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"Ones" is all right in both sentences. You could, of course, repeat "universities."Read More...

Hello Mehrdad, Hello Rachel! Thank you, guys! An hp printer it is! Thanks for the link, Rachel. It was very enlightening. Bye! GilbertRead More...

Hello, Navi: In both sentence, 'such as' means 'for instance. Well, let me amend that: In the first sentence, 'such as' might mean 'like' or 'similar to.' The commas indicate a pause, as you know. You can disambiguate the first sentence like this: Modernist writers, (those) like Joyce and Faulkner,... Here's a posting about 'such as' that appeared on the GE: http://thegrammarexchange.info...361080863#5361080863 http://thegrammarexchange.info...40600179/m/231105154 And there's an an...Read More...

Oops! I overlooked the second sentence. Your paraphrase is grammatically fine, but it is not what the original sentence means. I would rewrite it this way: The actor took a nap while his teeth were clenched.Read More...

Here's some ways to say those phrases. Okaasan is right: the tense is important to the naturalness of the phrases. Here are some that mean you haven't been thinking about someone, and they are not so polite; they are dismissive of the other person: You haven't been on my mind lately. You haven't been in my thoughts lately. I haven't been thinking about you lately. You aren't on my mind much. You haven't been in my thoughts lately. All of the above are negative statements about the person you...Read More...

You're right here. No, this is not the case. By saying that "John played the piano well last night," one could be describing sth that happened last night, and it is not still happening, for example. John might play the piano well again and again in his life, but the speaker was only describing what happened last night. Another example: "I went to Paris last year." This does not mean that I'll never go to Paris again!Read More...

To have the least alteration of the original sentence, I would say: Around one percent of the population stutters to some degree , and men are four times more likely to stutter than women.Read More...

Rachel is correct. The "respond" meaning of "revert" seems recent. Here it is in a brand new dictionary! Also pay attention to IndE : Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary, 8th edition re • vert BrE / rɪvɜt / NAmE / rɪvɜrt / verb [ intransitive ] (+ adv./prep.) ( IndE , rather formal ) to reply Excellent openings—kindly revert with your updated CV. We request you to kindly revert back if you have any further requirements. revert to sb/sth ( law ) ( of property, rights, etc. ) to return to the...Read More...

Both are grammatically fine. Adverbs of place usually come after adverbs of manner, so you could say: They are walking carefully on the road. And are they walking on the road or along the road?Read More...

Yes, those are fine, Vincent.Read More...

I have already answered this; please do not double-post.Read More...

(a) The whales are the largest animals / marine mammals. (b) The whales are the largest animals / mammals in sea. (c) The whales are the largest animals / mammals in the ocean.Read More...

'Picked', not 'picked up'. 'Picked' as you say means 'plucked', but 'picked up' does not. It means 'removed from a surface'.Read More...

Oddly written it may be. But if anything, what do you think it modifies, Amy? Isn't it a deverbal noun of 'collect something together'?Read More...

Hi Vincent Only sentence (b) is OK.Read More...

Hi Taka I'd say it functions exactly the same way that 'out in the street again' functions. It provides information about ' where I found myself'.Read More...

I find sentence 1) OK. Sentence 2) seems off. Sentence 2) means that someone had deleted the mess inside of Ken’s computer. This, of course, is true, but I don’t think this is the intended meaning. The sentence would be better as 3): 3) Mary found a message in Ken’s computer that had been deleted. Still, of the sentences, the first seems best. However, ‘a deleted message’ seems a bit strange. We all have deleted messages in our computers, many, many deleted messages. Here we would probably...Read More...

You are right again, Ms. Tan. Yes, we 'get on' a bus and 'get off' a bus. However, I do believe that occasionally we do use 'get in' and 'get down from' a bus. Perhaps with a tour group. And maybe in some parts of the world. Then, there would usually not be a comma between 'front' and 'while.' I say 'usually' because if for some reason the writer wanted to indicate an unusually long pause here, s/he might use a comma.Read More...

You are observant, Ms. Tan. Very often there is no comma after then. Use a comma only if you want to indicate a pause.Read More...

This pair of diamonds by jewellers DeGems is/arethe twin stars of/at the International Jewellery Show 2010 that opened last Thursday. Usually, ‘the pair’ is followed by a singular verb: a pair of birds is living in our tree, a pair of socks was lost in the laundry, a pair of wet shoes is on the floor . But there is an exception. When the subject complement is plural, as it is here – twin stars – it’s best to use the plural verb, ‘are.’ That’s because it sounds bad to say, ‘…. is twin stars.’...Read More...

Mehrdad has correct this sentence perfectly, Vincent. But there is more. This sentence, because of the combination of 'wash' and 'toilet,' makes it look like Lee washed her shoes in the water that is in the toilet. Is that what you mean, Vincent? Here in the US, while we do often refer to 'toilet' as the place/room where one does delicate things, in this case, because of the verb 'wash' and the fact that there is water in the toilet, the sentence is not good. Say that Lee washed her things...Read More...

It's true that the sentence would logically have the phrase 'if I were.' In this case, using 'if I am' is a matter of style. The speaker is using a kind of present tense narrative, and in this case, he is describing a scene in which it would be possible for him to actually be 20 years old. It's like saying, 'Imagine that I am 20 years old.' The style is the man's personal style, and would not be appropriate for anything other than a quotation.Read More...

I agree with Mehrdad's rewording. The word order in sentence a is likely to confuse people.Read More...

I don't think the context allows the interpretation 'thought no one was there'. Why else would they bring in a trained dog to search for someone? Obviously the searchers believed that there might be someone somewhere (including 'there'). The searchers thought there might be (or even probably was) someone somewhere, but they did not know where exactly. That's why they brought in the search dog.Read More...

Sentence 1 could be a response to either of these questions, for example: - Since when have you lived in this town? - How long have you lived in this town? (Use the first one if you want to be absolutely sure that you get 'since 2005' in the response. Sentence 2 is more likely to result in a response that uses 'for 5 years' rather than 'since 2005'.)Read More...