By English grammar, Clauses

Hello MrP Frankly I felt a bit embarrassed when I read Pastel's original post that says about the use of <is going to do> in the result clause of an if sentence. It is because I had long believed <is going to do> was rarely used in if sentences. I have three grammar books and three...

Hello CJ My grammar book lists the verbs that can take the construct of "S V O (to be) C". The verbs are "think", "believe", "consider", "feel", "find", "guess", "imagine" "know", "prove", and "report". The book quotes a description in Swan's PEU that the construct is commonly used in an passive...

Hi, Latin, No, it is not wrong to say "What is the homework about?" Any time you want to know what the homework is about is the context! I suppose the question that is used more often for this is, "What do you have to do for homework?" In a direct question, subject and verb are inverted, and...

Hi, hiperaktif. Your sentence is the case of inversion. There is a string of rules regarding inversions. I'd present three of them that I believe are the most important to those who are going to take English grammar exams. Inversion Rules Rule 1: In the sentences where 'if' is omitted. ex)If...

The Short Explanation: 'This' is one item here. 'That' is one item over there. 'These' is more than one item here. 'Those' is more than one item over there. Use 'which' for restrictive or non-restrictive clauses modifying non-humans. Use 'that' for restrictive clauses modifying humans or...

Hello Maria Welcome to this EnglishForum. I myself am a mere English learner from Japan. I'm glad if we can learn English together here. I think you'd better parse your sentence this way; Main frame: Each follows Harry. Modify some of its elements a little, you'll get: ...

I still have hard time accepting 'a case and when' combination in the relative clause, "His report includes a few cases when monkeys attacked infants." I quote, COBUILD's "English Grammar", saying "'when' can be used in defining clauses, but 'when'-clause mast be preceded by the word 'time' or by...

??I want that you clean up your room this instant! It would not surprise me to learn that it was possible in some NAmE Englishes. Some Romance language speaking immigrants may speak it. Quote from Everything2 : The Subjunctive Mood of English After verbs which formerly used the...

http://pinker.wjh.harvard.edu/articles/media/1994_01_24_thenewrepublic.html Probably no "grammatical error" has received as much scorn as "misuse" of pronoun case inside conjunctions (phrases with two parts joined by is an object that requires object case, it does not mean that is an object...

(Mod - I moved this from a learner's question as I felt they just needed a simple answer, which they received from others, rather than a debate on the issue. This is more appropriate for this section, so others interested in the theory of linguistics can continue if they wish.) Re: I, me Posted:...