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Hi C (or Cs ): Complementizers: Words which introduce the sentence complement are termed complementizers. CP: Complement phrase. Matrix clause: the construction in which the complement phrase is embedded is called matrix clause. Infl : Sentences have their own heads. They take an...

Inchoateknowledge wrote: Hi, Thank you for your detailed explanation. The apple of each student. Let us disregard verb inflection and concentrate on the deternminer before 'apples' I used 'the' because I mean the twenty apples I have already referred too. 'The twenty apples' is what I want to...

Hi, Thank you for your detailed explanation. The apple of each student. Let us disregard verb inflection and concentrate on the deternminer before 'apples' I used 'the' because I mean the twenty apples I have already referred too. 'The twenty apples' is what I want to paraphrase using...

To me, the use of plural (have) suggests that you have a personal involvement in the group: you are one of the students of which every second has been expelled. The singular 3rd person inflection is free of such connotations. If you ask me, in case of group noun-verb agreement, the verb form...

Are you attacking from another side? Fortunatelly, verb inflection is under my belt. It escaped my attention.

If you are involved in languages and grammar, you will need the word inflection . If you are involved in mathematics, particularly calculus, you will need the word inflection . These are the only two usages of the word I have ever encountered in my entire life! You won't...

Drewauerbach wrote: Here is another stylistic sin that you can and should avoid: 9) in order to + conjugated verb vs. to + conjugated verb Simply put, there is never a reason to insert "in order" before an infinitive. It's verbose, and should always be dropped. Example: WRONG: In order to have a...

Patricklui wrote: Hello I am new to here. My mother tongue is Cantonese and I like to polish my English. It's known that English has two different versions : spoken and written. I have been learning English since I was a child and my written English is not too bad because this is what I...

In those cases where subjunctive inflection is allowed, indicative inflection is allowed too.

Alienvoord wrote: Does English even have a past subjunctive? It was agreed six months ago that the house, come what may, was to be decorated inside and out before the end of June. "was" is identical in form to the simple past. So why do some people call it the past subjunctive? Hi...