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According to A comprehensive Grammar of the English Language: They want us to help. (SVO) They knew him to be a spy. (SVOC) I advised Mark to see a doctor. (SVOO)

Rex wrote: Le train va passer dans cinq minutesThe train is going to pass / go past in five minutesNous sommes passés devant la porte à midiWe passed by the door at noon When followed by an infinitive, passer means "to go/come to do something": Je vais passer te voir demainI'll come (by to)...

Le train va passer dans cinq minutesThe train is going to pass / go past in five minutesNous sommes passés devant la porte à midiWe passed by the door at noon When followed by an infinitive, passer means "to go/come to do something": Je vais passer te voir demainI'll come (by to) see...

Hi, I've corrected a few small errors in your examples. 1) Susan puts some nuts on the chocolate cake in strawberry sauce which is her favourite.-- What is her favour? Nuts (direct object), chocolate cake (indirect object) or strawberry saurce (adverb?)? It can't be nuts, because the verb 'is'...

Hi, Which sentence has an ergative verb and which is in the middle voice? Molly broke the china. The china broke. China breaks easily. These are the kinds of very technical grammar terms that most native speakers do not know. That includes me. So, I found the following definitions, and...

MichalS wrote:Hi, I'm a new member on the forum. My name's Michal and I'm from Poland. I've been learning descriptive grammar of Enlgish lately. Reading LONGMAN Grammar of Spoken and Written English, I've come across a couple of problems which are hard for me to overcome. I hope that you will...

Hello, Mister Micawber! Thus, A, C, D are not correct. But I have one more question. Are these acceptable? I. Explain to me this rule.II. He read to her the letter.III. They will deliver to our agents the goods at the end of the week.IV. The buyers submitted to the sellers a letter of...

While I understand the rules for handling misplaced/dangling participial phrases at the beginning of a sentence, I'm more than a bit fuzzy on the rules for sentence-ending phrases. I have reviewed several grammar texts, but most avoid the subject altogether. The Writer's Digest Grammar Desk...

Hi CJI'm sorry but they didn't list up such 'normally ditransitive' verbs. By the way, CJ, I found online a Web page that says that Huddleston and Pullum in Cambridge Grammar of the English Language says: "In canonical clauses containing just one object, that object is always a direct object,...

Hello KhoffI understand what you mean.(EX-1) "Yesterday she taught her students the Pythagoras theorem".(EX-2) "Yesterday she taught the Pythagoras theorem to her students". The two sentences are almost the same in meaning, so some traditional grammarians insist that "her students" in "to her...