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Hello, Kenduong In your question, you mentio "to-infinitive + adverb", yet in your examples the construction is "to + infinitive + adverb" (this is called in English "split infinitive" since the particle "to2 and the main part of the verb are separeted by an adverb). You can use an adverb after...

It is true that non-finite clauses (infinitival, gerundive or participial) don't show tense. Infinitival clauses, however, are seen by some authors as likely to have a subject: "He wants her to come." (to-infinitive) "I saw her come." (bare infinitive) In both examples, the direct objects ("her...

Hello. I am a student learning grammar. I have a final and there are three things in dont understand. I do not get Appositives/Appositive Phrases, Predict pronouns/nouns/adjectives, and direct/indirect objects. Thank you!

Hello, I'm a freshmen in college and I'm taking a challenging but very interesting and albeit very rewarding class on precision language. My question for you is: do you know of any in-line interactive grammar drills that drill over the jobs in sentences. Things such as direct objects, indirect...

Hello, I'm a freshmen in college and I'm taking a challenging but very interesting and albeit very rewarding class on precision language. My question for you is: do you know of any in-line interactive grammar drills that drill over the jobs in sentences. Things such as direct objects, indirect...

Charis and Hitchhiker, I am not a moderator for the site, nor am I a scholar in grammar. However, I studied English Lit., wrote many papers over four years and know a thing or two. I disagree with the suggestion. The term 'learning disabilities' does not appear in the original sentence. One...

I came across this sentence in a text I was issued for a seminar: "Give the package to (whoever, whomever) comes to the door." The correct response was listed as "whomever." The rationale for this was: substitute "he" or "him," as in "give the package to him." Therefore, in this sentence,...

In traditional grammar, a "direct object" is the noun or pronoun that is the direct recipient of the action of the verb. In the sentence "I smashed the mirror.", the word "mirror" is the direct object because the mirror is the object that "receives" the action of smashing. In a sentence like "I...

Hi there! This is a message for grammar diehards only, so if you are not interested in sentence structures please do click the BACK button on your browser right away!! Now, I'm sure you know that there are five basic sentence patterns, consisting of necessay elements which are S(subject),...

The first thing to note is the spelling: the correct spelling is a-c-c-u-s-a-t-i-v-e. Another thing to note is that the term often employed to identify the "case" of words like "him", "her" and "whom" is Objective, rather than Accusative (which is misleading in a simplified grammar like...