By Inflections

Mister Micawber wrote:The idiomatic 'try and do' is not acceptably used in any but that fixed form. Any inflection of the verb (tries and, tried and) illegitimatizes it.I'll try and help you later.She's going to try and bake a cake.(X) She tries and bakes cakes.(X) I tried and helped you...

The idiomatic 'try and do' is not acceptably used in any but that fixed form. Any inflection of the verb (tries and, tried and) illegitimatizes it.I'll try and help you later.She's going to try and bake a cake.(X) She tries and bakes cakes.(X) I tried and helped you yesterday.

Because "ten-foot-long" is used as an adjective, and in English adjectives don't take the plural inflection.

Clive wrote:In Finnish, does one never have to resort to logic or common sense? Hi CliveI am pleasantly surprised that you should take an interest in my native language. I am not an expert in Finnish but common sense tells me there must be such cases. I think ambiguity would most likely arise...

Hi Kooyeen"Don't put an adverb between a verb and its object" is a good rule even though there are exceptions to it. Since inflections have practically disappeared from English over time, it is customary to place the object after the verb to facilitate communication. However, if the object is...

Although you can make a statement and turn it into a question with the right inflection when you say it out loud, generally in writing it's best to do the inversion and say "Can we...?" instead of "We can....?" Start with a capital letter. And, because many, many people get confused with GMT +...

5.) Is the adjective "manned" a derivation? this depends on how we view the form "manned". If it is considered as an adjective, then it is a derivation. But unfortunately there is no such an entry in my Longman Dictionary. In this case, i would prefer it to be an inflection. 10.) Do allophones...

1. The book being on the table is mine. (WRONG!) Why? 2. The book which is on the table is mine. If we perform whiz deletion in 2. (which/who + any inflections of to be can be deleted from a relative clause), we get 1.

Hi My father's friend. There is the possessive 's inflection with the possessor: father. We can not put another deteterminer between the determiner (my) and the inflected noun (father's) to express we are referring to, say, two of them. However, 'My father's two friends' is acceptable,...

I wrote a very short story using a homograph a few years ago. It was published in a Literaty Journal. Hope you like it: One Night Stand by: lee youngblood You can tell if a man is truly a bachelor the instant you walk into his bedroom. It’s not the mislaid clothes or disheveled dresser,...