By Determiners, Verbs

Hello paco, thank you for your reply & references. I got interested more and more. First of all, yes, in Russian we use accusative case to express temporal duration. In order to express some time zone (like 'this morning') there are some means but I usually use bare instrumental case forms....

Hi Zig, and welcome to English Forums. A bit of a mess, eh wot? who says what what anyone says In both clauses, the 'what's are the verb objects, while 'who' and 'anyone' are the subjects. BUT: It doesn't matter who says what It doesn't matter what anyone says The objects (or...

Hello VC "Such", "so", "as", "too", "how" and "what" work as adverbs. But when they are used as a modifier of an attributive adjective (=an adjective that comes before a noun), they behave as a pre-determiner (=a determiner that comes before an indefinite article). Those pre-determiners are...

I know Paco through many on-line conversations, so I know he is more than capable of comprehending a complex English sentence. The question is subtle and requires some subtlety to answer it. I'm sure, from my past experience with this student, that he understands at the level I have given the...

The noun phrase is a group of words that ends with a noun. It can contains determiners (the, a, this....), adjective, adverbs and nouns. It cannot begin with preposition. For example " a beautiful metal table" is a noun phrase. I guess since a noun phrase could include an adjective, the...

'Group' is a singular noun (and 'each' is a singular determiner)-- so a singular verb is required: 'each group is/has...' And of course the full sentence should be: 'Each group has its own merits'.

Hello Davkett I think we'd better distinguish a "verb-form controlling noun" from a "syntactic subject". If I parse the given sentence according to the currently dominant grammar, it would be like: (More (than half of all academic problems)) are (caused (by a lack of student...

'There is a lot more to be done. (noun)' -- pronoun, actually: 'a lot more ' 'I need a lot more books. (adjective)' -- yes, or determiner. 'This one is a lot more expensive (adverb)' -- yes, modifying the adjective. I suppose that 'more... than' can be extrapolated from all such cases, though I...

Hello muratsekerci, and welcome to EnglishForum. Question 1: Which of the following designate a legitimate type according to the type system which our language Ltype rests on? I'm not sure what means here, because these logical types are a bit unusual. But as far as I know: a. , , t>>...

hi friends. i have an exam on wednesday and some questions of exam are here. i must learn the answers of these questions. i am waiting your's help thanks. -----Montague Grammer----- question 1: Which of the following designate a legitimate type according to the type system which our language...