By Writing styles, Nouns

Hi, 1. As a rule, what comes after a preposition must or should be a noun or any noun equivalent? 2. I saw a lesson content writing that is written like this without the regard for English article rules, is it OK? Is it a norm to employ this type of writing style for lesson content section...

Hi, 1. As a rule, what comes after a preposition must or should be a noun or any noun equivalent? 2. I saw a lesson content writing that is written like this without the regard for English article rules, is it OK? Is it a norm to employ this type of writing style for lesson content section...

I do hope that your teacher didn't give you that question as it gives me serious doubts about their English ability! You can't refer to people as 'it' for a start, and there are lots of other errors. You have a nice natural and fluent writing style. You just need to be a little more careful with...

Thank you. As to No. 1, I posted previously with the following two sentences and asked whether these are fine grammatically. I think the answer or response to that post was this: You need some kind of an object. The sentences I posted were/are???: Please let me know if getting better. Please...

MrPedantic wrote:I would read "Life" as a restatement of the preceding "life", and "that" as a defining relative pronoun: "...weeping inconsolably and trying to look at life ahead – life that is more engaging, more nuanced and ultimately more disturbing than art, in this case."Hello　MrPThank...

Your question is not a grammatical one. It's an issue of writing style, and in English, there is no authority (like I'Academie Francaise) to fix writing style. But The Chicago Manual of Style is a kind of authority and it says about the style of celestial bodies as follows:Names of other planets...

The author did not see the _______ inherent in her scathing criticism of writing style so similar to her own. A. disinterest B. incongruity C. pessimism D. compliment E. symbolism The answer is B. I can tell. But what on earth is the sentence trying to imply?... It may...

Hi Dave Although using "a" with a superlative is not ungrammatical, it isn't (in my opinion) good writing style. Do you mean we had better say "one of the most useful tools"? paco

The superlative can be used with the indefinite article "a": A most useful tool for analyzing the elemental composition of fossils is the electron probe, a modified electron microscope. What this implies is that there are a number of very useful tools of which the electron probe is one. One...

'Collagen supports the earflaps and the tip of the nose in humans'. This above is correct. "Human" is a countable noun, so to generalize you must use the plural form. Substituting "humankind" would be grammatically correct but a stylistic mistake. Why? Because it is a rather grandiose-sounding...