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My guesses: (1) 'Queen' is the fifth noun, acting as an adjective; 'guests' is subject of the dependent clause. (2) Subject preceding verb is normal word order in an affirmative statement. (3) 'Answers' is the head-- it is modified by the other words. (4) In ( a ) 'book' is the direct...

Hello Julielai Not at all dumb. 1. Cat- as in 'cat-astrophe'; + ull- as in 'pull'; + -us with the same vowel sound as 'pull' again. Stress on -ull-. 2. Contemporary and near-contemporary poets - Tibullus, Ovid, Martial - make allusions to his poems; Virgil is especially influenced by him, and...

Hello again, Mask. I musunderstood your question, but I see what you mean now. Just like many other English words, "than" belongs to more than one class. It is a preposition in sentences like "She is taller than me", and it is a conjunction in sentences like "She is taller than I (am)." In other...

I was recently presented with two sentences: "She already has her first client lined up." and "She has already lined up her first client." The person who showed me these sentences was interested in how to classify the verbs; which are auxiliary verbs and which objects go with which verbs. Of...

It's a shame that your school, like too many others in this country, decided that the study of grammar was dispensable. It gives you a significant handicap when studying foreign languages if you don't know the technicalities of your own language's grammar. (Not everyone would agree with that...

The first thing to note is the spelling: the correct spelling is a-c-c-u-s-a-t-i-v-e. Another thing to note is that the term often employed to identify the "case" of words like "him", "her" and "whom" is Objective, rather than Accusative (which is misleading in a simplified grammar like...