Do you also consider this inversion? A tree is there. <--> There is a tree I personally think it is. These 2 websites will clear all all doubts on inversions. http://esl.about.com/od/advancedgrammar/a/inversion.htm

Hello, Specter. In your sentence "Working for him doesn't interest me," "working for him" is the subject and the rest is the predicate. The subject happens to be a gerundive (or gerundial, as some call

Hi. When do we use these phrases in sentences? How are they different? I think the words "a meat" means a type or brand of meat. different meats different meat different kinds of meats different kinds of meat If we

Hi. I was looking at the Collins Cobuild Advanced Learner's English Dictionary for the word "ravioli" and it had this entry. Ravioli is a type of pasta that is shaped into small squares, filled with minced meat or cheese and

There are potentially differences here between American English and British English. I'm a British English speaker, so my reply reflects British English usage. With nouns such as "team", "group", "committee"

Wh i ch answer is the best one and why is it the best answer? Last year's holiday sale's strategy -- to be such a success that we have decided to repeat it this year. (A) proved (B) was (C) was proven (D) became Hi.

In one of the Cambridge books a came across the following sentence: Brand recognition is how much people recognize a brand. Why is MUCH used here? I thought PEOPLE is a countable noun and we should use MANY. Can it be a misprint?

I believe the question you are asking is "What is the difference beteen a regular noun and a proper noun. Proper nouns are the names of real people or places. They always begin with a capital letter, even in the middle of a sentence. Examples

) An adjective is a part of speech that modifies a noun or a pronoun. -- OK ) The exam was adjourned since the the professor was ill. ) The government has adjudged that the country's economy is experiencing hard times so the tax rates will be

I would say that the adjective "effulgent" would most often be used as an attributive adjective. In other words, preceding the noun it describes. I don't think it would usually be used in such a simple sentence, or to describe a