Discussion Groups / English Usage / January 2007

When there is an introductory phrase that does little more than
reiterate the subject of the following independent clause, is a comma
still appropriate, or is a dash needed?
For example:

Re a previous thread: a couple of articles in the (UK) Guardian today
which support the supposition that Christianity in the UK, unlike that
in the US, is lagely a matter of culture and history rather than of
religion or belief.  First, a poll about religion in Britain:

I'd like to express the meaning of the above sentence,but I think it is not concise, so I write the second sentence to replace it.It will be appreciated if you can tell me which is better.
1)
Duncan's multiple range test shows that the elderly in any seat height need larger trunk ...

I'm looking for a list of the most basic words in English, arranged in
approximate order of the average age at which they are learned. I have a
feeling that someone must have compiled such a list, or something very
close, possibly as part of curriculum design.

http://www.lssu.edu/banished/current.php
I could add a few of my own, starting with "weighing in on...".

I always though that if "there (or here) + be" is followed by a plural
noun, it is "there are", while "there is" is used if it is followed by
a singular noun.
But recently, I often heard "there is" (or "here is") being used

I am working on an essay about the symbolism of a passage in John
Knowles' A Seperate Peace. I have my intro paragraph and my 1st
paragraph. I am working on the idea that the loss of snow is symbolic
of the reveling of the war to the Devon boys.

Ex alcoholic "draft dodger" mass murderer US former leader George W
Bush is hanged for crimes against humanity at a secure facility.
"We took him to the gallows and he was saying some few slogans. He was
very, very, very, broken".

Just read Gulliver's Travels, part 3 chatper 10.
( http://xahlee.org/p/Gullivers_Travels/gt3ch10.html )
Where, they have this “Struldbrugs”, which is a immortal, but!
And here's my comment on this chapter:

New Year's greetings to all. By the way, "year" here takes "'s". Why
not in "He delivered the customary New Year address to the nation" ?

"Examine each moment."
If this is in fact a sentence, it seems to me that the subject is,
implicitly, the reader. That is:
    "You, examine each moment."

I was born in the year 1632, in the city of York, of a good family,
though not of that country, my father being a foreigner of Bremen, who
settled first at Hull.
http://home.arcor.de/t2c/Crusoe16.mp3 (86 KB)

Happy New Year 2007, everyone!
I understand that
"Needs Must Admiring the Best"
means something like

http://www.techass.com/
"Solicitous Third Party Banners"

In enlgish which one as follows is more correct ?
  a.  Computing process
  b.  Computation process
  c.  Computational process