Good evening, Chris, these are thought-provoking questions you have asked, and here is my opinion backed up by data from authoritative sources. 1. The possibility of tell filling the slot of talk in the example sentence seems questionable at

Yes, that makes perfect sense. Cheers! Any idea if they still count as serial commas if you're not listing nouns?

The answers to these have got to be from 1 of the 12 listed above and a concrete noun isn' t listed.

Here is my take: Recognizing the immediate danger, he ordered everyone to evacuate the building. - participle phrase usge. Recognize is a transitive verb, but I've used it without an object and as a gerund. Is that acceptable? Or,

The words below are wrong ('proper noun' is the wrong term-- proper nouns are nouns like 'Paris', 'Japan' and 'George'; the 'proper nouns' below are ' common nouns '): phone - (proper noun ) boiling - (adjective) pot - (proper noun)

Could someone please check I have the right terminology for these words I will list first the terminology I have to use, then I will write the words and the terminology I think it is in red next to each word. Most of them are simple enough but

It is a post-modifying adjective of the noun 'address/problem'.

English presents a number of issues to non-native (and sometimes native) speakers. It is grammatically unlike other languages, even those from which it has borrowed large vocabulary groups, and possesses a number of irregularities. Understanding

Pleasehelp, some words may have a single form, which, however, corresponds to several parts of speech. In this light, open can be an adjective ( an open window ), a verb ( open the window ), or a noun ( life in the open ). Such words are called

The point is that not only... but (also) , unlike and , is not limited to additive function; it distinguishes rather than equates the coordinated elements, so the interpretation 'a matter of X and Y' is dismissed at once, don't worry