By Nouns, Subjunctives

If a student points to some construction and asks me if it's the subjunctive or not, I can't reply, 'No, it's a monkey!' Now there you are wrong! You are the teacher and can say any dang thing you want! In fact a smart retort like that might go a long way toward making your students realize...

I 2> He enjoys ........... activities like painting and playing music. a. abstract b.creative c.powerful d.classic I choose (a) I wouldn't... So I choose (b), is it ok, and why? because even if we sometimes speak of "abstract painting", neither painting nor playing music are abstract...

Hello again, Paco. Sorry my answer to your question was not what you were looking for. Your question was “could you give me any other types of sentences where 'a bare infinitive clause with a subject' is used?” Even when they were not the type of examples you were expecting, I posted, precisely,...

Hello Everyone Thank you for the comments. The phrase <rather than someone do it> is new also to me. I found this in the grammar textbook 'A Comunicative Grammar of English' published from Longman and authored by Geoffrey Leech and Jan Svartvik. Svartvik, though he is a Swede, is one of...

Hello Mom I'm an English learner from Japan. I found your questions are a bit too tough to me, but if you don't mind let me try to state my ideas. 1. Really all he owned was his car, clothing, and enough furniture. I think 'all (that) ..." is usually treated as a singular.2. Tru, you old...

Anonymous wrote:Hi!I'm trying to explain the following concepts to someone learning English, but I'm not sure how. Can anybody help me? 1. "There is only one person who can help me when I'm feeling sad, and that would be my mother."She's confused by 'that would be my mother.' It means...

Hi Brooke, I think we need a context about your first sentence. Could you write down the rest? As for the second, it is a matter of subjunctive mood. In noun clauses following certain verbs like "suggest", "recommend", "insist" etc. we can use "bare infinitive" instead of finite verbs and...

Do you agree that the subjunctive mood is only used in the following ways? A. Present subjunctive. -1. All verb forms are the same as for the present tense except in the third person singular. There, use the infinitive (without to). -I/you/we/they launch the shuttle. (present indicative) -He...

hope / demand/ desire / want /wish (o) She hopes he comes/will come tomorrow. (x) She hopes him to come tomorrow. (o) She demands he (should) come tomorrow. (o) She demands him to come tomorrow. (o) She desires he (should) come tomorrow. (o) She desires him to come tomorrow. (?) She wants he...

??I want that you clean up your room this instant! It would not surprise me to learn that it was possible in some NAmE Englishes. Some Romance language speaking immigrants may speak it. Quote from Everything2 : The Subjunctive Mood of English After verbs which formerly used the...