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When looking up tricky constructions or words, one can often go to the dictionary to view its proper usage. For example, www.dictionary.com shows this definition and usage note for nor:1. (used in negative phrases, esp. after neither, to introduce the second member in a series, or any subsequent...

I obviously agree with Forbes: it depends on your first language. I have never had any problems with passive sentences, subjects and objects, the difference between countable and uncountable, etc. because those are all features I have in Italian too. It is not difficult at all for me to use...

I have to analyse the following sentence, but I'm really stuck..."Amanda's practical solutions of what had seemed an insoluble mystery descended on the family like a balm."I have to cut this sentence into constituents and cut those up in nouns, verbs, adverbs, adjectives,...

Hello, I tried to see your diagrams and ı couldn't find anything wrong with the second one. As for the first one, it is really difficult to read the elements but I will do it like this: butter and cheese: double noun phrases with butter and cheese: prepositional phrase ...

Not here. No. when to clauses are indirect questions, hence, they function as noun phrases:I didn't know when to change trains.Be sure to tell him when to change trains.They don't function as adverbs:*You have to walk when to change trains.*Be sure to read the posted signs when to...

I wish to present a different way of looking at the sentences. One way of lowering fuel consumption is using public transport.(You can rewrite as: Using public transport is one way of lowering fuel consumption.) ' Using public transport' is a noun phrase having a dual-function role here:...

Hello Anonymous,In your sentences there is no adjective phrases.A phrase is a name used in the english grammar to label a group of words which acts as a single unit in the syntax of a sentence,which means that you need at least two words to label some part of the sentence a phrase. Words,phrases...

Conjunctive adverbs, or simply "conjuncts", do exist, and are different from sentence adverbials.These conjuncts link sentences or paragraphs and usually appear at the beginning of a sentence. The adverbials Anonymous mentioned in their first post, those that tell us something...

By the way, for each of those Noun Phrase, Verb Phrase, Adjectival Phrase, Adverb Phrase and Prepositional Phrase,you can find it in Wikipedia.org, just search on its search engine. such as for noun phrase http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noun_Phrase

hello guys... I am teslians who's taking english structure as one of my core subject for this semester...Anyone here know where I can find any good information or have a knowledge in English Phrases such asNoun Phrase, Verb Phrase, Adjectival Phrase, Adverb Phrase and Prepositional Phrase? I...