Search results for 'tag:Verbs tag:Possessives' matching tags 'Verbs' and 'Possessives'

Re: need help in editing my paper

AlpheccaStars — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 03:32:57 GMT

Rere: I do not know the subject matter, so some of my suggestions might be due to my ignorance. Please excuse these.

Telomeres length is not correct. You need to say either "the telomere's length" or "the length of telomeres", or "telomere length"

This paper explained the relationship between telomeres length and age (do you mean the telomere's age or the subject's age?), which is associated with genomic instability and high risk of cancer. (it is not clear what "which" refers to - the age, the length, or the relationship?)

The authors studied telomeres length in normal colorectal tissues, normal epithelium adjacent to or distant from colon adenomas and neoplasm's (possessive or plural?), peripheral blood lymphocytes (PBL), and different lesion sizes of adenoma and cancer tissues (>2 cm, 1-2 cm, and <1 cm). (a lesion size is not a tissue, you need to fix this)

They did their study in a wide variety? of patients of different ages, ranging from 0-93 years, and from both sexes.

The analysis of telomeres length was done by using two techniques, Q-Fish and Q-PCR, to measure telomeres length in epithelial, stroma tissues, and small amounts of DNA. (the second part of this sentence, starting with Q-Fish needs to be re-written. It is not clear what the difference between the two techniques is, and what tissues each technique is used with.)

The cells were extracted and isolated from frozen biopsies using a shake-off method. In addition, the comparison and the analysis of telomere length (correct!) in different ages and tissues were seen in simple linear regression and two-segment model. (comparison and analysis are not good subjects of the verb "were seen". You usually make or perform an analysis / comparison, not see it)

The results from Q-Fish showed that telomeres in the epithelial and stroma (tissue?) of the colon in young person (persons or people) are longer than those in old person (persons or people), therefore, by measuring the epithelial/stroma telomere ration (ratios?) of different set (sets?) of ages, they found that a decrease of telomere length is related to an increase in age except in ages greater than 80 when the telomere length starts to increase. They believed that the telomerase enzyme function is reactivated over the age of 80.

Moreover, the results given by Q-PCR, which measured the telomeres length in the isolated epithelium, stroma, and PBL, showed that telomeres length in epithelium and PBL decrease with age, however telomeres lengths in stroma did not show any association with age. This finding proved that individuals of age 60 and over with short telomeres are in high risk of mortality.

Interestingly, the results given by Q-Fish for telomere length in adenoma with different lesion sizes (<1, 1-2, >2 cm), colorectal cancer and normal mucosa near adenomas and cancer showed that, in >2 cm adenoma, telomeres length are shorter than normal adjacent and distant tissues, however, there is no difference in telomere length in small lesion adenoma and cancer tissues. These results reflect the genomic instability in short telomeres that may affect the malignant transformation of large ademonas and telomerase reactivation in colorectal cancer cells that prevent telomere length reduction.

This paper included the effects of smoking and nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory medications (NSAID) on telomere length. Q-PCR showed no relation between telomere length and gastrointestinal disease or NSAID. However, smokers had shorter telomere lengths than nonsmokers, due to tobacco genotoxins' effect on telomere (telomeres or telomere length?).

This study suggested that telomeres length in colon may differ from other tissues and this may related to cell proliferation rate, telomerase enzyme activity in stem cells, genotoxic exposure history, and genomic instability.

Re: Gerund

CalifJim — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 09:36:52 GMT

simonsez
"I enjoy watching t.v." The word watching is used as a subject noun (i.e. a gerund) and the word t.v. is what?

watching is not a subject noun, no. The underlying structure is

I enjoy [ I watch TV]. The bracketed part is the object of the verb enjoy.

The clause I watch TV when expressed as a gerund construction becomes my watching TV. That is, the subject becomes a possessive adjective, and the verb becomes a gerund. (The rest stays the same. TV is still the direct object of watch.)

When the main clause and the gerund clause share the same subject, you delete the subject of the gerund construction (my), leaving

I enjoy watching TV. (Not I enjoy my watching TV.)

Compare:

I like collecting stamps.

He hates writing letters.

But when the main clause and gerund clause do not share the same subject:

Peter objects to my watching TV.

