By Clauses, Sentence structures

Actually, infinitives are used in AmE as subjects. The location geographically or historically has nothing to do with it. But infinitives (and their complement(s), if any), taken together, can make noun phrases.To be absolutely precise, it is a noun phrase (NP) that must be the subject of a...

Which one is the recommended way to form sentences? Or all of them? a) I was at the movies yesterday watching the newest Indiana Jones. Yes. b) I was at the movies yesterday and watching the newest Indiana Jones. No. You can't connect two different usages of was with and. (was where and...

Here is the best way to express your thought:Most (of) existing players in the market are so small and still have such a limited (size of their) customer base that they (can) make no difference in terms of service and pricing among competitors. Additions are in bold and omissions are in...

Sorry for asking you this.What did you mean by the underlined sentence? Did you mean:1: Since and as... in the above sentence but they cannot be used in the above sentence?Or2: Since and as... in the above sentence but I just didn't use them?

Fine, because you now have a main clause. There is nothing wrong with beginning a sentence with because, since or as as long as you have a main clause as well. Otherwise, strictly speaking, you don't have a sentence since because, since and as are subordinate conjunctions, beginning...

It's the bloody IF that's driving me to distraction, as my mother used to say. (not the "bloody") I think you're wrong. If you'll note what I said in the first post, "I love you." (reply) "I love you too." It's almost impossible to screw this...

Newcomer,I see that you are confused with the participle usage. I'll try to give it my best shot to explain to you what I've understood about participles. "what is the man who does up there" (sounds incorrect) *asking what the man is doing* literally ( doing as verb ) => ...

This is my 2 cents...When you are with a property manager showing a rental house, you thought you heard the sound of a phone ringing in the kitchen. So you said “Did you hear the phone ring?” (not ringing) which is correct. But it’s possible to say “did you hear the phone ring / ringing when you...

<<<<Such concepts as tense, gerund, participle, clause (and classification thereof) are wihtout a slightest doubt useful and sometimes even essential to the learning of English (at least, this is so for me). <<<Furthermore, I try to undrstand things logically and find...

ETJW-CMD wrote: Dear Goodman, I am one of Hoa’s friends, a member of a friendly yet private English-To-Join-the-World Club that we co-founded here in Vietnam. Last night, she showed me this thread and asked for my opinion. My first reaction was that the present perfect and past tense...