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Re: Determining parts of speech...

CalifJim — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 20:30:03 GMT

meemski
predicate adjectives

This is a function, not a part of speech. That is, there is no such thing as a part of speech called a "predicate adjective".

Most of your examples are nouns functioning as adjectives within a compound noun structure. If you need to know these for a class, check with the teacher or your textbook to find out whether, in the grammar system you're using in class, these should be considered nouns or adjectives. (Different textbooks classify these differently.)

The exceptions are water, which is a plain old noun, and back, which is an adverb. Some grammarians might interpret to be back as a phrasal verb, however. Some of these would call back a (phrasal verb) "particle"; others, an adverb.

Proofread for grammar please

Anonymous — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 13:30:02 GMT

Preservative effects

The resurgence of the use of organic foods in the US has brought more attention to the use of additives to processed foods. Many food additives serve useful purposes. They keep bread from developing mold, slow the growth of bacteria in wine, prevent oils from turning rancid, fruit from browning, and peanut butter from separating. A common preservative is the antioxidant butylated hydroxytoluene (BHT). It slows the development of off-flavors, odors, and color changes caused by oxidation. The uses of BHT are researched throughout the country for their benefits and adverse affects.

The most important use of BHT is as a food preservative. When it is added to products containing fats or oils, oxygen reacts with the additive (BHT) rather than the food itself, protecting the food from spoiling. Among the vast array of food products containing BHT are foods with oil or shortening, breakfast cereals (from Total to Quaker Instant Oatmeal), enriched rice products, and dried soups. BHT is added to a number of non-food products as well. These products include lipstick, lip-gloss, mascara, body and face lotions, diaper rash ointment, deodorant soaps, and shaving creams. The antioxidant properties of BHT make it suitable for other applications also. For example, it is sometimes added to paints and inks to prevent a skin from forming on top of these liquids. The skin is formed when the paint or ink reacts with oxygen in air to form a solid compound. BHT is used as an additive for the preservation of drugs, rubber products, petroleum products, the plastics used in food wraps, and the petroleum wax coatings used on food boxes.

Questions are continually raised about the possible health benefits and risk s posed by BHT. Many believe that BHT is the cause of many adverse problems, including this correspondence from the Western Journal of Medicine ] where they state, âLegitimate toxic side effects, including severe gastrointestinal and neurological toxicities, have been reported after ingestion of standard and suggested dosesâ (Grogan 245). Many of these studies seem to be inconclusive, however, and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has decided that BHT can be used as food additive if the amount added is less than 0.02 percent by weight.

Just as many studies seem to investigate the possible benefits of the compound BHT. An article in The New York Times states, âAdvocates of natural foods have long objected to the use of preservatives, but Dr. Andrew Dannenberg of Cornell Medical College found that the preservatives BHA and BHT boosted the gene for an enzyme that helps destroy carcinogens before they lead to tumors.â Other research is underway showing that BHT may destroy the herpes virus and the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). Most nutritionists agree that antioxidants can be helpful in protecting cells and tissues from aging and damage by oxygen.

What can be drawn from all of this opposing opinion and research? The use of preservatives is necessary, unless we want to buy all of our food fresh daily and use it right away. With any chemical or compound large exposure to them can be dangerous. The FDA mandates the percent allowed in foods and deems them safe for our consumption. Additives to food like BHT and other preservatives will continue to be debated for decades to come.

Re: Â«...clean grimy hands...Â»

MissMandy — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 18:30:41 GMT

Haha, you gave me a funny picture in my head. If you told Paul to wash a weary face, he would probably be looking around for someone else's weary face to wash because you can't tell him to wash his own face that way; a tells the listener that we are being generic. If you wanted him to wash his own weary face, you'd need a possessive determiner (your). So, yes, you seem correct.

When thinking about determiners (articles are a category of determiners), you always need to decide if the noun is count or non-count, and if it is count, if it is plural or singular as well as if it is generic of specific. With non-count nouns you need to decide if the noun is specific or generic. Once all of that has been decided, you still have lots of choices.(Go to Wikipedia's "Determiners" page to see the long list.)

If you want, send me an email and I'll send you a PDF graphic that I give to all my grammar students. Determiners are tiny, but powerful and confusing, little words. I'll send the file to anyone who wants it. Just send me your email.

~Miss Mandy

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Re: Can someone check my Grammar please!!

boutsady — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 08:33:39 GMT

Â In the "A Circus", by Carry Farruggia. The author writes about the circus. Circus is the event on the holidays, Birthday, etc.She said circus is the opportunity to reunion Farruggia family. In the event it had several roles. Such as like, Lion Tamer, Clowns, Animals a snack at the circus. In Farruggia circus, they have their own roles in the plays. The Ring leader role of the family is taken by her husband, Matt. The Ring leader role is start the party started. She also said her husband role is to determination of the family. Next is Lisa, her role is the magician of the family. Lisa is Carry's sister in-law. Her role is keeping childrens entertained. She has an unlimited talents and she can do the animated voice to entertained the audiences. Carry describes one by one of her family roles in the plays. Her Grandpa role is the chuck. the chuck has many talents and play the awesome in the role. He tames the kids, juggles a story and he Â always hidden some gift in his sleeve to spoil the widest beast. She said without her Grandpa, there would be no show. Carry also mentions the childrenâs there, are very entertained every single plays?. TheyÂ running, jumping all the around. They also entertaining the dancing, singing in the show as well. Many friends and family comes to the Farruggia circus. They Â ( be)Â all Â enjoyable, surprises and gathering together. Carry 's roles in the play is a snack vendor. Her duty is responsible (for) around the house. Like pick up the mess and so on. In the circus they prepared the traditional meals and untraditional snack too. She believes the circus can bring us happiness and enjoyableness in the family.

