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Volume Seven

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LOG #60

  1. Indenting business letter paragraphs
  2. Translating song lyrics
  3. Punctuating around single quotation marks
  4. Stand-in auxiliary
  5. The placement of only
  6. The paragraph symbol
  7. Definitions of terms
  8. Diagramming Carl Lewis
  9. To Whom It May Concern
  10. The forms of quiet

LOG #61
  1. Proper nouns and compound words
  2. Capitalizing I
  3. This and that
  4. Etymological assistance
  5. The plural of it
  6. Commas and "as well as"
  7. A subjunctive situtation
  8. Punctuating subordinate clauses
  9. Married couples' ministry or married couples ministry
  10. An mla style question

LOG #62
  1. Memorizing the rules
  2. Chemistry of subject-verb agreement
  3. The subjunctive revisited
  4. Writing numbers
  5. Five years'/years experience
  6. The possessive of daughters-in-law and friend of mine
  7. Five years' experience, again!
  8. Using participles
  9. Spacing, MLA style
  10. Some questions from Malaysia

LOG #63
  1. Adverb or adjective?
  2. Punctuating after beginning dependent clauses
  3. Closing and salutation
  4. Jerry and myself. . . .
  5. Lots of advice being sought
  6. Suggest that he study/studies?
  7. Pluperfect and preterite perfect?
  8. Questions from Malaysia
  9. Dates as dates and dates as adjectives
  10. Difference between can and be able to

LOG #64
  1. Periods inside a quoted sentence
  2. First person imperatives
  3. Bibliographies on various styles
  4. Blacks and Whites or blacks and whites
  5. Plurals of years and possessives of names
  6. Writing with a thesis
  7. What do we appreciate?
  8. Cannot versus can not revisited
  9. The meanings of punch
  10. Relative clauses, agents, etc.

LOG #65
  1. Subject-verb inversion
  2. Past perfect and past participle
  3. Spelling organization
  4. Paper format
  5. To die of/from
  6. That old cannot
  7. Objects with to frighten, etc.
  8. Past progressive versus past perfect
  9. Using the first-person when writing a paper
  10. A/an HHS employee?

LOG #66
  1. Washington, D.C. or Washington D.C.
  2. The first(?) annual event
  3. "On my case," etc.
  4. The uses of analogy
  5. Examples of categories
  6. Word order
  7. Crying for/with/in joy
  8. Kinds of words, again
  9. "Most in need" versus "in most need"
  10. Controller versus controllor

LOG #67
  1. Pride in integrity
  2. Looking forward to see you/to seeing you
  3. Concrete and abstract nouns revisited
  4. Role and substance
  5. Questions from China
  6. Different from/than
  7. Using the ampersand
  8. The subjunctive, etc.
  9. The subjunctive one more time
  10. How come?

LOG #67
  1. Ending in prepositions, etc.
  2. Coming and going
  3. How to use an epigraph
  4. One is your parents
  5. Commas after introductory prepositional phrases
  6. Made us laugh/laughed
  7. Logic prepositions
  8. Infinitive or subjunctive?
  9. Cannot versus can not revisited
  10. Using ellipses

LOG #69
  1. Coordinate adjectives, female cars, etc.
  2. She is/was my first-grade teacher
  3. Setting off "if clauses" with commas
  4. Salary requirements/requirement
  5. Six foot/feet tall
  6. How much and how many
  7. Some prepositions in Hong Kong
  8. The nature of general truth
  9. The difference between say and tell
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