Hi BillJ, If my analytical is wrong, then, I may have to ask my old teacher to review his notes. Still, this is my approach: I (subj) saw (verb) him (object) washing his car (noun phrase) this morning ( time adverbial) Thus, I saw him = a

I’m sorry but I disagree. It’s very common to say ‘I fly American/United/Lufthansa/El Al’ and so on. The meaning of such expressions is widely understood. The word ‘American’ is functioning as a noun here. Even when used in a

What are the rules for: They demanded that he do the job well? Why isn't it they demanded that he does the job well? Hi Your first sentence is in the subjunctive mood, which is often used to express wishes,

Your book is being extremely picky and in all but the most formal (or carefully edited) writing, the first version is quite normal. The book says that two things are being compared in the original sentence. I'm marked those two things in

For some reason, the writer of the second sentence felt readers needed to be reminded that 'greater than' applied to 'number.' There is nothing wrong with either; both are right. An alternative wording might have set the

Hi, is this punctuation correct? Yes, although I'm not sure if Americans normally would use a capital with 'states' in such a context. (ie S tates). All cooperative efforts made by states and the U.S. Department of

THE suicide-blast by a jihadist triple-agent in Afghanistan on December 30th, that killed seven American spies and one Jordanian, was a calamity for the CIA. Above the sentence is a relative clause and that here is relative pronoun. As

On the whole, this is very well written. I can polish the grammar for you, if you wish. However, it is difficult to say what might sway the examiner in her favor. The crossed-out words are my deletions of the original text and the color bar words

If you ever take an acting class, you will learn to read each line of a play in 10 to 12 different ways. There are literally thousands of ways that a speech of five sentences can be read. Each particular rhythm of stresses, including the rhythm of

I might be wrong, but I'm afraid "Who has completed all the exercises" might be ok, and "Who has demolished such a beautiful cemetary" might not. I see that in Jim's and Amy's examples there always seems to be an