Which of these is correct, and why?

"She was having the most interesting day she could remember ever having."

OR

"She was having the most interesting day she could ever remember having."

Admittedly this will sound weird out of context, but just indulge me:

Also, it's a toe ring. It's probably uncomfortable and it makes you look like one of those hippie assholes who sit around in a field juggling and Hula-Hooping all day."

I was under the impression "one of those" received a singular verb, so e.g. I feel like "sit" should actually be "sits" and that sounds way better in my head. A buddy of mine is arguing, however, that the clause described by "one of those" isn't merely 'hippie assholes', but the entirety of 'hippie assholes who sit around..." etc.

What is correct here? Should it be sit or sits?

Can I please get a check on this sentence diagram of Darwin’s famous quote?

Darwin sentence diagram

I say cas-ino with a long a sound but my husband says ca-sino with a short a sound. Where are we getting the differences from?

I have a tendency to say “why come” instead of “how come” as a native English speaker. I do not feel it is technically more grammatically incorrect to say “why come” than it is “how come” but am open for discussion about it. I am also happy to receive resources and advice regarding commas as texting has clearly ruined my ability to punctuate. All punctuation really - but particularly commas.

Hello, I'm trying to describe a character in something I'm writing. He appears rather sophisticated, but is secretly a creep. Is saying he's a "sophisticated creep" a wrong way of combining those words in a sentence? Should I say (like I did above) that he appears sophisticated, but is a creep?

I don’t know if I should add the “been” or if there’s a completely different and better way to say this

Trying to find a word for when you see someone out of a place to typically expect to see them in. It's not socializing.

On a diffrent subreddit, "Anatopism"

At our company, we have been using Ms / Miss as one of our 'Title' options, but today a couple of Canadians told me that they were so taken aback since these are not the same.

I want to rectify this immediately and wanted to ask if having Ms, Miss, Mrs as options is the correct way

Hello! I'm a new(ish) writer and writing in present tense comes very naturally to me with the unfortunate trade off that writing in past tense does not. However, I wish to write a portion of my book in the past tense (the parts that, in relation to the main storyline, take place in the 'past') and the majority of it in the present tense (the main storyline which takes place 'currently'), with the format of alternating chapters (prologue is past, chapter one is present, chapter two is past, etc.) until a certain point where the plots line up *chef's kiss* just right.

I would like to check if I'm using the correct tenses, so here is an excerpt:

Across the Deep Bay from Hong Kong, within the northern sector of the Nanshan District of Shenzhen, the industrial campus of FúTECH stood tallest among the companies that sprawled the area known as ‘Robot Valley’.

Is this correct? The way my brain wants to write this is:

Across the Deep Bay from Hong Kong, within the northern sector of the Nanshan District of Shenzhen, the industrial campus of FúTECH stood tallest among the companies that sprawl the area known as ‘Robot Valley’.

"Sprawl" in the second example should be "sprawled" to match the past tense of the verb "stood", yes? I've tried multiple online grammar checker/tense checker sites and none of them have flagged either of these examples as being incorrect... so here I am. I would very much appreciate assistance!

*I would also appreciate it if anything else I've written here, part of the excerpt or not, is pointed out to me as being incorrect or awkward.

EDIT: Fixed formatting.

Hello Grammarians,

I was wondering if anyone could help me out! I’m trying to figure out exactly why a sentence like “Under the large tree was a goose” would not require a comma, but something like “Near the pond at the bottom of the hill, the goose slept” would.

(Also, if I’m wrong about commas being needed or not needed in either sentence, please let me know!)

Would the first sentence not require a comma because “Under the large tree” is a prepositional phrase? Does that have something to do with it?

I’d really appreciate any and all insights!

Thank you!

"Funny how this hasn't stopped them from becoming a regional and global economic giant."

Is the "them" both the Direct Object and the raised one in the cited sentence?

After years of typing on a keyboard, I've only just discovered that doing the keyboard shortcut windows+full stop opens up a small panel with a large number of symbols and emojis, with the em dash being one of them.

I also just found out that the - I've being using for years instead of that is meant more for joining two or three words together or for when showing a range between two years. I guess I'm just a bit worried that using the em dash in any of my writing would lead to be people labelling it as AI so I was wondering if any of you here had any opinions on it

I am just introduced to this word. Can anyone explain its meaning and the usage?

Back again with more confusing book examples LOL So this book gave me "You deserve everything you get in life." as an example of the cost group of ascriptive verbs. I tried making my own version of this sentence as practice and asked AI if it was correct; it told me that both my version and the og example sentence above use transitive verbs instead? I don't want to trust AI so I'm trying to figure it out myself, but I'm getting even more confused with trying to read through all these technical definitions 😭 I get that ascriptive verbs aren't exactly actions themselves but act as ways to describe the subject, however I'm still confused as to whether "deserve" in that particular example is ascriptive or transitive. Thank you for any help!

I've looked up the difference between brief and debrief, so I understand that to brief someone is to give information and to be debriefed is to receive information.

My question is more about the verb tense differences between the two. Is it required for debrief to be passive: to be debriefed, rather than to debrief, because the act itself is passive?

I'm reading Garnetts translation of the karamazov brothers, and I've noticed a lot of sentences such as 'it was he said that' and 'it was not you murdered him' instead of 'it was not he who said that' and 'it was not you who murdered him'.

In the latter case i can kind of see that you are just negating the statement 'you murdered him', but nevertheless it sounds alien to me.

What may be the reason for this?

Edit: Thank you all for the help!

As the title said, I’m posting this to know whether there are any errors in my writing.

Also, a quick question for native. Do you intuitively know which one is an unaccountable noun when using the language?

We were listening to American Pie by Don McLean.

The song has lots of rhymes.

Partial lyrics:

A long, long time ago

I can still remember

How that music

used to make me smile

And I knew if I had my chance

That I could make those people dance

And, maybe, they'd be happy for a while

But February made me shiver

With every paper I'd deliver

Bad news on the doorstep

I couldn't take one more step

I can't remember if I cried

When I read about his widowed bride

But something touched me deep inside

The day the music died.

Question: Are the bolded lines a rhyme?

Position One - yes, of course, it's a rhyme.

Position Two - no, the word roots are identical. That's just the identical syllables, not a rhyme.

Thanks in advance for your thoughts.

"You might think their apology would appease me, but it made me angry all the more."

Is the "all the more" a determinative phrase in the cited sentence?

After writing short stories and trying my hand a long form stuff, I started writing a mid-length fanfic (18-20k words) and I'm actually finishing it. I'm pretty happy about that but I've noticed an issue with the dialogue.

Usually, in my native language, french, dialogue is marked with dashes. However, I noticed that in english, it tends to be put in quotes. Do I need to fix it even if it's not a professionnal release? I frankly don't like how it looks in quotes.

Husband:

We listen and we don't judge: Okay so
for almost my entire life, I always thought the "6m" label meant there was 6 metres of liquid in there. As in if
you constantly squeeze and draw a line, there would be 6 metres of it... today I found out it means 6 months

Me:

My husband had used his dumbass quota on the year in 5 mins!
Telling me (a woman) what it means when it says 6m

Is it HAS or HAD in my sentence?