By Clauses, Expressions

Re: kayak

2nd one, last clause, possible substitution: and it shows no sign(s) of letting up. 3rd one, middle sentence, possibly more natural (casual): We've been waiting for it to clear up for four days now, and we have to go home tomorrow. 4th one, last sentence, possible option: It could have...

Re: the expression of action or that of occurrence?

－－Hi, Grammar Greek. I'm a non-native speaker of English teaching English composition to non-native students. Often we must teach English structures grammatically. What I want to know now is in what cases we should use 'that clause" and "to do". I must teach my students...

Re: whats a complete predicate??

.A complete predicate is all of the sentence except for the subject.An appositive is 'an expression that has 'the same function and the same relation to other elements in the sentence , the second expression identifying or supplementing the first. In Washington, our first president, the...

Re: as far as one's concerned

Hi Anon, Your questions are excellent and show a good grasp of the issues. You're pushing me to the limit of my knowledge on the subject, which is a good thing. My opinions are based more on a long lifetime of listening to people use the expressions, and less on reading about them in text...

Re: SO AS TO

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Re: Complicated Expression--You'll not learn all there...

Hi Clive, I see 'all' as a noun, and '(that) there is to know' as an adjectival clause describing 'all'. Yours makes more sense, especially where you point out the missing (implied) "that." Thanks a lot. Armstrong

Re: Complicated Expression--You'll not learn all there...

Hi guys, "You will not learn all there is to know about OOP in 21 days--that's simply not possible." I'd like to offer a different analysis. I see 'all' as a noun, and '(that) there is to know' as an adjectival clause describing 'all'. Best wishes,...

Re: It will include but not limited to

Let me clarify my question. I was taught that each clause must have a verb so when two clauses are combined into a "complex" sentence, there will be two verbs. However, the following expression doesn't It will include but not limited to the following. So I find this a bit weird...

Please Check

1. Do not place a phrase or clause:A. in a sentence. B. at the beginning of a sentence. C. at the end of a sentence. D. too far from the word it is meant to modify.Answer D. 2. In every sentence, the subject must agree with the:A. object of the preposition. B. verb. C. intervening expressions....

Re: She says what she means and she means what she says

I would say, no. Perhaps if you looked at it as an algebraic equation, you could say both clauses give the same information. A = C = B is the same equation as B = C = A, where "C" is the idea or substance of what she says and means. But meaning and saying are two different verbs and...