Discussion Groups / English Usage / August 2010

Can one say:
a. Don Quixote is the best novel ever written, by Cervantes.
instead of:
b. Don Quixote is the best novel ever written,and it was by Cervantes.

1-I like to watch big animals such as the elephant.
2-I like to watch such big animals as the elephant.
I think in these sentences we are talking about a particular type of
'big animals', a subcategory that includes the elephant.

From a recently broadcast BBC documentary about a stolen Shakespeare
First Folio:
Cop: Date of birth Raymond?
Scott: 12th of the 2nd, 1957.

Which part of speech is celebrated on December 16?
Adrian

Any ideas on interpreting these? Perhaps related idioms/proverbs?
For the first, I think about the crustyness of old skin.
For the second, I think of very poor people.
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I always have problems with order of adjectives. Could you please tell
me if the "promising initial results" or "initial promising results"
is correct?
Thanks

Several grammatical issues vs this poem.
Are "He" and "him" the same person/being?
On grammatical grounds, they should be different, I think.
Does Yeats mean:

Watch for it:
"Hours
Mon-Fri 8AM - 6PM EST "
when we are clearly in Eastern Daylight Time.

There are ten commodities in a category, say A. I want to say that
there are seven among the ten commodities increased their prices.
I was wondering if I use the "out of" correctly?
Notice that seven out of the ten commodities in the category A have

Dear newsgroup,
I'm not sure whether "then" is obligatory at the end of the sentence. I tend
to omit it, but ...
a) Started in 1994 it is being successfully applied since.

Can one say:
a. difficultly digested food
b. difficultly digestible food
c. difficultly handled situations

John was alone in his office when a woman walked in. She took out a
gun from her purse and told John to drop the case and then left. John
told the police that the woman, of about 50 years of age, spoke with a
slight lisp,

Hello, I am writing a sentence and not sure what tense I should use
for each clause. Also can you please advise if I need to use "at this
price" of "with this price"?  Thanks
1. With this price, the company has experienced losses as the global

'The amount at which something is valued above its par or nominal
value, as money or securities. '
This is one of the meanings given in the American Heritage for
'premium'.

I've already deleted the messages in this thread, so I don't even know the
thread's subject title.
I wouldn't recognize "artifacts" as meaning "problems" in the question, uh,
in question.  Unless the word has been defined earlier to mean problems, I