By Clauses, Sentence structures

Hi, I'm aware that a sentence must have at least one independent clause and I'm having a hard time deciding whether the following sentence meets that requirement. "The punishment you should receive, Dan took upon himself." I know I could rearrange it to "Dan took upon himself the punishment you...

Hi, Welcome to the Forum. Just a quick question everyone. I never understood clauses and why they would be used. If anyone can shed light on this, I'd truly appreciate it. Below, I will give an example. Michael Jordan is a great athlete; he has won several championships. My question is...why...

Just a quick question everyone. I never understood clauses and why they would be used. If anyone can shed light on this, I'd truly appreciate it. Below, I will give an example. Michael Jordan is a great athlete; he has won several championships. My question is...why would that be used? I've...

Hi again, But I seem to remember that there is a certain rule saying a simple sentence can have compound verb (or predicate). Therefore, I have always thought that: u I moved to Singapore and got a teaching position at a small college. (simple sentence) Whereas: u I...

CalifJim wrote:What you guys are discussing is "heavy phrases" or "heavy clauses".Yes, it's true that the canonical word order of English is sometimes modified to accommodate that fact that an enormous number of words intervening between other related words in a structure can obscure the...

You are correct. Sadly, a community college hotline gave you the wrong answer. (This is what happens when schools no longer teach the diagramming of sentence structure.) "Give it to whoever comes to the door" is correct because "whoever" is the subject of the clause "whoever comes to the door."

Joey_five wrote: Hi, I am puzzling which sentence is correct. 1) You are late because you missed the bus, aren't you? Correct. Transposed, it would be "Are you late because you missed the bus?" 2) You are late because you missed the bus, didn't you? Incorrect. Transposed, it would be "Did...

Hi, I am puzzling which sentence is correct. 1) You are late because you missed the bus, aren't you? 2) You are late because you missed the bus, didn't you? and how about other sentence structure with if ...etc?? thanks!!

Hi, Glad you asked this question. How English speaking people use English does not represent the correctness of their English. That said, I would say what you hear depends a lot on the class of people you converse with and this has nothing to do with economics. By that, I mean rich people don’t...

1) I hope to the birthday party tonight. (a) I' shall able to come (b)to be able to come <<answer B is correct. After the verb “hope” it’s almost always followed by infinitive. If this sentence structure is too complex, you can replace with “ I can...