In English grammar^x, Clauses^x

Hi, I'm an assistant language teacher in Japan, and a Japanese Teacher asked me why this sentence doesn't follow the examples from the English grammar book: The more time you spend in the company of smokers, the greater the risk to your health. This is a fragment, not a sentence. It has no main...

An example would be, 'The regulation included monthly and hourly rates, daily rates having been omitted.' The five-word phrase at the end of this sentence comprises a participle with its own subject or nominative. I forget why it is called 'absolute'. The only book I know that mentions the...

Sabyakgp wrote:You suggested that I could also say "I worked.." But I believe that the event in the first clause occured before the event in the second clause, so it should be past perfect (the first clause) instead of simple past. I am just wondering that whether your suggestion can be...

Hi Calif Jim,Do you mean something like this when you said finite clause? I am still not interested in English grammar so I decided not to burn all of those grammar books I was given.Also, do I need to add a comma before the word 'so' in that sentence? Thank you.Best wishes,PBF

Let's spread out the issue a little bit: ____ O ____ Type 2. Basic forms. a. If we caught the 10 o'clock train, we would (could, might, etc.) get there by lunch-time. b. If I came into a fortune, I would give up smoking. c. If I knew how it worked, I could tell...

Please someone tell me what is the difference between a clause and a phrase? Aslo I am in search of some valuable website which contains a detailed information about parts of speech and other basics of English grammar. It will be very kind if someone could please show it to me. Thanks.

'Time time reference can be established in a previous clause, and the verbs in the following clauses are therefore put in the past tense' (Collins Cobuild English Grammar) Does 'clause' equal to 'sentence'? Is it referring to a sentence when it says 'clause' in here? Thank you.Best wishes,PBF

Clive wrote:The bottom line, of course, is that any of these systems is OK as long as it provides a tool that someone finds useful in learning to speak good English. Would you call this a relative clause? I don't know where the pen is. What would you say it relates to? When I asked this, I...

Clive wrote:Would you call this a relative clause? I don't know where the pen is. What would you say it relates to?Hi CliveI learned my grammatical terminology as a schoolboy and as far as I can remember most of the terms I learned were applicable to all the languages I studied. There were/are...

Clive wrote:I don't see any of these as relative clauses. They are noun clauses. eg noun clause I read what he wrote.eg relative clause I read the letter which he wrote. Here, which he wrote is relative (ie relates to) the noun 'letter'. I don't see any indirect questions, either. Hi...