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Could you help me? Please Hi, there Could you help me with a few questions please? 1) Let us say your wife/husband goes to work and takes the key to your house along with them. Then , when they(can I use they here? they= your wife or husband ) get home, they find you locked out. .. Could you say something like "you are always pulling that kind of stunt, are 't you?"? or "You are always up to those antics, aren't you?" Do they sound odd?. What could you say instead?? 2) In a academic paper, do you say "This very well exemplifies why this theory doesn't hold up" or "This exemplifies very well why this theory doesn't hold up"? neither? 3)Finally, let us say you are holding two papers (one belongs to your friend and other to his brother) and you say does it sound odd to say "These are your brother's and yours"? Does it sound odd? 4) Do you say "Historic buildings/monuments/sites/architecture " or "Historical buildings/monuments/sites/architecture Thank you very much Please, I need help. Please!

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Could you help me? Please

Hi, there

Could you help me with a few questions please?

1) Let us say your wife/husband goes to work and takes the house key to your house along with them. Then, when they(can I use "they" It is better to use "he"/"she" since you introduced the singular form in the beginning.  "here? they= your wife or husband ) get home, they he/she finds that you had been locked out. ..

Could you I say something like,

"You are always pulling that kind of stunt, are 't you?"?
or
"You are always up to these antics, aren't you?"

Do they sound odd?. What could you say instead??  Grammatically correct and these sentences sound OK.

2) In an academic paper, do you say can I write, "This very example well exemplifies why this theory doesn't hold up" or "This exemplifies very well why this theory doesn't not hold up"? neither? In such a paper, no contractions are allowed.



3)Finally, let us say you are holding two papers (one belongs to your friend and other to his brother) and you say,  does it sound odd to say "These are your brother's and these are mine.yours"? Does it sound odd?
4) Do you say "Historic buildings/monuments/sites/architecture " or "Historical buildings/monuments/sites/architecture  Historic means "important or famous in history or has the potential to be".  Historical means "belonging to the past".  So these two sentences have different meaning.
Thank you very much

Please, I need help. Thanks Please!

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Could you help me? Please

Hi, there

Could you help me with a few questions please?

1) Let us say your wife/husband goes to work and takes the key to your house along with them. Then , when they(can I use they here yes? they= your wife or husband ) get home, they find you locked out. ..

Could you say something like

"you are always pulling that this kind of stunt, are 't you?"?  (I'm using "this" because it is happening now.  If you were talking about it in the recent past, like for example last week, then you could use "that"  If it was the distant past you would want to say "you were always pulling that kind of stunt".)
or
"You are always up to those antics, aren't you?" (This sounds OK.  You could also say "You are always up to these...")

Do they sound odd?. What could you say instead??  (They do sound a little odd, but mostly from the stand point that if I was locked out I would probably use some profanity.)

2) In a academic paper, do you say "This very well exemplifies why this theory doesn't hold up" or "This exemplifies very well why this theory doesn't hold up"? neither? (I would remove "very well".  "Exemplifies" is a strong enough word that it doesn't need very well.  It's kind of like saying "the more best".  It is already "best" so it can't be "more best")
3)Finally, let us say you are holding two papers (one belongs to your friend and other to his brother) and you say does it sound odd to say "These are your brother's and yours"? Does it sound odd?  (If both brothers were together I would say, "These are yours." if  you were not making a clear distinction between which brother owned something.  For example if you were talking about shoes, the brothers would know which shoes belonged to which person.  However if it wasn't clear about who got what, then I would say, "These papers are your brother's and these papers are yours."  That way you clearly define who gets what)
4) Do you say "Historic buildings/monuments/sites/architecture " or "Historical buildings/monuments/sites/architecture
Thank you very much

Please, I need help. Please!

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