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Your having written, "I would like to thank you...", in the context of your focus on grammatical sense, prompted me to encourage you to do that which you would like to do.
Of course to most, your writing that you'd like to thank others is the same as your actually thanking them.

Beautiful tree-structure! (What species?)
Nadolig Llawen!

Stevenloan wrote: ↑

Sat Dec 22, 2018 3:50 pm

I would like to thank you all very very much for your answers.

StevenLoan

Go ahead.

A DNA-project?

Amen, tony h,
and the ellipsis-explanation gets my vote.

BonnieL wrote: ↑

Thu Dec 20, 2018 3:52 pm

My husband is my editor & he would never say he made the story better!

But as your husband, he must!

a) I modified a few little things in the story and made it a much better story than that which you'd written. b. I added a few things to the machine and now it is a better machine than that which you'd made. If I were to use the last three words of your sentences, BonnieL, I'd hyphenate them to "wha...

a. I modified a few little things in that story and made it a much better story than it had been as you had written it.

b. I added a few things to that machine and now it is a better machine than it had been as you had made it.

The sentence amhugeuous.

That's how I see it.

Lord give us wisdom by which we differentiate between mis- and disinformation.

An ellipse.
My young nephew called an ellipse "Annie lips".
Call your Mom.

Hi Stevenloan,
What was A's response when B said "cheers" to him?

Thank you Phil.

Phil, what is elliptical, and are there any other geometry-terms used to describe expressions?
Of course, anything one can write is "grammatical"; I guess "grammatical" means "grammatically-correct".