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Thanks Philip. According to the grammar book, the answer to the #1 question is the adjective "happy". My problem is why not the verb "seem". I created the #2 question to mirror the question #1. But would the answer still be "happy", or the verb "act"...

(We have rooms / a room.)What would be the objection? That "there" cannot be object of the preposition because its not a noun? I think "in there" and "out there" are common constructions in all the romance languages. Sorry I don't know what it's called. ...

I obviously agree with Forbes: it depends on your first language. I have never had any problems with passive sentences, subjects and objects, the difference between countable and uncountable, etc. because those are all features I have in Italian too. It is not difficult at all for me to use...

I have to analyse the following sentence, but I'm really stuck..."Amanda's practical solutions of what had seemed an insoluble mystery descended on the family like a balm."I have to cut this sentence into constituents and cut those up in nouns, verbs, adverbs, adjectives,...

I would suggest that an ESL student who could understand the English necessary for such an explanation would no longer need it. MrPHow about this student?<<I assume many of you have watched the cartoon "Totally spies", right? I just wonder why it is "Totally" here....

This is my take:The use of "would rather" is not restricted by time. In certain aspects, it contains a conditional element as well. Here is some info. Hope that helps your question.<EDITED by mod to credit your source.>

(Yay, I got the quote thing down!) Thanks for your time Avangi, I truly appreciate it. But I must say I'm just about as depressed as can be :(, because now I'm think I, as someone learning English as a 2nd language, am.....(pardon my languaged here) screwed. I don't thik I have...

This is exactly the point I was trying to make about the limitation of the rules. They're useful only in eliminating the adjectival function, not in asserting it. An adverbial / prepositional phrase, according to the two rules, may be placed anywhere, including directly after a noun which...

Sorry Avangi, this idea just came to me soon after I posted the previous message. Allow me to play with the rules again. Let's say we rearrange the sentence in such way: "We saw the jaguar in the cage from the jungle of Brazil." Semantcally it means the same to me....

I've been threatening to buy an ESL text, but haven't gotten around to it.Taken by themselves, the two rules you quoted would be useful only in concluding that a prepositional phrase which does not immediately follow a noun must be adverbial, since it cannot be adjectival. That's...