What is the connection of can/could with decisions?

Yes. The phrase is a shortened version of the clause 'If the truth be told', and should be parsed as such or just as an intejection.

No, no apostrophe in the 1600s . The apostrophe is a possessive marker, not a plural marker. It is grudgingly approved only in a very limited number of cases which would otherwise look confusing, as in this: mind your p's and q's .

I don't find much poetry here, sorry. If you will write it out as prose sentences, I will correct it for you.

I have never heard that 'word' either. We do not usually view it that way; we view the two approaches as alternatives: ' A jack-of-all-trades but master of none '.

Yes, thoughts are like speech: they can be either direct or indirect: I thought/said, "Now I'm really in trouble!" I thought/said that I was really in trouble then!

Both are OK. The speaker may think of the couple as either a single unit or as two people. Verb choice becomes important only when there is internal interaction: The couple have been fighting over child support.

The two major parties in the US are the Democratic Party and the Republican Party. These two parties are evenly represented in the Ohio government. In the Ohio State Senate , the Republicans have firm control, while in the Ohio House of

It is always (?) possible; past perfect is a stylistic tool-- it makes good writing.

>When I had washed them all, I took them outside and put them on the grass. Why do we need here PP? These actions happened one after another.-- The sequence was not sufficiently clear to me. >I hadn't turned the taps off in the bathroom. I