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Dear Professor - or Dear Dr? What is the best form of address to someone who is a Professor and a doctor (not an MD)? Isn't professor the highest academic title? Should… Started by Deborah Capras	5	Dec 9 Reply by Cartoon Professor
Gerund, Prepositions and so on ... (only for people willing to suffer a little) I would have four questions on which I would like to hear some suggestions from a native speaker: 1. despite (in spite of)/(al)though + ge… Started by Matthias Kranke	1	Dec 7 Reply by Judy Vorfeld
Redundancies et seq. Redundancies I’ve just received an email message from some entrepreneur offering me a “free gift” if I will click on something. “Free gif… Started by Cartoon Professor	3	Oct 25 Reply by Judy Vorfeld
Good News,I have got Job in Tech Mahindra Ltd,Mumbai. Hello webgrammar friends, Iam glad to inform you that I have got job from Tech Mahindra an IT firm in Mumbai.So I'll be leaving for Mumbai… Started by Adarsh	3	Sep 20 Reply by Adarsh
How to correctly reflect a business plan in a paragraph... Here is a question. If refering to a business plan in a paragraph would you italicize it? Fry Boulevard: West End Conceptual Streetscape M… Started by V. Tina Gilbertson	2	Sep 16 Reply by V. Tina Gilbertson
Sentence Completion and Analogies!! Test 4 from Big Book Sentence Completion: Que 1While the delegate clearly sought to________the optimism that has emerged recently, she stopped short of suggest… Started by Adarsh	4	Sep 3 Reply by Adarsh
Would be glad to hear from you about the Passage Explanation! Iam having doubt in an english passage.For this Iam attaching the actual passage from the book.Kindly refer to it ans answer my queries wri… Started by Adarsh	2	Aug 31 Reply by Adarsh
Find/locate, quite a few = comparatively many? I can’t locate my favorite book on English usage, H.W. Fowler’s Modern English Usage, also known as MEU. Why say “locate” sted “find,” as s… Started by Cartoon Professor	1	Aug 30 Reply by Cartoon Professor
lay, lie, lied, layed, layer, layered, liar, lyre, lane Hello, Cartoon Professor here! Just want to ask whether we have any difficulties with lie and lay. I'll put together an exercise if the res… Started by Cartoon Professor	0	Aug 30
Seeking definition in verbal phrases Though in daily life, I ride verbal phrases adroitly,however, I am still unable to fathom out their very defination or difference. What are… Started by Xuhan	9	Aug 30 Reply by Cartoon Professor