Just to make it a little more complicated -- you would only use a preposition if "downtown" is being used as an adjective describing part of a city, as opposed to a noun. In other words, you would say I live downtown. I'm going

Your examples are both adjectives (American 'overseas'), and they should be adjectives, not nouns: domestic branches and overseas branches .

"The period following World War 2 was filled with a succession of crises as the U.S. was having difficulties going back to a peacetime economy. A threatened railroad strike in 1946 was one of the crises that led to a reconsideration of

"The period following World War 2 was filled with a succession of crises as the U.S. was having difficulties going back to a peacetime economy. A threatened railroad strike in 1946 was one of the crises that led to a reconsideration of

i have five sentences and need to know all the adverbs and adjectives will u please tell me all of them: 1. The Bill of Rights is the ten amendments that immediately follow the Constitution. 2. The First Amendment is the most familiar

I love old-fashioned diagramming (it is no longer taught in most American schools). But I don't have the computer skills (or software) to write the actual diagrams. Until a smarter person than I (am) answers you, may I try my best? (l) car -

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

Tell me wether the word is a predicate adjective, Subect, Direct Obejest, Objective of a proposition, possesive noun, action verb, preposition, linking verb, Indirect Object, or predicate noun of each sentence. We walk to school with our friends.

I am an English grammar instructor. Your explanation is excellent as is your reference to the history of the form. However, you have a few errors technically in your examples. Although my Japanese is not strong, I had the pleasure of studying with

The American Heritage Dictionary gives this definition of the noun, using a capitalized adjective. 1. Anthropology A member of the Caucasian racial classification. Also try this: