Some marks of punctuation depend on the context of the words as to whether they will go inside or outside the quotation marks. The question mark is one such punctuation mark. When what is in the quotation marks is a question, the question mark will go inside the quotation marks. When the entire sentence is […]
Verbs denoting action often require objects to complete the thought and the meaning. These verbs are called transitive verbs. The objects, like the subjects of the verbs, are usually nouns and pronouns. The direct object is the noun the verb is acting upon, and the indirect object is the noun that is being affected by […]
Either is a singular adjective that means one or the other but not both. Either represents one noun or pronoun doing one thing and the other noun or pronoun doing another. This makes either positive because what is occurring is true. Because it is positive, either can be paired with or but not with the negative word nor. Example: He wanted to draw either […]
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