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Hi Clive Thanks for your attention I see My question was Bob someone s name is the same as the personal pronoun he when used in the beginning of sentences Example Bob is a good student Bob personal pronoun He But when it appears after a verb as an indirect object for example The gift hasn t been...

Hi I think the situation is that you are being taught grammar using terms that I was not taught Ways of analysing sentences change and evolve so I do not mean to suggest that there is anything wrong with the way that you have been taught It s just different to me It seems to me that it s just a...

Yankee wrote Hi BoP Unfortunately this is a complicated topic As far as I know it is addressed in A Comprehensive Grammar of the English Language I don t have this book on hand at the moment so I can t research or quote anything from it Here then is my own feeble effort to explain As far as I...

Hi BoP Unfortunately this is a complicated topic As far as I know it is addressed in A Comprehensive Grammar of the English Language I don t have this book on hand at the moment so I can t research or quote anything from it Here then is my own feeble effort to explain As far as I know there are...

Although I m a native English speaker I ve often struggled to understand English grammar especially its morphosyntatical elements I ve done some reading on nominative accusative as well as ergative absolutive cases and I just don t get it Can someone who s better at linguistics explain this to me...

than me sounds much more normal to me than than I http andromeda rutgers edu jlynch Writing t html Than as used in comparatives has traditionally been considered a conjunction as such if you re comparing subjects the pronouns after than should take the subjective case In other words He s taller...

From English grammar books we learn that there are 6 types of basic sentence patterns around which you can expand to add more meaning One of the patterns involves using a transitive verb with a direct object and an indirect object both of which are nouns In another pattern the indirect object is...

Hello Believer I think Paco is using the phrase verbal noun in the sense noun derived from a verb Thus rescue and notification qualify as verbal nouns because the first derives from the verb rescue and the second from the verb notify I hope I m not misrepresenting Paco Some grammar books on the...

1 He is the most upset He is the most upset of those in the group 0r he is the most upset he has ever been He is most upset He is upset to a great degree 2 I think either works though the second may be somewhat informal with from ellipted This will prevent their ever going to heaven Going is a...

In these different constructions different types of things are ellipted 1 My father bought me a cell phone which is as small as a mouse Which is is understood or ellipted Which is as small as a mouse is an adjective clause that modifies phone Actually is small after mouse is also ellipted which...