it is still not clear to me. OK. Maybe you just need a little review about "dummy it ". In many cases, as with adjectives like important, possible, and necessary , we move the subject from the beginning to the end of the sentence,

These are adjectives, alright. The trick is that "verbs of sense" work like verbs of being, in taking an adjective complement. "You smell sweet, but I am sweet!"

I feel awful. The flowers in the garden smell sweet. Please tell me which part of speech is awful and sweet. Thanx!

No. Each adjective takes its own (different) preposition. When you switch to the verbals, you have new problems. They don't work in parallel. You have respect for X. You can devote the next four hours to homework. You can devote yourself to

Hello, Chris, this clause would be an adjective clause , right? in fact, one should distinguish between relative clauses and adjective clauses , which are more precisely termed supplementive adjective clauses and represent only a special case of

Gleb Chebrikoff, thank you for your response. It's really informative and interesting--I agree with your analysis of "tell." 3. (d; intr., tr.) ('to inform') to — about, of (he didn't want to — about the incident; — me

Use commas when the adjectives are of equal weight (modify the noun equally). If you can simply reverse the order of the adjectives, then you probably need a comma In the first phrase, I think "small" modifies "circular" more

Hi 'dismal' is an adjective that here means 'feeble, disappointing'. 'the dismal showing of the Sena' means 'the feeble, disappointing election results of the Sena'. coupled with means

The words below are wrong ('proper noun' is the wrong term-- proper nouns are nouns like 'Paris', 'Japan' and 'George'; the 'proper nouns' below are ' common nouns '): phone - (proper noun ) boiling - (adjective) pot - (proper noun)

Could someone please check I have the right terminology for these words I will list first the terminology I have to use, then I will write the words and the terminology I think it is in red next to each word. Most of them are simple enough but