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Hi, (1) While in the United States, she formed the National Committee on Federal Legislation for Birth Control, remaining its president until 1937, and lobbied Franklin Delano Roosevelt for support, pointing out that birth control would help reduce Depression welfare by allowing married women...

I have underlined some problem areas: The Woman Within the Doll The Baltimore Sun wrote that back in 1879, “A Doll's House” by Henrik Ibsen “shocked and offended people wherever feet” (1031). This might have caused him to become the “half-drowned” kind of man, as he refers...

Hi, I have seen sentences that use adjectival introduction inversion such as: "Beautiful beyond relief is the two-tone PPG Red and Beige paint by Mike Cochran" - http://www.superchevy.com/features/trifive/sucs_0662_1955_chevy_tudor/index.html For adverbial...

Dear all, For whatever its worth – Here is my opinion as I promised to deliver: The issue we have been dealing with here boils down to one question – “In one sentence, grammatically and semantically, could we use both simple past and present perfect for one item?” Evidently, the...

Apparently, a small difference shows up with the version that I got. Here it is:-----------------------------------------“In his discussion of the distinctive elements of modern law Max Weber echoes Locke’s description. “So very characteristic is this feature of private law that one can a...

Grammar Geek wrote: As we have said before, simply because it's in the dictionary, it doesn't mean it's in common use. In the U.S., I have simply never seen it used as defined in #3. Me either. But here's another dictionary definition: ----- en·tangle Function:transitive...

Doll wrote: Hello everyone, I was doing a vocabulary test and I couldn't solve a few questions. Unfortunately, I don't have the key. I hope you will help me. Thanks in advance. Here are the questions: 1- Not only did she ..... from Christianity to Islam but she also changed her...

Hello everyone, I was doing a vocabulary test and I couldn't solve a few questions. Unfortunately, I don't have the key. I hope you will help me. Thanks in advance. Here are the questions: 1- Not only did she ..... from Christianity to Islam but she also changed her name before...

Hi YLOf course I'm familiar with RD -- I've even worked there. Without knowing more about the RD excerpt you're referring to, I can't possibly comment on it. I can tell you whatmy own observations are and what my own opinion is. And what I can also do is show you plenty of RD articlescontaining...