2. They are always asking me how studious a student should be to prepare for the finals Hi, Pernickety. I hate beating dead horses, but a revisit to this clause tells me I didn't explain myself. The problem is the nature of the verb "to

Unaware of what was behind the door , he pushed the door hard to get in. Terminology varies from country to country. I'm sure this is of no avail to you since you probably live in an English speaking country, but I'll tell you anyway that

Greetings, Tina, Mister Micawber's answers are completely relevant, but let me make some additional remarks: 1. A time of prosperity and peace - is a noun phrase you analysed absolutely correctly. In general, noun phrases may have the

Dear friends, just a tiny remark. ...for some jerk to catch me carrying this thing around and get the wrong idea is a to-infinitive clause. It is the subject predicative in the given sentence: All I need is f or some jerk to catch me

In the following sentence , do I need to place a comma after the introductory participial phrase? Walking in the street, the boy spotted one of his friends.  I have read a grammar book, which mentions that you only need to separate the

1 A dog's brain is disproportionately small (compared) to the size of head. Among mammals, a dog's brain is disproportionately small for his head. 2 She knows him so well as to be able to write a message in his place and people would

It makes me contented to realise that you have made sense of the striking difference between not... but vs and , so this 'one thing' you are referring to is the last on the agenda, and may I be clear about two points. First, the omission

After talking it out with some fellow teachers and looking some terms up...we're still a little unsure about our conclusions. Any clarifications would be greatly appreciated! "I'm going to talk about Ichiro Suzuki." (Starting out

Normal 0 false false false RU X-NONE X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 Hello, Raja, It goes without saying that there is no blame in being a non-native speaker and a layperson in linguistic science, so

Dear friend, the clauses within your sentence are correlative clauses of proportion (a kind of adverbial clauses), the comma is obligatory to separate them. One dominant use of a comma is to separate closely associated clauses within a sentence