By Tenses, Colons

Thanks Goodman! Could anyone tell me, in descriptive writing what tense usually writer choose. And Guys please reply my 2nd post last two sentenses as well. And explain we can separate verb and subject i.e mirror and curtain, by using comma for emphasis like Feebs did? Third sentence, I have...

I have a good piece of news to report: - a piece of good news? Our Center just had a new computer room and bathroom installed. - Center - why capitalization? came from the general contributions of our Mothers of Our Neighborhood Associations - general or generous? and the...

"The Change of the Characteristics in the passage from The Hours" The passage from the novel The Hours by Michael Cunningham is intriguing. The passage illustrates the difference between the character's characteristics in different time settings: past and present. This difference is...

Hi Collegebound, Welcome to the forums. Overall, you have a good essay. Stop worrying about your paragraphs. However, I 'm not sure what the topic was that Wisconsin asked for. Where did you put it? As vice president of my Catholic school’s multi-cultural student union, I have learned, first...

Please answer the following questions. 1. Is this the correct use of a semicolon? I don't think the clause after the semicolon can stand on its own. When did you last hear about it? Some said never; others said not since they left home. 2. Why is it have to be past perfect? Is that because...

Hello, this is my first post here, I like to know these wordskilometercentimeterAre those words noun if they are standing alone ? if it's, what kind of noun it's, proper noun or abstract noun or etc ?After that, I want to indentify the part of speech of the following sentence by using the...

Here's my take on the first one. I couldn't see the original. 1. To succeed in today’s high-tech business world, you need highly developed communications skills. - There is one style rule that says not to hyphenate with words that end in -ly. 2. You especially need writing and grammar skills,...

Hi, After a fake academic degree scandal of Ms.Shin, a former professor at Dongguk University, is exposed, a continual coming out of celebrities’ ‘fake degree’ is following like domino effect : Ms.Yun’s confession that she hasn’t attended Ewha Univ. is also one of the case. 1) Does 'scandal'...

Hi guys, If you search Google for various tenses/forms, you'll find a very modest number of entries like these, most of them literary. The word as a verb is also in my dictionary. Clive She (Audrey Hepburn) was companioned by Robert Woldors, a Dutch actor, until her death from Colon Cancer in...

Mister Micawber wrote:I much prefer the first (except it should of course read 'with the'). I suppose the second is possible, but generally the information following a colon is detail rather than an alternative.Hi Mister MicawberI wonder how you should pronounce the word 'read' here. Is it in...