Why should "this person's being well" sound weird to you? Does "this person's acting well" or "this person's living well" ... is Raggs at being nice in his posts? He's bad. (adjective form) Or,

Modifying "is" with an adverb certainly is possible in English. Certainly, huh. Then you must have some pretty good evidence for what you say here. Just what is that evidence? Look more closely at Lee's sentence... :-) Nice one.

M. Ranjit Mathews : 'qualified by an adverb' is not ... if it is impersonal, implied, or tacit (like with gerunds): A verb doesn't always need a subject. What is important is that, in English, a sentence needs a verb. Some sentences

What would you say are the stylistic differences of US ... from reading materials from the other side of the Atlantic? (snip) Misplacement of the adverb, which already has come up in the threads '"already" and "put the

} Hello all, Hello back at you. } I'm a non-native speaker of English and am wondering } what grammatical explanations are behind such an exression } as } } (1) This is a nice place to live. } } I read in a newsgroup about English writing that

Hello all, I'm a non-native speaker of English and am wondering what grammatical explanations are behind such an exression as (1) This is a nice place to live. I read in a newsgroup about English writing that the relationship between (2) a

on 23 Oct 2003: I've never seen a refrigerator with an on/off switch, so ... turn them on by plugging them into a wall socket? Er.. I think we just plug them into a wall socket, but the refrigerator is not really the point in my question. Make

I encountered the term "anakuklosis" many years ago, in context meaning "coming back around again and again, always at a ... and collapse. Ans others use it to mean simply regression. Is there a "correct" meaning or usage