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2008-07-04 General Writing and Grammar Help - "She" vs. "her": Hello Thomas, You would use, "her" in the sentence. The reason is that the phrase "I am" is eliminated in the last clause because it is "understood". That means you, as a listener, understand that...
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2008-07-04 General Writing and Grammar Help - the place of really: Dear Lie, Thank you for writing. Here is your sentence: 1)His mother looks younger than she really is. Can I change 1) into 2) and 3) without meaning? 2)His mother looks younger than really...
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2008-07-03 General Writing and Grammar Help - as it were: Dear Luke: This is a kind of "old-fashioned" term (for those of us in the United States, at least; people in the UK still use this rather readily). It's also used along with "professorial" speech,...
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2008-07-03 General Writing and Grammar Help - punctuation effect on meaning: John, I'm not sure I'm answering your question, but this sentence is too crowded and poorly written to determine anything. It is the kind of sentence you find in a Homeowners' Covenants, that was written...
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2008-07-02 General Writing and Grammar Help - Grammar: Part II of response: Modality So what about modality, then? A basic distinction in our use of language is that we sometimes state facts, like "It's raining", "It hasn't rained for weeks", and we sometimes...
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