By Clauses, Abstract nouns

This is a very interesting discussion. Allow me to present views:-Question: I would have written, ''fraud which perpetrated throughout.. What do you say? No. But you could say 'which was perpetrated throughout . . . ' turning the original adjective phrase iuto an adjective...

All of your examples are gerunds if we stick to modern terminology. Forget about the terminology verbal noun. It's total garbage! It has many different definitions, depending on the author and when the grammar book was written. _____________ The modern definition is given at...

Anonymous wrote: wussup everybody... i've got a Grammar exam at 14.00.. I really have no clue.. In Adverbial Clauses, we have a part called alternate structure, it's kinda changin' the subordinate clause into a new structure. This new structure is either : coordinate clause, prepositional...

Hello everybody. In Grammar, adverbial clauses have alternate structures, this means changing the structure of the clause into a new one, it can be either: coordinate clause, prepositional phrase with gerund or with abstract noun, participal phrase or an absolute constraction. We have the...

wussup everybody... i've got a Grammar exam at 14.00.. I really have no clue.. In Adverbial Clauses, we have a part called alternate structure, it's kinda changin' the subordinate clause into a new structure. This new structure is either : coordinate clause, prepositional phrase, participal...

There is a difference between a clause (the term you used previously) and a phrase ('of the Princess of Bigman's land').anything we should be aware of when we decide to take that road of turning uncountable nouns into sort of countable nouns?Only be aware that you are creating one of several...

Well, your example (A beauty of the Princess of Bigman's land is exquisite) makes no sense to me. Is that your creation, or did you find it somewhere? It contains no restrictive clause.In any case, I see no problem with constructing a sentence with an indefinitely-articled uncountable noun--...

Mr. M. Lately I think I am seeing more of what looks be uncountable nouns followed by what looks to be retrictive clauses and precede by the indefinite article "a." Is that right? How about this? IS THIS RIGHT? A beauty of the Princess of Bigman's land is exquisite. Can an uncountable which...

An appositive that-clause usually follows an abstract noun, which is mostly a derivative from a verb or an adjective.belief (believe), comment (comment), confidence (confident), discovery (discover), doubt (doubt), evidence (evident), fact, fear (fear), hope (hope), indication (indicate),...

deleted by an obligatory deletion transform. Will this work on the clutter in my living room? Don't we all wish!!! LOL Part of the problem, as Paco has aptly observed, is the problem of finding the missing (deleted) subject of a dependent clause, the infinitive clause "to be ... cleverer...