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Please check True or False F 1. Either an adverb or an adjective can modify a verb. T 2. A preposition usually has an object. F 3. Prepositional phrases are used as adjectives or adverbs. F 4. Every verb requires a direct object. T 5. A subject complement describes or identifies the...

ESL Basic English Grammar Questions and Help by Tumbling 1 yr 3 days ago Adverbs Prepositions Verbs Whom Clauses Direct objects
Re: Can a prepositional phrase serve as a subject?

about five people: about - adverb of degree. And yet, as a preposition: About five people is whom we talked. CJ

ESL General English Grammar Questions by CalifJim 1 yr 20 days ago Verbs Prepositions Adverbs Whom
Re: Distinguishing an object and a separate noun

The mistake you're making here is that you are assuming "greatness" and "disaster" are both functioning as nouns in these sentences. They are not. To understand a word's 'part of speech,' you must see how it functions in the sentence. The same word can have a different part of speech in...

ESL General English Grammar Questions by GL2 1 yr 22 days ago Grammar Verbs Prepositions Clauses Nouns Pronouns Adverbs Relative pronouns Whom

I can't find a source that explains what I thought I understood many years ago. The question deals with joining an adverb and an adjective with a hyphen before the noun, but not afterward: the freshly-cut lawn smells great ~ the lawn is freshly cut he is a highly-admired...

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Re: HELP! (noun/adjective/adverb clauses)

that guy is all wrong don't listen to him. nouns- answer whom or what adj.- answer which one adv- when, where, why these are just the basics there are many more, but i got through with these and little other knowledge.

ESL General English Grammar Questions by Anonymous 1 yr 134 days ago Verbs Clauses Nouns Adverbs Whom
Re: Is the present perfect being shown the door?

<This form is considered bad English.> By whom? I'm told that is accepted as standard. <It's interesting to note that the artificial language Ido at first did not have perfect tenses they were introduced by popular demand.> Yes, interesting. The thing is, the AE use of the...

ESL Linguistics Discussion Forum by milky 1 yr 266 days ago Verbs Tenses Whom Adverbs Present perfect
Re: sentence analysis 9/12/06

That does not mean your second sentence analysis is correct, but that we are of the same opinion. when is an adverb and conjunction, but not a relative pronoun. In modern English there are five relative pronouns: that, which, who, whom, and whose.

ESL General English Grammar Questions by Inchoateknowledge 1 yr 272 days ago Verbs Nouns Pronouns Adverbs Relative pronouns Whom
Re: Adjective and Adverb Appositives?

Hi Inchoateknowledge, frantically is an adverb, not an adjective. ( I agree) Is it that modifies the adjective word "even"? even frantically is not a clause, because it does not contain a verb. It is an adverb phrase. (I agree but I've never said even frantically was a clause.) The dog...

ESL General English Grammar Questions by Welkins2139 1 yr 360 days ago Verbs Clauses Nouns Pronouns Adverbs Commas Relative pronouns Whom
Re: Adjective and Adverb Appositives?

Hi Inchoateknowledge, frantically is an adverb, not an adjective. ( I agree) Is it that modifies the adjective word "even"? even frantically is not a clause, because it does not contain a verb. It is an adverb phrase. (I agree but I've never said even frantically was a clause.) The dog...

ESL General English Grammar Questions by Anonymous 1 yr 360 days ago Verbs Clauses Nouns Pronouns Adverbs Commas Relative pronouns Whom
Re: adverb before 'whom' in a defining rc

I have a few good acquaintances, none of whom prepared with a teacher. = I have a few good acquaintances, and none of them prepared with a teacher. = ..., and all of them (i.e., all of these few good acquaintances) are such that they did not prepare with a teacher. CJ

ESL General English Grammar Questions by CalifJim 2 yr 21 days ago Verbs Adverbs Whom

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Re: Can a prepositional phrase serve as a subject?

Re: Distinguishing an object and a separate noun

adverb-(hyphen)-adjective

Re: HELP! (noun/adjective/adverb clauses)

Re: Is the present perfect being shown the door?

Re: sentence analysis 9/12/06

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