You really have to give specific sentences where you're not sure, because there are so many different possible meanings that we can't infer which...
I don't think anyone understood his question. I'm about to go... vs. I'm on the verge of going...: That' s what he's asking. In any case,...
You can't use a comma in English to separate the subject of the sentence from the predicate. Having a comma there would be akin to this sentence:...
I was under the impression that a comma splice was any comma in a place where it doesn't belong. Thanks for the correction.
Actually mammamaia's "solution" has a comma splice :/ To be able to truly comprehend her would be like reassembling a broken glass. Same wording...
I don't necessarily hate the word comprise, but I hate the way most people use it. For example, I can't stand when someone says something like...
Did you go to school yesterday? The conjugated verb is "did". The other verb (go) is in the infinitive form (minus to), and thus is not...
If your question is how you phonetically spell out the sound like the s in casual, people generally go with "zh". "Cazh" still looks strange,...
You use had when you're talking about something that came before something else in the past. For example: "I wanted to go to the bar, but I had...
While this is true, it's only because so many people have done it over time, and if you want to be true to the normal rules of the language, it's...
Separate names with a comma.