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Hello, I tried to see your diagrams and ı couldn't find anything wrong with the second one. As for the first one, it is really difficult to read the elements but I will do it like this: butter and cheese: double noun phrases with butter and cheese: prepositional phrase ...

hi cb, its me again!how do you feel about possessives before a gerund? "John's singing bothered me". You are constantly told that the possessive should be used before a gerund(unless you are saying something weird and you wish to emphasise the subject of the gerund). However,...

A word is a “part of speech” only when it is used in a sentence. The function the word serves in a sentence is what makes it whatever part of speech it is.For example, the word “run” can be used as more than one part of speech:
Sammy hit a home run. (run is a noun, direct object of hit)
You...

"year round" is correct.In "We should have school year round", "year round" is a compound adverb, which generally are not hyphenated when they follow a noun.

This is not a comparative: it's short for "higher education" When you have two words that modify a noun, you often (usually) hyphenate them. Higher-education administrators, full-time students, 30-foot pole. When they do not modify a noun you usually do NOT hyphenate. He chose...

I would say it's an adverb (faintly) that modifies an adjective (unreal), which then modifies a noun (quality). A faintly unreal quality.Adverbs can modify virtually everything, and so are often used to modify adjectives.

The below is a very tricky sentence I met. I analyzed it as much as I can.But I can't figure it out.Can you check it for me?In other words, even though we often mess up, most of us are doing the best that we know how with the circumstances that surround us.<From the book, "Don't...

of ... is a preposition and is generally placed before a noun eg. she is part OF a group. ( a group. the noun preceded by it's preposition)could ... is an adverb which describes the verbeg. she COULD be part OF the group ... (COULD describes the verb TO BE)It follows from the above that the...

Oops! I oversimplified. My remarks pertained to the use of next and the next when referring to time. Trains are different! Both of your examples require the next (train). train is a countable, singular, concrete noun, so it has to have a determiner. This takes precedence over any other...

Thanks CJ"Serious grammatical error" is my paraphrase. But when and if ESL students start to expressly state "this IS an exceptional usage", I suppose that means "these is a set rule on this and no one can break that in any shape or form"."the simplification of...