By Semicolons, Nouns

Cherrypie10 wrote:I can’t think of a better site name before so I’ve decided to name it after the two of my favorite dogs. Cherry and Pie are two of our family dogs, they're the oldest so they're the one whom I love the most.Is that correct? A semicolon keeps it from being a "run-on"...

Hi, I'd just like to add my usual recommendation that semi-colons should be used very seldom. A sentence like this seems to me rather trite for the use of one. If you make two sentences, the pronoun 'it' seems to tie the second one to the first one adequately. Best wishes, Clive

Hi, I have the following grammar questions. Do please help me with the correct answers to the following questions. Thanking you in anticipation, Regards, Manu. 1. Choose the sentence that illustrates the correct agreement of subject and verb. A. Either the students or the teacher have...

http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/runons.htm Run-on sentences happen typically under the following circumstances*: When an independent clause gives an order or directive based on what was said in the prior independent clause: This next chapter has a lot of difficult information in it,...

Here are a few suggestions. First, change increased to increase. The company's increase by over 200 percent. "Long- or short-term trend" might work better than your "only a sudden case." Then you have a series of adverb clauses. I'd separate them with semicolons. It will be easier to read...

I don't warm to the oxymoronic title-- it seems to belittle your statement. After your first careful semicolon, you have failed to punctuate adequately. This is a wonderful phrase: 'The air... cannot weep itself clear'. I bow to your Muse. Grammatically, you have: 'transiences which emulates...

No, 'pursue' is wrong; it should obviously be 'pursuit', but you have dumped that for the rhyme and no other reason. You are sacrificing meaning and poetic impact for cheap rhythm and rhyme-- and you're failing in the rhythm anyway. The poet does not force words into form-- s/he finds the...

In the first sentence, is the moon a beacon for the earth-bound navigators or are the navigators a beacon for the moon? As the sentence stands, the prepostional phrase "of earth-bound navigators" modifies the noun beacon, telling that the navigators are the beacon for the moon. Did you mean "for...