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Dear MrP But isn t grammar that which we extract from all the contexts in which something is used No grammar is a set of rules which generate all possible utterances of the language and none of the illegal ones In my opinion that is I m a generativist I will even go further to distinguish a...

korin said Over approximately 1500 years the mammoth set of inflections of the Old English has virtually been discarded leaving only s plural nouns 3rd person singular verbs and saxon genitive in modern English English has become a rather analytic lg where most of the syntactic relations within a...

I do not claim that the plural ending s will definitely disappear However looking at the direction the English language is heading the disappearance would come as no surprise Over approximately 1500 years the mammoth set of inflections of the Old English has virtually been discarded leaving only...

I do not claim that the plural ending s will definitely disappear However looking at the direction the English language is heading the disappearance would come as no surprise Over approximately 1500 years the mammoth set of inflections of the Old English has virtually been discarded leaving only...

Why do people use irregular verbs Depends on the origin of the verb I guess English did borrow from many languages You asked Can we find a uniform of the symbol of ed and can the new symbol being separated from the verb Linguistic engineering is like genetic engineering it s something I wouldn t...

In addition to the fabulous information given so far please note every word in a sentence has a form what it looks like and a function what it does Let s look at up its form and function in this sentence 1 We called him up Given the word order we know right away that up is not a preposition in...

Do you agree with this statement http www yaelf com aueFAQ mifsplitinfinitive shtml Phrases consisting of to be or to have followed by an adverb and a participle are not split infinitives and constitute the natural word order To generally be accepted and to always have thought are split...

Su s post I always wonder some thing in English grammar For instance the sentence I drive him I is the subject Him is the object Yet their position have told us this too Is that means the English grammar is sort of double expressing For if the sentences of I him drive drive I him drive him I him...

Paco I read your Split Infinitive offering Very interesting The Star Trek example floored me to boldly go was regarded as the best version to go boldly did not have the fluid feel of the original What fluid feel It sounds positively clunky to me I agreed that boldly to go was miserable however I...

My guesses 1 Queen is the fifth noun acting as an adjective guests is subject of the dependent clause 2 Subject preceding verb is normal word order in an affirmative statement 3 Answers is the head it is modified by the other words 4 In a book is the direct object and can become the subject in c...