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Jim is not in. Would you like to leave a message?

She's not answering the phone.

No answer. / No one's there to answer the phone. / No one answers the phone.

He's on another line.

Jim is not at his desk at the moment, can I take a message for him?

La connaissance conduit à l'unité comme l'ignorance mène à la division.

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Leaders may be evaluated not only by how much is produced or achieved, but by the quality of the team or organization and its members

It’s difficult for me to do my job well when I’m not given updated information.

Also, talk about your needs instead of their faults. Instead of saying, “You did the opposite of the plan we discussed,” say, “I need you to communicate more so we know we’re on the same page.”

In Mark’s case, his sense of smell was poor and he had no idea he was overdoing it. All it took was one person letting him know, and the situation was solved.

Madonna has visited Princeton / *Einstein has visited Princeton. /means that X has died is only appropriate at a time when the addressee would not yet know that X is dead./ If it's Hot News, use the Present Perfect; but if it's Old News, simple past.

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If I were you.../ It is technically correct since "the subjunctive mood is used to express a wish or possible situation that is currently not true."

John and Marsha's house was robbed last night. / I'm not a fan of 1995 to 2005's music scene at all. / The plants were eaten by the man next door's cat

For singular nouns that end in -s, the possessive is formed by adding -'s, The boss's car. [boss's sounds like bosses]

For nouns that are plural, the possessive formed in writing by adding an apostrophe after the plural -s. The boys' books [boys' sounds like boys]

"That" is a conjunction in this type of sentence. (In "the cat that jumped over the wall", it is a relative pronoun.) It is in general OK to leave out the conjunction "that" now and then, as long as no ambiguity arises.

He ate a green apple."Green" does not begin with a vowel sound, so we use "a".

Macaw is the newest, but not the the only player in the space. Both froont and Bohemian Coding's Sketch app are similar tools and they have had more time to improve on them.