By Clauses, English grammar

Re: adjective phrases

Hello Anonymous,In your sentences there is no adjective phrases.A phrase is a name used in the english grammar to label a group of words which acts as a single unit in the syntax of a sentence,which means that you need at least two words to label some part of the sentence a phrase. Words,phrases...

Re: Proficiency alongside "poverty".

Do existed in Old English more than a thousand years ago as a regular verb and meant to cause. It is impossible to say who introduced it to English. It's use as an auxiliary in questions and negations was established in Shakespeare's day when it was correct to say bothI know not himandI...

Re: Comparative and superlative adjectives

Dear Sir:Thank you for your feedback on my questions.However, I am not sure of your latter explanation. The question: " Which is the most useful thing to own: a computer or a car?", according to you, is incorrect. But the second one, " Which is more useful thing to own: a computer or a car?" is...

Re: Is this a right use of a semicolon?

I doubt that it is more nearly acceptable that we reproduce the exact same thread with a new date on it. The word that I mispelled was "clause." If you reread the post, I misspelled several words. I was copying from the Gregg reference manual (an English grammar / usage reference manual) as...

Re: grammar question

Hi, Is this sentence grammatically correct? She wrote twenty novels (of which two were apparently unpublished), three poems and a play. (I have doubts about the relative clause between brackets. It's not good for your English grammar to get into the habit of using brackets. Why not say it this...

Re: Questions about As Much...As clause.

<< What I understood is that 'As much' is used as an adverbial to comapre the degree of the noun 'duty'. to compare the degree of being a duty, yes. There is no "degree of the noun duty". Do we need to use singlar noun to denote the comparison of degree? No. These are as much duties...

Re: Questions about As Much...As clause.

Thanks Calif Jim, What I understood is that 'As much' is used as an adverbial to comapre the degree of the noun 'duty'. Do we need to use singlar noun to denote the comparison of degree? For example. To ensure sustainable economic growth is as much a responsibility (of the goverment) as is to...

Using will in "when" clauses

HelloHere is my question : is there a definite way of knowing when the use of "will" is required in "when" clauses? - I know that "will" cannot be used if the clause expresses a condition that has to occur to the event of the main clause can occur simultaneouslye.g. "We'll leave when John...

whose vs 'of which' in clause?

I am reading Longman English Grammar now, in which it says both the sentences "In 1980 he caught a serious illness from whose effects he still suffers." and "In 1980 he caught a serious illness the effects of which he still suffers from." have the same meaning. Well, may I deduce that I may...

Re: It being a fine day yesterday

Cool Breeze wrote: Yoong Liat wrote:It is a common mistake to remove 'It' from the sentence. It being a fine day yesterday, I took my son fishing.For example, Tomorrow being a public holiday, I do not have to work.Hi YLThe sentence in blue is correct. Tomorrow can act as a noun and a causal...