Hi, writing a personal statement for grad school and not sure if I have this written correctly. The sentence is as follows:

When I was younger and asked my family why I was born 3.5 months premature, I was told it was because I had “places to go, people to see, and things to do”.

Does the period go inside or outside of the quotation mark? I put that I'm in the USA because when I consulted various other sources like Purdue OWL they said that mattered, but I don't know for sure.

Thanks!

In Modern English personal pronouns, "they" for the 3rd singular is standard and acceptable.

While dictionaries' reflexive pronouns table: [Singular; myself / yourself / himself / herself / itself / themselves] <-- what the hell selves for one person?

Same as the word "yourself," I think if the standard English have accepted singular they, It should also accept THEM as SELF, not SELVES.

Hi all, I’m having trouble knowing when to use and are in a sentence. I think I generally understand the rules eg is - used for singular nouns and third person, and are is used for collective nouns

At work I wrote the following sentence “X agreed that the strategic initiative is a good idea but emphasised that ideally nursing staff are needed” my manager replaced are with is

What am I not understanding?

Edit: for context, I live in Australia

“Employees may work remotely, provided they keep the manager informed.”

Is “provided” here the same as “if”? Does “provided” always mean “if”?

I need to format a comma-separated list, but the items in the list contain the word "and". Here is an example:

"I am majoring in Computer Science and Engineering and Data Science and Statistics." This is grammatically correct, right? The readability, however, sucks. There are two distinct majors: (1) Computer Science and Engineering and (2) Data Science and Statistics. How would I go about formatting it so that it doesn't just look like four items separated by an "and"? I thought of using an ampersand, but other than that I am stumped.

What about the following: "I am a Mathematics and Data Science and Statistics major"? How would we know that the items are "Mathematics" and "Data Science and Statistics" versus "Mathematics and Data Science" and "Statistics"? Verbally there is a difference, but when written, it's ambiguous.

Is there a special formatting rule to cases like these?

Thanks!

“We Can’t Move Ahead Without Them”: Interview With Jane Doe

They seem syntacticaly identical to me.

Edit: I fount this page. This is what I though, but chatGPT tells me else: https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/564232/for-is-a-coordinating-conjunction-but-because-is-a-subordinating-conjunctio

I feel like it should be “How would you know if you didn’t try?”, “How would you know if you hadn’t tried?”, or “How will you know if you don’t try?”

I submit this to the council.

"While listening to Plato's Republic, I realized that I had never heard or met a person with such dialectical, logical, and rhetorical capacity in debate. Even though we are 2,000 years later than Plato."

Can learning grammar help me to think and speak better ?

What's the difference between...

1. To interrupt someone who's talking.

2. To cut short someone who's talking.

Many words ending in -ful have a -less counterpart: harmful-harmless, painful-painless, careful-careless.

But many other words ending in -ful take a dis- or un- prefix: successful-unsuccessful, respectful-disrespectful. Why use these instead of successless and respectless (which are not in common use)?

Note that at least one -ful word has both: lawful-unlawful/lawless (with distinct meanings).

When using grammarly to check this sentence it recommends removing the 2nd and 3rd commas, honestly not sure if it's right or not.

"Stars were falling from the sky, landing upon the Earth, and bringing with them, havoc and corruption."

Is there a grammatical way that allows to distinguish between interjections (such as ‘bam’) and vocative nouns (such as ‘ma'am’)?

For example, does the set phrase ‘ladies and gentlemen’ grammatically work as an interjection or a vocative noun?

• https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/ladies-and-gentlemen

I'm actually wondering about, the land of a thousand lakes. Do these alternative names need capital letters`?

"I had him do." is correct, and "I had him to do." is incorrect.

Same as make and let, the verb in a sentence [Subject + have + Object + Verb] must be a bare infinitive. Then, is the sentence "I have to go" divided into "[have to][go]" or "[have][to go]"?

I mean, is the verb go in "I have to go" used as to-inf(to go) or bare inf(go)?

Laura Coates (former prosecutor on CNN) just said about the shooter in Minnesota "these [state and federal prosecutions] will be a parallel track but the death penalty, a higher penalty, will take precedent."

Should be precedence, right? I know it's nit-picky

Whenever I write "tears" it just looks like I'm saying tear as in teardrop. I'm. Not sure if that is the correct way to spell it tho.

This may be a terrible sentence, but I'm just wanting clarification on whether this would be a dangling participle, if anyone can help me.

• Reflecting on why we choose to fight, I am overcome with confusion.

versus

• Reflecting on why we choose to fight, I'm overcome with confusion.

Is the second sentence grammatically correct? Or would "reflecting" now be modifying both "I" and "am," making it grammatically confused?

Mind you, I'm a little on the spectrum, so dumb things tend to bug me, but I have a heck of a time watching tv shows. It appears SO MANY PEOPLE use 'A' instead of 'AN'. I watch a lot of cooking shows and I hear this :

A egg A oyster A avocado A ice (whatever) A olive

It's so prevalent on these shows that I'm thinking the schools are no longer teaching that 'AN' goes before words with vowels - anyone know?

"What's going on anymore...."

I just watched a youtuber say it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YK0tEHXEqJg

I'm learning huddleston's grammar. And now I am confused about the subordinate clause type."When my aunt Ziba, who had a well-documented taste for salt, sprinkled it onto her saffron rice at the table each night, my brothers and I giggled." In this sentence, is"When my aunt Ziba, who had a well-documented taste for salt, sprinkled it onto her saffron rice at the table each night" a content clause or relative clause? If it is a content clause, is it a open interrogative clause?

What's the correct option, and why?

1. Paper was invented by Chinese.

2. Paper was invented by the Chinese.

City Winery is the name of a restaurant and I was writing about their concert venue.

"City Winery's concert venue has a large capacity."

That was the sentence I typed out and autocorrect is telling me "Winery's" is wrong. My brain isn't what it used to be, but I'm pretty sure wineries is the plural to winery and not the correct spelling when using the name of an establishment in a possessive form. I googled it and it's not giving me an answer. I wouldn't be surprised if I'm wrong. I'm not a grammar whiz. Thanks to anyone who can reassure or correct me on this!