Re: Is my essay okay so far?? Its a movie analysis

AlpheccaStars — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 01:47:34 GMT

OK, here are a few specific things I see that may be problems in the first few paragraphs.

1st paragraph- Is going to movies a social standard? Or is it an activity?

Your first sentence is 3 lines long. It is difficult to read and needs to be shorter.

You frequently use "that" when it is better to say "who"

What is the name of the movie? Punctuate it for the reader. (Capitalize, underline, or put in quotes) I

s it "Maybe be"? or "may be"

Is a "back round" related to gollfing?

Self conscious? Is a movie aware of itself and embarassed to tell you something? Or maybe you mean subconscious (below the awareness of the viewer)

The comma after "you" needs to be "that".

Do you really mean "then"? (at that time), or "than" (John is taller than Mike)

2nd paragraph. Hes and thats are not words. They are missing something.

3rd paragraph Is Alexia Near her name? If so, is she a swimming pool? It's spelled differently a few lines later.

Henry has a "person life"- not a "personal life"? There are many misspellings in the rest of the paragraph.

"im" is not a word.

someones is not correct..

4th paragraph guy who is sexist (missing verb). Hawaiians has (subject-verb agreement is not correct)

its - should be "it is" , which is a contraction spelled as "it's". Its is possessive - The dog wagged its tail.

"does the characters" - subject-verb agreement is not correct.

Re: Use of Pronoun

AlpheccaStars — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 15:49:05 GMT

d_say:

Certainly.

1) I calling his name. Juliet, from the balcony, called his name - Romeo, Romeo, where are you, Romeo?

His is the possessive case of the pronoun "he", modifying "name". - His name is Romeo. My avatar is AlpheccaStars.

Name is usually singular. People have only one name. But here is an example of plural:

In Nigeria, people give their babies many birth names. Seven days after a baby boy is born, they have a baby naming ceremony. In the ceremony, the parents and the religious leaders call his names seven times for good luck.

2) calling him names. The boy was crying because the bullies at school were calling him names. They called him "four eyes" and "crip" and other bad things.

We have an overbearing manager at work. We all call him "The Boss".

"The Boss" is the direct object of the verb "call". Him is the indirect object. It is objective case of "he"

Re: Give a complete syntactic analysis of the clause

Mister Micawber — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 08:11:05 GMT

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Poirot deserves his place in crime fiction history .

Poirot is proper noun functioning as subject
deserves is verb -- OK
his-- possessive adjective
place is noun -- OK, object of verb
in-- is preposition -- OK
crime -- noun as adjective modifying 'fiction' (could be considered an adverb, I suppose, but see my diagram below.)
fiction-- noun as adjective modifying 'history'
history-- noun, object of preposition

[crime fiction] history-- 'crime' modifies 'fiction' and then 'crime fiction' modifies 'history'.

Give a complete syntactic analysis of the clause

ericsteef — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 21:35:30 GMT

Poirot deserves his place in crime fiction history .

Poirot is noun functioning as subject

deserves is verb

his possessive pronoun

place is noun

in is preposition

crime i am not sure about it ,it may be a noun

fiction i am not sure of it,it could be adjective

history i am not sure of it also ,it could be a noun

i need help in the last three words.
in crime fiction history is prepositional phrase.
i need to know if my analyse is right or wrong and if wrong what is the coreect?

Re: grammar and verb tense check please!

AlpheccaStars — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 00:25:37 GMT

Dear BBG - Please try to be careful when you write. If you don't think carefully about every word you write, you will not learn why you make mistakes. Think about tenses - present, past, future. Think about plurals - is this one, or more than one? If it is more than one, add an 's'. Think about possessive case - if it belongs to someone or something, add "'s" Think about the infinitive form. It does not use the past participle.

I have made suggestions to the first part of your paragraph. Try to think about grammar carefully when you correct the second part. Then post your paragraph again.

