The correct spelling of the word meaning 'able to be trusted as being accurate or true' is 'authoritative'.
The passive modal 'can be saved' becomes 'can save'. 'Our country' becomes the object and 'By whom' becomes the subject 'Who'.
These are the closing lines of the first stanza of W. B. Yeats' poem "Easter 1916" which reflects on the Easter Rising in Ireland.
The passive form of a negative imperative starts with 'Let not' followed by the object 'be' and the past participle of the verb.
'Murder in the Cathedral' is a verse drama by T. S. Eliot first performed in 1935 portraying the assassination of Archbishop Thomas Becket.
'All for Love' is a heroic drama by John Dryden written in 1677. It is a retelling of the story of Antony and Cleopatra.
Sitting happily is a participle phrase modifying "the chicken". It functions as a dependent or subordinate phrase and cannot stand alone as a complete sentence.
Caliban is a key character in William Shakespeare's play 'The Tempest'. He is the monstrous son of the witch Sycorax.
A common noun is a name for a general class of places or things (e.g. river city boy). A proper noun names a specific one (e.g. Padma Dhaka).
'Caesar and Cleopatra' is a historical play written in 1898 by the Irish playwright George Bernard Shaw.
When two actions happened in the past the earlier action uses past perfect tense (had + past participle) and the later action uses simple past.
The correct spelling is 'reminiscence' not 'reminescence'.
'The History of Tom Jones a Foundling' often known as 'Tom Jones' is a comic novel by the English novelist Henry Fielding. It is a classic picaresque novel.
Herman Melville's novel 'Moby-Dick' is about the obsessive quest of Captain Ahab to hunt a giant white sperm whale named Moby Dick.
This line is from Samuel Taylor Coleridge's famous poem "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner".
A topic sentence is the sentence in a paragraph that summarizes the main idea of that paragraph.
The positive 'Very few... as... as' is converted to comparative '... more... than most other...'.
The adjective 'identical' is followed by the preposition 'with' or 'to'. 'With' is the more common choice in this context.
In the opening of his epic poem 'Paradise Lost' John Milton explicitly states his purpose is to "justify the ways of God to men".
These lines are from Percy Bysshe Shelley's famous "Ode to the West Wind" where the poet asks the wind to lift his spirit.