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I need to hand in this exercise but I'm not sure about the analysis nor the grammar. If you could have a look at eat I would be really grateful! thank you all! Explain the use of Generic Noun Phrases (or Noun Groups) in English by analyzing the examples. There are several linguistic resources...

"old" is an adjective, of course. "fifty years" is a noun phrase used as an adverb answering the question "how (old)?". How old is he? = adverb adjective verb pronoun. The pattern is NUMBER + UNIT + DIMENSION-ADJECTIVE Numbers: 3, 6, 10, 20, 75, ... Dimension adjective: old Corresponding...

In discussions of grammar, clauses tend to have subjects and predicates (but not necessarily), while phrases do not; the latter are merely groups of words that form a unit: Clauses: that I was not alone who was giving me the glad eye knowing who your friends are although not yet...

On p. 67, The Grammar Book gives two examples for the quote in the previous post: "That the children want friends doesn't surprise me." "What they want is revolutions everywhere." And this comment follows: "We do not have survey information on this type of agreement; however, we suspect that the...

The problem is very simple: you tried to "reconcile" my explanation with your sentence when your sentence does not exemplify my explanation. I provided examples for my explanations. And I also mentioned focusing on "correctness", not on what is "more common". Sometimes what is more common is...

Dave, First of all, and even when everyone is surely aware of this, I must insist that even when I believe my knowledge of the English grammar is good, I'm not a grammarian or a linguist. It would be completely absurd for me to try and analyse a language that is not even my own in depth when I...

Here's an example in which both are correct: is that it appears to be the object of the possessive adjective "your". In a normal noun phrase, a possessive determiner cannot be omitted: I regretted his decision. I regretted decision. The sentence becomes ungrammatical with the removal of...

Mirapence, your help is just priceless!!! I'm really sorry for having given you so much labour; I defiinitely overdid. I am, however, very thankful for your explanation. After this "injection of knowledge" you gave me, I decided go on phrases and hope to get through them with your help. I...

Just because ' have ' and ' to ' are always stuck together. So to say that ' have ' is the verb and ' to go now ' is the ' noun phrase ' means we break up the ' have ' and ' to ' for analysis. ? From Pem's point of view, if ' go ' is the verb, then ' have to ' is an auxilliary verb but it is not...

Hi, apparently the problem lies with the use of Latin structures in Prescriptive grammar. 1 yourDictionary.com 2 Concise Oxford Companion to the English Language 1 yourDictionary.com Will I be Arrested if I End a Sentence with a Preposition? A Southerner stopped a stranger on the Harvard...