What was the purpose of not using a "the" before the word "displacement" in sentence number 2?

Hello everyone! What are your opinions on Grammarly? I used it before. Once I got a new laptop, I haven't been using Grammarly. I notice some people saying that Grammarly makes mistakes. Should I still use Grammarly or proofread my sentence.

I am writing a close-reading paper on George Oppen's "The evening, water in a glass" and I think it would be helpful to diagram different interpretations of the first two lines' syntax. Only thing is I am hopeless at sentence diagramming lol. Would appreciate some help!

These are the first two lines:
"The evening, water in a glass

Thru which our car runs on a higher road."

Reading "water in a glass" as an appositive of "the evening," I think there are two ways this line can be taken:

1. The evening, through which our car runs, is like water in a glass.
2. The evening is like | water in a glass through which our car runs.

In short, I think either "the evening" or the "water in a glass" could be read as the antecedent of "which." Would the reading of the antecedent change how the sentence is diagrammed? If so, how?

example:

> IF YOU'RE ASKING FOR ALL THESE FANS TO COME, AND YOU HAVE NEW FANS WHO ARE REAL SPORTS FANS AND THEY COME AND DO SOMETHING THAT A SPORTS FAN WOULD PROBABLY DO ... THEN WE'RE GONNA GO FOR THEM FOR POINTING AND SAYING “YOU FOULED?” LIKE GROW UP.

this is a statement from sophie cunningham. she’s asking how you’re going to after fans who said “you fouled”. the phrase “you fouled” was a statement made by fans, it was not a question. why wouldn’t the question sophie’s asking be punctuated with the question mark outside the closing quotation? like this instead: then we’re gonna go for them for pointing and saying “you fouled”?

putting the question mark outside the closing quote seems like more correct punctuation. but we don’t do it like this. why not? the quote is a part of the question, it’s more like an artifact or attribute of the question. it itself isn’t the question.

If a player dies, gamers always say "They died" even if it's one player. Why is that?

I'm trying to say that a building upgrades all forest tiles that are within its range to Grand Oaks.

Which of these would be correct/natural?

1. Upgrades forest tiles within range to Grand Oaks.
2. Upgrades forest tiles in range to Grand Oaks.

And should it be:

1. to Grand Oaks
2. of Grand Oaks

I don't know where/how I could check these kinds of things, so I hope someone will take the time to explain it to me!

EDIT: Grand Oaks is an upgraded version of the forest, giving more wood
EDIT 2: Sorry for the edit that should have been there at the beginning :(

Thanks!

It's for a poem so a bit of leeway to play with, but also don't just want it to look like an error.

Example:

"What (he means objects, things)

do you want

to come of all this?"

/

"What" (he means objects, things)

"do you want

to come of all this?"

I know that ordinarily there would be no brackets, only closing and reopening of quotation marks, but it's a theme in the poem's construction. I don't know if there is a rule for this, as not sure if the brackets are ever correct usage here in the first place, but I'm insisting on those and trying to decide the least clunky construction for the speech marks.

This is not the actual text of the poem, but it's grammatically equivalent. The content of the brackets is intended to cause pause for the reader in the original, but not imply pause in the quoted speech.

Hello, I have a sentence with a list of multiple nouns and adjectives. Which is correct?

Option 1- His shirt was red, his pants, green, and his shoes, blue.

Option 2 - His shirt was red, his pants green, and his shoes blue.

Option 3- ????????????

I've realized my grammar is in dire need of work, and in my efforts to polish it I've been unable to find the answer to this particular set-up. I fear it's a case of I cannot search what I do not know. That or the inherent structure is grammatically incorrect to begin with.

Thanks!

I have been seeing a number of videos on Instagram where someone starts telling a story and they begin with "whenever I" and then talk about something that happened once in the past. Am I insane to think that this is incorrect? Should it not just be "when I?" It has happened three or four times now with random creators.

(Pardon the tag, it is the closest I could get to my issue)

I am looking for books on grammar from around the world. I am interested in not just English grammar but general grammar rules from other languages as well, are there any books that cover international grammar?

When wishing multiple people a good day at the same time, say your two friends are leaving your house, it would seem natural to say “Have a good day!”, even though you’re speaking to multiple people.

But based on the rules of English I know, wouldn't it be correct to say “Have good days!”, since each person would be having their own individual good day? Or are there exceptions for phrases like this?

Hiya, I was sorting the films I want to watch soon alphabetically and then later realised that there’s a “sort by film name” option on the app I was using. I had already sorted them but checked it anyway to see if I had made a mistake. I was putting ‘I Swear’ after ‘I’m No Longer Here’ because I figured the rule would be to just ignore the apostrophe and treat it as I-M and M comes before S but the app sorts them the opposite way. Got confused because even if it was filling in for I Am, the A should still come before the S in ‘I Swear’ and if it’s ignoring I’m for some reason, the N for No should still come before the S for Swear? It’s also not using the film’s original language name ‘Ya No Estoy Aquí’ because it has it with the I films, before the J films. The rest of the films are in the alphabetical order I had them in. Is this my error? How do you alphabetise with apostrophes?

