Learn English.This post outlines seven general areas of grammar and syntax that writers must be familiar with to enable them to write effectively.Use singular verbs for singular subjects and plural verbs with plural subjects. Apostrophes.List of grammar rules by category: Auxiliaries and modals Conjugation Adjectives Articles and pronouns Adverbs and conjunctions Prepositions. This refers to a specific event and time (last spring) so the past simple tense should be used and not the present simple (have been). Correct: I was in London last spring.
,” “the number of (blank). the constructions “the only one of those (blank) who. compound subjects: “Breaking and entering is different than burglary” subjects plural in form but singular in meaning: “Statistics is boring,” but “Statistics are sometimes misleading” uncountable nouns: “The rain has stopped” indefinite pronouns: “Everyone is here”
For example, although “My sister and I are coming” is correct because “My sister and I” is the subject and therefore the nominative I is appropriate, “He invited my sister and I” is wrong because “my sister” and I are the objects, and the pronoun should be in objective form ( me, not I).Reflexive pronouns, compound of a pronoun and -self, are correct only if they are associated with an antecedent pronoun, as in “I did it myself” “Contact John or myself” is an error because there is no previous reference to the self-identifying person.When a sentence begins with an incomplete phrase or clause, the person, place, or thing it modifies must immediately follow it as the subject of the main clause, or the introductory phrase or clause must be rewritten. Nominative and Objective Pronouns and Reflexive PronounsPronouns are sometimes used erroneously when a phrase contains more than one object. collective nouns: “The team is ready for the game” (but if referring to all individual members of a collective, reword for clarity, as in “The members of the team stand behind the coach’s decision”)2.
However, “in the rest room” modifies the subject, “I overheard,” so those two phrases should be adjacent: “I overheard in the rest room that they’re getting married.”Many justifications exist for sentence fragments, but they are best used judiciously and in such a way that it is clear to the reader that the writer is deliberately writing an incomplete sentence, and not obliviously making an error.In-line lists, those presented within the syntax of a sentence, should be structured to be grammatically consistent. For example, in the sentence “I overheard that they’re getting married in the rest room,” because “in the rest room” follows “getting married,” the reader is given the impression that the nuptials will take place in the rest room. To resolve the problem, amend the sentence to “Rolling down the slope, I beheld a curious sight” or “As I rolled down the slope, my eyes beheld a curious sight.”A modifying phrase should immediately follow the word or phrase it modifies.
But not grammatically.)Incidentally, “different…than” would be used in Br./Int. Although just a matter of standard usage, the reasoning, as far as it goes, rests on the “different to/from” construction’s not being a comparative (in the grammatical sense), although it is sometimes tricky to get this across, since “surely, it is a comparison?” is the oft-met response. It is one of those usages that can make people squirm to read or hear, simply because it sounds weird.
However, I’d rather commit breaking and entering than burglary. But hey, I’m Canadian and therefore tend to the British structures.Breaking and entering is different from burglary. Did you write “on accident” by accident, or on purpose? Other than that, I agree that “from” should be used. Btw, I hear plenty of US English speakers using different to/from too, though than is commoner.Venqax, I have to ask. Of course, there are clearer ways of saying this.As for different to / different from, both are common, the latter becoming more so, and not worth getting hot under the collar about. I.e., When talking about apples, medlars are more different than crab-apples are.
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