Hi Yankee, > I take it you are a dyed-in-the-wool prescriptivist when it > comes to grammar. I prefer the approach descriptivists profess. But I generally use the formal style because it's the only acceptable option at work and it's

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I hope, expressions like "a little pregnant" are used only in the colloquial speech or with a humorous angle since I find them quite strange even apart from the language used.

If you have a model you can substitute or compare it with another model that can externally look differently but have some properties which are the same with the first model. Applying this hazy definition to the example A-Stars provided we can

I believe, "right" as an adjective is absolute; it has no comparative or superlative forms. Something may be either right or wrong or neither. Something may be the most rational, reasonable, or sensible. Correct me if I'm wrong.

Hi Clive, By "caption style" I meant the style used for captions when each non-preposition in a phrase is capitalized. For instance: "Position: S oftware E ngineer in T est" Not sure that this term exists in any style or

I saw a position name being capitalized only if it's a part of some caption so it's written in the " C aption S tyle" or if it's an abbreviation like C TO.

Hi Nik, Here are my thoughts. * It's difficult to read this (part of) essay. There are five characters: two women (roommates), a boyfriend, an advice-giving man ( "The man suggests" ), and a teller ( "I think that..." ).

Additionally to the answers given above, I noticed that "the" sometimes appears before "hospital". Maybe it's AmE or perhaps it's not English-variant-specific but simply if you imply some particular hospital.

> ... forwarded to you my resume ... I'd place the direct object my resume before the indirect object to you . Not sure whether it'd be more grammatical, but it definitely would sound more natural (at least for me).