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Ellisa This is a very long passage and your other post seems to be even longer The editor at this web site makes it difficult to make corrections to long passages Also many teachers do not want to devote a long time working on a single post If you post only one paragraph at a time then different...

quote user Musicgold The company provided guidance for 2009 revenue being in the 30 40 million range quote It is grammatically somewhat on the border of being correct You ve put being in boldface font so I suppose you are mostly interested in that 2009 revenue being in the 30 40 million rangeis...

quote user Jackson6612 What is defective modal auxiliary verb quote Jackson See the catenative verb entry in wiki These verbs can be followed by other verbs infinitive gerund and bare infinitive http en wiktionary org wiki Appendix English_catenative_verbs

Thank you AlpheccaStars Unlike what you have said I think it could be said that gerunds are verbal nouns that perform the function of nouns

Hi Can you answer these questions 1 Is something like N to and noun correct to use how an integrated task based approach to learning is possible within the project plan 2 Is the practice of having puttingthe word not in front of a gerund correct and will not affect the noun nature of the gerund...

Anon Yes modals can be used with intransitive verbs Sleep is intransitive yet these are frequent I would sleep if I could I don t hear him he must be sleeping The same is true for vanish and surface I don t see him anymore he must have vanished into thin air The submarine should have surfaced...

Dear BBG Please try to be careful when you write If you don t think carefully about every word you write you will not learn why you make mistakes Think about tenses present past future Think about plurals is this one or more than one If it is more than one add an s Think about possessive case if...

Hi I would like to change this sentence into passive We measured the amplitude by calculating the RMS value Is this correct the amplitude is measured by calculating the RMS value You need to use past tense I know that in a passive by is used to indicate the agent but I don t know if it can be...

Hi I would like to change this sentence into passive We measured the amplitude by calculating the RMS value Is this correct the amplitude is measured by calculating the RMS value I know that in a passive by is used to indicate the agent but I don t know if it can be also used as in the sentence...

quote user Anonymous I m now considering joining the swimming team quote swimming is a gerund used as an adjective because a swimming team is a team that does swimming gerund so I suppose you could say it is both quote user Anonymous Last year while I was jogging I fell and hurt myself quote...