By Clauses, Analogies

"Grammar and exercises are only requirements of the syllabus, not of learning a language. Did you learn the grammar of your mother-tongue when you were acquiring it? Most of you may still not know the grammar of your mother-tongue but you speak it effortlessly." If grammar means identifying...

to draw a mathematical analogy, it is like the difference between (a+b)c and a+bc The restrictive relative clause is like an operator acting on b, but not a.

Saturday is sunny Saturday is when I have to go to work sunny = adjective By analogy with it, "when I have to go to work" is a noun clause in adjective function: it describes the noun, Saturday. For short, it is an adjectival clause

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Thank you all for your opinions. Having read your posts, can I say that 1. present participle used in the way as it is in "He is the student taking notes" exclusively refers to the action that is going on at the moment of speaking. If a sentence can be used to describe the action, it should...

Inchoateknowledge wrote: Pastsimple wrote:Answer to the second question: definitely which. What doesn't make sense here at all. What I must do is write a letter (correct) = Write a letter is what I must do (correct) = I could have come, what I wanted so much. I see analogy between the two...

Milky wrote: You're welcome. Alternatives could be: What would you have said verbals are if you had been allowed to say only one sentence and this sentence was not to contain the words: participle, gerund, infinitive?" (to be of obligation) ..................... What would you have...

Milky wrote:You're welcome. Alternatives could be: What would you have said verbals are if you had been allowed to say only one sentence and this sentence was not to contain the words: participle, gerund, infinitive?" (to be of obligation) ..................... What would you have said...

Hello Rodrook My agreement relates to Goodman's statement that the sentence "does not sound correct", which I quote. It doesn't relate to the choice of "whomever", which (as I mention in my post) isn't the correct answer. To expand a little: where "who(m)ever" serves as the object in the first...

Diamondrg, It seems you are stuck on the idea that as goes with that in the sample sentence! It doesn't! chances goes with that. The chances that you will ... good / not as good / not so good also goes with chances. The chances are good. The chances are not as good. The chances are not...