Hi there, I tried looking up the rules for using 'that' in a sentence. I understand it's mainly used to combine two clauses. I don't understand the specific rules though; a lot of sentences look like they'd work fine with

"Their" is a possessive adjective. You use it when you want to say that something belongs to something else, like, "their website" (the website belongs to them) It is a kind of universal pronoun, not commonly used to refer to

Hello. I happened to fine this website when I searched for information about English grammar. A few minutes ago, I read a sentence, "There's something the matter with this pen." I can't understand how

I'm Australian, and it's always 'tanned' here. But I would contend that is what it's intended to be in American English, too. I always used to read/hear 'tanned' in American media and books, and it's only in recent

Please, please try to use correct English spelling, capitalization and puctuation when you post here! "i"m "wt" and "sth" may be appropriate in other parts of the internet, but not on an English language forum!

Hello, 1. DOCIS an interface standard required to provide high speed Internet services. When I change the above as follows, does the meaning become ambiguous? 2. DOCIS a standard for interface required to provide high speed

There's an article on CNN 's website today , which entitles is entitled "China bank lending: A bubble in the making?" In the first part of the title, LENDING works as a noun, right? Yes. So, 1. Should I consider CHINA as an

Hi all. There's an article on CNN website today, which entitles "China bank lending: A bubble in the making?" In the first part of the title, LENDING works as a noun, right? So, 1. Should I consider CHINA as an adjective? And, why

Hi Anon Here is a handy website for you: http://www.onelook.com/?w=just&ls=a The word "just" is generally used as an adjective or as an adverb: http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/just%5B2%5D

To quote the good Dr : "My position has always...been that ‘right’ and ‘wrong’ are not suitable terms for settling issues of grammar" (same link). So he's as right as he is wrong. I'm sure you noticed that 'Randy' (same link) says "The Oxford