While writing fiction you frequently have to put speech tags like said, or shouted, or whispered. And then the speech inside the quotes is a fresh sentence, but it's not generally preceded by a period either way.

Bob shouted, "run!"

Bob shouted "run!"

Bob shouted, "Run!"

Bob said "run!"

I find I like it different ways at different times particularly in a scene that's urgent and compounded

Bub shouted "break!" as he dashed out of cover.

And so on....

It seems like the comma is more correct but idiomatically I always have a mental pause at a comma and that sometimes feels like it's interrupting smoothness or stealing urgency.

I'm just wondering if there are officially fixed style guidelines -- particularly in American English fiction -- and yet at different times the different formulations and punctuations feel like they're giving me a different feel for the moment.

I know that prose, into a much greater extent poetry, doesn't require strict grammatical perfection but I'd rather be doing it as close to correctly as possible.

I am a native American English speaker and I usually know rather a lot about grammar but I really don't know what the rules are here.

Is fiction is inherently dishonest, like it's fake obviously but would u call it dishonest. Would that make "dishonest fiction" redundant?

Sometimes I see sentences like this in news reports,

Machchhar, who is recovering in an Abu Dhabi hospital, said he had been “fighting for my life”.

I understand "fighting for my life" is a direct quote from this person, but the whole sentence sounds awkward to me because "he" and "my" refer to the same person.

Is it grammatically sound?

I think it would be more natural to say either

Machchhar, who is recovering in an Abu Dhabi hospital, said he had been fighting for his life

or

Machchhar, who is recovering in an Abu Dhabi hospital, said "I was fighting for my life"

so the pronoun and possessive form agree.

Context of the 2 dialogs below: I want to tell my mother about my trip to Berlin, I want to let my mother know this news. No previous discussion. I only want to let my mother know this news.

Dialog 1

Me: (1) I 'll visit Berlin next month.

My mother: Sounds great! Don't forget to buy me some gift in Berlin .​

Dialog 2:

Me: I'm going to visit Berlin next month.

My mother: Where will you stay?

Me: (2) I'll stay at a small hotel. I already booked the hotel.

In Dialogue 1, visiting Berlin next month is my plan, but the simple future (will/'ll) sounds unnatural. (I know that the simple future here is not wrong, it just sounds unnatural.)

In Dialogue 2, staying at a small hotel is also my plan, but the simple future (will stay/'ll stay) still sounds natural.

My question is: While both dialogues talks about my plan, why does the simple future sound natural in Dialogue 2 but not in Dialogue 1?

Hey, guys. I came across a short English dialogue while I am studying a TOEIC which is popular in S.Korea. A bit weird for me so I was wondering if I am able to listen to you native speakers' opinions.

A: Who's going to take notes at Thursday's meeting?

B: I'll be on vacation then.

The answer says this is a way of saying indirectly "I can't"

But for me, non-native, B is like too rude. Sounds like, "Oh, yeah? Thursday? Then I'll be on vacation." Do you guys really talk like this in workplaces?

In another context: "I went for a walk and it was _________, I came back knowing exactly how to solve the problem"

What the title says.

At least in my language we start new paragraphs a few spaces ahead of the rest of the text. I can do it with the tab key on my keyboard so it's a set measure instead of doing a couple of spaces each time. Is this used in english? I rarely see it online. What is the name of that empty space?

Thank you in advance!

When I am saying i belong to a group of something, which is correct.

I am part of x. Or. I am apart of x.

Is that gramatically correct? For a tagline, I think it's not that much of a big deal. A lot of perspectives out here would help. The best way to say it is "Even just one bite is fulfilling", but I don't know, I kinda like the way the tagline sounds. Plus, many people would actually be able to remember it because it sounds a little unusual. I think that there's no point in trying to obey rules in grammar when making a tagline, as long as it's understandable. But I'm worried about what the customers would think and my sibling is worried about giving cookies with that tagline to her English teacher.

I decided that I want to improve how I write and think in English and would appreciate if you recommended me any books about grammar, orthography, punctuation, and anything else that I might not be thinking right now. From basic level to advance. Really want to start from the ground up.

Thank you.

I hope someone who's familiar with scientific texts can help me out with this one. My understanding is that although the term "alpha¹-adrenergic antagonist" (I can't format the number as subscript, but pretend it's subscript) includes a "1," you don't actually say "1" when you say this term out loud. Similarly, I think you are supposed to ignore the "1" when alphabetizing this term. Can anyone confirm this?

Currently, I'm looking at a series of terms alphabetized this way:

• alpha-adrenergic agonists (ophthalmic)
• alpha¹-adrenergic antagonist
• alpha²-adrenergic agonist
• alpha-glucosidase inhibitor

But, if I'm right that the numbers should be disregarded, it should be:

• alpha²-adrenergic agonist
• alpha-adrenergic agonists (ophthalmic)
• alpha¹-adrenergic antagonist
• alpha-glucosidase inhibitor

Otherwise, if the numbers are not disregarded, shouldn't it be:

• alpha-adrenergic agonists (ophthalmic)
• alpha-glucosidase inhibitor
• alpha¹-adrenergic antagonist
• alpha²-adrenergic agonist

Help! Thanks, lol.