CJ, why do you object to the restaurant one? His look was one of pity. His home was one of poverty. The restaurant was one of luxury.

Yes, it's an idiom, and where I live it's pretty common. It's a noun and it means "major thing I learned." It's more common in the business world. I went to his lecture. My two major take-aways were... After three solid

According to the strict rules, if you have two complete sentences joined by the "and" you use the comma. So, your should NOT have the comma, the second should, the third should not, and the fourth should. In practice, if the two

Either could be. I gave everyone a pack of M&Ms, including myself. Thank you for including me in the invitation to the picnic.

I think you may want to say that you hope you will NOT mangle the name next time. Or you could say something like "We'll see what creative pronuncation will come out next time." Or you could say "Right. Easy for YOU to

I have a lot of achievement; for example, before for example, we need to put semi-colon. after for example, we need to put comma That may or may not be correct in your sentence, janeleo. Can you write the full text?

Rather simple solution in proper English... the possessive for wife is 'wife's' and the possessive for I is 'my'. so... "Can you get rid of my wife's and my middle initials..." should do the trick.

Please read the posts that are already in this thread, if you haven't already. The "about" goes with "about a dozen" meaning 12, more or less. Maybe 10, maybe 14. People who have discussions don't put their topics

But 'Let's discuss about friends.' seems to make more sense than just saying 'Let's discuss friends'. Do you say this after reading the thread? Or is that just what you "feel"? It's wrong.

Great explanation. Is that why your volunteer pay is twice mine?