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Hello, Gustavo, Perfectly understood. Thank you so much for your time.Read More...

Hi, Gustavo, Sorry, Gustavo. This happened because of my mobile phone. I tried many times to fix it, but it didn't work.Read More...

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Hi, Andrew, I agree with David. One thing is to live in an environment (according to your paraphrase), and quite another is to grow up in an environment—the latter verb, which is the one used in the original text, entails an evolution from childhood to adulthood. A 5th grader would be around 10, and will finish high school at around 18. By the time the girl turns 18, the decisions made during this period will have determined the conditions of the world in which she has grown up.Read More...

Hi, Andrew, According to The Chicago Manual of Style Online: Hyphenation Table , it should not be hyphenated when used inside a prepositional phrase ( in the near term, in the long term ) and should be hyphenated when used as a compound adjective ( near-term proposal, long-term plan ):Read More...

Hi, Essam Nasr, and 'Happy Ramadan', No, the past simple tense is the one that's normally used in this case. I think you miss the point here. When you mention the pharaohs or Graham Bell, the time frame is already established in the past, especially with verbs that happen only once. It is something that happened a long time ago. You can't say 'Naguib Mahfouz has written many great stories. Many people still enjoy reading them.' Naguib Mahfouz passed away many years ago. However, you can...Read More...

Hi, Tony, Yes, that is correct. Being a collective nominalized adjective, "the poor" means "(all) the poor people." If you say "poor people" (without the article), the collective sense is lost.Read More...

Thank you for this clarification, Gustavo!Read More...

Again, your assumption is wrong. Stranding is NOT necessary in that sentence. The following sentence is perfectly grammatical: He asked me to whom I gave the message. No. "On" and "to" commonly go and function together syntactically. Indeed, the one-word preposition "onto" represents the morphological matrimony of their syntactic love affair. When you try to follow "on" with "to" in such a way that "to" has absolutely nothing to do with "on," you tear the two asunder and do violence to the...Read More...

Hi, Subhajit, I understand you have made up the sentences yourself, haven't you? I won't revise them and will instead focus on your question. In the affirmative, "a person" is the same as "someone": (a) I'm interested in talking to someone/a person who loves grammar. In the affirmative, "anyone" carries the meaning of "no matter who": (b) I'm interested in talking to anyone who loves grammar. Depending on the context, in the negative anyone can combine with "not" to form "no one," or can...Read More...

Hello, Magdy Hamza, and welcome to the Grammar Exchange. I'm sorry if this disappoints you, but the Grammar Exchange is not a homework-completion service. Please visit our Guidelines page and revise your question.Read More...

Hi, Subhajit, "It" and "to" are necessary in those sentences. "It" is not a dummy but a cataphoric pronoun in sentences (1) and (5): in (1), it refers to the speaker's going out, and in (5), to the speaker's being a spy. To be dummy, "it" has to merely fulfill a grammatical function, while in the mentioned sentences "it" has a referent, so it is a full pronoun there. Now, sentences (3) and (4) are not good sentences. You should use "like" instead of "want" in those sentences. For "want" to...Read More...

Hi, Ahmed Imam Attia, There is a phrase that needs to be hyphenated and a sentence that needs an exclamation mark. Could you identify them?Read More...

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Hello, Ahmed Mancy, and welcome to the Grammar Exchange. Please have a look at our guidelines and revise your question and title. Thanks.Read More...

Hello, Izzat Hannah—Like Gustavo, I think that "am feeling" is the best choice, a normal context being assumed. The present progressive conveys the right meaning, of a process or development that is unfolding. The present perfect progressive ("have been exercising regularly") leads the listener to assume that the regular exercise is ongoing even at the present time, and that the bodily development it has led to may be expected to continue. But perhaps the speaker is an astronaut who has been...Read More...

Thanks for explaining. I thought you might be worried a "mixed" conditional. I personally do not think such conditionals as these—conditional requests—are even candidates for being blacklisted by prescriptivists as "mixed" conditionals, because the part of the sentence with "could" is nonpropositional in nature; the question with "could" simply realizes the speech act of a request. Yes, it isn't ungrammatical. By crossing it out in red, I didn't mean to indicate that it was ungrammatical,...Read More...

Hi, Subhajit, After checking the Internet, I've found out that the fertilizer consists of a compound made up of nitrogen, phosphorous and potassium, so I don't think the comma before "and Potassium" is correct. It would if the three chemical components were each a fertilizer in its own right. Since it is the mixture that counts as a fertilizer, you should use "a fertilizer." You should also use the singular here. "Weapons" would be used if different, separate weapons were mentioned. The...Read More...

Hi, Andrew—From a grammatical standpoint, I agree with Gustavo that the clause is ambiguous. Syntax permits the clause of attribution ("Stokes adds") to be adjoined either to the sentential relative clause ("which is one reason why the coronavirus wreaked havoc") or to the matrix clause containing it. HOWEVER, if the clause of attribution adjoins only to the sentential relative, then what was added by Stokes is that the referent of "which"—namely, the U.S.'s already having had a crisis of...Read More...

Hi, Treasure—I think Gustavo has made a good argument for choosing "who" in this particular sentence. As usual, I don't feel obligated to confine myself to a fill-in-the-blank task, rejoicing in my freedom to revise a sentence at will. (1) It's a chance for people of all the different nationalities in Dublin to share their culture . (2) It's a chance for all the different nationalities of Dubliners to be shared . I'd say that saying a person of a certain nationality lives somewhere is...Read More...

Hi, Subhajit, You should always remember to use the past participle in passive constructions like the one above. In Table 5-7 Prepositions of Place on page 138 of Azar & Hagen's Basic English Grammar, we can find a very good summary of how the different prepositions of place should be used mainly when speaking about people's locations (I have extracted the ones of interest to answer your question): Then, on page 139 there is Exercise 25, where students are expected to complete the...Read More...

Hi, Izzat Hannah, As you know, the future perfect is used to refer to a future action or state previous to another future action or state which, if expressed in the form of a subordinate clause, cannot be stated in a future tense. These sentences taken from "The grammar of the English tense system" by Renaat Declerck which combine future perfect in the main clause with future in the before -clause are defined by the author as ungrammatical: Adverbial before -clauses, page 725, item 14.8.3:...Read More...

I second f6pafd! Thank you so much for the tip and for adding these screenshots to the thread.Read More...

Thank You, both. Mr. G., You rock.Read More...