I am not sure if I should use a semi-colon in the example sentence below. Can somebody help me? To apply for your leave, first you must do the following: contact the person A in the HR department to get a form A; and contact the person B in the Finance department to get a … Read more
He took a new drug; abc, to treat the COVID. He took a new drug that is abc to treat the COVID. Is the first sentence correct? What if I use the colon? Answer No. A quick Google search brings this up: A semicolon is most commonly used to link (in a single sentence) two … Read more
the following is the result of me translating and then subtitling I am not entirely sure if I should use a comma at the end of the 1st line or even in the second line. but I chose to put it as follows. The reason why we eat oil and fats and the reason we … Read more
The sentence I’m struggling with is: The first version was coded from scratch in HTML and CSS, it looked like a 90’s webpage. Is the comma correct? Or should it be a semi-colon? I thought it was a comma because it looked like a 90’s webpage. seems to be a non-essential elements. However, one could … Read more
My mother tongue is Spanish and in Spanish the correct way to enumerate ideas is saying something like the following: I have many ideas, among them we can find: idea A; idea B; idea C ;and finally, idea D. With this in mind I would like to know how is this done in English and … Read more
I think comma is a better choice instead of the semicolon in the following text. Isn’t it? Faulkner’s starting point is Burge’s “acceptance principle”; according to which, a person is entitled to accept as true something that is presented as true and that is intelligible to him, unless there are stronger reasons not to do … Read more
Directly from my paper It is therefore important to understand the source of V and its geochemical dynamics in these systems; this has not been extensively explored in the literature Or should I replace the semicolon with “which” Answer It is currently grammatically correct, and proper use of a semicolon, and it does make sense … Read more
which is the most grammatical of those sentences? There is very little doable about this issue, we just have to work harder. Other than working harder, we can do little about this issue. There is very little to do about this issue; we just have to work harder. Although they all might be correct, I … Read more
Which is grammatically correct? a. Sue enjoyed the lunch at Jamey’s restaurant : eating two portions of rice and cheese. b. Sue enjoyed the lunch at Jamey’s restaurant ; eating two portions of rice and cheese. c. Sue enjoyed the lunch at Jamey’s restaurant , eating two portions of rice and cheese. Note, the sentence … Read more
In this sentence, can I use a semicolon, or is a period more appropriate? When she was a child, she wanted to be an explorer; now she can’t even leave her own house. Answer Are the two clauses grammatically complete sentences? Are they closely linked to each other? The answer to the first question is … Read more
