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Hi, Something seems amiss in the category structure. My understanding used to be that the dictionary entry for a verb begins with the (bare) infinitive, and is typically followed by the present and past participles, and then the present 3rd person singular, or something like that. I always...

Just to clarify about the indefinite article: it's OK to say " stores and restaurants see sharp decline in sales " without the article when using the present tense; in fact it has the ring of a newspaper headline. On the other hand when using the gerund not using the article in...

to give as any infinitive or participle or gerund is atemporal thus the tense is given by has been , perfect present

Hi everyone I just wondered if anyone could help - I have to write a profile of a chinese learner of English (completely made up). In it I must put any difficulties that the learner has in learning English as an L2. I have got so far: Intonation transfer from L1 may cause them to be perceived...

1. to steal the show a) Jack Nicholson stole the show in Batman. ( question : is it possible to use this idiom as far as idioms are concerned? question2 : would it be better to use here the pres. perfect?) I think this is fine, though when talking about movies (especially describing action),...

Does the applicant have experience utilizing computerized tomography ? What is the underlined part called in English grammar? Why must the -ing form be used? Is it an adverbial, a gerund form, or something different? and I want to have my house painted. What is painted called? It is...

Radford ( Transformational Grammar ) argues that these ( when, while, after, before, since, until , ...) are all (always) prepositions. However, his is not a traditional approach. He even denies that there is any necessity of having a category for conjunctions! So you see there are a variety...

<<<<Such concepts as tense, gerund, participle, clause (and classification thereof) are wihtout a slightest doubt useful and sometimes even essential to the learning of English (at least, this is so for me). <<<Furthermore, I try to undrstand things logically and find...

Thanks for that long and interesting post, Velimir! «Let me be allowed to advise you not to fall for that kind of reasoning.I mean "Look at me,I'm a miracle,I speak english gorgeuously and I don't have to learn grammar",that kind of reasoning.» I didn't get me right. I was talking...

Anewcomer wrote: Hi Teachers I came across this sentence in a story book: He had stood upon his balcony and contemplated throwing himself down to the street. Why it's not like this: He had stood upon his balcony and contemplated to throw himself down to the street And what is...