Could you please take a look at this for me? 1 I'm not so close to her as to be able to ask her for money. (is the SO AS TO form only used with an non assertive clause?) 2 Can you see until what time we're open? 3 When I don't

Agatha, In my grammarbook it is said that every verb-phrase consisting of several verbs, the first will always be finite and the rest non-finite. - When I was a schoolboy, I once noticed that my English teacher made a mistake on the blackboard:

Debpriya, How to express the same feeling in the written words that is heard in tone of voice when speaking is one of the great challenges for a writer. It borders on poetry--the sound of the words in your mind and their cadence in the sentence

Dear friend, 1. We got a good look at the most extraordinary thing about the animal. Its foreclaws were nearly as long as my fingers. - correct; two independent clauses. We got a good look at the most extraordinary thing about

the second sentence " For you, to win will be almost impossible." means that winning is impossible as far as you are concerned. That well may be true, but it's so ambiguous that it is best reworded to remove the ambiguity. Following

Your impression is on the whole justified, and to this I referred as 'a special stylistic effect' that placing a comma may have. Consider this: - Do I stay any chance of winning? - For you to win will be almost impossible. For him to win

Interesting distinction, Debpriya, although i would point out that the sentence says almost impossible which means that "For you, to win is possible but unlikely." I think you could leave out the comma and the sentence would mean the

How about the sentence " The probability that an unbiased coin will fall with the head up is 0.5 " ? Is this a case of "content clause in apposition" ? Yes. There's nothing missing syntactically in An unbiased coin will

But I was under the impression that in the sentence " For you to win will be almost impossible." " For you to win" refers to the condition of your winning. That means your winning is impossible. In contrast the second

Hi, Please read this thread. Then ask questions about anything that is still not clear to you. Clive