By Pronouns, Sample

Webster Online Rosetta Edition says:Usage Frequency: "I""I" is generally used as a pronoun (personal) -- approximately 97.71% of the time. "I" is used about 904,364 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English...

I think the following article from Webster's Dictionary of English Usage answers some of our questions. very 1. "Very" and the past participle. Fitzedward Hall 1873 cited a Professor Maximilian Muller as asserting that expressions like "very pleased" and "very delighted"...

Is it correct to write the following sample sentence? "I would go with you if you would pay for my movie ticket." JTT: Yes, it's fine, Procrastinator. Here, 'if you would' is the volitional 'would', it's questioning the person's willingness to shell out for the ticket. "I would go with you...

People sometimes refer to the CGEL on this site. Conveniently, some sample chapters from this publication are now online at CGEL sample chapters The preliminary chapter includes the odd lapse of logic. This is one of the first. Apologies for the fairly lengthy quotation: Another kind of...

They're interesting results. If we exclude 1a (small sample), they suggest 'person of verb by nearest preceding subject pronoun' – except 3. So 'me...is' jars less than 'us...is'; which takes us back to Paco's point about number. But then, perhaps some instances here of 'need' are semi-modal,...

You certainly cannot omit the 'who' in your sample, Jeff: 'There is an old man who wants to see you' needs its 'who'. Object relatives can usually be dropped: 'There is an old man (who/m) I wish to see'. In continuous forms, the relative + 'be' can be omitted: 'There is an old man (who is)...

English is a Germanic Language of the Indo-European Family. It is the second most spoken language in the world. It is estimated that there are 300 million native speakers and 300 million who use English as a second language and a further 100 million use it as a foreign language. It is the...

helo n thank you to all, i have some problem to write essei about REFLEXIVE PRONOUNS i have some assigment under title " imagine u receive a letter from a friend who attends school in another city, your friend is not doing well at school and is having problems with a boyfriend or girlfriend....