Raja, let me make a number of essential clarifications: 1. ' Hence , that the 'do'-construction in "Who went to the park?" is not possible or at least less preferable (which of the two is it in your opinion?) in "Who

Hi, I'd change these: 5. The sun was eclipsed by the moon. ACTIVE PASSIVE 9. This bone has been buried by the dog . PASSIVE 10. It takes a long time to think of these examples . PASSIVE ACTIVE 13. There was a cup of coffee on the table but now

Hello, Pleasehelp, ' where it's at ' is a set expression that became widespread in the sixties of the 20th century. In an example like I don't know where it's at it means that the speaker does not understand the essential truth

Hi MrPernickety Yes you can, and both sentences are fine. Here's why: As well as the regular uses of the verb ' do ', it also has a specialist use as what is called a pro-form . As a pro-form (in this case a pro-verb) '

Dear friend, 'should go' is a single verb phrase containing a modal auxiliary verb should . This operator is more specifically known as a central modal , because it shares all the features pertaining to modal auxiliary verbs. 'need to

Thank you Clive for the critique. For the New York sentence, is there anything wrong or misleading in the construction that needs to be reworded. After the rewording, the original past perfect context has been erased. Maybe I tried too hard to

This sentence looks wrong to me...Please help and tell me why! I can't even begin to guess why the sentence looks wrong to you. Perhaps it's because it is ambiguous whether spread is a present tense or a past participle in an implied

" as many glasses and much water as possible," would this be ok? It seems very awkward to me. Why would you want to combine two phrases that mean the same thing? Native speakers would say one of the two sentences below. They would not

In answer to your main question, though, make the verb agree with the subject closer to it. Neither the boys nor their mother has called yet. Neither Sheila nor her sons have called yet.

Neither! The rules are: Either / or Neither /nor So the correct form is: Neither Wendy nor I have received you message