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My guesses: (1) 'Queen' is the fifth noun, acting as an adjective; 'guests' is subject of the dependent clause. (2) Subject preceding verb is normal word order in an affirmative statement. (3) 'Answers' is the head-- it is modified by the other words. (4) In ( a ) 'book' is the direct...

Right, English used to ditinguish between subjects and objects by using a suffix such as Latin did, but gave up this tradition to follow an analytical structure (often: preposition + noun, noun here in a widened sense) that also required a fixed word order.

If it answers the question Where?, it's an adverb. Like this, Adverb Test Q: Where is his hiding place? A: It's nearby. (Adverb) It it modifies a noun, then it's an adjective. Like this, Adjective Test Q: What kind of hiding place? A: A hiding place that is nearby. Note, the entire phrase...

But. . . both you and your boss are correct. Consider, (A) My family (my dad, mom, and bother) are here with me. (non-collective noun) (B) My family (the group) is here with me. (collective noun) (C) British Coal, they who own and run the company, are. . . (D) British Coal, the company, is. ....

Having fun with us Spanish speakers, uh? Oh, well... I admit I also laughed at those lexical problems. There are some cultural explanations, too. Some Spanish speakers wrongly use "pile" because they "imported" the French word instead of the English one (pile instead of battery). In my...

Hello meg2589 and all, I almost exclusively teach Spanish students, with the exception of some American students who are learning Spanish but this is a different story. I can tell you the most common mistakes and difficulties that we, Spanish people, find when studying English. The first problem...

Hello, In recent ten years, Choose either In recent years, or the last decade or the last ten years. few people in taiwan Taiwan. This is a proper noun and needs a capital letter. overly have been felling trees, have been felling too many trees, or have been over-harvesting trees, or have...

I agree with Lib--when the subject of your sentence is actually the interrogative pronoun, you don't change the word order. For example: "What does it mean?" "What does it mean?" is the direct question, "Do you know what it means?" is the indirect question. You invert the word order because...

Hello again, Mask. I musunderstood your question, but I see what you mean now. Just like many other English words, "than" belongs to more than one class. It is a preposition in sentences like "She is taller than me", and it is a conjunction in sentences like "She is taller than I (am)." In other...

Hi, Do you know what the matter is? This one is correct. 'what the matter is' is the object of the verb 'know'. In a noun clause beginning with a question word, the subject precedes the verb. Do not use question word order in a noun clause. Does that help?