Golden wrote: No one pays any attention to punctuation marks(including me) . Should I just ignore them. Many do (including me).

Believer wrote: Thank you. There was a typo. Aside from that, why do you think Marius and the reference source seem have noted the phrase "a friend of my uncle's " and not "a friend of my uncle" as the only possible correct phrase? I must

Newbie7 wrote: In the following sentence: Near the top of the 200-meter avalanche, disappearing under its 100-meter wide path, are the fresh tracks of two skiers. I think the subject is "tracks", the verb is "are" and in this case

Davkett wrote: You'll need a very deep reservoir of hope for me if I'm to grasp "the basic English grammar" you're using on this thread, Pine Nut. Here's a koala that did not get enough moisture from the leaves that it's dead. Why don't

Davkett wrote: " A koala lives moisture." Pine Nut, I don't understand why you are putting those four words together, and then criticizing it for making no sense. The correct version of the sentence in question here cannot be grammatically

Anonymous wrote: Hela wrote: Would you please explain this sturcture to me? What does "would that" mean exactly and why does it need the subjunctive? My mother would know what to do. Oh, would that she WERE here with us now ! I am also from

Davkett wrote: I will try to say it another way for you, Pine Nut. A koala gets enough moisture-- from the leaves of the eucalypt tree-- that it is able to survive. If koalas spend most of their lives in the trees, their only source of

Davkett wrote: I think my gut reaction would have been D, but A is correct-- perhaps more correct than D in the tester's mind, who is thinking "gets enough moisture that it lives". The proximity of the blank to 'leaves' is misledading. I

Stunz wrote: Here is a question from a test that I guess was constructed by a non-native speaker: --What do you know about the world's population? --I know China and India are the countries_____ more than one billion. A.with a population

Teo wrote: A koala gets enough moisture from eucalypt leaves ___ it lives. (A) that (B) which (C) when (D) on which Which do you think is the correct choice? (D) on which live on something to eat a lot of a particular type of food: