By Pronouns, Constructions

1.The compnay which has a good reputation as .......... 2.The companies which have a good reputation as ........ I hope my second sentence is fine. I assume the subject is companies so the verb should be 'have' Please tell me if I am wrong. It is my understanding that the pronoun in...

Hi, All these inversions of pronoun and verb are correct grammar. However, I would say they're not common at all. And they sound literary and rather arch, even more so when the pronoun is 'I'. I wouldn't recommend that you go around using this construction in everyday conversation.

CalifJim wrote:If a student points to some construction and asks me if it's the subjunctive or not, I can't reply, 'No, it's a monkey!'Now there you are wrong! You are the teacher and can say any dang thing you want! In fact a smart retort like that might go a long way toward making your...

Another kind of illegitimate argument is based on analogy between one area of grammar and another. consider yet another construction where there is variation between nominative and accusative forms of pronouns: , where the subject has the form of a coordination of pronouns. This shows us not...

If a student points to some construction and asks me if it's the subjunctive or not, I can't reply, 'No, it's a monkey!' Now there you are wrong! You are the teacher and can say any dang thing you want! In fact a smart retort like that might go a long way toward making your students realize...

Pradeep_tp wrote: Hello english world, I have been facing difficulty in understanding the usage of the words 'that ' and 'which'. I have no clear understanding of which word is more appropriate in what situation. 'Which' and 'that' overlap when it comes to relative clauses. In this specific...

Riglos wrote: Hi everyone!chemas-microsoft-com:office:office" />>> Today in the class I and my students were analyzing how questions are formed in the past tense in English. In one of the exercises, the task was to find mistakes in sentences and correct them. One sentence read: Who else did...

OED says:Later usage transposes the syntactical relation in such constructions as "all kinds of trees" = "trees of all kinds", "this kind of thing" ="a thing of this kind". As the original genitive phrase was in attributive relation to the following noun, the natural tendency is still to...

MrPedantic wrote:Hello Pinenut I'm happy to remove (doing) from my answer. "We admit to X, where X is a noun phrase." Thus: 1. ...admit to his being a St Valentine baby. Here, "being" is a gerund; the underlined portion is a noun phrase, and acts as the participial object of "to". 2....

MrPedantic wrote:Hello Anon It's possible to make a case for either form. 1. ...admit to his being a St Valentine baby. Here, "being" is a gerund; the underlined portion is a noun phrase, and acts as the participial object of "to". 2. ...admit to him being a St Valentine baby. Here, "being"...