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It's only "wrong" to not use possessive case if proper nouns or a noun referring to a person are involved. The coat is John's. This is the king's crown. Otherwise, it does not "have" to be used. It …

If a non-person X is causing you to do Y, not just "force/compel to become like/have a quality of Y", use to make me Y. The fire made me leave the building. The fire had me leave the building (sounds …

A sentence requires one verb. That one verb may have auxillary verbs, the auxillary verbs being the "-ed" or "-ing" form of the word, as well as forms of "be" or "have". Unless you really need to dri …

Just use plain sign. I signed the book. Sign on means something different - it means to register availability somehow, to be available over a communications medium, or the equivalent to logging in, …

Nope, it's ascetic. When speaking, clauses and phrases are denoted by natural small pauses in speech, and a comma can recreate that rhythm, making things easier to understand - particularly when readi …

Past perfect would be needed in that first sentence, since you are describing an event in the past that doesn't continue on to the present (the email has been sent and cannot be un-sent if it's typica …

How about wiggling your fingers? can be used, or How about that you wiggle your fingers? is also OK, and the that can be omitted, leading to How about you wiggle your fingers? and in conversatio …

When an ordinal number, or letter functioning as such a number, follows a noun, the article typically should not be used. I think this is because really what is happening is that the number is actual …

When they fight against other opponent teams As @Jack_O'Flaherty says, this is perfectly fine, and there's no issue with opponent teams. It's just incomplete because of the when. When you use a nou …

Someone can give useful tips on how to improve one’s work. Someone means "an unknown person" - in the sense that it's definitely one person, but you don't know who that is for whatever reason. …

"And this is how to get pregnant is" - this almost sounds like you are trying to say And, this is how to get pregnant. which may not be appropriate for polite or unknown company. :) However, fo …

There is a general rise in prices such as occurred in the late 60's This is a run on sentence. It should be There is a general rise in prices, such as occurred in the late 60's As is the r …

It's supposed to be: He and I will go there English word order is "subject-verb-object" and in English, word order typically wins out over anything else. Typically what precedes the verb in a s …

They mean the same. The words next holiday identify the time period you are talking about (clearly in the future), so it doesn't matter if you use will or not. This isn't true for the past - I am …

Using on instead of "of" here makes no sense because you are not saying "the evening" is happening on "the 18th." You are talking about the point in time "evening of the 18th." Think of evening of t …