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Hello I don't think "usual" means "correct" but "Longman English Grammar" by L.G. Alexander (1988) says: The most usual position of time adverbs is at the very end of a sentence. "We checked in at the hotel on Monday/yesterday." When there is more than one kind of adverb in a sentence,...

Hello Paco and Roro I hope you don't mind if I take a few steps back. I was struck by this passage on the Yates and Kenkel 'We're Prescriptivists. Isn't Everyone?' page: For example, one of the most notorious prescriptions is never to end sentences with a preposition. This style was given...

In English grammar, it normally means past participle. Some textbooks for learners call it V3 or the "third part" of the verb. "eat, ate, eaten; sing, sang, sung" Here "eaten" and "sung" are the PP's. CJ

Yes, Paco, sorry for my "intransitive" verb. In fact "boast" is both trans. and intrans. Here's Webster's explanation of the more frequent trans. uses: \Boast\, v. t. 1. To display in ostentatious language; to speak of with pride, vanity, or exultation, with a view to self-commendation;...

Hello The verb "boast" is basically intransitive and requires "of a thing". John is boasting of his grades. John boasted to/with his mates of/about his grades. There are two exceptional uses of "boast" as a transitive verb. John is boasting that he got the highest grade in the class. ...

Many English nouns and noun phrases can be used as adverbs. They are called "adverbial objectives". From the standpoint of word order, an adverbial objective is put as if it were an objective of a verb, but actually it works as an adverbial modifier of the verb. This sort of constructs comes from...

Thank you! I'm slowly working on my English grammar skills so I might have other questions about sentence structure in the coming days.

Hi, Latin, No, it is not wrong to say "What is the homework about?" Any time you want to know what the homework is about is the context! I suppose the question that is used more often for this is, "What do you have to do for homework?" In a direct question, subject and verb are...

Hi I'd say "they can hear you apply what they learn" the use of gerunds or infinitives is a complex issue in english grammar some verbs are necesseraly followed by a gerund, other by infinitive, and some can be followed by both (I am sure you can find the (pretty) long list in a grammar book) ...

Thank you for the quick reply. "Hope" seems a very simple verb, but frankly I'm really far from confident about how to use the phrase "I hope that.." and its kin phrases. My grammar book (Egawa's "A New Guide to English Grammar) says we can use "hope" in the present perfect tense. Actually,...