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You lay a table when you put plates and cutlery on it ready for a meal. (Times-Chambers Essential English Dictionary)

This sentence isn't the best example. We don't say that. Mother is setting the table by laying out the dishes. You all are missing one key element to the difference. Lay is a transitive verb (it must take a direct object), and lie is an intransitive verb. This is why we lay a plate on...

All I can say is that it is a non-finite clause. I am not sure whether the label "direct object" would fit here, because you cannot "tend something". You can only "tend to do something" or "tend to behave in a particular manner". If I were to call it...

I'm taking a correspondence course. These are some of the exercises that I need to submit. So please I need help from grammar exerperts thnaks. Exercise 1: Identify each of the “ __ ” words in the sentences as one of the following parts of the sentence: 1.Direct object 2.Indirect...

<>block is the verb. bid is the direct object of the verb. This reads like a headline because the article on bid is omitted.to block (a) bid = to place a barrier on an offer, perhaps by vetoing it. Without more context, it's hard to say much more than that. We don't know what...

I'll try to give some information on this as a non-professional.This is how it looks like in the serbian language,and I suppose,it is very similar in all other slavic languages and also the latin language.For indicating a location the locative case of a noun is used.If the english language...

Hi LiJ,You can certainly remove here, but the sentence would not be clear to the readers since a GMP could be anywhere in the States. Here helps restrict the location (ie., the state, the city, etc...) where the GMP is located; although the use of the article 'a' still does not say which...

It is extremely rare, if not incorrect, to place anything between the verb (check) and its direct object (the correctness). I would avoid the first sentence and use the second. CJ

It's not the combination with whomever that determines the choice whoever/whomever. It's the combination whoever the next president will be that determines the choice. The linking verb be (as in will be) does not take a direct object (whom); it takes a subject complement (who). So the...

Anonymous wrote: Identify the functions of verbs in the sentence below by labelling them Vt (transitive), Vi (intransitive), Vd (dative), Vf (factitive), Vc (copulative) & Vs (sense) Q1: He was last seen (vs) being given a large amount of money outside a bank. Q2: In the late nineteenth...