I don't know!! i am not native speaker

I hope it helps u to find out the gramatical eror in your Â above article. sorry if i did point it Â wrong.

lINGUISTICS as a conversation

noel gomez — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 02:39:42 GMT

Good day! Hi there! i just would like to know if Lingustics can be used as a tool for everyday's conversations, public speaking and many more; how does it benefit us and what are its effects to us. Thankyou. I just would like to sahre something i've read about linguistics - its history and unique characteristics. Correct me if i'm wrong. The article goes like this:

Wikipedia

Main article: Arabic grammar

Due to the rapid expansion of Islam in the 8th century, many people learned Arabic as a lingua franca. For this reason, the earliest grammatical treatises on Arabic are often written by non-native speakers.

The earliest grammarian who is known to us is Ê¿Abd AllÄh ibn AbÄ« Isá¸¥Äq al-á¸¤aá¸ramÄ« (d. 735-736 AD, 117 AH). The efforts of three generations of grammarians culminated in the book of the Persian linguist SibÄwayhi (c. 760-793).

Sibawayh made a detailed and professional description of Arabic in 760 in his monumental work, Al-kitab fi al-nahw (Ø§ÙÙØªØ§Ø¨ ÙÙ Ø§ÙÙØÙ, The Book on Grammar), bringing many linguistic aspects of language to light. In his book he distinguished phonetics from phonology.

Traditionally, the Arabic grammatical sciences are divided into five branches:

al-luÄ¡ah (lexicon) concerned with collecting and explaining vocabulary

at-taá¹£rÄ«f (morphology) determining the form of the individual words

an-naá¸¥w (syntax) primarily concerned with inflection (irÄb) which had already been lost in dialects.

al-iÅ¡tiqÄq (derivation) examining the origin of the words

al-balÄÄ¡ah (rhetoric) which elucidates construct quality

Thanks!

Re: For those ESL teachers...

ICAL_Pete — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 13:30:09 GMT

We get this question asked almost every day here at ICAL by both native and non native English speakers.

Grammar is often perceived as a major obstacle by many English teachers. Not because they feel their English may be poor but because despite being able to speak and write English correctly they donât know what makes it correct and they cannot explain it to their students.

How many times have you been asked questions like: Why can I not say âI have an Italian new girlfriend.â You well know the correct sentence is âI have a new Italian girlfriendâ but apart from your instinct you have no other guidance as to why one is correct and the other isnât, and so the inevitable answer follows: Because thatâs not how we say it in English!

Ok, so you got away with that one but more questions like that are bound to pop up now and then. You should be prepared.

But this is just one aspect, of course. For more check the article in the ICALwiki at http://www.icalweb.com/wiki/index.php?title=Do_I_Need_to_know_Grammar%3F.

The ICALwiki also has a comprehensive and up-to-date online Grammar Guide, which you may find useful.

Hope this helps

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Re: from/since/own

Cool Breeze — Sun, 21 Sep 2008 18:35:47 GMT

1. The use of the indefinite article implies that more than one shop are involved. On second thought, I'm trying to envisage a conversation with "it's a little shop of my own"... Perhaps it could be used even if you have only one. People don't always go by the book (= the grammar book ) when they speak and write.

For example, it says in all grammar books that the combination the ... + of one's own is wrong. In other words, we shouldn't say: This is the car of my own. Yet an English pop singer called Cliff Richard sold a million records (or more, I don't know) singing:

And some day when the years have flown

darling, then we'll teach the young ones of our own.

- The Young Ones

2. You can say from Monday to/till/until Friday. Since instead of from is wrong simply because native speakers don't use it with to/till/until. It has nothing to do with tense. There is no verb in your original example.

Re: Article - where do they go?

Clive — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 04:07:21 GMT

Hi,

Please look at this and tell me if the indefinite article 'a' goes with the third and fourth underlined parts. Is there possible confusion? If yes, how would you resolve it in term of grammar and the sentence structure? Would you say ther article 'a' does not go with any other words except the number one word?

Everything that goes into making a programme, lighting, staff and rent is now being reviewed.

The last three words appear to be used in a non-countable sense, so I would take the 'a' to relate only to 'programme'.

In addition, the verb 'make' does not seem to me to be a good choice for use with the other three nouns. We don't usually say, for example, that we 'make staff'.
I'd prefer to add other verbs, to clarify whatever is the intended meaning. eg

Everything that goes into making a programme, creating lighting, recruiting staff and paying for rent is now being reviewed.

Best wishes, Clive

Article - where do they go?

Anonymous — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 01:26:46 GMT