By Sentence structures, Adverbs

Alienvoord wrote: Aperisic wrote:However, the logic behind the grammar rules must be relatively simple, because not all people in UK or USA or Australia... are geniuses and they all speak the language using, even if local, the group of logical guidelines. Grammar can be quite complicated. But it...

Marius Hancu wrote:She is enormously rich. Good catch, Hancu. It seems to me, however, that I've seen this somewhat stuffy-sounding use of enormous as an adverb in, perhaps, Dickens. Defintely in the substandard American cowboy setting: "I'm powerful hungry". Am I imagining an 18th-century...

I had a similar discussion with a teacher on line regarding this type of sentence structure sometime ago. If I said “He has saved for year hoping to start his own business”. Would you say this is a similar sentence structure as “He spent years training himself to write”? If you agree, then I...

Hi Ben9108, My two cents: In simple sentence structure is as follow. Subject + Verb + Object Why adverb can use as a subject? I believe this question is based on your original sentence:” Please send your best offer to us.” As others pointed out, here,' please' acts as an adverb (Adverb of...

In simple sentence structure is as follow. Subject + Verb + Object Why adverb can use as a subject?

There are often optional ways of looking at sentence structure, but here are my opinions: 1. She | tried phoning | his home number, | but | he | didn´t answer. Subject | Verb | Direct object / noun phrase | conj. | subject | verb - Could "but he didn´t answer" be a clause?-- YES, it...

I cannot find out the main clause and subordinate clause of the following sentences? 1) . She’s gone back to work at CIA headquarters after her leave of absence, has been photographed by Vanity Fair, and has stood beside her flamboyant husband as he accepted accolades from liberal...

'Furthermore' tends to add more topping to the second point, where 'also' merely adds it to the first. I like sushi; I also like sashimi. I hate sushi; furthermore, it gives me hives. Furthermore, 'furthermore' is a more sophisticated adverb, and appears in longer and more formal sentence...

Hi everybody! I have just started to learn english, i'm from México and i would like to improve my vocabulary. I have some problems with sentence structure and when to use either adverbs or adjectives. I hope we'll learn tons of new things here. See you

The answer confuses me because earlier in the book it stated that a sentence beginning with 'that' is a dependent clause. This kind of clause cannot stand alone, but in the example above it does?! I encourage you to review a discussion about "it and that" by looking at this thread here. Pay...