By Nouns, Subjunctives

Cool Breeze wrote: Grammarian-bot wrote:Congress is debating a bill requiring certain employers to provide workers with unpaid leave so that they can care for sick or newborn children.I have a serious problem with deciding when to use prepositions before verbs and when not to. Any...

Grammarian-bot wrote:Congress is debating a bill requiring certain employers to provide workers with unpaid leave so that they can care for sick or newborn children.There's nothing subjunctive there. The portion in red is just one big long noun phrase which could be subsequently replaced with...

Grammarian-bot wrote:Congress is debating a bill requiring certain employers to provide workers with unpaid leave so that they can care for sick or newborn children.I have a serious problem with deciding when to use prepositions before verbs and when not to. Any help/suggestions.Hi GBThe to in...

<I would be interested to see quotations from the early English grammarians that presented spoken English as somehow inferior, or that demonstrated an imposition of inappropriate rules from Latin. > Do you doubt that was the case? If so, I guess you disagree with this: "If they have...

1. Explain the functional and structural properties of "similarly" and state another connector functioning like "similarly" by using it in two sentences. 2. Write three example sentences in which subjunctive verbs are used as noun complements. 3. Rewite the reduced clauses below to correct the...

1. Explain the functional and structural properties of "similarly" and state another connector functioning like "similarly" by using it in two sentences. 2. Write three example sentences in which subjunctive verbs are used as noun complements. 3. Rewite the reduced clauses below to correct the...

Hello. The use of the plural verb were with a singular subject such as he or I is allowed when employing what we call the subjunctive mood. This refers to wishful thinking or something that is unlikely to happen. Consider the two correct sentences below: (1) If he was able to jump out of...

It's fine. What do you suggest instead? It means, in rough indicatives (which isn't the same, but just to talk about the pronoun and the situation): I do not want that someone/somebody is/becomes hurt. Using the correct subjunctive: I do not want that someone/somebody be hurt....

The first sentence is in subjunctive mood, the article has to agree with the noun: child. The second one is in declarative mood or subjunctive one -- or not? In this case the verb noun-concord applies

Anonymous wrote:Well can someone will explain why should we use subjunctive mood here. Although must show strong believe and intention but i've barely read or heard anyone using subjunctive with "must". Please explain GB Which "subjunctive?" We're talking about the "subjective/subject"...