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quote user frankie321 For my brother to feel that he does not know the right term must seem a real impediment quote Hi frankie thanks for joining us Welcome to English Forums Nix the comma after feel The feeling is bad If this were your sentence the subject would be feeling the verb would be to...

There are a series of conflicts that run throughout this story the most important being Trujillo s abuse of his dictatorship over the country an external conflict between Trujillo and society There are a series of conflicts main clausethere pronoun non referential or existential there are...

I m so cross with myself I can t even cite material correctly Join the club Have you finally got it right Here is the sentence It was on his way back past them carrying a large burger that he heard what they were saying He subject It Make up your mind Is it It was on his way or He was on his way...

Secondly does a noun phrase always have a complementizer at the start of it head No According to the description in Wiki complementizers are the syntactic head of a full clause A noun phrase is not a full clause Example the grand old man The syntactic head of a noun phrase is a noun It was on...

I m so cross with myself I can t even cite material correctly Here is the sentence It was on his way back past them carrying a large burger that he heard what they were saying He subjectwas main verbon his way preposition plus adjective plus nounback adverbpast them prep plus pronouncarrying a...

quote user Jackson6612 quote user Avangi either learners of the English language or English language learners quote Why is article the essential here There is only one English language e g I m learning Chinese language these days Is there any need to specify Chinese language using the The use of...

Hi Avangi quote user Avangi either learners of the English language or English language learners quote Why is article the essential here There is only one English language e g I m learning Chinese language these days Is there any need to specify Chinese language using the The use of the is...

I have always heard in conversation that must be him her on the phone Of course we say He is on the phone now Grammatically that must be him it is not strictly correct since the case of a pronoun after be is nominative However in this case must be we make an exception to this rule in all but very...

quote user Eddie88 What I was meaning with the preposition and objective case query is that I want to know if the pronoun is still the objective case if it comes before the preposition quote No A preposition governs case only in one direction The preposition cannot govern a word that comes...

1a We painted the red door 1b We painted the door red 1a We painted the red door We is NP consists of the head noun we which is pronoun functioning as subject Painted is VP consisted of the head verb painted and it is past simple tense The red door consists of NP and adj P the is determiner red...