By Nouns, Word order

It is not so simple as that, Flora, but you have the general idea. Good poetry follows natural word stress and sentence stress (I use 'u' for unstressed and '/' for stressed syllables)-- Trees, by Joyce Kilmer 1 I think that I shall never see u/u/u/u/ 2 A poem as...

If you know the name of the person you are addressing - e.g. if you started the letter Dear Mr... then you should end the letter Yours sincerely,... If you do not know the letter of the person you are addressing - e.g. if you started the letter Dear Sir or Madam or To Whom It May Concern, you...

Viognier wrote:I have an elementary question: what's the difference in meaning between: #1 He walked two hours. #2 He walked for two hours. I've learned that #1 is more natural. But #2 is natural too, isn't it? Hello Roro I'm sorry I am too late to answer. Today my computer has kind...

Hi Zig, and welcome to English Forums. A bit of a mess, eh wot? who says what what anyone says In both clauses, the 'what's are the verb objects, while 'who' and 'anyone' are the subjects. BUT: It doesn't matter who says what It doesn't matter what anyone says The objects (or...

Hello Katsudon Hello Guest. G: ? I'm a Japanese student and learning English in school. ? {questionable, possibly ungrammatical} K: One has to be very careful in the deployment of these 'rules' you learn. I'm sure you've learned that you can drop the subject in coordinated clauses, but you...

Many English nouns and noun phrases can be used as adverbs. They are called "adverbial objectives". From the standpoint of word order, an adverbial objective is put as if it were an objective of a verb, but actually it works as an adverbial modifier of the verb. This sort of constructs comes from...

Is it wrong to say: What is the homework about? Is it possible to find a proper context for it? Also, in the question: Who is she? Who here is the subject but in an indirect question the word order is inverted: I don't know who she is. Why?

This is an attempt, nobody has responded so far, so I'll test myself (but wait for the teachers) In indirect questions the word order is the normal. But your sentences are tricky (at least for me) The first one is like: what is there in the box? So the full form would be: I don't know what there...

Good question, lemon. One definition of 'as' is 'like'! I think what is probably slightly wrong with your sentence "I wrote such sentences like.." is the word order. It would be better to say: I wrote, "sentences such as ..." or "I wrote, "sentences like ...." LIKE is similar to a...

As to this, I'd like to put my two cents. When English retained cases explicitly, the subject noun and the complement noun linked by a linking verb were both in nominative cases. So, "I " in the normal word order. However, in Old English, inversion easily took place between the subject and the...