Hi Nadja, - 'This is not to mention the price of parking and fuel....' You could write the sentence "...ask them how much money they spend on their cars every month, not to mention the price of parking and fuel." "Not to mention..." needs

Hi Nadja, Nice use of expressions in this essay. Here are some corrections. There are one or two places where a word in your original is not necessary, though there is nothing wrong with using it. I have indicated these by putting square

A list will usually have no articles, as adding articles makes the list look cumbersome. Most lists will be consistent throughout, though you will sometimes see that the writer has added "and a" or "and some" to the last item on a list. This is to

Therein lies the problem is the correct expression. The Microsoft spell checker sometimes suggests lays, but this does not sound right to the ear! The spellchecker can get a bit befuddled like this sometimes. If the problem occurred in

I have wondered if Mr Micawber's name represents our Forum Guru's eternal optimism, or the fact that he is always in debt? I think we should be told.

The easiest way to think about this is to expand the sentence to include what these or them refers to. - In this case these refers to the playwrights who were famous. The sentence could be written: …there were many playwrights who were famous

Hi Nadja, You are right that we use “I feel like” to mean something we want to do. However, it is used when the want or desire is not particularly strong - We don’t really mind whether we do the thing or not, or we are unsure. If you say

Hi SB, I have amended your piece as below. I assumed that it refers to how your father is now, as that is how it you describe him at the beginning. There are places where the tense needed changing to make that clear. I hope I have understood

I don’t think anyone will prove you wrong pieanne! You are quite right.

Hi Believer, to add articles in the sentence you could write The device has 4 active connectors: a power connector, an input-output (I/O) connector………and a GSM antenna connector . This is obviously not as snappy a sentence as the original