By Regards, Clauses

Re: I thought a spider is/was an insect

My apologies for introducing a joke! The "universal falsehood" reference is a complete joke! It doesn't matter whether what is reported is universally true or unversally false. What's important is that in the speaker's mind it is universally (or eternally, if you wish)...

Re: as

Hi N2g, I'm probably too pooped to make any sense. After you confirmed that this was not a "stand-alone" exercise sentence, but an excerpt from a news article, I began thinking in terms of "previous context," specifically that it had already been extablished that food...

Re: rephrase doubts

Hi, (1) What has sensitized me in more recent years from this metaphor is to also say to us that everyone faces storms. Sometimes, those storms come out of huge systems. They may be a tornado or an avalanche or maybe a car accident, when "there is innocence"---no control, vulnerable to...

Please correct my letter to my new employer

I am drafting a letter to my new employer to clarify the clauses in the contract. Please correct if I have made any mistakes in the letter. Thank you very much in advance. Dear Sir, I am writing to confirm in receipt from you an offer of employment letter, a template of reference form...

Re: adjective phrases

Hello Anonymous,In your sentences there is no adjective phrases.A phrase is a name used in the english grammar to label a group of words which acts as a single unit in the syntax of a sentence,which means that you need at least two words to label some part of the sentence a phrase. Words,phrases...

Re: Present Unreal Conditional

Thank you, Marius, Yankee and CalifJim Please tell why MrPedantic said what he said in this response post of his for a threat named 'Type 2 and type 3 of "If clause"' in regard to no. 1 sentence and does it exhibit any relevance to my line of inquiry. MrPedantic wrote: 1. It...

Re: truncation possibly this but not that

Hi Anon, I was intrigued by this issue, as I too could see no substantial difference between the examples. I think it comes down to a simple misunderstanding. The Anon said, "The dilemma how to know what and how much to truncate, Mr.M." When we say,"There is Superman, up in the...

Re: Condtitional tense

is totally dependent on context, rather than the tense of any verbs in the if clause? And would that make a difference between your example and mine? Best regards, - A. Edit, note - Amy offered an analysis of "If I am" as being equal to "Whenever I am" in a different...

Re: I have lived in New York for five years before.

I agree that it's arguably possible, but anyone who wishes to convey that thought would be well-advised to to make it less ambiguous. People often say things like, "I have been living in Taiwan off and on for the past twenty years." In this version, the total accumulated time...

Re: Use of thereof in the first amendment

I think there are a couple way to look at this. One is the use of the word 'thereof' and what it means. It is defined as such: thereof -adverb: of or concerning this, that or itWhen the word 'thereof' is used it gets its meaning entirely from the word to which it refers. So...