By Clauses, Nouns

Re: Intonation

Well, I didn't consider the stress on "pizza", but it's stressed, yes. I was only considering the first part, "Joe and Lenny", or whatever they were called. And I don't know why, but I'd stress "Lenny", the second name, if I were trying to say that...

grammar learning

II'd be one to admit grammar is never my strong suit but I'm always eager to learn. I've read thoroughly the thread titled "grammar exercise" regarding noun clause/subordinate clause used as adjective, adverb, indirect object and so forth. I really had to strain my brain to...

Re: grammatical exercises

on number two of noun clauses, where you put ???, it is a direct object, and, on number three of noun clauses, the clause is Whoever invented Boston baked beans, and it's a direct object.

Re: Is this sentence correct?

Again, you are just making a long noun phrase. The modifying clauses like which defines your lifestyle do not supply the necessary verb.Here are some non-sentences like the ones you are making:The boy who laughed. What about him? The boy who laughed did what?You can change this to: The boy...

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: Analysis sentence

Hi, Sentence A . It takes all sorts ( to make a world ) ( saying ) used to say that you think somebody's behaviour is very strange or unusual but that everyone is different and likes different things. ( Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary ). it takes all sorts ( to make a world ) (...

Analysis sentence

Sentence A . It takes all sorts ( to make a world ) ( saying ) used to say that you think somebody's behaviour is very strange or unusual but that everyone is different and likes different things. ( Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary ). it takes all sorts ( to make a world ) (...

Re: suggest+noun clause in the simple present tense?

The subjunctive mood forms: should selland sellare the formal ones. Sells is informal.

Re: suggest+noun clause in the simple present tense?

I'm not familiar with the site; but the writer may well be of BrE origin. (In BrE, you could use "sells", "should sell", or the subjunctive "sell". The last option has become more popular in the last two decades, in BrE, in contexts where "should sell"...

Re: suggest+noun clause in the simple present tense?

So the information at http://www.visualesl.com/pages/en/english_suggestions is incorrect. It says "Mark suggests that he sells/should sell his house" is correct.