By Nouns, Word order

1) You have the wrong word order. At the moment, 'late' is modifying 'morning' and a morning itself can't be late, can it. Well, if morning is a period of time lasting, say, from 4:00AM to noon, then the period from, say, 10:00 to noun could be a late morning. My dictionary lists these examples:...

I'm afraid I disagree with Miriam. Predicative means 'of the predicate'. The predicate of a sentence is the part that describes the state of the subject. For example, in the sentence 'He is sporty', "He" is the subject, "is sporty" is the predicate. Therefore a predicative...

The various forms of phrasal verbs Phrasal verbs can be transitive or intransitive, separable or inseparable. The object or accusative can in the cases of separable phrasal verbs be placed before or after the particle. With inseparable phrases, the object/accusative is fixed and its position...

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...

In English we don't use those long phrases as modifiers before the noun. We place those phrases after the noun. For example, in English we don't say the in the garage parked car. We say the car parked in the garage. We don't say the in the chair sitting girl. We say the girl sitting in the...

Ruslana wrote:You are to use inverted word order if a sentence begins with the words "here" or "there" and the subject is the noun. Here is the book you are looking for. Here comes my brother. There is your book.But if the subject is the pronoun, then you use usual word...

Agree. Janissary, you are to use inverted word order if a sentence begins with the words "here" or "there" and the subject is the noun. Here is the book you are looking for.Here comes my brother.There is your book. But if the subject is the pronoun, then you use usual word order. Here it...

Hello, Janissary, 1. If a clause begins with a negative adverb, inverted word order must usually be used, with the subject following the Simple Present or Simple Past of the verb to be, or the first auxiliary. In the case of the Simple Present or Simple Past of any verb other than the verb to...

In English you have an fixed word order, except in interrogatives and exclamations. It looks as this: Subject + verb + object/complement - this is how an affirmative sentence looks like, normally. From this your sentence 4. Max cleaned up it, is correct but since it is a verbal phrase...

CalifJim wrote:OK, Pinenut. Now I'm with you. It has to do with "leaving a trace". If the trace would be immediately in the same position as the relative pronoun, you can't omit the pronoun. It the trace is farther down the string of words, you can. It seems to me I have read about this...