By Pronouns, Numbers

All your sentences could be written with just "all" or "all of." I think that "all" would be designated a pronoun in each of your examples. It can be used as an adjective--She sat up all night--but in your sentences "all" means "the whole number or amount" and is the direct object of the verb...

well you have some mistakes:in nunber one the answere is : those are the girls I told you about.second: He is a difficult man to life withthird: the children in the family who I was with treated me well.number four: there isnt enough snow where I can Ski.# 5 : a chair is something where you can...

Hi, Anon, I think I see what you mean. In your first case example, to simply say that something "is" doesn't give very much information, unless you're a philosopher, like Descartes, "I think, therefore I am." Your first case example works best when answering questions. "What is it?" "It's an...

Hi LiJ, I was Anon, Hoa Thai's reply pretty well sums it up. The operative expression is, "informally, however," which makes a mess of your concers about second and third person. Formally, "either" is singular and the number of the modifiers doesn't change that. ("Number" is singular too!) ...

During my recent trip through western Canada, I came across a number of people who used 'him/her' as the subject pronoun when used in a compound subject: "him and his uncle arrived later"; "him and his son did such-and-such"; "her and her friends had tea at the Banff Springs Hotel". I would...

During my recent trip through western Canada, I came across a number of people who used 'him/her' as the subject pronoun when used in a compound subject: "him and his uncle arrived later"; "him and his son did such-and-such"; "her and her friends had tea at the Banff Springs Hotel". I can't...

Well, the excerpt you have posted is not very well thought through. Possessives here are obviously an open class-- my friend's, John's, Mary's, my dog's, his aardvark's, ad infinitum-- as are cardinal and ordinal numbers-- eight-hundred-and-forty-first, eight-hundred-and-forty-second....However,...

person number gender subject subject & object object 1st sing. mas.& fem I my*, mine** me plural mas.& fem we our*, ours** us 2nd sing. mas.& fem thou thy*, thine** thee sing. mas.& fem you your*,...

Hello, this is my first post here, I like to know these wordskilometercentimeterAre those words noun if they are standing alone ? if it's, what kind of noun it's, proper noun or abstract noun or etc ?After that, I want to indentify the part of speech of the following sentence by using the...

From answers.com: Speakers of some vernacular American dialects, particularly in the South, may use the possessive reflexive form hisself instead of himself (as in He cut hisself shaving) and theirselves or theirself for themselves (as in They found theirselves alone). These forms reflect the...