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Diamondrg wrote:Can someone explain why "having viewed" is wrong and whether "viewing" and "to have viewed" are correct? The question you are raising may relate to the problem to what extent we can use nonfinite clauses as a post modifier for nouns. This problem is, however, one of the subjects...

You're pensively thinking about how to best place adverbs correctly. They're very difficult, aren't they? The basic rule is to think ADD + verb. It's easily memorable! They always go before the main verb. But each and every adverb has it's own personality and they often have some very specific...

Hello again, Hella, and you're welcome. I cannot say you are wrong because I haven't read everything there is to read about English grammar. What I can say is that none of the authors I've read in the past 15 or 20 years consider that adverbials have anything to do with transitivity. The...

Rho, Ok, this is obvious you are not being honest and sincere. You are intentionally playing dumb. You seem to be convinced that I have some "source" which I am not divulging. I have presented examples and given various explanations. If you still want to antagonize someone, email...

Hello everybody, If I understand well, I can always use "slowly" instead of "slow." Am I right? An Introduction To English Grammar wrote: Some words can have the same form for both the adjectives and the adverbs: easily, fast, hard, late, slow, quick, long, and words in –ly that are...

An English grammar book wrote:Adverbs of manner most often occupy the end position of a clause, where they follow an intransitive verb, or the direct object of a transitive verb. e.g. We waited patiently for the play to begin. I sold the strawberries quickly. Cambridge...

Hello Teachers One question I'm now stuck by is how to parse rationally the phrase 'but for ~' in a sentence like 'But for the heavy snow, the plane would have taken off'. My English grammar book says that 'but for the heavy snow' can be rephrased as 'if it had not been for the heavy snow'. But...

A critical point in my long quotation above is: "Very by itself does not modify verbs, and therefore it cannot modify the past participle of a verb." Why not? From The Online Etymology Dictionary: very c.1250, verray "true, real, genuine," later "actual, sheer" (c.1390), from...

Hello I don't think "usual" means "correct" but "Longman English Grammar" by L.G. Alexander (1988) says: The most usual position of time adverbs is at the very end of a sentence. "We checked in at the hotel on Monday/yesterday." When there is more than one kind of adverb in a sentence, the...

Many English nouns and noun phrases can be used as adverbs. They are called "adverbial objectives". From the standpoint of word order, an adverbial objective is put as if it were an objective of a verb, but actually it works as an adverbial modifier of the verb. This sort of constructs comes from...