@Liveinjapan: We're really digressing from your original question, so you may want to ignore this. Hi Toms, These are some great examples! "One moment please" is correct as part of a dialog. It does not stand alone since it is a

The following is what I uploaded to an online forum. I was asking if there might be an adjective for the noun 'limp.' Anyhow ... I'm not asking the same question in this message, but rather about my use of verbs. I couldn't decide

Hi Liveinjapa, No, "when I was boy " is incorrect. Since boy is a noun, it must have an article, here " a boy ". Omitting the article is correct for adjectives, e.g. "when I was little ". Regards,

Hi Liveinjapa, No, "when I was boy " is incorrect. Since boy is a noun, it must have an article, here " a boy ". Omitting the article is correct for adjectives, e.g. "when I was little ". Regards, Tom

I am not particularly fond of "lion flew...", for lions are not known to have wings. You may consider metaphors such as "....soaring like a eagle high in the sky". This firmly solid United Nations building, This is not

I think I would accept "adverb" as an answer, even in the last one. The intent is to say that when I fly, I fly on American Airlines planes or by means of the carrier American Airlines. American is an adjective in American Airlines ,

thanks dimsumexpress, what is the fault with each of these passages? a) With powerful wings , he flew like a lion to the rescue of his friend. This sentence contains a misconceived metahoric construction, "like a lion.." but

Hi None of these is an adjective - the choice is adverbial or nominal: I travel light . Light is an adverbial because it desribes how you travel, so SVA. I fly first class. Similarly, first class (i.e 'by first-class

Greetings, dear friends, there are several facts relating to this matter that can be unambiguously stated a priori. One of them concerns the definition of a lexico-grammatical class of the word 'unlike' (i.e. its word class/part-of-speech

There are two people in the room named Chris. I assume you want to talk to Chris, both of them. I assume you want to talk to Chris (both of them). 1) Both are grammatical sentences, but how would you label the phrases in