Greetings, dear friends, there are several facts relating to this matter that can be unambiguously stated a priori. One of them concerns the definition of a lexico-grammatical class of the word 'unlike' (i.e. its word class/part-of-speech

Hello everyone, Would anyone mind having a read through my answers below to see if i'm on the right tracks? I'm looking at the meaning/function and form of the sentence/underlined words! With many thanks!! Fiona is very

2 whether used as a function word usually with correlative or or with or whether to indicate (1) until the early 19th century a direct question involving alternatives; (2) an indirect question involving stated or implied alternatives <decide

Is this right??? 1) John said Cathy thought George helped Mary. SENTENCE NOUN PHRASE + VERB PHRASE John said Cathy thought George helped Mary VERB PHRASE= VERB + SENTENCE??? said Cathy thought George helped Mary SENTENCE= NOUN PHRASE + VERB PHRASE

This book states that people often misuse personal pronouns in sentences with verbs such as 'is, are, am, was, were, ... such verbs. Example: "It is I". My question: Would this be correct: "The bus was carrying my friend and

FB wrote on 04 Sep 2004: In "Practical English Usage", Michael Swan also deals with inversion ("298 inversion (1): auxiliary verb etc before subject") and posposition ... she* look that everybody burst out laughing. UNQUOTE I

In the recent discussion of the verb "use", meaning "to be accustomed", its use in the infinitive and the simple past tense were mentioned, but I don't recall that anyone mentioned its use in the past perfect tense. An