As a native English speaker, I'm having trouble determining which usage is correct. "If only this weren't so bland, I'd be able to eat it." "If only this wasn't so bland, I'd be able to eat it." Which grammatical rules apply to this situation?

Kk wrote: Hi I made some sentences, but I am not sure whether they are right or not. If you find something wrong in Grammar or vocabulary, help me check them. Thank you very much.84 1. Technological innovations certainly enable most countries

Both options sound just fine to me.

B sounds very awkward to me. I agree with you, if I was speaking it, I would go with E.

But it's an assumption. Suppose you heard she was sick yesterday morning. Then suppose Emma got over her sickness at noon. When you say, "I heard Emma is sick" to your mother in the evening, Emma is no longer sick, and thus, your statement

I'm not skilled with technical aspects of tense in English. I'm a native speaker and go by my ear. It seems to me it's impossible to hear about someone's future state in the past. Shouldn't it be I heard Emma was sick?

Semicolons have two uses. The first is to separate items in a list after a colon. The second is how you've used it. If you can replace the semicolon with a period, then it is okay to use a semicolon. Note that it doesn't necessarily work the

K.O. wrote: As with/as is the case with so many things, paying attention to the basics is vital. Writing about somebody, just as with/ as is the case with painting, is an extraordinarily intimate process. Horwood writes with straight-faced

You are correct. But after may be anytime after you arrive, so I would avoid it.

Here's a rule of thumb you can use: Announcing . Announcing the . In your second example, Java acts as an adjective to SDK 3.0 (software development kit 3.0). Whenever an adjective precedes a noun, the is appropriate. Whenever a noun