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Is when a preposition? - English Language Usage Stack Exchange Depends on what grammatical sect you belong to In traditional grammar when is a subordinating conjunction; in the Cambridge Grammar of the English Language it's a preposition In neither case is a comma required And the hyphens are neither required nor desirable
capitalization - When is it correct to capitalise earth? - English . . . I would write Earth when referring to the planet where we live because it is a proper noun (like Mars, and Venus, for example) Looking at the New Oxford American Dictionary, it's reported that The earth is the third planet from the sun in the solar system, orbiting between Venus and Mars at an average distance of 90 million miles (149 6 million km) from the sun, and has one natural satellite
When is Y a vowel? - English Language Usage Stack Exchange In school we are taught the vowels: A, E, I, O, U, and sometimes Y Today's XKCD got me thinking about when the letter Y is considered to be a vowel I understand (perhaps incorrectly) that in w
pronouns - When is it correct to use yourself and myself (versus . . . Using "yourself" and "ourselves" in these contexts is incorrect "Yourself," "ourselves," and "myself" are reflexive pronouns, correctly used when the subject actor of the sentence and the object recipient are the same person or group "I see myself" is correct because I am doing the seeing and am seeing myself In your latter example, the subject is the implicit "you" and the object is
When is off guard hyphenated? - English Language Usage Stack Exchange Google Books Ngram Viewer search suggest that usage of off guard is more popular than off-guard In other words, there are few instances where off-guard modifies the noun it precedes or the author simply prefers to use hyphenated off-guard instead of unhyphenated one Blue is off guard and Red is off-guard
How do I know when a word with ch is pronounced hard or softly? There is no hard-and-fast rule to indicate when ch is hard or soft, unfortunately The main difference is in the origin of the word English is a melting pot of many different languages: Latin, French, German, Scandinavian languages, you name it In general, words originating from French will have a soft ch: Parachute, cache, attache Words originating from Germanic languages will have a hard
When to use is and was for thing that has happened? In this case, married and approved are used as an adjective, which is also a subject complement As such, it gives information about the subject (She, The transaction) The use of the past tense would imply, for example that "She is not married anymore", and consequently single again married and approved is more the status of the subject after the action of marrying and approving, as the