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I have desperately been looking for a good book on grammar. I don not mean the practical grammar in use, but a book on grammar as an element of the linguistic system. It should contain topics like: syntactic units syntactic relations syntactic functions verb phrases morphological...

Hello KhoffI take it the first question you raised is related to the issue of subject-verb concord (or agreement). The subject-verb concord in English is really tough to acquire for me, a Japanese, whose mother tongue has no distinction in verbal forms for singular and plural subjects. My grammar...

Anonymous wrote: Thank you so much. As I asked originally, are they just the rules of law that have been enacted by a body of scholars in semantics or linguistics or what? How can a noun be designated as a proper noun? A noun just does not appear as a proper noun naturally or does it? I am not...

HelloPlease look at the three sentences below, which I picked up online. 1. She spent the time in working at home 2. She spent the time working at home. 3. The time working at home is gradually increasing.Sentence #1 was traditionally deemed as a grammatical form, but people...

Hello IglikaI'm sorry I could not give you definite answers. Frankly speaking, I myself do not know much about generative grammar. But please remind there is a possibility your teacher uses grammatical terms in his/her own way. As far as I know, "modifier" is a term used by traditional...

Hi CliveYou don't say "a teching English position" but you say "an English teaching position". This "English teaching" is neither a present participle nor a gerund. I take it as a noun phrase made by the nominalization of a verbal phrase "teaching English" and I take you are joining it with...

"Noun phrase" is a term from linguistics, in particular, transformational grammar. "Noun clause" is not normally used in linguistics. It is a term from traditional grammar. A noun phrase is a group of words in which a noun or pronoun is the head. A single noun by itself can be a noun...

Diamondrg wrote:Can someone explain why "having viewed" is wrong and whether "viewing" and "to have viewed" are correct? The question you are raising may relate to the problem to what extent we can use nonfinite clauses as a post modifier for nouns. This problem is, however, one of the subjects...

Hi, I would focus on following perspectives. (1) Analyze voluntary employee turnover, absenteeism, . . . Would you please explain the reason for coverting the beginning verb words in to nouns? It's because the noun 'perspective' is better followed by a noun or a noun phrase/clause. If you...

Hi there, I know that my problem isn´t grammar in general but I would really love some help in analysing these sentences which I find very difficult! I´ve tried myself, but I know my tries are incorrect. Thanks in advance. I am supposed to identify the primary sentence constituents in these...