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Hi guys, just a point I'd like to clarify which was brought up at a seminar I attended regarding the drafting of legal documents.From my understanding, I've always thought that when a "request" (used as a verb) is made for an object, the sentence should be in the form "request + for + object",...

Eating a hearty breakfast, we prepared for our long journey. Why is the underlined part of the sentence a participle phrase? 'eating' is a non-finite verb, not a gerund, but the whole phrase may be considered as a verbal noun (gerund phrase), not a verbal adjective (participle phrase)....

As far as I can determine, ablative absolute applies to Latin, not English: 'In Latin grammar, an adverbial phrase syntactically independent from the rest of the sentence and containing a noun or pronoun plus an adjunct, usually a participle or adjective, with both elements in the ablative...

Hello, Hela. Your analysis of the first sentence (I gave my sister a cat for her birthday) is correct. I'd be happy with calling the prepositional phrase "for her birthday" an adjunct (adverbial) of time, though some more accurate label may exist. It's true that R. Quirk does not consider the...

Hello Roro OED says about the etymology of "cost" as follows. a. OF. coster, couster (mod. coûter) = Pr. and Sp. costar, Pg. custar, It. costare:—L. constôre to stand together, stand firm, abide, be settled or fixed, stand at a price, cost, f. con- together + stôre to stand. The construction...

Hello Casi Thank you for the detailed explanation. I think I got finally what you are saying. Please let me try to rephrase with my words what you are saying and please check if it is right. She By the way is it true we can never say "his it"?

Say the right words in the right order. Make subjects and verbs agree in number. Use the correct case for all pronouns. Add "ed" to form the past tense. Add "s" to form plurals. Add "'s" to form possessives. Invert subject and verb in a question. Don't use a countable singular noun without an...

Hello CJ again, Thank you for the detailed explanation. I'll review what you've taught me. "The thief would be nice to catch" sounds best fit the review, so please allow me to use it. #1 (IC). The IC appears, by the transformation, to get changed from a noun phrase to a complement (or...

You need a verb to have a clause. I think you meant "The GMC cannot investigate every controversial treatment brought to its attention". This verb phrase has a clause within another clause. The outer clause is a causative ("get"), so it has an inner clause "industries to reduce waste" which...

I guess if you don't know the verb at all, you're stuck, Lana. There are no prescriptive rules, only guidelines. Greenbaum & Quirk list five differences: (1) The particle of a prepositional verb must precede the object, but the particle of a phrasal verb can either precede or follow the...