By Word order, Clauses

What you guys are discussing is "heavy phrases" or "heavy clauses". Yes, it's true that the canonical word order of English is sometimes modified to accommodate that fact that an enormous number of words intervening between other related words in a structure can obscure...

Ignorant88 wrote: I was told that when a parenthetical element follows a coordinating conjunction used to connect two independent clauses, we do put a comma in front of the parenthetical element. 1) The Tigers spend much of the season at the bottom of the league, and even though they picked...

1__the funds needed for the project were inadequate, it was abandoned.In the phrase 'because of', of is a preposition. It must be followed by a noun, not a clause.2__ he was, he went on with his work.Though tired he was is not correct English word order.

Neither of your incorrect answers can take a clause as an object.Since the funds were inadequate, -- OK. Since is a conjunction introducing a dependent clause.Because of the inadequate funds, -- OK. Object of the preposition of is the noun phrase.Because the funds were inadequate, -- OK. ...

A label executive is the subject of the clause and the word order can't be changed.CheersCB

To use the auxiliary 'do' to form questions and negative clauses is a phenomenon that is only about 400 years old. 'Do' existed in Old English but it meant 'to cause' as in What caused the accident? In Shakespeare's day 'do' began to be used in questions and there were two ways to form a...

Of course, _on_ a boulder. That was just a typo. I wasn't sure about the phrase «For some more hours I did something». Is ok or not? In the second question I was in doubt about the word order in the clause: «near which I had lain down». Should it be «which I had lain...

Believer wrote:In regard to No.2, I can almost swear that I have heard some English professionals saying that there is an implicit word "to" there and whenever you hear the sentences without it, just remember it is to be included for a sentence to be a correct sentence. While I recognize...

Oh, it's "formal" indeed. I clean forgot this word. Clive, I don't mind any your comments! Honestly, now I am confused why I was sure that you know it! sounds odd whereas other such phrases don't. Is there any ways by means of which I can find out whether present tense may be used or not in a...

Peano wrote:A. I don't see the term "correlative conjunction" in your initial post.B. The pull of gravity becomes less the farther you move away from Earth’s center. When you changed the word order and supplied the tacit the before less, you put the sentence in a form that makes the correlative...