By Articles, Verbs

Hi, Can someone please help me? I have to do a grammar analysis of an article for homework and I am having trouble working out the difference between verbs and gerunds, particulary in one sentence of the article. I want to know how the words joining and succumbing are being used? "His...

Can someone please help me? I have to do a grammar analysis of an article for homework and I am having trouble working out the difference between verbs and gerunds, particulary in one sentence of the article. I want to know how the words joining and succumbing are being used? "His compliments...

The article is usually omitted after some verbs if only one person can have the title at a time:He was king of France in those days.He was elected president.They made her queen.A union can have many members and therefore member would take an article:He was a member of the Union...But if the word...

Hi, please check these sentences. 1. Among the rooms available for rent is a single large room that will hold 200 people. -- Does the phrase "among the rooms available for rent" qualifies as a subject that needs to be followed with 'is'? 2. Check out prior week's articles. -- I think we can...

This Post:256204 may or may not be useful, as it is on a similar topic, but not the exact same one. Check it out, noting later in the same thread: "There are a number of particles (up, down, in, out, on, off, away, back) which should make us very suspicious that we are dealing with a...

Just highlighted a few glaring errors. Anonymous wrote: During the Gulf War of 1991, John Simpson, a foreign affairs editor of BBC Television, was sent as a reporter to Bagdad. Because of malnutrition and exhaustion (consider rearranging the sentence) he had to go to hospital in Amman, Jordan....

Lin1978 wrote:Dear Masters,The grammar, "the verb transferred to passive terms", preplexes me all the time. I have read an article,"women with money encounter the fragile male ego on date", in New York Times. There is a sentence in this article,"Women are encountering forms of the hostility they...

Hi, In this writing in the article named "One-Eyed People and Terrible Monsters," are the underlined verbs used carry a sense of the past? One as the past form of 'can' and the other as the past form of "may"? Can the second one be "might have looked sound but have been eaten through"? A sailor...

Lin1978 wrote:Dear Masters,The grammar, "the verb transferred to passive terms", preplexes me all the time. I have read an article,"women with money encounter the fragile male ego on date", in New York Times. There is a sentence in this article,"Women are encountering forms of the hostility they...

Hi all I was reeading this post http://www.englishforums.com/English/Passive/zcvpl/Post.htm by Lin1978 and ran across this sentence: «Women are encountering forms of hostility they weren’t prepared to meet...» and I have no idea why it's "weren't prepared" instead of "aren't...