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Thanks for the feedback, Goodman! «To my ears, your examples should be followed by additional context. By itself, it does not sound complete.» The only reason of incompleteness that I see is the lack of a note about the affair's not having been accomplished (due to some unexpected/sudden...

Hi allIt would be interesting to hear from nonnative speakers of English in particular what influence English exerts on other languages nowadays. What English words and expressions are used in your language? Does English grammar or syntax have an influence on your native language? Where is this...

Thank you Grammar Geek.Just change of the word order?

They are all fine. Only the emphasis changes. The underlying position is just before the constituent being modified -- before the prepositional phrase in these cases. If you leave it there, there is greater emphasis on that phrase, and the tendency is to stress the only or even with the...

New2grammar wrote: Hi Yoong Liat, I have a quick question for you which is not related to this post. Why did you structure your sentence with 'please' after 'elaborate'? Should it be : Could you please elaborate why both are correct? I'm not picking on you or anything. I just would like to...

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...

I always thought it was a remnant of the French (Norman Invasion, 1066). There is a handful of verbs in French conjugated with "to be" rather than "to have" in the passé composé (past) tense. Rise, born, arrive, leave, go (all "coming and going" verbs) are some examples. We also sing "He is...

Hi, I need to write a sentence in the following pattern, and I don't see how it's possible. The pattern is: adjective + direct object + helping verb + subject + verb No articles allowed? So, something like 'Great strength did he use'. This kind of odd word order seems very literary or...

Pastsimple wrote: Mister Micawber wrote:In my class, most students use e-mail.What about "In my class, most of the students use e-mail." ? I'm not 100% sure here.However, I'd definitely use "most of the" if the word order were as follows: "Most of the students in my class use e-mail." Hi "In...

Pastsimple wrote: Mister Micawber wrote:In my class, most students use e-mail.What about "In my class, most of the students use e-mail." ? I'm not 100% sure here.However, I'd definitely use "most of the" if the word order were as follows: "Most of the students in my class use e-mail." Hi "In...