24
votes
Accepted
One should love everyone's wife. Is it right grammatically?
one should love everyone's wife
Well ... it is grammatically correct. However it does not mean what you think it should mean. What this says is that you (or someone) should love everyone else's ...
- 88.5k
23
votes
Grammarly says that starting "Like Pearl was hesitant to..." with "Like" is fine, but my parent says it is grammatically incorrect
Grammarly is right because the sentence is grammatically correct. Your teacher has a point because there are several issues with the usage of like in this sentence.
According to the Cambridge ...
- 61.4k
22
votes
Accepted
Why isn’t the pronoun “it” placed after But?
The two verb phrases sent soldiers... and is nonetheless... are conjoined by but and share the subject, Poland; parse it like this:
sent soldiers ...
Poland but
is nonetheless ...
...
- 176k
22
votes
Grammarly says that starting "Like Pearl was hesitant to..." with "Like" is fine, but my parent says it is grammatically incorrect
In the strictest sense, it is indeed grammatically correct. However, it’s not well written, and this is often misinterpreted as being equivalent to saying it’s grammatically incorrect. Consider for ...
- 4,248
15
votes
One should love everyone's wife. Is it right grammatically?
You are right grammatically both sentences are correct but they differ in meaning.
Suppose there are three persons in the context : a,b,c
With the sentence One should love one's wife, you are ...
- 326
11
votes
Should I include “as a” for every item in a list of jobs, or just the first item?
Both versions are syntactically fine, but idiomatically native speakers would tend to "delete" all "highly predictable" repetitions of as a in such contexts (or at the very least, delete repeated as).
...
- 74.6k
8
votes
Why isn’t the pronoun “it” placed after But?
It probably makes more sense to treat this as a kind of parallelling, rather than ellipsis.
The two sentences are
Poland sent soldiers to fight alongside Americans in Iraq
Poland is nonetheless ...
- 61.4k
6
votes
exception in the past tense clauses sequence rule?
I heard a little boy waving his hands above the water.
This sentence is fine. "A little boy waving" doesn't violate the rule you stated because it's not a finite present tense verb phrase; it's a ...
- 4,485
6
votes
Why isn’t the pronoun “it” placed after But?
Yes, it's a kind of ellipsis for style. It doesn't change the meaning.
Other examples:
She was top of her high school class, but (she) isn't planning to go to college.
The computer can do ...
- 88.5k
5
votes
One should love everyone's wife. Is it right grammatically?
(In light of the OP's recent edit)
Grammatically speaking, the sentence:
One should love everyone's wife
is perfectly acceptable.
It means it is a good idea if "you" (one) love the wives of ...
- 28.9k
5
votes
Accepted
Two-part question with "or"
The "or" part is correct, but the rest of the grammar is bad.
... do we have full control of our destiny or are uncontrollable factors involved in shaping...
Each part of the question separated by ...
- 5,156
5
votes
Grammarly says that starting "Like Pearl was hesitant to..." with "Like" is fine, but my parent says it is grammatically incorrect
Your paragraph is grammatically correct.
Your teacher was wise to ask you to re-write it.
As written, the paragraph is difficult to understand. The first question is very long. I needed to read it ...
- 24.4k
5
votes
Grammarly says that starting "Like Pearl was hesitant to..." with "Like" is fine, but my parent says it is grammatically incorrect
It's not quite correct. It's missing one word, at a minimum: "Like when Pearl..." or "Like the time when Pearl..."
Alternatively, you could recast the sentence and make it slightly ...
- 13.9k
4
votes
What's wrong with "university students would have to choose study over work, especially if they are undertaking a degree in theoretical subjects."?
If we don't substitute anything, we get the sentence from your title:
Nonetheless, university students would have to choose study over work, especially if they are undertaking a degree in ...
- 12k
4
votes
Accepted
Ellipses following coordinating conjunction
Gapping Ellipsis is the elimination of repeated words from coordinate structures. The coordinating structures need not necessarily be of the same type: see Mismatch in syntactic category in this wiki ...
- 61.4k
4
votes
on TV, radio, or in films?
1) The phrase "on TV, radio, and in films" sounds like a perfectly fine parallel structure to me.
2) As for the phrase "on radio", it sounds fine. However, there are some contexts where it might ...
J.R.♦
- 110k
4
votes
Accepted
Parallel structure and comma
The GMAT wants the parallelism to reflect the manner in which the sentenced should be parsed. The way they would parse the sentence is:
Joan of Arc, a young Frenchwoman who claimed to be divinely ...
- 967
4
votes
Accepted
Should I write "to" again in this sentence?
Her words seemed to make him happy and pacify his inner turmoil.
Her words seemed to make him happy and to pacify his inner turmoil.
Both are correct, and the meaning is much the same. The second ...
- 41.4k
4
votes
2 'The's with 2 consecutive nouns joined with a conjunction: "X and Y", "the X and Y", or "the X and the Y"?
I take this sentence as grammatical (but an extra "the" could definitely be added). This is because the writer is treating "transliteration and translation" as two things so closely related that they ...
- 3,204
3
votes
Which is correct - "policies of..." or policies in"?
Both are grammatically correct, because a country counts as a place and an "entity".
For 1., since a country is a place, actions and rules apply in the country - therefore, the health policies in ...
- 41
3
votes
What is the ellipsis of the sentence？
The use of the present participle with to isn't some strange infinitive thing; to is being used in the prepositional sense. The important thing here is that he had been trying to be helpful, so the ...
- 15.1k
3
votes
Changing "It is strange that families adopt dogs but not a child." into passive voice
"It is strange that families adopt dogs but not a child." the OP's sentence.
The passive:
It is strange that dogs but not a child are adopted by families.
Still "a child" vaguely referring to ...
- 25.1k
3
votes
Parallelism test question: "By having a budget and (we stuck to it)"
In such situations, you are supposed to pick the answer with both the right structure and the right semantics.
Actually, you did pick an answer with the right structure. "Having a budget" and "...
- 13.4k
3
votes
Accepted
Parallelism in comparison
Yes, this sentence is ambiguous out of context.
He is more interested in video games than his girlfriend.
We don't know whether video games interest him more than his girlfriend does, or if she ...
- 137k
3
votes
Accepted
Going out is more interesting than GOING / TO GO with your family
I don’t think either one is “incorrect,” but I do think the second option reads better.
The reason? It’s a parallel structure. Had the sentence begun like this:
To go out with your friends is...
...
J.R.♦
- 110k
3
votes
Accepted
Omission of subject and verb in parallel sentence
It is correct and appropriate. This comma is known as a "gapping comma", whereby the comma replaces words used earlier on.
But you should use a semicolon instead of the full stop:
On the top half ...
- 560
3
votes
Accepted
Is this sentence awkward?
Sorry but your re-write is awkward:
The kids had scattered their books all over not only the bus but also the sidewalk.
It is the placement of "not only" that breaks the sentence up in the wrong ...
- 111k
3
votes
I decided to go whole hog and <bought> or <buy> her a pistol
They're different meanings. As you say, with "buy" the decision includes two parts: going whole-hog, and buying the pistol and holster. With "bought" the decision was to go whole-hog, and this was ...
- 41
3
votes
Accepted
“Verb1 preposition1 and verb2 preposition2” VS. “Verb1 and verv2 preposition2”?
No, your second sentence is not idiomatic, as it means you are saying "addicted with" which (as you know) is not the normal collocation. If you need two different prepositions, then you have to apply ...
- 88.5k
Only top scored, non community-wiki answers of a minimum length are eligible