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All of those examples are correct, although a few things need tweaking. Q1- John is an American writer. He wrote the novel Roses. John, who is an American writer, wrote the novel Roses. John, who wrote the novel Roses, is an American writer. Q2- My uncle says he does not notice the checkpoints in fr...

If Sure has been reading this thread, he will have read the implicit question (which I have stated more than once). Thank you for posting the article url, metal. My experience with peer revising and proofreading has been that, to be successful for both readers and writers, it's the responsibility of...

Revising is changing the content, the flow, i.e., editing. Proofreading is looking for and marking grammar, spelling, and punctuation mistakes. What is the intent of "peer revising," to edit or to proofread? Which does Sure have in mind?

I didn't say anything about being "told what to do". It depends on how these peer revising groups are organized and run. Will a class of 15 be broken up into five groups of three each and then proceed to tear apart and rewrite each essay from classmates not in their group? Will the author even recog...

I've heard of peer revisions (the objects), so peer revising would be the activity. It works for me if you truly mean revising and not just proofreading. (Of course, who is another student to tell me how my story or essay should flow, how it should be revised. I suspect you mean peer proofreading.)

Yes.

No, I said the meaning is clear [each time "call" is used].

Noun or verb form -- call = call = call. The meaning is clear.

I did already (see earlier post). Also, "A Call to Power" or "A Call to Courage" or "A Call to Action" or "A Call to Arms" (as a title of a religious, military, political, et al. program) "This example illustrates using Visual C++ to access and return data by a call to a stored procedure." (computer...

Not only is "call to" understandable, it also is grammatically correct as I used it. "Me Tarzan, you Jane" is not grammatically correct as Tarzan used it.

And "seperate" is correctly spelled "separate".

call = call = call

Shout, use a cell phone, whatever. "Call" is still "call". "Call to" is very understandable.

What if Bill, Jose, and my son Mike are playing basketball in our driveway? It's time to eat supper. I call to Mike, "Suppertime!"

As I sink deeper and deeper into the quicksand, I call to God.

drink, drank, drunk?

It's

drunk
drank
drunk (not drunken)