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Hi, Subhajit, In the first example, "yesterday" is misspelled and the use of "today morning" is incorrect. English speakers say " this morning ," not " today morning ." (But it is OK to say "tomorrow morning.") Since " take delivery of (something)" is a phrasal verb (a rather formal one), "the" should not be used. In your second example, I would change "means" to "refers to" and use "the": "Leverage refers to the influence of one force over another."Read More...

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Ruifeng, I forget who first said this (it might have been Ambrose Bierce), but "pants" is a noun that is singular at the top and plural at the bottom. As David says, the garment is always referred to in English in terms of pairs. That being said, the plural of "pair" is sometimes written and spoken without the final "s": I bought three pair of pants today. And, as David also says, "pants" always has to be in plural form when referring to the garment. A one-legged man does not wear "a pant",...Read More...

Hello, Navi, (1) and (3) work when they imply a request on the part of the speaker, with the "some"-form being used to show that an affirmative answer is expected: 1) Can someone see the documents? (I hope someone can.) 3) Is there someone who can see the documents? (I hope there is.) Instead, (2) and (4) are neutral, with the speaker being prepared to receive a yes or a no for an answer. I'm not sure about (5). A similar question could work if a request were involved: 5) Can someone run...Read More...

Actually, Ms. Tan, "a" is needed in Ruifeng's sentence. It is because of the adjective "deep" that "a" is needed. You are correct that "snow" is a noncount noun. One can say, "Snow has fallen," but one cannot say, " Deep snow has fallen ." A deep snow is an event, one in which a lot of snow falls. Things become deeply buried in snow when there is "a deep snow."Read More...

Hi, Ruifeng, "be up to" meaning "depend on" is only correct when a person is involved, so (2) is not correct. Here you can find the definition and some examples of "be up to somebody."Read More...

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Greetings, DocV and I have come to answer this question at almost the same time. If I hadn't had to log in to make this post, I wouldn't have even seen his post. I think his answer is great. I, too, was going to point out the need for the capital "M" and the fact that, because it is just a name, the creators of Spider-Man could do whatever they wanted. That said, before I read your question, Freeguy, I had totally forgotten that Spider-Man had a hyphen in his name, but I believe that fact...Read More...

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It's a noun phrase functioning as a simple compound subject.Read More...

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Hello, Yama, No, that is not an acceptable use of the word "owner." One can be an owner of a hobby store (i.e., an owner of a store that specializes in typical hobby-related items) but not an owner of a hobby. You could say: (1) Reading is a hobby that helps the one who has it. (2) Reading is a beneficial hobby. Sentence (2) is much clearer and more succinct than (1). I'd like to direct your attention to a punctuation error in your example sentence. It's should be its , without an...Read More...

Hello, Emad, This is more a reading-comprehension question than a grammar question. Both answers are grammatical, but only one makes sense in the context of the sentence as a whole. If you told your brother not to worry about having his teeth looked at by a dentist, would it make more sense to follow that statement with a statement about its being a painful process or a painless process? Think about it.Read More...

Hi, From a reference book: --- The Penguin Dictionary of American English Usage and Style, ... Penguin Books, Ltd - 2000 - ‎ Preview “I feel well ” means I suffer no sign of illness. (Feel is not modified by ... In the sense of health, “I feel good ” is quite informal; “she's not good” is dialectal . One is well or feels well. ---Read More...

Hi, It's used by this seemingly native speaker: Fitz Lee: A Military Biography of Major General Fitzhugh Lee, C.S.A. https://books.google.ca/books?id=GXx2AAAAMAAJ Edward G. Longacre - 2005 - ‎Snippet view - ‎ More editions ... of his opponent's timetable, however, and decided to play spoilsport . On the rainy afternoon of May 3, he began to evacuate his lines west of the city and head for the multilayered defenses of Richmond. There he could make a more effective ...Read More...

Hello, Navi, If the "as"-clause is to mean that the true value of an artist's work is always determined by later generations, then only (1) is correct. If "it" and "that" referred to an antecedent that can't be ascertained from the first part of the sentence, then (2) and (3) would be correct and (1) incorrect. In (1), "as" functions like a relative pronoun introducing a sentential relative clause. In (2) and (3), "as" is a subordinating conjunction meaning "because."Read More...

Hello, Navi, I find all four sentences correct, though, if you want to be picky about "the," I suppose we should say that it should technically be used, since we are dealing with a set number of options in each case. It appears, then, that we must choose between (3) and (4). They mean exactly the same thing, and both are correct; however, (3) utilizes an abbreviated way of speaking. We could say (3) is somewhat informal and (1) even more informal. "Are" cannot be used instead of "is" in the...Read More...

Thank you very much, DocV, I'd like to ask a follow-up question if I may. What will happen if we take 'only' out of 'as only'? Who stole your mother's ring? 6 ) It is possible that the butler did it, as he could. 7) I saved them, as I could. 8) She played the concerto as she could. Do those sentences work? Are '6' and '7' ambiguous? Does '8' imply that she didn't play it well? Gratefully, NaviRead More...

Thank you for explaining the mistakes and for the detailed response. I took this sentence from a piece of news paper sometime back for understanding sentence structure. It was not from a website, otherwise I would have cited the source and copied correctly. I noted it incorrectly as ‘come’. Is ‘more’ a determiner and ‘more than a minimum of care’ a noun phrase as direct object.Read More...

Thanks a lot, DOC V. As you mentioned, I did make a mistake, when I wrote " The report fails to define what the term 'key issues' mean ". You wrote: Here, as with my previous examples, "we", although a plural pronoun, represents a singular concept that requires a singular verb. Now, by putting "our conscious minds" in quotation marks, it should be clear that the same applies to that phrase; although it is a plural noun phrase, here it stands for "the phrase ''our conscious minds" or "the...Read More...

Hello, Takashi0090, and welcome to the Grammar Exchange! Yes, "due to" is synon y mous with "because of." Indeed, it is defined thus: https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/due%20to "Because of illness" and "due to illness" are almost equally common in AmE. Incidentally, in your profile, I have deleted the link to the proofreading site.Read More...