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Thanks to all of you for clarification. Originally, my question was triggered by another one of purely grammatical nature that I found posted on a website where we Japanese discuss English grammar and something like that. The question went like this: Assuming that in each of the sentences...

Nothing's sure-shot in English grammar, Sunu. Just the old guidelines: the subject is usually the performer of the verb's action, and the object is usually its recipient. The subject is usually the first noun phrase in a sentence, and it is the only noun phrase that the verb agrees with....

You remember 'S-V-O', don't you, Vincent-- the most common basic sentence structure? I am speaking of 'O', the object of the verb. Take the sentence, The armadillo ate the damsel fly . The subject is armadillo , the verb is ate and the object of the verb is damsel fly . It is the...

Thanks for your help. May i know what verb objects are?

Only #1 is correct. #2 and #4 need verb objects. #3 is not a complete sentence because the verb is not finite; it is only a participle.

Thanks, that helps. I think verb tenses are the most difficult aspect of english grammar. I am slowly getting it though.

"A Practical English Grammar" by Thomson and Martinet: As everyone/everybody takes a singular verb, the pronoun should be he/him, she/her with possessive adjectives his and her. But this is only found in formal English. In ordinary conversation the plural forms they/them and their are...

A critical point in my long quotation above is: " Very by itself does not modify verbs, and therefore it cannot modify the past participle of a verb." Why not? From The Online Etymology Dictionary : very c.1250, verray "true, real, genuine," later "actual, sheer" (c.1390), from...

Hello CJ My grammar book lists the verbs that can take the construct of "S V O (to be) C". The verbs are "think", "believe", "consider", "feel", "find", "guess", "imagine" "know", "prove", and "report". The book quotes a description in Swan's PEU that the construct is commonly used in an...

Thus we need someone proficient enough in English grammar to judge us about the matter. Someone, help us!