No fragments here, but your sentenses are unclear because of confusing commas and capitalizations. I assume you mean this: "The sites were either rural Indian reservations or urban, which in San Francisco turned out to be quite multicultural. We

That's a perfectly good use of the word "like", though it can be less formal than "such as".

Yes, it depends on the way the number is written: 1/2 inch thick vs. 0.5 inches thick. Fractions are singular, and any decimal other than 1 is plural. It's easier if you think of the number written out: three-quarter inch vs. point seven five inches.

"I'm going out to meet someone I know." and "Make sure you get it done by end of business today." are best. But "Make sure that you get it done by end of business today." is fine.

no quotes

Yes, and where would I send that?

Sarah's is absolutely correct. As for "No", I imagine you'd get five different answers from five different people. If "No" were a true quotation, you'd write: Then the answer is, "No." But it's not really a quote, is it? Still, you wouldn't

You can certainly say, "They are moving out of Spain." The fact that the construction would usually apply to, say, an apartment or a neighborhood only gives it a particular flavor. This is not a decision of grammar but of poetics. If, however, you

Legalese has its own peculiarities, and I am no expert. I do, however, watch TV as much as the next pedant and so have heard plenty of courtroom dialogue in which the "the" is dropped, particularly

How about "happy"? Never heard of "cross-listed", but it sounds like "cross-referenced", which usually refers to redundant indexing in a publication, which is a good thing. For example, in a cross-referenced Encyclopedia, the entry for Civil