Hello, Darcy- and welcome to English Forums. Your sentence needs a bit of rearrangement: They are light, mottled grey overall, and they have a pink bill. (By the way, what are we speaking of here, immature albatrosses?)

Greetings, Tina, Mister Micawber's answers are completely relevant, but let me make some additional remarks: 1. A time of prosperity and peace - is a noun phrase you analysed absolutely correctly. In general, noun phrases may have the

Hi, 1. I walk and I do walking. What is the difference between these two? The latter is not very idiomatic. It sounds a bit like you are taling about your hobbies. 2. Drink milk before you go to sleep. and Drinking milk before sleeping

Hi, I'd change these: 5. The sun was eclipsed by the moon. ACTIVE PASSIVE 9. This bone has been buried by the dog . PASSIVE 10. It takes a long time to think of these examples . PASSIVE ACTIVE 13. There was a cup of coffee on the table but now

I think the original post was referring to possessives in general, not just 'him'. Trad grams called my, your, his/her/its, our, your, their possessive adjectives . However, in many modern grammars they came to be called

It doesn't seem quite idiomatic. When you speak of the weather, you're usually speaking of the weather outdoors. The change would be gradual, and surely not timed with your leaving the building. Perhaps you are getting colder as you leave

I'd think of it this way: not any degrees = zero degrees The only time I think I would use "zero degree" is when that phrase is actually used as an adjective to modify a noun. For example: - a zero degree day = a day on which the

D. inadvertently makes the point that these past participles work much better as verbs than as adjectives. Granted, it's often a tossup as to whether we're looking at a passive voice structure or "to be" plus adjective; but in

Hi. Welcome to English Forums. The best way to get used to speaking and also writing fluently is to use correct punctuation. Yes, you can. W ho treasure s you like I do? It's can be noun and verb. Do you realize what kind of treasure you

. Perhaps someday we'll have a special forum for signs. "The" is called a definite article. When you wish to indicate that (a) particular (definite) test/tests/testing/series of tests is/are being conducted,