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Hello everyone I like to do sentence analyses so if you could sometimes send us some exercises on the matter they will be very welcome A Here is MY analysis 1 She is so pretty a girl a parts of speech she nominative personal pronoun is fintie verb so adverb of intensity pretty predicative...

Hello Casi Hats off to your analysis Very nice work indeed Your notion of topicalization the empty referent happily explains the pseudo dangly effect and also provides a rationale for Komountain s earlier suggestion avoid putting the by ing patterns at the beginning of sentences I agree that...

Hello MrP History of English Gerunds quoted from OED The most notable development of the verbal nouns in form of ing is its use as a gerund i e a substantive with certain verbal functions particularly those of being qualified by an adverb instead of an adjective and of governing an object like a...

Consider the following Dave leaving on Karen s arriving worries me Is that correct Is leaving a gerund without a possessive before it Is it possible to use an adverb with a gerund as it works as a noun my carefully planing Is there any reason to use a gerund instead of a common noun if possible...

Hi Maitha I often see native speakes of English in chatrooms or forums confusing those two words but they are very different Their is the possessive adjective that coresponds to the pronoun they The children left their books on the desk their books the books that belong to the children This are...

Aileen many thanks for your comments and for providing the site for the Cambridge Grammar book I m on the third chapter and have have found it fascinating so far Miriam here s another example I d like you to take a look at Consider this sentence I can t stand his drinking beer Should drinking be...

I m not a teacher and oh my goodness now I know why English teachers are worth their salt I just can t explain this in a simple way I thought this question would be easy to answer but it s not easy at all Just because a word is commonly used and short doesn t guarantee that it s easy to explain I...

Hi these words sound the same but they mean very different things The word there is a word that points to a place Their means that something belongs to a group of people Their is also used instead of his or hers as a generic pronoun Please read the example below about food cooking over charcoal...