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I have a question about sentence fragments, in Diana Hacker's book A Pocket Style Manual she writes that "a subordinate clause is patterned like a sentence, with both subject and a verb, but it begins with a word that tells the reader it cannot stand alone - a word such as: after, although, because, before, if, so that, that, though, unless ...
What I meant is that you shouldn't punctuate sentence fragments as you would a complete sentence. For example, don't put a period at the end of your caption unless it is a sentence. I'm sure some publications use a different approach, though. My advice is to pick a style and make sure that you use it consistently.
English - American Midwest. Dec 7, 2009. #8. "Below," when used in expressions of age like this one, would generally be used like this: "...most common in children below the age of 12." In American English, at least, under is the more commonly used word for this type of expression, and is thus less likely to need the clarification.
Dec 7, 2020. #1. Work out from the context what they mean and rewrite the sentences replacing the underlined words with a word or phrase that means the same. Source: English phrasal verbs in the use (page: 13). In this quoted sentence ı want to learn that the word of replacing is whether a reduced pattern or only an adjective.
Feb 7, 2014. #3. In your proposed sentence, 'which' and 'them' refer to the same thing, so should not be used together. There are two basic ways of combining the sentences: (1) Let's take a look at the eight key elements, of which many __ are in common with our strategies. (2) Let's take a look at the eight key elements, many of which are in ...
London. English - British. Feb 2, 2012. #5. Please send your documents if you have not yet done so. With this word order, the sentence is equally good. The only difference is that 'yet' looks forward, and 'already' looks back. In the present case, that does not change the meaning. F.
No other authority than Collins Robert gives "Matter can neither be created nor destroyed (, only transformed)" as the suggested translation of «Rien ne se perdre, rien ne se crée (, tout se transforme)». Of course, this isn't given for a specifially Lavoisier-ian context, not is this dictionary infallible. However, a google search, reveals ...
The sentence above means that she read the book when she was a kid, and that she has forgotten that fact. She forgot to pay the rent this month. When forget is used with an infinitive, it means "to forget that you need to do something." The sentence above means that she forgot that she needed to pay the rent. Thank you!
In the first sentence, even in the New World, the "but" is a qualification -- the can was lovely, but had some unlovely characteristic(s) that the speaker doesn't want to enumerate. Or it's a qualification about the speaker's feelings. That was a lovely cat, but she scratched up all the furniture. That was a lovely cat, but I'm glad she's gone.
china chinese. Mar 30, 2006. #3. mookxi said: enfin i think is "finished" whilst finalement is "finally" - an expression you could use just by itself. I usually see 'enfin' at the end of a sentence like "after all". Thank you. But as far as I can remember, "enfin" appears often at the beginning of a sentence. X.