By Clauses, Jokes

My apologies for introducing a joke! The "universal falsehood" reference is a complete joke! It doesn't matter whether what is reported is universally true or unversally false. What's important is that in the speaker's mind it is universally (or eternally, if you wish)...

Hi, The whole sentence was a joke. One of the mods (sorry, can't remember who ... MrP?) was basically saying that instead of money or presents, they get loads of mistakes for Christmas. Here are two good pages for comma splices and dangling modifiers . Here are two examples: - comma...

Stannum wrote: Jackson6612 wrote: Dear Stannum, Why did you delete your post? There was no need, I read it. I know you find my questions stupid. Perhaps they are. But I don't post them here for fun. I don't get Dollars for posting them. As far as that hysteron proteron is concerned, I don't...

Jackson6612 wrote: Dear Stannum, Why did you delete your post? There was no need, I read it. I know you find my questions stupid. Perhaps they are. But I don't post them here for fun. I don't get Dollars for posting them. As far as that hysteron proteron is concerned, I don't even know its...

Clive wrote:I was trying to be funny. You can't study 'the mobile phone industry in Victorian times' because the Victorians had no mobile phones. Ha-ha! When you say "The time we are living (in) may be one of the most fascinating times to study" it, it makes me wonder what you think the other...

CalifJim wrote:In actual practice, the use of the past perfect quite frequently violates the mathematically precise timelines set out for it in grammar books! It is merely an indicator that something happened in the context of something past. Now the problem is that this past point of view...

In actual practice, the use of the past perfect quite frequently violates the mathematically precise timelines set out for it in grammar books! It is merely an indicator that something happened in the context of something past. Now the problem is that this past point of view has to be...

A joke, of sorts. Tunnel vision is being preoccupied with what is directly in front of you, and noticing nothing of the surroundings. I was focussed on your other / others problem and did not notice the lack of concord between the verb and the subject in the dependent clause. California Jim,...

Hi,Upon reading English newspapers I have many times come across if-clauses formed with "if" plus "be (infinitive)". I do not find any such rule in my Grammar books. Example: "If music be the food of love, download". Why does it say "be" and not "is"? I understand that such "if - be - phrases"...

"see", "hear", (and others) are catenative verbs which take the base form of the verb in catenative constructions. They often can take the gerund form as well. I saw the car go into the woods. I heard the neighbors take out the trash. I saw the car moving toward us. I heard the neighbors...