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Dear Sir, When I was school, my english teachers never told me what was the suitable tense for the meeting minutes.Even now, I am still confused, stop and try to decide whether to use the present or the past tense for example, things like strategies or plans which will be implemented but not...

Hello Anon, It's not a sentence, but looks more like a "bullet" format, since it's just a noun phrase, with no predicate. Supply and installation of new vinyl flooring as per the sample approved by the client

Hi, But the first version is a sample sentence in our textbook, so I'd like to make sure if it's really not very natural. As I said, it doesn't sound very natural. I didn't say it was wrong. The noun 'splash' here focuses on the way the water arrived on the ground. It...

I have a question for any English experts out there. Actually, I have two questions. They are both sample questions from the SAT writing sections. The underlined portion of the following sentence is in need of correction: Trees are able to collect large amounts of water from fog--in some...

Hi TakaIn your sentences, I think the use of the simple pronouns 'he' and 'she' plays a role, too. Perhaps you could say that they're often just "not important enough" to qualify for inversion.For example, I have no problem with Hoa Thai's sample sentences:“Here...

Hi,I need to use the adjective of a noun ‘tissue’. Could anyone tell me which one is right or more popular in American English? “Tissue’ or “tissular’? I believe is the ‘tissue’ but I am quite not sure about it.In what context?We speak of 'tissue paper', 'a tissue sample'....

Angliholic wrote: Hoa Thai wrote: Angliholic wrote: I ate many more of the cookies than you did. I ate more of the cookies than you did. Do both of the above sound right and mean about the same to you? Thanks. Hi,I don't think 'of the' adds more meaning to the sentences, so I would not...

Grammar Geek wrote: We must obey laws. We consider that to be our duty. We must obey laws. We consider that that is our duty. We must obey laws. We consider that it is our duty to do so. Thanks, GG and Marius. Now I seem to find out where the key problem is. Why can't the pronoun "that,"...

Thanks. But "buses" follows the verb infinitive "be" : There is/are going to be more buses on this line. In this sample sentence, "be" remains infinitive regardless the number of the noun that follows. Did you mean that because "buses" is plural, the "be" that follows "There" should be...

Hi, Should it be sample sentences or example sentences?In dictionaries, sentences are often provided besides the meaning/s of the word. Use the term 'example'. However, it's a noun and not an adjective, so use the correct grammar if it's in a sentence. eg Here is a sentence as an example. Clive