Hi, it's me, Ralf, the starter of this thread. Thanks for your answers so far. A post in another thread pointed me to the "American Heritage - Book of English Usage", where I found this section : According to the standard rule, when the

I need to hand in this exercise but I'm not sure about the analysis nor the grammar. If you could have a look at eat I would be really grateful! thank you all! Explain the use of Generic Noun Phrases (or Noun Groups) in English by analyzing the

For my written homework, which is to be handed in before October 15th, one of the tasks is to analyse a sentence in terms of type of sentence, type of clause, clausal pattern, phrases, function within phrases and form class of words. The

}> }> That you can do not nor or not nor is ... are you saying that "I don't like this type of ..." is a ? I wouldn't have guessed that. No, I'm saying that "this type of " is a noun phrase. I would have

So it isn't a case of ' nor ', but of ' nor '. You do realise that just a noun on its own qualifies as a noun phrase? (At least by my understanding of grammar). Sure, but in the bit now snipped I referred to the length of a

That you can do not nor or not nor is no excuse ... a similar thing ALL THE TIME, but would admit to the joke if a learner of English asked about it.) But the original post had: "I don't like this type of..NOR that one". So it

... And I would say: Your profile has been updated. To update a change sounds awkward. You make a change but do not update a change.

I should pass your opinion by because you do not recognise that the verb in question is "use to", which is wholly different from "use". I continue to find it somewhat amazing that anyone can regard "use to" as being a

In English grammar, we learned that after a preposition, there ... or is there a possible rule to such a happening? It's not an exception: the rule you were taught is too narrow, that's all. I'm not sure Anna needs to widen the scope

Mirapence, your help is just priceless!!! I'm really sorry for having given you so much labour; I defiinitely overdid. I am, however, very thankful for your explanation. After this "injection of knowledge" you gave me, I decided go on phrases and