In British English^x, Pronouns^x

They are insisting he go/goes to Athens. It is advisable that he spend (not spends) the summer holidays with you.As a footnote: in British English, the present subjunctive is much less common than the indicative in such structures; though curiously, in the last 10 to 20 years, it has become...

Mister Micawber wrote:When the operator do is used in a question, it is the verb that changes, not the main verb (have) or the pronoun referent:Do you have the ball? (referring to you)Does he have the ball? (referring to him) Have is peculiar in that it does not always require the...

I just got my Swan back from a friend and here's what he has to say about these group words. -------------------------------------------------- Michael Swan; Practical English Usage: 503 1 groups of people In British English, singular words like family, team, government, which refer to groups...

From "http://www.bartleby.com/68/49/349.html": These two prepositions are interchangeable in meaning, but among is far more frequent in American English; for some, amongst has a rather dusty-genteel quality. It occurs far more often in British English. (1) The Oxford English Dictionary...

I sympathize with Jeff. When I was learning English--that's decades ago--I read a grammar book delineating the same rule as Jeff brought up. As years passed, I realized that's a rather weird rule. I checked it with native speakers, they said in unison to the effect that I should forget the...

"My family is spending its vacation in the east." I know that here is a difference between American and British English, as "family" is understood either as a collective noun, seen as 'ONE group', so verbs and possessive pronouns occur in singular: "My family is spending ITS vacation in the...

Hi, Guest. In the sentences "I like these ones" and "I like those ones", "these" and "those" function as adjectives/determiners, and "ones" -a pronoun- is used instead of repeating the word "glasses". In "I like these" and I like "those", "these" and "those" are used as pronouns, so "ones" is...

I'll try to give a partial answer. A relative clause is a portion of a sentence that adds information about a previous noun in the sentence. The previous noun is called the antecedent. Relative clauses are marked by relative pronouns: that, which, who, whom, and others. Examples will...

When we talk about comparison between people, things or actions, we can use "as" or "like", depending on the structure. "Like" is a preposition which should be followed by a noun or a pronoun. Example: I'm not _like_ my brother. "As" is a conjunction which should be followed by a clause...

In a title you should capitalise every word except pronouns (except when it's I or at the beginning of the sentence), verbs, preposistions and conjunctions. Therefore, in your example you only need to capitalise the M in major! (by the way, the way I spelt Capitalise is not a mistake, it's...