whl626, I see your point. I was just relating some common patterns to help the original poster understand when these things are used. I should have been more conscious of proper usage, and less bombastic I might add. However, many of the

To me this sentence reads like: "The activity is exempt from CEQU as a categorically exempt project, class 4 etc." I think "as a categorically exempt project" is the reason why the activity is exempt and does not introduce a double

If we'd stuck to the rules to a T, we'd still be speaking whatever they spoke when the rules got stuck. Latin? Neanderthal?

" = quotation mark (double) ' = quotation mark (single) Use one kind (" or ') when you're quoting someone (dialog, cut-paste from another post, etc). Use the other kind when there's a quotation in your quotation. American usage is: "I

To answer antonio's question, I think that these verbs can be used as usual. However, one should be aware of other meanings such as "He's seeing my sister" as the other poster mentioned. Examples: "Are you seeing what I'm seeing?" "I was

Do not use -ing with senses? I disagree. Consider: "Did you notice the old fruit at the back of the fridge?" "Ah ha! That's what I'm smelling." And: "Are you tasting the eggplant?", she asked as she watched him carefully lift the

Do you mean: "I ate apples, bananas, and grapes." The last comma is sometimes called an Oxford comma. I love it. It makes such lists clearer. Use it. Doesn't the sentence "I ate apples, bananas and grapes." imply that bananas and

Yes, this sentence is terrible. It's probably only really understood in context. I agree with "at the office" modifying "call". Afterall, the sentence "I will call you from the office" makes perfect sense -- "I" is at the office.

It may be acceptable to capitalize an independant clause following a colon, but why bother? See: http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/Writing/c.html ---last paragraph under "Capitalization".

A good trick to remember is: Does the sentence: "We have 5 pavements." make sense? If it makes sense, then pavement is countable. If not, then pavement is uncountable.