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The sentence "We saw the man on the hill with a telescope" can be analyzed in the following way. The standard simple sentce structure -> Subject + verb + object + complement + Adverbial Qualification ( reference wren & martiin ) Here, the man becomes Object. The advective phrase is always...

korin said: >Over approximately 1500 years, the mammoth set of inflections of the Old English has virtually been discarded leaving only 's' (plural nouns, 3rd person singular verbs, and saxon genitive) in modern English. English has become a rather analytic lg, where most of the syntactic...

Thank you also for the tip about the word order: 'the sentence below" Regards Alex

But. . . both you and your boss are correct. Consider, (A) My family (my dad, mom, and bother) are here with me. (non-collective noun) (B) My family (the group) is here with me. (collective noun) (C) British Coal, they who own and run the company, are. . . (D) British Coal, the company, is. ....

It's "...do you not like". I suppose the answer is that the negation of "to like" is "not to like". So, in the present tense, the negation of "like" is "not like". The correct word order is therefore "...do you not like". However, as you quite rightly point out, it *IS* abbreviated to "don't...