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Fluffy Hamster, thanks for the wonderful reply. I wonder what we would do without you here!

I was asked at work today about this sentence. 'Let us do away with all ceremony.' The teacher (Japanese English teacher here at a Japanese high school) wants to change it to, 'Let all ceremony done away with.' I told them that it need to have 'be' in it. 'Let all ceremony be done away with.' The te...

Fluffyhamster,

Two sentences;
There is some doubt as to whether he will be elected.
There is some doubt as to if he will be elected.

They both seem fine to me. Do you think there is anything wrong with the last sentence?

Cheers,
Forgorin

As usual fluffyhamster, a wonderful answer.

Thanks a whole bunch!

Just a quick question regarding the Subject.

They slowly died out in course of time. or They slowly died out in the course of time.

Which is correct and why?

Thanks,

Michael

Thanks again Fluffy!

Just a quickie,

This sentence, "These animals show their tongues more clearly than do humans."

My question is; why is 'do' before 'humans'? Shouldn't it come after? "These animals show their tongues more clearly than humans do."

Cheers,
Forgorin

Thanks fluffyhamster.

I need a bit of help in explaining the 'it' in the following sentence. In Marienplatz, she is excited to see the big clock with its life sized mechanical dolls on the New Town Hall. I know 'its' refers to the clock and it means that it possess the dolls. If 'its' was taken out, it wouldn't change th...

JuanTwoThree wrote:Nouns being adjectives aren't plural: Ten pound note, three mile walk, crop consumption, meat consumption.

JuanTwoThree, thanks. Must have been brain dead not to have picked that out yesterday.

Michael

Hi. Just a quick question. My school is busy making its new entrance exams for next year. A teacher asked my if these passages are correct. 'This graph shows annual consumption of foods per head in Japan. Crops consumption became lower and lower year by year. But meats consumption became higher and ...

Thanks for your replies. I think I got it sorted out in my head.

Again, thanks.

Hi. Question. I had a Japanese English teacher ask me a question today. I had a hard time giving him the reason why. Mostly because I don't know the reason. He asked me why we can say 'I wish I could do that.' but not 'I wish I would do that.' I told him that if you change the subject then he could ...

Hi. I have a question regarding comparatives and superlatives. I work in a Japanese high school. One of the teachers asked me if this sentence was correct: "Babe Ruth was much the most talented baseball player in those days." I told him that you could not use much because it was only used with compa...

I agree with Heath. In-spite of my 11 I think I would spell most of them correctly. Though probably not!