punctuation check please

genblog · 8 days

A colon before Taylor is optional. Don't put a comma there though.

hornwalker · 26 days

He asked "is violence ever the answer"? That is, is it the answer to any problem at all? The intention isn't to limit it to being the solution to one problem, but to inquire as to whether there are any problems to which it is the answer.

Jongo_Gurmola · 29 days

Whatever happened to "aught"?

Snarkiep · 1 month

Google Translate is pretty horrendous even for simple Latin

queviltai · 1 month

Nietzsche trashed modernity and established the foundations for a lot of modern philosophy, as well as postmodernism.

Sans_Sheriff · 1 month

Hey, I like my blurry furniture!

reamde · 2 months

Most people who try to thwart democracy at least have the good sense to lie about it

pgatkins · 3 months

I would imagine that she intends not to return from Florida.

driver_irql_not_less · 3 months

It was originally equivalent to a TFN but it has since become a means of uniquely identifying everybody. In Australia you can't be compelled to disclose your TFN so this won't happen.

JayRaow · 4 months

The published cut-off was 98.55

JayRaow · 4 months

Yep! B. Arts (Advanced) (Honours)

deglog · 4 months

Verbs have all kinds of traits—tense, mood, aspect, number, modality, voice, valency, and so on. The way a verb is conjugated is contingent on many of these characteristics, but there are no three broad categories.

deglog · 4 months

These examples are completely different, especially by virtue of the fact that the first two instances of "play" are bare and full infinitive verbs respectively, which are necessarily not conjugated to agree with any subject. Nor do they have tense or mood. So I have trouble trying to understand what you mean.

deglog · 4 months

The tense is not at all affected by the number of the corresponding subject. It only changes in your examples when you change "am" to "was" in order to change the tense from the present simple to the past progressive, which only serves to confuse the matter and has nothing to do with the grammatical number of the noun.

The verb "play" can only agree with its third-person singular subject by adding -s. This is true of all regular verbs (except those that require -es, e.g. "I buzz" and "it buzzes"). It does not mean that the verb's tense or mood has changed — both "I buzz" and "it buzzes" are in the present indicative. All that has happened is that the verb has been conjugated differently according to number. It is a simple case of subject-verb agreement.

whatdoiget000 · 4 months

Characters have either become caricatures or no character at all

philipkd · 4 months

Jefferson is subject corresponding to the verb did. Consider:

"Jefferson knew the most." "Did he?"

It is not the presidents that know the most, but Jefferson.

WildYorkies · 5 months

One can't go past Hamlet

Bluelabel · 5 months

Rudd put it to tender so Gillard had to reverse it

phatinc · 6 months

This was from Tuesday evening. The storm.

ninjaliwa · 6 months

Or something better

DazBlintze · 6 months

In regard to your first example, no -- the ability to be a computer hacker and to work as a security expert stem from a common cause rather than the second being the consequence of the first. In regard to your second, yes. For example, Part 2-5 of the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002 (Cth.) allows the Federal Court to make literary proceeds orders that order "payments to the Commonwealth of amounts based on the literary proceeds that a person has derived in relation to such an offence".

DazBlintze · 6 months

No, but one is not allowed to profit from crime. At least not in Australia.

DazBlintze · 6 months

Exactly. Hence he is making money from crime.

v0welmovement · 6 months

This is Australian rather than British

stanleyhudson · 6 months

I don't know why this is being downvoted. You really could see it coming.

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