Thanks. I am sorry, but your answer is not clear to me. I think the phrase "All I need is" needs a noun or noun phrase at the end. 'for some jerk to...' doesn't look like a noun phrase.

Hi chattt, Welcome to English Forums. Thanks for joining us. Sorry your post slipped thru the cracks. Everything you say is correct. When you ask if the sentence is "true," do you mean "is it correct?" Yes, it's correct.

No. Sorry. I think you've got the wrong end of the stick as far as noun phrases are concerned. In your example, the depending phrase is adverbial. The noun phrase version has to be a subject or object of some kind. Noun phrases underlined.

'We await we know not who' Sorry my English is not that good, so I feel hard to explain. I think it should be in the form of "We await + noun form of someone" "we know not who" is not in that form.

The for-to-Infinitive Construction "is a construction in which the infinitive is in predicate relation to a noun or a pronoun preceded by the preposition for," L. A. Kaushanskaya (1970:200) In the sentence the for-to-Infinitive Construction can

So these sentences are okay? There's pizza on the table. OK There's pizzas on the table. OK in casual conversation . There are pizzas on the table. OK (In spoken English, there are would usually be contracted to there're .)

So these sentences are okay? There's pizza on the table. There's pizzas on the table. There are pizzas on the table. There's candy in the jar. There's candies in the jar.(sounds very unnatural) There are candies in the

In everyday, informal conversation, people often very use there's instead of there're . In more formal English, there are would be correct in your sentence. Shouldn't a lot be counted as two words? Yes, the phrase "a lot"

I'm Australian, and it's always 'tanned' here. But I would contend that is what it's intended to be in American English, too. I always used to read/hear 'tanned' in American media and books, and it's only in recent

"Since when" is very strange. It consists of a preposition (since) and an adverb (when) . As you know, you need a noun after a preposition. So native speakers make "when" into a noun. "Since when" REALLY should be :