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"I've come across the term "adjective appositive" and "adverb appositive" a few times, and I'm just wondering if this is widely-used. Is it an incorrect description of a construction that should be called something else? I'm asking this because I always see appositives defined as nouns (or noun...

This one is confusing because usually when you have "a girls" - but in the first case, "number" is the subject, and in the second case "girls" is the subject.

Alienvoord wrote:I'm not so sure that it's used consciously. I've never thought about it consciously before. This is the same construction as I haven't seen her in five days. I haven't seen her in two years. I haven't seen her in about eight weeks. I haven't seen her in around four months. I...

Alienvoord, I appreciate you're constructive criticism. Allow me to rebute:1) Comprehensible, yes. But many expressions are comprehensible even without being gramatically sound. The nuances I try to reveal in this post are to help you write better gramatically, not to sound or to write...

The preference in all such expressions is to match the number. If the classifying word (kind, sort, type, species) is singular, the noun in the following of phrase is also singular. If the classifying word is plural, so is the noun in the of phrase. many kinds of bottles a type of...

Hello! Will you correct the following essay please? I'd really appreciate it if someone would give me their suggestions about how to make some sentences sound more natural. Thank you! The curse of the Russian sky or why do planes fall? It was a day of mourning on July 10 in Russia. The...

1. Why do we have to put the article "a" when the words "maximum" or "minimum" seem to indicate only one, the one? It is a maximum/minmum number/score. 2. When can we use this word "unto" properly. I got this partical sentence from a post here. They are constructions unto themselves, ... 3....

1. Can the underlined word be replaced with 'of' and keep the same meaning? He had started construction on a hunting lodge. He had started construction of a hunting lodge. 2. Would you favor the placement of an apostrophe and making it a possessive for the underlined part? Is the first...

In these different constructions, different types of things are ellipted.1) My father bought me a cell phone which is as small as a mouse. . Fish is the direct object of caught. Many is an adjective modifying fish, and the first as is an adverb modifying many. Again, the second as is a...

across with my legs isn't OK/idiomatic Just make a search at Yahoo for "across with my legs" (quotation marks are important) and you'll see a very low number of hits The rest seems OK. Now you have some work to do ------ across with is seen only in some constructions, such as:...