Re: Right or wrong? (Guest:Iman)

X11 — Sat, 17 Dec 2005 16:12:50 GMT

In English you have an fixed word order, except in interrogatives and exclamations.

It looks as this:

Subject + verb + object/complement - this is how an affirmative sentence looks like, normally.

From this your sentence 4. Max cleaned up it, is correct but since it is a verbal phrase consisting of two items you need to split them up and put the pronoun in between. I cannot explain this grammatically. perhaps another one can.

Jay

Re: Meaning

Mister Micawber — Tue, 21 Sep 2004 04:53:00 GMT

Actually, I think you communicate rather well, Hanuman. It's more a matter of being careful with your spelling and punctuation, generally.

Your questions:

(1) "The pronoun "You" is same for singular and plural. But I have no idea how to use it as singular"-- Guess what? You just did use it, here: "If you don't mind, please tell me...". Every time you direct a locution to one person, you use 'you' and every time you direct a locution to more than one person, you use 'you'. Simple, eh?

(2) The rule stating that 'any' is for negative and interrogative sentences, and 'some' is for affirmative sentences is a False Rule and should be ignored. It is a trend, not a rule. Other factors are: 'any' is a non-assertive word, and often occurs in affirmative sentences; in this case when it means 'it doesn't matter which'. 'Some' is used in questions which encourage the answer 'Yes'.

(3) One lioness, two lionesses. Two princesses. 'Nicety' is the noun for 'nice' in its older meaning of 'precise, etc.'

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Re: Right or wrong? (Guest:Iman)

Re: Meaning