Pretty sure it was 3 times . i’m positive
The sentence that is correctly hyphenated is "The beauty of Mount Fuji's near-perfect cone shape has enchanted people for centuries."
Near-perfect is correctly hyphenated because in this context it is a compound modifier, it modifies Mount Fuji's appearance.
This is a delightful and witty short story with that very Russian sense of the surreal combined with satire, that one sees in Bulgakov's writings (Bulgakov was an admirer of Gogol's work). I could go into all sorts of linguistic and psychological analysis of the symbolism of a man losing his nose, or I probably could if I knew Russian. But I suspect that rather misses the point. As the story says: Nonsense really does occur in this world, and, sometimes, nonsense altogether without an element of plausibility. I do not know what you can compare it with. Have you got any options? I think that you can get help with it if you check i tat the professional site. Prime Writings is the site with interesting blog on essay writing.
As long as isn't really used for exceptions.
Well, maybe in things like "You can have ice cream <em>as long as </em>you eat your veggies." Then it's a little like saying "You can have ice cream <em>if </em>you eat your veggies"
But
"You can have ice cream, <em>but </em>you need to eat your veggies first."
Except
"Everyone can have ice cream, except for Gally"
Barring
I'm not really sure about this one...
Um, I hope this helps!