All the best,

A-Stars

babyblue_girl08

In ~~the~~ her essayâ Wreck the Hall with Antique Vasesâ, ~~written by~~ Nina Penalosa~~, she~~ states that she was ~~got~~ blamed for breaking (gerund) ~~broken~~ the vases even though she didnât do it. That accident happened when she was four years (plural)old and she never forgot (past tense)the details (plural) on that night. On ~~the~~ Christmas Eve, her cousin Cynthia and her sister Nikki were (plural) ~~was~~ playing in the hallway near to her mom's (possessive) fragile collections. But unfortunately they accidentally (adverb, not adjective )hit one of antique vases of Nina's (possessive) mom. When she heard the sound and looked into the hallway. She saw Cynthia and Nikki quickly running (gerund) ~~ran~~ to a ~~the~~ safely place and leaving (gerund -parallel with running) ~~left~~ her alone in the hallway. When the adults in the living room heard the crash from the hallway, they quickly ran into it. When they came, Nina was the only one standing there and staring (was standing and staring) ~~stared~~ at the broken pieces of glass.
All they yes are looked on her (please rewrite the first part of the sentence; "are looked" is not past tense, and it is not a proper verb form) and asked âNina, what did you do?â she said she didnât do anything. Suddenly her auntie Ashie yelled at her and asked (past tense) her to apologize to her mom.

Re: passive gerund vs. active gerund?

CalifJim — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 22:56:18 GMT

Anonymous
Is that just a thought of that can hold no water?

I'm afraid so.

It is often said that only the possessive form is correct, but in reality you'll find the possessive and the objective forms in free variation. It is often more a matter of the preceding verb. Some seem to go with the possessive more often; some, with the objective; others, with either, depending on emphasis.

It's not clear to me what you mean by a passive and an active gerund, either.

(By the way, it's at my birthday party, not in my birthday party. )

Re: intricate

AlpheccaStars — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 04:10:31 GMT

MIA6
Here is another example: We listen to Fagin __ and share her tormented feelings.

A.talk to Nancy. B. talking to Nancy. I chose A since I thought that would make the sentence parallel, but the answer was B. So is that everytime we see "listen", we have put verb-ing form after it?

Let's take this one step at a time:

We listen to Fagin. --> This is a complete sentence (main clause); "listen to" is the phrasal verb, and Fagin is the object.

But could Fagin be doing? talking, screaming, yelling, running, and so on. For example:

Fagin's loud talking drove me crazy. ---> you see that talking is a noun here (a gerund, and the subject of verb "drove")

Fagin's talking softly to Nancy in a dark corner of the room made Jim jealous! --> here is another example, but the gerund phrase has a lot of other words with it.

So what do we listen to?

We listen to Fagin's talking to Nancy. --> this was the correct form 100+ years ago. (with Fagin being in possessive case, and talking the direct object. However, in modern times, this form has dropped out of usage, Instead, we use the gerund as attached to the noun

We listen to Fagin talking to Nancy.

The second part of the sentence now is clearer:

We listen (to Fagin talking to Nancy) and share her tormented feelings. ("we" is the subject of share. Apparently we see her expressions of torment and empathize with her. Maybe they talking about something very painful to her)

But, Fagin could also be doing the sharing, not "we"! Then the sentence changes:

We listen to (Fagin talking to Nancy and sharing her tormented feelings). --> Now we are just listening to Fagin's talking and his sharing Nancy's feelings.

There is another construction using dependent clauses:

We listen to Fagin who is talking to Nancy and share her tormented feelings. ---> now there is a full dependent clause with a subject and verb. (who is talking to Nancy).. We is still the subject of "share"

We listen to Fagin (who is talking to Nancy and sharing her tormented feelings). ---> . the dependent clause is == who is talking to Nancy and sharing her tormented feelings

Re: Several corporations began/have begun

CalifJim — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 07:01:07 GMT

MaverickK
But can you tell me why is "began" wrong here? And should we use "have <verb>" with similar sentences having the since clause.

To be honest, it doesn't strike me as wrong, but I think the test-makers prefer you to use the present perfect (have begun) with a since clause as a matter of style.

The same is true of the other parts of that sentence. They want you to decide on the basis of style, not grammar, so it's not a matter of which is correct. The sentences are all grammatically correct. And the test-makers have already provided their answer on which one they regard as stylistically correct. They prefer you not to use possessives with apostrophes, it appears, and neither are they happy with the case where two verbs occur together (how the funds they manage perform)