By Synonyms, Commas

Hello, I am doing natural language processing research. I found out at least a dictionary shows that these are synonyms to each other, separated with comma accordingly.Jakarta, capital of IndonesiaMoscow, capital of the Russian Federation, Russian capitalIf we want to refine these synonym...

Hello to all, I believe that to learn English depends of the interest of individual and depending of the English knowledge you wanted to learn. like for instance, if you want to speak English all you have to do is to listen very carefully to some tools such as CD, DVD, tapes etc. either audio...

Yankee, thanks for your help, but I am still not sure what is going on here. Should the commas be left out in the following two sentences? I consequently think that using correct grammar is important.I thus think that using correct grammar is important. "consequently" and "thus" are synonyms...

Hi there! In the lyrics from Rihanna's "umbrella", we find the following sentence: "When the clouds come we gone, we Rocafella". How do you translate the second part of the sentence after the comma? I have problems with the term "Rocafella", is it a synonym for "rock star"? Thanks a lot!

Hi JacksonThe word 'sure' is widely used in informal AmE as a synonym for 'yes, certainly'. The word "sure" can be used to agree with someone. That is how I used it.I could have used "surely" at the beginning instead. But had I done so without using a comma, it would have been emphatic and had...

Simplebeing wrote:I wonder if there are any reference books providing such subtle differences in meaning for these 'synonyms' since sometimes most dictionaries don't have further explanation. Or, by other what channels to get this kind of information ? Thank you <>I'd suggest buying:...

The following exchange is correct. -- Shall I wake him? -- If it's not too early. It assumes the answer is Yes, wake him if it's not too early. The omission of a group of words that can be understood from context is called ellipsis. If it's not too early, on its own, is not a...

How is the phrase "that is," meaning "namely," properly used and punctuated in the following sentence:"In support of my argument, I submit, as I did previously, that Report IV is flawed for the same reason that Reports I through III were flawed, that is, it was not signed by a supervisor."A...

6-- written! 7-- that 8-- there are some resultant comma problems, but we need a 'which' before the 'is', or just omit the 'is'. 9-- In addition to: all three are represented-- nobility, clergy, municipality 10- OK 11- I still cannot see what they want us to find wrong, Max-- the extra comma,...

I may be imagining a semantic difference here, but I find two possible readings. This is my line of thought: 1. Not Verbless: i.e. 'liquidity shortage' is non-specific. a) 'In conditions of liquidity shortage, they will call back these loans' = b) 'If there is a liquidity shortage,...