place the question mark outside the end quotation marks. c) Remove the comma after...

The (incomplete) Punctuation FAQ Hopefully this will grow in time, as other questions are asked and answered, and other people add to this. Hopefully (!) some kind moderator or adminstrator will mark this thread as sticky. INTRODUCTION In grammar, the rules are forged in a delicate balance...