I don't see why they should ever be thought of ... "theirs" is a predicate adjective. Adjectives all the way around. But the "their" in "their children" and "theirs" in your example sentence have no

The inimitable Mike Oliver (Email Removed) stated one day Yes, but when you want to use "their" that way, ... pronouns functioning as NPs when used in the "theirs/yours/mine" form. I don't see why they should ever be

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

Hi, this is my first post to the group. I’ve just pasted information from Pocket Fowler's Modern English Usage. To be quite frank, I don’t really understand these definitions fully but I hope the information is useful to you. So, regarding the

On 22 March 2003, under the present subject line, in Message-ID: (Email Removed), I said in a discussion of common-sense hyphenation I've long felt that it should be conventional to hyphenate the modified term in a case like : "I lost the

Hi, I'm a little confused here, maybe you could shed some light on it for me. Regarding these two sentences, ... all phrasal verbs and I've been wondering how I could be able to distinguish those phrasal verbs from the others. (2) could

This is the way I classify gerunds and present participles: I am running (gerund) Running is good for you (gerund ... function of a noun > gerund verbs in the ~ing form with the function of an adjective > present participle A gerund

If ' you ' is at the office, then ' at the office ' has become either a noun phrase or an adjective phrase. But both don't look like it ???

(Email Removed) (AnandVishy) burbled Could you please tell me whether the following sentences are grammatically correct or incorrect? 1) The President along with his advisors attends the meeting tomorrow. I don't see any grammatical problem

From an article by Dominick Dunne in the current Vanity ... or correct or what-have-you, or is Dunne in the clear? A case of that well-known English phenomenon where perfectly ordinary expressions start looking weird if you stare at them: Dunne