In my terminology what is a relative pronoun which is inclusive of the antecedent in your sentence. A leading figure in the Scottish enlightenment, Adam Smith's two major books are to democratic capitalism what Marx's Das Kapital is to

The idiom is you had better not try but in other contexts you'd may mean you would. CB

One can see lots of incorrect forms on the Internet. Chose is the only correct past tense of choose. CB

Does that mean that you can't use it when you are supposed to be using the past participle, or that you just use "used to" whether or not its in the past or past participle? Used to is used in the past tense only. For other tenses

Some may disagree with me, but this is how I see it: A lectureship is the position of lecturer at a university or college. A cannot be omitted as a lecturer isn't a student . The whole of your analysis or guesswork that follows the sentence

Dense is monosyllabic and according to the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, denser is correct. CB

" Every day after lunch, I check my e-mail Please look up the word regularly in your dictionary. You may chack your e-mail every day, every two days or even every week. If you do that, you do it regularly. If you don't want to give the

I have been che c king my e-mail regularly for two months now. The action began two months ago and is probably still going on. I am che c king my e-mail regularly now. There's no mention when the checking began but the sentence suggests that

There's no one right answer to your question. It's a matter of style and usage varies. In British English people don't usually put a period even after Mr and Dr. That was very common about 40 years ago, though. CB

"I live in a small house with my parents and my brother and sister" The sentence is correct but you could shorten it: I live in a small house with my parents, brother and sister. I have a father. Correct again, but rather odd. I