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Pluralization rules for descriptions
Consider a sentence of the following form:
X, and the Y which comes with it, is good.
Assume X and Y are nouns, and X is singular. Should "is" be replaced with "are"? Is there some other ...
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Is a comma needed here?
If I were to try and describe a book called "Book", is this sentence grammatically correct?
The book Book by Joe Bob is set in...
I was told that this sentence is incorrect, that commas must ...
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'and to' quagmire
Consider:
Her goal is to pioneer the idea of gardening in small or urban environments, and to inspire and educate people everywhere to grow their own organic food and live sustainably.
The comma ...
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Where shall I put the comma in this sentence?
I'm not sure whether I should write like this:
Try A or, a more famous one, B.
Or like this
Try A, or a more famous one, B.
Or try other forms to avoid expression like this.
Does anyone ...
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Is “not only… but as well…” grammatical?
I was given a text to read by my teacher which contains the following sentence:
Speaking a foreign language one can not only read the papers, magazines and original books by outstanding writers, ...
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Comma in “Don't you wish your girlfriend was grammatically correct like me?”
I saw this:
"Don't you wish your girlfriend was grammatically correct like me?"
I'm wondering should it be:
"Don't you wish your girlfriend was grammatically correct​, like me?"
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Is it correct to use this expression in an email: “Attached you may find …”?
Is it grammatical to use the expression "Attached you may find ..." in an email? For example:
Dear Sir or Madam,
Attached you may find the documents you requested.
...
If this is ...
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Starting a sentence with “Starting with”
When you want to summarize a list of items, can you use "Starting with" at the beginning of a sentence in order to explain the first item?
For example, is the following grammatically correct?
I ...
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Staying up at night
I'm trying to describe two people who stay up at night to get some work done. Are the following sentences all grammatically correct and equivalent?
Without sleeping we go on to finish
our work.
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Is it a splice comma if an interjection-phrase is involved?
It's certainly poor style, if not actually wrong, to join independent clauses with a comma when a semicolon or other punctuation would have sufficed. But interjections are usually offset from other ...
