This looks a lot like homework to me, Civic. Why don't you Google some of these terms?-- inflection, adverb, affix, compound noun .

Consider the following passage an answer the questions that follow: Whether we eat at his place or mine, Ryan usually prepares the meal. Tonight I'd volunteered. I cook well, but not instinctively. I need recipes. Arriving home at six, I spent

Mister Micawber wrote: By using the word qua word, it becomes nominalized. Look at your own sentence: " where would you say is the modification by 'the' (prepositional phrase, 'the' is the noun object) in that sentence is taking place? 'The'

By using the word qua word, it becomes nominalized. Look at your own sentence: " where would you say is the modification by 'the' (prepositional phrase, 'the' is the noun object) in that sentence is taking place? 'The' must be modifying a noun,

Roro wrote: Hello MrPedantic. I have an off-topic-question, As to the word〖preposition〗which you kindly forced on me. The following is its definition (from Webster's online dictionary): ┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈ 1. A function

Dear Pastel. Did you know this pictorial symbol? ⎝谷⎠ (Oh my God...) I remember using it for the first time when all of my data were vanished, in a flash, because of my lack of care. I like it, though! For those who don't know Kanji: this

Hi Ali, Sorry for the delay in the replying to your mail. First of all, thanks a lot for your patience with me. And the second, here comes the sweet discussion of the influence of the Arabic language over Persian! It's quite interesting for me

Bienvenido al English Forums, Reme. From Trask, Language and Linguistics : "Clitic: a grammatical item which appears to be less than a word but more than an affix. Enclitic: a clitic which is phonologically attached to what precedes it,

Here's a start: It depends on the meaning of the word, and of course the location of the affix, since a prefix by definition goes on the front. 'Biology'-- 'bios' is the central concept, hence the root, while 'logy' is a suffix meaning

I don't follow. Are you implying that "of England" is ... a prepositional phrase rather than a form of a noun. Kirsh, isn't, at some point, the distinction between the two an arbitrary one? Why not consider "of