According to Marx, not only do religions pacify people falsely; they may themselves become tools of oppression. At first sight I would say that this is wrong, but after reading Clive's post, I would not swear to it. I have always thought that

The word "then" is a conjunctive adverb. When it separates independent clauses, it should be preceded with a semicolon (;) and usually followed by a comma (,). With most conjunctive adverbs--such as "however" and

Hey guys, I have always had trouble putting questions in larger sentences without it sounding awkward or feeling like I made some grammatical error. Here is an example sentence: "Van Inwagen's question to

I have been reading the book "Write Right! and can't understand the following advice about the use of commas. The following two passages seem contradictory to me. Any assistance would be appreciated! "A run-on...is two independent

Hi, Mr.Micawber! Thanks for checking the sentences. Please, what kind of mistakes are there in the following sentences (I understood that I had to change semi-colon by periods in the first three sentences), because you said "These need

Hi, everyone. This is something very urgent. I would like to you help me with the following sentences. I am told that there is something wrong with each of the sentences. I have placed my revisions and reasoning right after the original sentences

Hi Personally I would use an alternative word to 'got'. I found success, or gained success; the success was thanks to my friends help. I also the think the correct grammar would require a semicolon, rather than the comma, as both parts are

Is there a rationale for this? Given that semicolon is intermediate in meaning between comma and full stop, one might ... (I think this was also true in English-language typography before the 20th Century, but it's certainly obsolete in

It seems that question marks and exclamation marks always go where they naturally belong, but full stops and commas are less clear-cut. With brackets, OTOH, they always go where they naturally belong. Is there a rationale for this? Given that

Couldn't you just run the bad card through a on-punch reader, copying to just before the error, and continue punching ... all holes. The keyboards on the IBM 029 (?) keypunches were, by a large margin, the best I've ever used. Maybe if you