Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky (also spelled Musorgsky, Moussorgsky ) (21 March [O.S. 9 March] 1839, Karevo – 28 March [O.S. 16 March] 1881, Saint Petersburg), one of the Russian composers known as 'The Five', was an innovator of Russian music in the romantic period. He strove to achieve a uniquely Russian musical identity, often in deliberate defiance of the established conventions of Western music.
Many of his works were inspired by Russian history, Russian folklore, and other nationalist themes. Such works include the opera Boris Godunov, the orchestral tone poem Night on Bald Mounta...
Confirmation: Comma precedes co-ordinating conjunctions only if it's joining two independent clauses. Usual examples of no comma usage show the second clause being subordinate. But if the first clause is not a complete statement you will not use a comma, right?
Eg. Not only did he bless him a lot but he also gave him a lot of blessings.
Think of punctuation marks the way you would about road signs: use them to facilitate traffic flow, not impede it. If they make it easier for the reader to navigate a sentence, use them. If not, leave them out.
You couldn't begin to downvote anyone before I'd be finished with downvoting everyone.
@GeorgePompidou I'm curious, do people actually have a reference on that, or are they making it up as they go? If it were so clear-cut as absolutely everyone on that page suggests, certainly it should be trivial to produce OVER 9000 references as a proof?
Is this sentence grammatical: “Are you sure you are 20 years old because on your profile you wrote that you are 47” Or should I say it like this: “…..you wrote that you were 47” or both are correct?
Both tenses are OK, but I believe the past tense is a bit more common: it may be somewhat contrary to logic, but it sounds better. Harmony of tenses (if that's what it's called) is a linguistic phenomenon that is not always very logical.
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@RegDwigнt I have seen that question a zillion times :) But still some new sentences look confusing so I ask them :)