What I meant was that using a comma with 'but' is traditional - sorry if I didn't make that clear. The conjunction 'but', when used to introduce a clause, typically signals a contrast or opposite fact, so a short pause can be

Maybe. The clause following ('engineer initiates transformation..') does not make any sense to me, with or without 'in'.

This is not normally true. Could you provide an example of this usage? Certainly. It is a characteristic of reduced clauses, both adverbial and relative.=segregatory meaning. I saw the huge crowd, both angry and upset at the

Greetings, Razer, the sentence you give reads utterly strange. 'More than he deserve s ' is all right, but the clause overall should be rectified, as in He has got greater credit than he deserves . The question concerns the so-called

I think present particple clauses would work in certain contexts with similar constructs, but in the plane crash scenario, I would personally prefer a parallel past tense construct "crashed and casued". Using particple clause (causing

Why did you choose 'was' for the second verb? The time sequence in this sentence is blurred by the unusual usage of the Past Perfect anyway and I felt there was no need to cloud it even more with another (this time usual) Past Perfect

It may be an idiom, but it's still grammatical because it doesn't break any syntactic rules. 'It was like a dream come true' is an example of a reduced relative clause. In full it would be 'It was like a dream that had

wonder if "1" is correct grammatically. If so, I wonder if "2" is correct. 1. It was like a dream come true. It is correct because it is commonly used. It is one of those expressions that have been used so long

The first sentence is more grammatically correct and clearer to understand. Yet, I would substitute "whom" with "who", as "who" is the subject of the clause "who have signed the agreement". Access to

The "if" subjunctive variety was not the main issue here. At this juncture, we are not particularly concerned about the "if" conditionals, or degree of possibility and certainty. Perhaps that's another topic. The heavy