By Word order, Verbs

All of your sentences are correct. The choice of where to position the "maybe" is one of style rather than grammatical necessity. If style is what you'd like to improve on, I would suggest getting rid of the "was...maybe" structure altogether: He saw something that may have been a ghost. It...

Dear Andrewdust: As I promised, I have reviewed your short story and taken the liberty of making suggested corrections. Again, I want to congratulate you on a well written document. You have real talent that you should continue to develop. I would suggest that you purchase "The Elements of...

There's a trick you can sometimes use to figure this out. If the word order is , chances are it's active voice. If the word order is , chances are it's passive voice. This doesn't always work. Some verbs are intransitive, sometimes subject or object are omitted, sometimes the word order is...

It's what the British call an "Americanism", as it seems to be a practice which originated there. Television and the internet mean the British are starting to do it too. In summary: The English tend to use adverbs correctly. The Americans do things different. It is formally incorrect. HOWEVER...

"At that time" means "at a particular MOMENT" - say, for example, ten past three on Sunday afternoon. "In that time" means "within a given INTERVAL" - say, the interval while you were at work yesterday. Both of the above are adverb phrases, because the preposition converts the noun phrase "that...

"mountain" is a noun, however the wider sentence does not (cannot) treat this word in isolation, or as part of its OWN syntax. It's just like in math, when you say: 1+2*3, you have to parse (2*3) FIRST before you can parse the rest, which then becomes 1+6. If you parse things in the wrong order,...

Wow, this was an interesting post, "english-test"! But let me make a few additions to your thoughts: >>When discussing cultural differences between nations I think we should always bear in mind a number of things: - people have much more in common than sets them apart regardless of their...

It's a shame that your school, like too many others in this country, decided that the study of grammar was dispensable. It gives you a significant handicap when studying foreign languages if you don't know the technicalities of your own language's grammar. (Not everyone would agree with that...

The first thing to note is the spelling: the correct spelling is a-c-c-u-s-a-t-i-v-e. Another thing to note is that the term often employed to identify the "case" of words like "him", "her" and "whom" is Objective, rather than Accusative (which is misleading in a simplified grammar like...

Somebody else has told me that the difference between the two examples "Do you know what's wrong with it?" and "Do you know what it is? is that the whole phrase "what's wrong with it" is being used as an adverbial modifying the verb "know". So the "it" that appears in this phrase is not actually...