Hello Maha, Happy to make your acquaintance. I'm a professional writer and editor at a university and a native English speaker. Our department has many foreign faculty members and students who need help writing grants, papers for peer-reviewed

Greetings, Coloraday, an interesting observation you have made on the usage of these adjectives, and thank you for sharing it. However, there are strong reasons to prefer only one of the options suggested in the multiple-choice cloze, viz.

hi, In my opinion, I think give is too colloquial and too direct (it is not the right and polite way of speaking to the person who interview you) , while offer sounds strange to be used in this sentence. I can not say using these two

In passing, could you tell me if there's any significant difference between "take lodging" and "take up lodging" ? I agree with Khoff, except for the the birds' selectivity. It may well be the case, but I don't hear

Hi, Pernickety. I hate beating dead horses, but a revisit to this clause tells me I didn't explain myself. The problem is the nature of the verb "to prepare." In your example, it describes what may well be a long

Hi, Is it common practice on US soil to use "take lodging" as a substitute for "take up residence"? For instance, do you find the following sentences odd in any way? 1. He took lodging in his parents' house

I remember the day that he came. We aren’t going for the simple reason that we can’t afford it. Why do you think "that" might be an adverb in those two sentences, Debpriya De? The word "that" is very often used as a relative

According to the strict rules, if you have two complete sentences joined by the "and" you use the comma. So, your should NOT have the comma, the second should, the third should not, and the fourth should. In practice, if the two

It can be set within a sentence if set off by commas, but it is awkward there.

Thanks, Avangi ! there are other problems in your sentences. Could you point out the problems, please?