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I've been threatening to buy an ESL text, but haven't gotten around to it. Taken by themselves, the two rules you quoted would be useful only in concluding that a prepositional phrase which does not immediately follow a noun must be adverbial, since it cannot be adjectival....

Thank you very much Avangi for your explanation. But I have to confess I'm still as confused as before if not more. For this sentence: In the cage we saw a jaguar from the jungle of Brazil, I did a little more work. After reviewing the rules more closely, it does say in the grammar book...

Sorry abuot this again, I fear I'm becoming somewhat of a pain. But I have to fully get it. From what I gathered, Adjective Prepositional Phrases modifies nouns/pronouns or object of another preposition, eg.: The book on the table in the English classroom is her book. ( on the table...

Grammar is a descriptive process. Linguists look at a language and describe how it works. However some Linguists describe things differently to others. The end result is usually the same, but the way they organise it, and what all the parts are call varies. eg some Linguists say pronouns are a...

this is what I have so far, but I'm not sure where to go from here. Normal 0 A (article) twitch (noun) at (preposition) the (article) controls (noun) could (verb) swerve (verb) the (article) cat’ (noun), but (conjunction) the (article) driver’s (noun) hands (noun) could (verb) not (adverb)...

When you get to the "B's," don't put them all in one post, or you'll crash the site! - A.

A word is a “part of speech” only when it is used in a sentence. The function the word serves in a sentence is what makes it whatever part of speech it is. For example, the word “run” can be used as more than one part of speech:
 Sammy hit a home run. ( run is a noun, direct object of hit )
 You...

The below is a very tricky sentence I met. I analyzed it as much as I can. But I can't figure it out. Can you check it for me? In other words, even though we often mess up, most of us are doing the best that we know how with the circumstances that surround us . <From the book,...

Thanks CJ " Serious grammatical error " is my paraphrase. But when and if ESL students start to expressly state "this IS an exceptional usage", I suppose that means "these is a set rule on this and no one can break that in any shape or form". " the...

Hi, When she was 16-years-old a 16-year-old is a noun. 16 years old (ie no hyphens) is an adjectival phrase she ran away (preposition) from home and moved to London, then ( adverb) New York to work as ( adverb ) a nurse. During ( preposition) her time in New York, she kept in contact...