The store held a sale Saturday . The modifier in blue implies that Saturday was LESS THAN A WEEK AGO. Hi expert, Please help :) "... raised concern that xxx could be damaged at a time when supplies are already tight" I think the sentence is in past tense, so why "are" is correct...

Around 1900, fishermen in the Chesapeake Bay area landed more than seventeen million pounds of shad in a single year, but by 1920, over-fishing and the proliferation of milldams and culverts that have blocked shad migrations up their spawning streams had reduced landings to less than four million p...

why is E incorrect? E: the Maya who...built huge palace and temple clusters Here, no comma precedes who , implying that the portion in red is a RESTRICTIVE MODIFIER serving to distinguish the Maya in the sentence from OTHER TYPES of Maya. Conveyed meaning: The Maya in the sentence built huge palace...

Please help, could you tell me whether "that" is necessary in the expression "propose + that + be"? Is it OK to say "propose X be Y"? The inclusion of that is necessary. Check my post here: http://www.beatthegmat.com/propose-between-the-command-subjunctive-and-the-t274...

Hi Ceilidh, Thank you for the explanation. Could you elaborate "we shouldn't begin a dependent clause ("because") after an opening prepositional phrase", please? It will help a lot. Prepositional phrases act as modifiers (sometimes modifying nouns, sometimes modifying actions). ...

In an experiment, each volunteer was allowed to choose between an easy task and a hard task and was told that another volunteer would do the other task. Each volunteer could also choose to have a computer assign the two tasks randomly. Most volunteers chose the easy task for themselves and under qu...