In English grammar^x, Verbs^x

Forbes wrote I think you misunderstand what I am trying to get at it If you are teaching someone Thai and you say Thai nouns have no plural you may give the impression that Thai has no means of expressing number which is not the case I agree that many students of language do not know what the...

Swan Practical English Usage Garner Modern American Usage Green Cassell s Dictionary of Slang 2nd edition In terms of grammars I still find Otto Jespersen A Modern English Grammar out of print the best especially in terms of examples from the literature Get at least vol IV dealing with the verb...

As isn t incorrect in this context In fact British grammarians in particular have long preferred it to like in written English although even in Britain like is probably more common in spoken English The following extract is from a book entitled A Practical English Grammar for Foreign Students...

This is a pretty standard style basic level test Blue Clown Most of it is quite natural though 18 is odd and 19 contains an odd pronoun these don t affect the answers however Part IV I imagine is quite difficult as it requires open choices from the student s vocabulary Part VI has plenty of...

Also from Jespersen historical examples of cases where back shifting hasn t been applied Finally I give some examples in which the tense has not been adjusted to that of the chief main M Hancu verb Shakespeare I should be still Plucking the grasse to know where sits the wind more vivid than sat...

sorry to repeat the post from another thread I feel it s quite an important matter Indeed MrPedantic Wrt 2 From the best authority back shifting from present to past in the subordinate isn t mandatory Finally I give some examples in which the tense has not been adjusted to that of the chief main...

From the best authority back shifting from present to past in the subordinate isn t mandatory Finally I give some examples in which the tense has not been adjusted to that of the chief main verb Shakespeare I should be still Plucking the grasse to know where sits the wind more vivid than sat note...

Soylista wrote I am confused with this expression will be going to Vb eg I will be going to visit Aunt Carol tomorrow To me this expression is sort of redundant Why do you need to use both will and be going to I somewhat understand the differences between future meaning expressions be going to...

I have desperately been looking for a good book on grammar I don not mean the practical grammar in use but a book on grammar as an element of the linguistic system It should contain topics like syntactic units syntactic relations syntactic functions verb phrases morphological categories noun...

The various forms of phrasal verbs Phrasal verbs can be transitive or intransitive separable or inseparable The object or accusative can in the cases of separable phrasal verbs be placed before or after the particle With inseparable phrases the object accusative is fixed and its position either...