I am writing a technical thesis and find myself using the word the an awful lot. Here are some examples (I spare the technical gibberish): The main purpose of the presented applications is to visualize roses in space. The user can run around and experience the roses from different angles. The position of the roses … Read more
IN EARLY 2020, with the coronavirus pandemic tearing across the world, most people thought it unlikely that a vaccine would arrive any time soon. And as work to develop vaccines began, there were dire warnings of the difficulties ahead. That is why it is so remarkable that, heading into 2021, it seems likely that one … Read more
I am comparing the waiting times in the different regions of a given country. Only region A had low average waiting time; other regions (B, C, and D) had high average waiting times. Except for Region-A, all the regions had higher average waiting time. Is the sentence above grammatically correct? I am not sure whether … Read more
sentence: Once I left my phone at home and I couldn’t pay attention to my work at all…. According to Cambridge Dictionary Online, once can be both conjugation and adverb. It is obvious that in this case, once is functioning as adverb, but it sounds very contrived to me. So I check the Corpus of … Read more
I’m translating the documentation for a program, and I want to write that a certain function gets the last values you’ve entered. I’m stuck on the word "Query" (as in "Query of the number of found 3D points of the last call of DisplayPosScan") but I don’t like this sentence at all. There are too … Read more
This is related to Can I start a sentence with "i.e."? so I’ll use his sentence as an example. I agree that it should be a parenthetical statement, not a separate sentence (which is was the solution to the previous answer)… But what if it is artificially segregated? Imagine you send this text message: How … Read more
My English teacher has taught me to use “Concluding” when writing the end part of certain texts (next to other words).Example: Concluding, we can say that… To me it somehow sounds curious. “Concludingly” sounds way better. And we say “Unfortunately” and not “Unfortunate”, right (although this similarity might be related to the “-ing” suffix of … Read more
The sentences given below, when properly sequenced, form a coherent paragraph. Each sentence is labeled with a letter. I have to choose the most logical order of sentences from among the given choices to construct a coherent paragraph. (a) Similarly, turning to caste, even though being lower caste is undoubtedly a separate cause of disparity, … Read more
I once took a multiple choice exam where there was a section with all possible answers being made up of a single word, an -ly suffix adverb followed by a comma at the beginning of the sentence. According to my own judgement, I answered correctly, but for some reason I failed that portion. What do … Read more
This seems to be argued back and forth by my Writing and Reading teachers. Here is the problem. For example I write this sentence: And I went to bed to get some sleep. Just a simple sentence with the conjunction And at the beginning. My teachers disagree whether this is correct or not. So is … Read more
