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If I was going to pick holes, than I would take issue with this sentence: He was being recalled, although he had not broken any laws, foreign ministry spokeswoman Zehavit Ben-Hillel told reporters. As the two commas make its point a little
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Had he a dog is an old and very poetic way of phrasing the question. It would certainly be used in some areas (the Irish, for example, often speak very poetically) and it would be seen in literature, children's rhymes and so on, but most English
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Classifieds is really just an informal abbreviation of classified advertisements or classified listings - in other words, advertisements or listings which are divided into classes. A website whose contents are classified could perhaps be called a
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No, this is informal and bad English. You should really say, 'have you finished...' . Even if it were correct to use done in that context (and I don't think it is - a task can be 'done', but I'm not sure that a human can be 'done') then the
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I have to disagree with matthewg - both of those examples look terrible, and both actually rely on the capitalization of 'Recent' to indicate a new sentence. My eye actually sees a period after 'evironment' and before the parenthesis
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You are talking about a serial comma. My understanding is that it is entirely optional, but that it should be used whenever it may help in the parsing of a sentence. In your example, it is conceivable that your list items are actually 'sales,
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Both sentences are grammatically correct, but they have slightly different meanings. I have changed the 'he' in the example sentence to John to help eliminate confusion in my answer: A) John said that he will continue the research as soon as he
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Massacre proceeds rapidly and is indiscriminate. Perfectly acceptable - it means Massacre proceeds rapidly and massacre is indiscriminate. Massacre is indiscriminate with its rate of progress being rapid Probably needs a comma, to separate the
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It's not technically correct at all, although it is acceptable for an informal message. Firstly, 'let's go ride bike' is American slang at its worst. The two verbs 'go' and 'ride' should be separated with 'and' - as in 'let's go and ride'.
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