By Adverbs, Negatives

Hi, Please tell me if the same positive- and negative-polarity view points exist for their use as an adverb ike here where it is used with adjectives. 1)He is a little (positive??)/little (negative??) bad/good for my taste. 2) He was a little (positive??)/little (negative??) sad -- In this...

Yes. I think I understand what you are getting at -- although for non-native speakers some of the guidelines may appear to be circular in nature. According to Palmer (The English Verb), besides the plain vanilla 'passive' with an agent introduced by by (The man was killed by his...

"The Change of the Characteristics in the passage from The Hours" The passage from the novel The Hours by Michael Cunningham is intriguing. The passage illustrates the difference between the character's characteristics in different time settings: past and present. This difference is...

1) Are my sentences correct but with a different meaning? I didn't quite get the nuance between the 2 prepositions. Would you please explain the difference again? a) "The plays had been / were performed THROUGHOUT the next ten years"-- many times /every year in that periodb) "He had acted /...

Dear teachers, Would you please help me with the following difficuties? 1) Are my sentences correct but with a different meaning? I didn't quite get the nuance between the 2 prepositions. Would you please explain the difference again? a) "The plays had been / were (?) performed THROUGOUT /...

Thank you, Yankee, Doll and GG. Is there any difference between using the two 'little' and 'a little' adjectivally and as an adverb. I think I understand the positive and negative aspects of the two when used adjectivally. Can we apply the same concept when used as an adverb? 1. As an...

1. "women" - use plural to match "the elderly" & "are more LIKELY" 2. The goals of our program ARE - use plural verb with plural subject 3. MANY benefits - "Much" is for stuff; "many" is for things you can count. 4. there IS a lot of space (missing verb in clause) ...

1.Is it necessary to use the negative adverb in this sentence structure <Rarely does he play snooker.>? Can I write like this <Frequantly does he play snooker.> 2.Is it a must to write <so or such> in this sentence structure <Talk shows are so/such popular that almost every...

Hi, When a person is trying to use the phrase 'a little' or the word 'little' as an adverb or as a phrase, how can he do so correctly when both means pretty much the same, at least to me, to mean 'a small extent'? little -- means 'a small extent' as an adverb a little or a little bit --...

Hi, In fact, if you look in a good dictionary you will see that the word but has six jobs to do: verb, noun, adverb, pronoun, preposition and conjuction! http://www.englishclub.com/grammar/parts-of-speech_3.htm I cannot find any examples of but used as a verb or a pronoun in the online...