In Pronouns^x, Verbs^x

Deepa, I totally agree with you! As examples always enlighten a lot, I'll give you some impressions of my mother tongue German: I have to say that English in many cases is simpler than my native language. You mentioned e.g. the gender of a noun which is usually expressed by the article. In...

rommie? Got a theory? hehe Sure thing. Consider the sentence: "I had him eating spinach". Does that make sense to you? It makes sense to me. It means (1) "he was eating spinach", and (2) "I caused this to happen". The phrase "him eating spinach" is a gerund - quite a complicated gerund as it...

You said: When you say, , otherwise this sentence wouldn't sound right. The big difference between the sentence immediately above and our earlier examples is the comma. But I don't see how that could change the number of the verb. My answer is just an educated guess. Rommie

You help make my point. When you say, "Alice, who makes great tea, put on the pot" you are saying something quite different from "Alice, who make great tea, put on the pot." You might not want to say either one, but the question is, if you chose to say one or the other, which one would be...

O God, Who loves us and created your kingdom in the hearts of believers . . . I confess to being curious. This entire phrase is a noun-of-address, that is, a reference to a person in vocative case, and yet the phrase contains a reflexive pronoun. I didn't realise you could do that. I mean, if I...

I put it that those who made up my grammar book are staunch supporters of a specific religion :P.

The answer to your specific query depends entirely on how many gods you believe there are. If you believe there's one, it's " gods who love". If you believe that the god concept is uncountable (like Zen) then it would be "god who loves". If you believe there is no god at all (sorry, but I had to...

In my grammar book, we use plural form of verb for God as a token of respect. eg. Don't be evil. God know it

I am in a debate with my minister over the form of the verb following the relative pronoun "Who" in prayer. Example--In last Sunday's bulletin one of the printed prayers began as follow: "O God, Who loves us and created your kingdom in the hearts of believers . . ." After worship, I told the...

WHL, I'm sorry, I didn't really understand you're last post on this thread. Could you elaborate or reword please? Sorry. Guest, another (hehe) thing just occurred to me. In English, there is also the curious phrase "one another", which has nothing to do with any of the above meanings. "one...