By Pronouns, Constructions

Hi, I think your sentence is something like I hope you to call. Yes, it's incorrect. However, you can say something like I hope to call. In this case, the meaning is that you will be the one who calls. You can't just add a pronoun like you to this construction. Instead, you need to use a...

I think the construction with "it" may be a "Germanic" (as in Germanic languages, Dutch, German & English) habit or vestige. They use it in German, the "announce" the following clause with a neutral pronoun, which in fact encompasses all the following clause.

Hello Katsudon Hello Guest. G: ? I'm a Japanese student and learning English in school. ? {questionable, possibly ungrammatical} K: One has to be very careful in the deployment of these 'rules' you learn. I'm sure you've learned that you can drop the subject in coordinated clauses, but you...

CJ wrote: But you absolutely cannot leave it out when it is the subject of its clause!!! ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ I used to hold to that belief too. I do agree with Jim that a zero relativizer or dropped relative pronoun is not at all common "when it is the subject of its clause" but it does...

The only context I can think of for this construction is something like this: "The museum is closed. The ceiling is being painted." "The ceiling has been 'being painted' for six weeks now. How long is it going to take??!!" It's a very awkward construction, and would only be used in a very...

Hello Mr Micawber I have to admit my English writing often gets "out of grammar" because I was not out of grammar school ( ). Yes, I understand this "each" is semantically equal to "apiece". But from the view point of construction, the usage looks like a hybrid of the adverb "each" and the...

Hello Lin, and welcome to English Forums. I don't think I can answer all of your questions, as they are very broad. (And by the way, what does 'a.m. grammar' mean? 'American grammar'? American grammar hardly varies from that of other Englishes in any significant way.) The imperative mood is...

The word 'neither' alone could be use as a determiner, pronoun, conjunction or adverb. Here it revolves around two things/persons. 1] I have got 2 old computers at home, but neither works properly. 2] Neither of us interested in travelling this summer. Neither my sister nor my...

hope / demand/ desire / want /wish (o) She hopes he comes/will come tomorrow. (x) She hopes him to come tomorrow. (o) She demands he (should) come tomorrow. (o) She demands him to come tomorrow. (o) She desires he (should) come tomorrow. (o) She desires him to come tomorrow. (?) She wants he...

??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...