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Su's post: I always wonder some thing in English grammar. For instance, the sentence: I drive him. 'I' is the subject. 'Him' is the object. Yet their position have told us this too. Is that means the English grammar is sort of double expressing? For if the sentences of: I him drive. drive I...

I won't comment on your post, Su, but I'd like to add a few other remarks. When I was a kid, I did benefit from grammar lessons. After all, English has relatively few inflections and rely mainly on word order, so sentence structure has to be a sustantial part of the basic curriculum. But by...

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...

In addition, in Latin, which is where English gets its who, whom distribution, word order is not fixed, so the purpose of a suffix (e.g., -m, and so on) is to tell us the word's grammatical function (e.g. subject, object, etc). In terms of traditional grammar, whom is the more preferred as the...

Hello Julielai Not at all dumb. 1. Cat- as in 'cat-astrophe'; + ull- as in 'pull'; + -us with the same vowel sound as 'pull' again. Stress on -ull-. 2. Contemporary and near-contemporary poets - Tibullus, Ovid, Martial - make allusions to his poems; Virgil is especially influenced by him, and...

Hello! The problem: Scolars think or have proofs that immigrants are fast integrated into the society ...... Is the word order in this sentence correct? I'm having problems with the adverb fast. Is this correct? I think it stresses the word fast! Or do I have to write: Scolars think or have...

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...

CalifJim, And I know you're not supposed to start sentences with "and" or "but" or "however". No, no, no CalifJim. It is perfectly acceptable to start sentences with "And". If you look at the beginning of most dictionaries, you will often find sentences that begin with "And." And even our...

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...

I was recently presented with two sentences: "She already has her first client lined up." and "She has already lined up her first client." The person who showed me these sentences was interested in how to classify the verbs; which are auxiliary verbs and which objects go with which verbs. Of...