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About inversion
Given the following sentence,
Nowhere on her title page or copyright page is there a suggestion that anyone but Walker wrote her story.
Can I invert it as follows without changing the meaning?
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General rules for identifying conditional sentences?
I am trying to identify the subject and object in the following sentence:
Come to me, and I'll give you a fight you'll never forget
At first, it appeared as if whenever a conjunction appears ...
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Is the construct “[subject] allows for [object] to [verb]” correct? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
What’s the difference between ‘allow’ and ‘allow for’?
...or should it be "[subject] allows [object] to [verb]"?
I am asking specifically for sentences in the form ...
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Would certainly have or certainly would have?
I have these confusions sometimes. Firstly, which among the following are grammatically correct to use in sentences-
She would certainly have loved that.
She would have certainly loved ...
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Is this sentence structure correct?
I'm trying to state in one sentence several things that are lacking.
There's no A, or B, or C.
What about
There's no A, no B, and no C.
Are these both grammatically correct? What's the ...
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“He loves baseball like his father does” OR “He loves baseball like his father”?
When I was learning English (non-native speaker here), I was taught that there is concept called "parallelism" in English grammar, which in my own understanding means that if I want to combine two or ...
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Starting a sentence with “rather”
I've sometimes heard people use rather for connecting two sentences where the second one sets counterexample to something negated in the first.
This is not a meaningful sentence. Rather, it's an ...
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Can this sentence be switched around like this?
I kept studying to the point that I
became dizzy.
Can that be switched around to become this and still be grammatically correct?
To the point that I became dizzy I
kept studying.
Is ...
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An error message should display or should 'be' displayed?
If the writer means to say that an error message should 'appear' can he phrase the sentence as 'When user clicks the button, an error message should display' or is it more correct to say 'When user ...
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“Subject, verb, direct object, object complement” versus “subject, verb, indirect object, direct object”
Reading English Grammar (HarperCollins College Outline, published by HarperResource, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers) I found a chapter (Sentence Basics) that explains that in English there are ...
