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Green89 wrote: Please help me with these questions: Choose the best answer: 1.Once we build a house here,the ocean will be hidden from__ a.view b.sight What do you think? 2.___People from other cities are coming here to find work. a.large numbers of b.A large number...

Grammar Geek wrote: As an isolated utterance, I think you should feel free to use any of them. I'm going to the Bahamas. Who with? (Who with?) - sounds okay. It's only when you combine the question with the rest of the sentence that you really have a right and wrong. (*Who with are you...

It's his record on education , so the word order is a little problematic there. The idea is that Bush's record on higher education (i.e., the past actions he has taken or neglected to take which have affected higher education) is mixed (i.e., is not consistently all good or all bad). ...

a. I don't know what they're getting at with this one. It should be because of his poetry . Or maybe booed by his students of poetry , which is some kind of word order problem, but check your textbook for the specifics. Maybe someone else can help. b. Possibly that adjuncts like "with pie...

Clive wrote: The bottom line, of course, is that any of these systems is OK as long as it provides a tool that someone finds useful in learning to speak good English. Would you call this a relative clause? I don't know where the pen is . What would you say it relates to? When I asked this,...

As a rule, you can safely put even before the word/expression it qualifies : Even he bought a book. He even bought a book. He bought even a book . CB

I think you have got your terms mixed up, Anon. Sep a rating a subject from its verb is in no way exceptional in English, as Clive has already shown you. What I think you mean is sep a rating a verb from its object , which does happen in some cases but is often objectionable. In English one...

I would choose: There are many people who don't even use the internet at all. My second choice is before 'many'.

Hello, I need help with the word order in --are even-even are--. eg: "There are even many people who don't use the internet at all" . "There even are many people who don't use the internet at all." THANKS.

1. Your explanation was correct. You might have added that that begins a relative clause in the sentence and is the subject of the clause. There is not what some grammarians call a preparatory there in the clause. 2. Inverted word order, in other words finite verb before subject , is quite a...