September 2020

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Hi, Tony—That conditional is not type 2 and is not correct. Type 3 is needed: If I had known you were in a/the casino last night, I would have joined you. "Would have" is generally used when making counterfactual inferences with reference to the past, as is done in type 3 conditionals: If I had been there, I would have seen her. If I had had a million dollars, I would have bought that house. If he had paid his bill, they wouldn't have shut off his power.Read More...

Hi, zonzon—I agree with Ahmed_btm that both sentences have the same meaning, in that they both convey the same informational content. That does not mean, however, that either sentence will be equally felicitous and natural in any context in which one of them works well. In (1), the speaker's eating is backgrounded (in the subordinate clause) and the father's phoning foregrounded (in the main clause). In (2), the reverse is true. In order to decide which works better in a given context, you...Read More...

Hi, Cristi—Neither is correct. It's "I can't remember off the top of my head ."Read More...

Hi, subhajit, The second sentence above is ungrammatical, because you need a conjunction "that" to introduce the noun clause that global warming is the biggest threat to mankind . (Notice that "the" is not used before "mankind.") That said, "one thing" requires a non-restrictive clause, so you need "which" after a comma. Please consider: - There is one thing almost every one of us agrees on: that global warming is the biggest ever threat to mankind ⇒ Almost every one of us agrees on one...Read More...

Hi, Emad, It is called the qualifying phrase. From L.G. Alexander: "If the comparison is not clear, then we must use a qualifying phrase after the superlative. Phrases of this kind usually begin with in or (less frequently) of." -.John is easily the tallest boy in our class. - Yesterday was the hottest day of the year. Other fixed prepositional phrases are possible: - It's the oldest trick on earth/ under the sun. For a more specific answer to your question, Swan, page (116) says: After...Read More...

Hello, Froggy, and welcome to the Grammar Exchange. "Worldwide" is an adverb in such examples. (It is an adjective in a sentence like "Kpop enjoys worldwide popularity .") "Worldwide" does not modify the adjective in "popular worldwide." It modifies the sentence as a whole and may be compared with the adverbial prepositional phrase "across the world." It is popular worldwide. It is popular across the world. Worldwide, it is popular. Across the world, it is popular.Read More...

Hello, Tony C—The use of "is comprised of" is widespread and debatable as to its acceptability. That said, the traditional grammatical wisdom here is that you should opt for either " comprises " (not " comprises of ") or " is composed of ." The $5000 bonus and the $5000 salary payment compose the $10,000 that the addressee received on 1 January 2020. That ten-thousand-dollar sum comprises those two five-thousand-dollar financial events.Read More...

Thanks, I will keep this in mindRead More...

Hi, Ahmed, It is more common to use 'high' with very wide things like 'mountains' and 'walls'. See: https://speakspeak.com/confusing-words/high-tall https://thegrammarexchange.inf.../high-tall-short-lowRead More...

Get it！Thank you very much！Read More...

Both 'sugar and water' and ' two essential thing s ' confirm that we have a plural subject; we need the plural form 'are'Read More...

Hello again, Dr Ahmed—When you say "in such a context," I look around for a context but find none. Again, all of the answer choices are correct, since the exercise does not provide a context. How do you know that the speaker is speaking about something that he arranged for? There is no context supplied in the question. If the context is one in which he is realizing the necessity of doing something tomorrow, or spontaneously choosing to do something tomorrow, "must" and "will have to" are...Read More...

Hi, Cristi—No, businessman is inherently masculine. A businessperson who is a female is a businesswoman . Note that businessperson is also one word.Read More...

Hi, Schianu—Is there a specific grammatical question or topic you wish to explore with these examples? The Grammar Exchange is not a proofreading service.Read More...

I agree with Gustavo's answer. I'd just like to add that it is conventional to italicize ship names, just as we italicize book titles: The steamship Titanic hit an iceberg. Titanic , the steamship, hit an iceberg.Read More...

Hi, Cristi, "open an account" is more usual than "open up an account." I'm not sure what you mean to say with "you would have signed..." Are you trying to say "you should have signed" (reproach) or "you must have signed" (past deduction)? The first sentence is more usual. "whose entity" refers to the owner of the entity ( the entity belonging to whom ) and will only be fine in the unlikely event that you are uncertain about of the owner of the bank you are opening an account with.Read More...

If you think of your bank statement as a sheet of paper, then you use "on." If you think of it as a document, you use "in."Read More...

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Hi, Robby zhu—The title of this thread indicates that you think your question has to do with pro-forms. It really has to do with ellipsis. "At those that did" is elliptical for "At those that did [provide pensions for their workers]." While it is possible to have "At those that did [ignore their obligation to provide . . .]," that interpretation wouldn't be appropriate here, for three reasons. First, the nearest verb phrase to the elided one is "provide pensions for their workers." Second,...Read More...

Hello Gustavo, thank you! So basically, I do not believe the person actually disposed of the property and that's why I used "your alleged". If he sold the property, there should be a capital gain tax event reported in his tax return. So the sentence should be worded like this then: a. You stated that you disposed of your property in 2015 but in your 2015 tax return, it did not disclose any capital gain tax event arose from your alleged disposal of a property. or perhaps we can use purported...Read More...

Hi, Midge, and welcome to the Grammar Exchange. Both sentences are correct. The comma is optional. Writers have the option to separate coordinated verb phrases with a comma. Some do. Others don't.Read More...

No, Toaha, it doesn't.Read More...