By Sentence structures, Clauses

Hello Mr P Thank you for the detailed answer. I really appreciate it. Choice of tense of an interrogative clause embedded in an unreal protasis is so intrigued an issue that, as far as I have ever read, no grammar book seems to deal with. And, because the sentence structure is such a messy one,...

RE: I didn't stop until I (had) reached the top" an attempt wrote: Some confusion arises if we do use the Past Perfect here: it appears that the action in the first clause, “not stopping” (i.e. going up the hill), came first and the action in the second was after that going. So we see that in...

Thank you to both Mister Micawber and paco for your replies. I'll pass this info on to the student that asked me. Attributive clauses were called "adjective clauses" back when I went to school. I've found that they are one of the hardest parts of English, especially for Chinese students, to...

1. You were using my camera, taking photos! USE THE COMMA, BUT THE SENTENCE STRUCTURE ITSELF IS SUSPECT. 2. You can do whatever you like for all I care. WITH OR WITHOUT THE COMMA 3. She came out of retirement to win 2 gold medals at the champions. NO COMMA Use commas for non-restrictive...

Hello MrP So I can only assume that either Dickens got his idiom slightly wrong, or ‘Child as he was’ had a simple complementary sense in his day. I feel your sense that children are not immune to hunger and misery is very modern one. Children of poor social classes in Dickens' times would be...

Hi Bob, Welcome to English Forums. You haven't given us complete sentences, so I'm not quite sure what you are wondering about. Let me off a completion of the sentences: (1) 'A movie called 'Star Wars' is now showing.' (2) 'A movie is called by a catchy title in order to gain a greater...

I would have used a comma before the final "and" or "or" in a series, like this: mother, and lesbian church, or community You need "losing parental custody" -- one "o" in "losing". I think you need a more parallel structure than "as an activist and through faith", maybe "through faith and...

being clause 4 and just 3b being 3.

Thanks CalifJim "subject of the sentence, but not the agent of the action". That made it clear. Looking at my sentence, does "I am asking this / because while I was studing sentence structure / the author was referring to "subject" of a sentence. " have three clauses or two (an independent...

The answer confuses me because earlier in the book it stated that a sentence beginning with 'that' is a dependent clause. This kind of clause cannot stand alone, but in the example above it does?! I encourage you to review a discussion about "it and that" by looking at this thread here. Pay...