Greetings, Coloraday, an interesting observation you have made on the usage of these adjectives, and thank you for sharing it. However, there are strong reasons to prefer only one of the options suggested in the multiple-choice cloze, viz.

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

Dear friend, close is most frequently used as an adjective or a verb, but in can also be an adverb meaning 'closely, tightly; near, in proximity + close to the wind (an idiom)'. Context is crucial in classifying close as an adjective or

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

Dear friends, just a follow-up. Some critics still maintain that due to can only be used as an adjective, and not as a preposition; thus, in their view, a sentence like The game was postponed due to rain is ungrammatical and should be reworded in

Dear friend, the first set of examples is quite correct grammatically, no doubt, representing the pattern verb + object + to-infinitive complementation . In this case, passivization is possible, though some constraints still apply even to this

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