In Articles^x, Clauses^x

Hello Teachers I have found a sentence below in an article of the Japan Times . " Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Liu Jianchao said Thursday he could not 'predict' how much oil or gas would turn up, but added that China hopes it and Japan could explore together. " What bugs...

I think your examples of question tags, ellipsis in interrogatives, semi-preconstructed phrases, and complex clauses and ellipsis are more likely to appear in spoken English than written. As to whether they stem from spoken or written grammar, I think they stem from informality, contextual...

Summarising: Three ways of looking at it. Extracts from the Geoffrey Leech article, " />English Grammar in Conversation . View 1: Spoken English has no grammar at all: it is grammatically inchoate. (That view) ...does not need to be taken seriously, although it is surprisingly persistent...

Esteemed teachers, Hello. I have more questions about the usage of the definite article. "When I was a child I would look at my father, the thinning hair, the collapsing teeth, and wonder why anyone would give money for a head like that." Why is the used instead of his ? Is it because...

Here is my attempt. Can you please tell me if it is OK? I'm not sure that all the articles are OK. The next step consists in making practical suggestions, discussing differences of attitudes, presentating arguments and considering possible favourable outcomes, concessions and clauses which...

Thank you for the link, Paco. I have just read part of that article and I will have to do some research because there is still something that -even if it is not completely wrong- does not seem to be completely right either. It would be interesting to read both Richardson Jacobson and see what...

Hello I am afraid I would be taken as a bit too presumptuous to put another post after Mr Micawber's. But I would like to state my way of parsing your sentences. 1. Moscow could not control the articles which (rule) ... : This is not a relative clause but a complement clause. It is the...

1.Moscow could not control the articles ( that) foreigners wrote once retured home but it could control the foreigners ( that) it admitted . (that): relative clause once: adverb of time (that): relative clause 2. Although I slept on a flock pillow and (I) made wide detours round lilac...

can someone help me pick out all the finite subordinate clauses from the following sentences?!! 1.Moscow could not control the articles foreigners wrote once thry retured home but it could control the foreigners it admitted. 2.Although I slep on a flock pillow and made wide detours round...

Hi Lynne, I believe this is a question related to the use of 'that' versus the use of 'which'. Check this out, and see if it answers your question: http://www.gu.edu.au/centre/gupsa/eir/content_which_or_that.html and: http://www.worldwidewords.org/articles/which.htm