Most of the references I find are in connection with a brain lesion malfunction which renders the subject unable to use language. It's called "aphasia." http://www.answers.com/topic/aphasia "Verbing" is a function which is

Hi, alc24! I'll try to help you with these sentences. Are these sentences that you are trying to write correctly for yourself or for an assignment? 1 When/If I don't have to wait, I take the subway otherwise I take a cab. When is the

This is abviously a reference made to the airline industry and the improved comfort WestJet offers to the public. I think the creation of the "premium economy" class is compared to "the business class" found in other airlines

Hi I tried to amend the text and to collect the basic Standard British grammar rules according to books and teachers. Any comment? The Convention on the Rights of the Child establishes standards which the laws in many countries cannot achieve /

Mister Micawber, analysing the class of nouns into general/specific and assigning these terms to them as their immanent features certainly does not have much to do with grammar as such, since this division is largely of theoretical interest to

Yes , I understand that, but to further press the issue, would you still use, I walked in the rain, even when you know that this is a specific reference to rain and the reader has no way of knowing which rain I'm talking about? Examples like

In the following sentence: I walked in the rain. The word rain has a specific reference here and the sentence implies the reader knows which rain is referred to. If I, however, say I walked in rain, I somehow suggest the reader that he/she

Definite grammatical article that implies necessarily that the entity it articulates is presupposed; something already mentioned, or completely specified later in the same sentence, or assumed already completely specified. Compare I'm reading

Hi, Sometimes grammar references told us that you cannot put a comma between the two verbs of a double predicate sentence, but I often found that usage in articles in famous websites or newspapers. I would say you have to look at each

Hi, Sometimes grammar references told us that you cannot put a comma between the two verbs of a double predicate sentence, but I often found that usage in articles in famous websites or newspapers. I would say you have to look at each