Hi, The following sentences are from a stand-up comedy show. However they are also commonly heard in daily conversations. I don’t understand how the tense in such sentences is changed. For example, in #1 and 2, the first clause is in

Hey Duck, I know GG already replied your thread. I just want to make a comment. I have always been intriqued, sometimes buffled, and always feeling half full, or empty for that matterabout subjunctives . However, I feel that in your sentence,

An experienced animal trainer was killed Wednesday in an accident with a killer whale at SeaWrold in Orlando, law enforement and park officials said. Place quote marks around the quoted material. This is direct speech. In direct speech, the

Hi, 1. An experienced animal trainer was killed Wednesday in an accident with a killer whale at SeaWrold in Orlando, law enforement and park officials said. This can be rearraged to: Law enforcement and Park officials said that an

Hi, It's very often best to consider very simple examples, like these. Mary cooked dinner, Tom said. This is indirect speech. This can be rearranged as Tom said that Mary cooked dinner. Here, the independent or main clause

Normally, we do not think of relative pronouns as 'linking' clauses as much as we think of them as 'introducing' restrictive elements, 'relating' one clause to the other more than linking two of them. In your example,

I am not sure why you would use Wikipedia as your source for grammar information when dedicated manuals are readily available. The advantage the manual has over Wikipedia is that the information has been organized for maximum usefulness. I must

I am not sure why you would use Wikipedia as your source for grammar information when dedicated manuals are readily available. The advantage the manual has over Wikipedia is that the information has been organized for maximum usefulness. I must

According to Wikipedia, the relative pronoun links two clauses into a single complex clause. The following sentences are from Wikipedia (Relative pronoun) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relative_pronoun Quote (1) This is a house. Jack built

Adj after noun: But in your first three sentences, the ‘–ing words’ are verbs, not ‘participles as adjectives’. Just because they are participle in form says nothing about their syntactic function. For a participle to be adjectival it needs