Hi, david has gave his soccer equipment to jason and i David has given his soccer equipment to Jason and me. Note that a sentence is incorrect without appropriate punctuation and capitals. Clive

I don't remember the last time I saw my sister. a semi colon;..never use a capital letter ie that was; the last time I saw my sister

Could you please take a look at this for me? 1 I'm not so close to her as to be able to ask her for money. (is the SO AS TO form only used with an non assertive clause?) 2 Can you see until what time we're open? 3 When I don't

I thought it might be 'antithesis' (or whatever it's called)- the surprise at the end, where the old lady prays for 'somebody's son ' after the boy has been thoughtful to 'somebody's mother '. That seems to me to be the significant figure of

"My father would love to have seen this." Most grammarians believe that the correct form is My father would have loved to see this . It's a conditional with an implied if clause: if he were here to see it. Nevertheless all three

It sounds more like second person to me. "Everything in these three bedrooms needs to be replaced." I don't see the word you anywhere in that sentence. How can it be second person? You need to review this. If the speaker refers only

Hi Anon, I used to put in more commas and agonize over whether or not they were correct. After years of writing i have come to the conclusion that rules often get in the way of good sense. One way i found to test a sentence for comma use is to say

Agatha, In my grammarbook it is said that every verb-phrase consisting of several verbs, the first will always be finite and the rest non-finite. - When I was a schoolboy, I once noticed that my English teacher made a mistake on the blackboard:

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

Hi, Raj. Welcome to English Forums. Thanks for joining us! Could you please give us an excerpt showing the figure of speech you're asking about? Most poems are loaded with them. Best wishes, - A.